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by metalfoot
Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:00 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Old floppy disks
Replies: 9
Views: 7621

Re: Old floppy disks

Possibly. I'd suggest not using a dirty generic in such a case? Most disk copying these days seems to be of the kind of using a parallel nibbler and specialized hardware to backup floppies to error-free g64 files for permanent archival.
by metalfoot
Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:13 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Old floppy disks
Replies: 9
Views: 7621

Re: Old floppy disks

Depends what you mean by 'danger'? If you don't mind periodically cleaning the drive heads then it's not 'dangerous'. But magnetic media does deteriorate over time.
by metalfoot
Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:49 am
Forum: BASIC
Topic: I'm a beginer
Replies: 12
Views: 7283

Re: I'm a beginer

ALso, look for a copy of the C64 User's Guide. It's got a few sample BASIC programs and instructions on how the language works.
by metalfoot
Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:34 am
Forum: BASIC
Topic: I'm a beginer
Replies: 12
Views: 7283

Re: I'm a beginer

There are a ton of beginner-type resources out there; it's hard to recommend one over all others. This site however, http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/ has a TON of them in PDF format for download... My personal recommendations would be: http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books/pdf/Commodore_64_An_In...
by metalfoot
Sun Apr 13, 2014 11:09 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: What's the most expensive item you've purchased?
Replies: 12
Views: 8986

Re: What's the most expensive item you've purchased?

The original C64 system back in 1987, which, all in, was about $900 for my parents. Me, personally, probably the VIC20 system I just got for $50 on e-…login to view the rest of this post
by metalfoot
Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:25 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Forums
Replies: 5
Views: 7265

Re: Forums

I'd assume REMOVED will come back, so I won't worry too much about making the forums identical.