Commodore PC64: Looks Like a Commodore, Works Like a PC

I wonder if that’s just a stock photo and they’ll actually have something for the key issues.  The C= (ha… haven’t written that in decades!) key might work fine for getting additional keys from the ones without the graphics.  Come to think of it, are they going to have the graphics on the keys display?  A keyboard mapper is damn near a necessity, particularly with the quote (“) symbol being where the @ sign is expected to be, among other changes.

If you want to see how tough it may be for a typist to use the Commodore layout again, watch [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daBGen-Fb3w]this hilarious video[/url].

You couldn’t use that joystick until you typed in LOAD “*”,8,1, though!  They didn’t have “autorun” back then!  Damn young whippersnappers!  😉  If you did any programming on the C64, you knew all about the C= key for changing between upper and lowercase and displaying all those easy to access graphics without having to know how to create sprites.

To be fair, the fastload and super snapshot cartridges did allow for shortcuts to be used, so if you had one of those, you may have pressed a two key combo in order for it to type out LOAD “*”,8,1 for your lazy arse.  😉  I had super snapshot personally and remember typing $ to see the directory of disks, rather than LOAD “$”,8.  I wouldn’t have remembered that stuff had I not watched that video I linked to.  BTW, if you didn’t watch it through to the end, you missed the funniest parts, as the guy gets ticked off at himself and the Commodore keyboard layout!

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i saw the video….skirge….wow……maybe this is why you don’t like MOdern Family 😛
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Man, that’s just wrong.  😉  If you spent as many years using the C64 and C128 as I did, you’d understand.