I’ve spent many hours walking down memory lane with the Commodore 64 Ultimate, and it’s wondrous if sometimes intimidating - AOS for Lemmy.World - A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use.

Back in the day, there was no drag-and-drop, and everything was done through a keyboard with arrow keys that needed the shift key to switch between directions.

I see someone never used GEOS back in the day....

I was forced to bin my original C64, tape deck, disk drive, joysticks, a couple of printers (one was a daisy wheel lol), many many games and apps and my own projects etc. It still saddens me thinking about it.

These stories rub a bit of salt in the wound but it's pretty cool that there's still interest in them. They were a fantastic thing - easy to use for the basics, powerful enough that once you moved past those basics (and BASIC itself) it still had plenty to offer. And crucially, in a modern context, it's not so advanced that it leaves nothing for you to do - you still need to figure things out for yourself, and there's a lot of satisfaction in figuring out a hack to make it do something. So good.

I'm tempted to get one but that's a rabbit hole I'm not sure I have the time for these days!

I remember when I dumped my Tandy CoCo 3... Learned BASIC from analyzing code I typed by hand from magazines. Had a C64 & an Atari SE as well, but used the CoCo the most.

Finally a Commodore 64 with 128MB of RAM! I guess 64K wasn't enough for everyone after all.

O M G, perfect homage.

Now do the A500. 8)