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- Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:00 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Old floppy disks
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7644
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.
- Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:13 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Old floppy disks
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7644
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.
- Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:49 am
- Forum: BASIC
- Topic: I'm a beginer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7288
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.
- Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:34 am
- Forum: BASIC
- Topic: I'm a beginer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7288
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...
- Sun Apr 13, 2014 11:09 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat
- Topic: What's the most expensive item you've purchased?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9003
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
Re: Forums
I'd assume REMOVED will come back, so I won't worry too much about making the forums identical.