My first home computer was a Commodore 64 that I bought from Crazy Eddie in 1983 when I was a junior in high school. It originally sold for $595 and that was A LOT back in 1983 dollars. I cut a lot of grass in the area and shoveled a lot of driveways to earn the money to buy it. All I had was the C64 and a 13” TV set and nothing more. No disk drive or tape drive. I started typing in basic programs from the included instruction manual. Then, I would go to the bookstore to buy Compute’s Gazette Magazine and spend ½ the day typing in basic code from the magazine to play a game or run a program. When it came time for bed, I shut the system off and the ALL effort to type in the program was gone. If I wanted to play that game again, I would have to type it all over again. Fast forward: I later got a tape drive to save and load programs and then a disk drive.

By the late 80’s I was working at Radio Shack (later became a store manager for over a decade) and transitioned to PC’s via the Tandy 1000SX and on. My C64 was long gone.
Over 40 years later, I started to get into Retro-Computing and looked back into my C64 heritage and started using Vice64 Emulator to run C64 programs, mount disks, load tapes and carts. Soon, friends of mine were moving out of the area, and I scored a full C64 system from them for free!

They gave me a 1984 Commodore 64, 1702 Color Monitor & 1541 Disk Drive and a few 5 ¼” floppies. I have dived right back in 100%. I later purchased an Ultimate II+L cart that changed everything! It brought my 42-year-old C64 to the modern world with Ethernet, WIFI, USB, SD Cards, 16MG REU etc, etc. I now have over 20k of C64 programs and having a blast. I have been trying to get a BBS up and running on it but not there yet. Commodore just released a brand-new Commodore 64 Ultimate late last year that is based around the Ultimate II+L cart but a full complete system and kicks serious ass. Check it out!! https://www.commodore.net/

So, should I purchase the new Commodore 64 Ultimate or stick with my 1984 Original Beige “breadbin” C64? That is the 64-million-dollar question!

Sir, I would so buy it asap. I don't have that kind of money, but boy would I like to have one too. I wouldn't think twice about it, just impulsively buy it! I am very interested in this C64 emulation. As a matter of fact, I'm going to see if there is an emulator for Linux right the FU@K now lol. My step uncle gave me a Tandy computer. with a cassette tape drive, some joy sticks, and maybe a 5 inch floppy drive. He gave me a book that had basic programs in, that I had to type by hand.

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Sir, I would so buy it asap. I don't have that kind of money, but boy would I like to have one too. I wouldn't think twice about it, just impulsively buy it! I am very interested in this C64 emulation. As a matter of fact, I'm going to see if there is an emulator for Linux right the FU@K now lol. My step uncle gave me a Tandy computer. with a cassette tape drive, some joy sticks, and maybe a 5 inch floppy drive. He gave me a book that had basic programs in, that I had to type by hand.

The new Commodore 64 Ultimate not an emulation but a full hardware cycle accurate re-creation using FPGA! Even works with all the old hardware.

And YES, there is a Vice64 Emulation for Linux. I've used it many times. If you want some C64 games and programs let me know. I have literally everything!
Was thinking of posting them in my file section but there's 10's of thousands and who is really gonna be coming to a music type BBS to grab C64 games - LOL!

You could still put some of the really popular ones on there. I'd download them lol

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By the way, I like all your posts! There is a like button like Facebook, it's a cool little feature! However, I don't have a Facebook account. I don't like big tech, or social media.

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Re: Commodore 64
By: Morningstarr to BiggieB on Thu Apr 02 2026 11:57 pm

You could still put some of the really popular ones on there. I'd download them lol

I just zipped up and uploaded "The Very Second" collection which is was included with the release of the brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate. Everything should work on Vice64 Emulation, as far as I know, because it can do PAL and NTSC just like the C64U. Some of the files I can't run on my original C64 from 1984 because it NTSC only, but most I can.

Look in the "Retro Computing" file area I just created.

-BB

Re: Commodore 64
By: BiggieB to Morningstarr on Fri Apr 03 2026 12:34 pm

I just zipped up and uploaded "The Very Second" collection which is was included with the release of the brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate. Everything should work on Vice64 Emulation, as far as I know, because it can do PAL and NTSC just like the C64U. Some of the files I can't run on my original C64 from 1984 because it NTSC only, but most I can.

Look in the "Retro Computing" file area I just created.

-BB

BTW - I just enabled FTP on my BBS so you can grab the file easily.

I grabbed them and I'm going to play around with them thanks haha!

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This is why I chose they name Hobby-Space. It covers a vast array of different genres. I hope to have a little something for everybody. Do you have an ansi editor? There is a jpg to ansi converter too. You can find it onlin. This really helps me get a general image going.

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This is why I chose they name Hobby-Space. It covers a vast array of different genres. I hope to have a little something for everybody. Do you have an ansi editor? There is a jpg to ansi converter too. You can find it onlin. This really helps me get a general image going.

I think the very first global mention of the new Hobby-Space message network was just posted on Telnet BBBs Guide! LOL wink, wink. I like Pablo Draw, the Mac version. I like better than the Windows version. I'm in the middle of redoing my welcome screen (sync.ans). I was also messing with the JPG to ANS converter for just my BBS name but didn't like it the results. I then went through the 321ans file I got from your BBS and fonts with A-Z characters and copied and pasted to create my logo. Then looking around for some small graphics and such. I spent sooooo much time with FidoNet I didn't have much time to customize my system. Now I can create some bling! LOL

I like the Bruce Lee game I'm playing in a c64 emulator right now hahaha. It works fantastic, how did you make that post on telnet bbs guide?

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Dude the c64 stomped Atari in graphics, and game play. I can tell already. Also, Fido-net is cool, I get that, but what about a message network, that's easy to setup? Ya know? Even files can be sent with qwk networks, so what's the fuss about fido? I don't think there are any real qwk message networks out there like this. So hopefully, it will take off. When you advertised about the message network, what did you say?

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how did you make that post on telnet bbs guide?

I contacted the guy and asked to verify me and let me change my listing cause it was all wrong. He gave me a Worldpress login and I edited everything. Decided to mention Hobby -Space as a service. I can even update the BBS screen everyone see's. Of course I Photoshopped it a bit. LOL

ahh cool you mentioned hobbyspace to him? like how so, what did you say...im curious! :)

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ahh cool you mentioned hobbyspace to him? like how so, what did you say...im curious! :)

Darn. I should've worded it different. I decided to mention Hobby-Space as a service on my BBS listing. I did not mention it to David at Telnet BBS Guide. Sorry, the sounds like a goo idea though.

You could still put some of the really popular ones on there. I'd download them lol

I posted a few more C64 games if you still have interest in using them in Vice64. :). Sonic is awesome on the C64.

you got sonic? send me the link please

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you got sonic? send me the link please

her ya go: https://jerseyjam.com/?page=002-files.xjs&dir=retrocomputing_commodore64