{"id":14847,"date":"2003-05-19T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/19\/the-commodore-curiosity-page\/"},"modified":"2003-05-19T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-19T17:57:00","slug":"the-commodore-curiosity-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/19\/the-commodore-curiosity-page\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commodore Curiosity Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/largepics\/c128_badnews_large.jpg\" title=\"Click for larger picture\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Commodore 128 ad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/c128_badnews.jpg\" \/><\/a>The Commodore 64 and 128 hold a special place in my heart, as they were one of the first computers I really worked on, although I had also played around with such icons as the TRS-80, Ti 99, Apple ][, ZX-81 and others.  Still, the Commodore was not only easy to use and program, but it also had a hell of lot of cool games in its time, and I still get a hankering for some of them every now and then.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de\/%7Eneuvians\/ccp.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Commodore Curiosity Page<\/a> has some interesting ads and tidbits of information; click on the picture at right to see a larger version of the fairly bold 1985 ad that Commodore came out with.  Obviously (and unfortunately, IMNSHO), their plan of domination failed, although their follow-on computer, the Amiga, made some revolutionary breakthroughs that still linger.  I keep forgetting to grab that C128 from my parents&rsquo; house so I can play some of those cool games again on the real thing, as emulators just don&rsquo;t cut it&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muxway.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">muxway<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200312234?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commodore 64 and 128 hold a special place in my heart, as they were one of the first computers I really worked on, although I had also played around with such icons as the TRS-80, Ti 99, Apple ][, ZX-81 and others. Still, the Commodore was not only easy to use and program, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/19\/the-commodore-curiosity-page\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Commodore Curiosity Page&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}