Post #661765

2026-03-14 18:18 UTC

Some 264 series fun - I got this C16 from a local Commodore 64 user who had it laying around for a long time, but never did anything with it, and he wanted it to go to a better home. It was known to be &quot;gets to the BASIC screen&quot; working, but it also passes Diag264 with flying colors. Nice. I will remove the peeling &quot;helper&quot; labels put on it by the original owner, but I will put them in a plastic bag, them and keep them with the machine. They belong to its history. #c16 #retrocomputing #8bit

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@chainq@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 18:54

Lately it seems to be "the law", that all C264 series must come with a free black Datasette. 😅 This one is no exception. But it also came with three original games on cassette tapes! I don't know when I last loaded software from a tape, but it wasn't in this decade. Or the previous. And likely wasn't in this century. It needed a bit of "encouragement" and a few tries, but it worked in the end. It's the worst crackout game I've seen - a reminder why these were a flop. #c16 #retrocomputing #8bit

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@nohaironheed@mastodon.scot 2026-03-14 18:26

@chainq@mastodon.social I love seeing old notes in the game covers, best scores, extra load instructions (c16 games often have mistakes in the covers, wrong joystick ports and things), cheat pokes etc. They remind me of me as a kid doing the same and I wonder where those people are now.

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