Shred64- Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64

[jban4us]

A friend sent me this youtube link, I thought some of you might get a kick out of it.

[youtube]http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=WyCMM6e1Lbo[/youtube]

[youtube]http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=52gcC3Sn-Gw&NR=1[/youtube]

[ark_ader]

Gee that was.................... interesting.

I couldn't watch the entire clip, as the whole thing looked real hokey with some embarassing flakiness from they guy who was demoing it.

So how many C64s are there still working in the world today?  Is this guy thinking of selling 1000s of these things?  Maybe in Russia.

I would like to vision the Amiga being center of attention, other than the C64.  Yes I know the C64 was THE music computer before the Atari ST, and I still like Rob Hubbard, but c'mon now the platform is seriously dated.

How about Monty Mole on the ZX Spectrum with this thing or the ET theme track on the 2600.

That's more like it.   

That is nearly the most bizarre thing I have seen next to Rob on the Nintendo and that is saying something.   

If it was me, I would develop an adapter for the original Xbox with game, rather than an obsolete computer from the 80s.

[AtomSmasher]

Very cool, but posted a few times before:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=73711.msg810451#msg810451
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=73825.0

[TOK]

That was excruciating. I sat the the nerds seemingly endless monologue because I love the sound of SID music. The stuff he had wasn't even good. He could have just copied over the music from Forbidden Forest and had at least 4 better songs.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxx6jvOAaJ4&feature=related[/youtube]

[Level42]

Gee that was.................... interesting.

I couldn't watch the entire clip, as the whole thing looked real hokey with some embarassing flakiness from they guy who was demoing it.

So how many C64s are there still working in the world today?  Is this guy thinking of selling 1000s of these things?  Maybe in Russia.

I would like to vision the Amiga being center of attention, other than the C64.  Yes I know the C64 was THE music computer before the Atari ST, and I still like Rob Hubbard, but c'mon now the platform is seriously dated.

How about Monty Mole on the ZX Spectrum with this thing or the ET theme track on the 2600.

That's more like it.   

That is nearly the most bizarre thing I have seen next to Rob on the Nintendo and that is saying something.   

If it was me, I would develop an adapter for the original Xbox with game, rather than an obsolete computer from the 80s.

It's not about a commercial release, it's about getting a kick out of running "modern" things on "ancient" hardware.

Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owHCjEWjAvs&eurl=http://www.mr-atari.com/

Pretty cool. B/W ? sure. Sounds like ---Cleveland steamer--- ? sure. But this is hardware developed in 1979 doing this !!!! It's just cool to accomplish "the impossible"

This is the creator's site:
http://www.mr-atari.com/

I've met him a couple of times and seen this demo in real-time. It's amazing really....

[missioncontrol]

So how many C64s are there still working in the world today?  Is this guy thinking of selling 1000s of these things?  Maybe in Russia.

I got one working at my house.. I find it kinda fun to play some of the same games I played back in the day on the original equipement...

[TOK]

I also have a C64/1541 and also an Atari 130XE/Indus GT drive.
The Atari is setup out on my garage workbench right now. I bought this computer new in like 1985 after the power supply on my 800XL crapped out. Also bought the C64 new.

I had a 2600 and Colecovision and basically abandoned console gaming after playing Defender, DK and Asteroids on a buddies Atari 400. The computer versions were so much better than anything else at the time (DK had all 4 levels) and were basically unpublicized.
I bought the 64 after it started getting games that were better than the Atari computer versions.


Edit: added pic for other computer old farts. 

[SavannahLion]

.... an Atari 130XE/Indus GT drive.
The Atari is setup out on my garage workbench right now. I bought this computer new in like 1985 after the power supply on my 800XL crapped out. Also bought the C64 new.

I love hearing about other people with the XE line. I'm still kicking myself for not snatching up a free 130XE with oodles of software a few years ago. I still own my XEGS with its penned in "corrections" in the BASIC book that came with it.

As much as I love it, it lives in a box in storage. I haven't fired it up in over fifteen years.

[Level42]

Funny, I'm using a 130XE that TOK shows with a Commodore (Toshiba) monitor that Missioncontrol shows
Great because it has separate inputs for color and hue I think, or something like that, at least best picture you can get out of it....back in the day I would be cursed at for using Commodore hardware with my Atari (didn't have that monitor then however). There was a real "battle" and we, Atari users were the underdog.....

TOK: If you like Defender, have you tried Dropzone on the XE ? A great Defender clone IMHO. I suck at it though....