mozartpc27

Hello All - Decided to part ways with my Commodore Plus/4 and 1551. I am in the US so here is a chance to get the 1551 if you are in America. The Plus/4 is boxed with all manuals. The 1551 did not come with a box, so I will pack the disk drive as carefully as I can. The 1551 has of course a 240V power supply as I had it imported from the UK several years ago. With the auction I am including a step down converter and a plug converter so you will be able to plug the device into the computer and the wall outlet/power strip and it will work immediately upon arrival. Everything is tested and works; also throwing in a few disks. See the auction here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/235476389996

So, is this game available on a real cart some place?

!!!!!!!! How do I get it on to a playable cartridge?!?!?!?!

It was a cart I never had... and still don't.

This is an interesting opinion that I have never come across... what makes you say this? Even as a kid I found this game to be pretty terminally boring, although I guess looking back the graphics were impressive for the time.

I am a Commodore dude and the 17M figure for C64 comports with what I have seen. I have always read that 4M or so 128s were also sold (they had a 64 in them basically) so that would put the 64/128 combined line at 21M.

I am a Commodore guy who comes here to check out the Coleco and TI forums as well as the Atari 800 forums, and hey, this has been a tremendous resource for us retro computer enthusiasts, I thank Albert for all he has done, and wish him the best and understand that he needs to do what he needs to do!

Good thread topic, mostly a Commodore guy but I have an 800XL. @mimo, I am so sorry to hear about your health issues. Different things can sap interest and make one re-prioritize, and I totally understand, but I add mine to the voices that have told you not to sell off your stuff until you have really thought it over. I have sold and re-bought a TI-99/4A and PEB as well as a Commodore Plus/4; fortunately I didn't take too much of a bath but it was enough to make me think I won't sell for a loooonnnnggggg time. If I ever get the itch it's right there waiting for me in the closet. In general, I am in a phase of hardly playing around with my stuff. I got divorced, a process that started last year and ended in February. I now have my own house and I thought - wow, I can set up a nice big space for myself and play around whenever / as much as I want! But it's been the opposite. Between work, having my son half the week (I am trying to delay him getting hooked on video games as long as possible, so it doesn't become the only thing he knows how to do, as with so many kids these days), and, since December, having a new girlfriend, I don't have the time, and when I do have it, I don't have the desire really. But I assume some day it will come back as I settle in. I won't cash out unless I have really gone multiple years I think without touching the stuff. Easier to have than to re-acquire.

So my son's first grade teacher mentioned in class that when she was young, the hot video game everyone wanted to play was Space Invaders. He came home asking about it, so I showed him a YouTube video of someone playing the original arcade game. A screen grab from it can be seen below on top. This morning, I had an appointment, so I asked him to busy himself by drawing a picture of Space Invaders. He did so, using a game called "Cabbage Patch Dolls Paint & Play," which was a cartridge for my old ColecoVision, which I still have hooked up. That is the one below. Remember, he saw Space Invaders exactly ONCE, yesterday, and drew this thing from memory on the ColecoVision this morning. The stars in the background are because of his familiarity with the Space Invaders clone in Gorf. The aliens are different because, he wants me to tell you, they are from Gorf.

So my son's first grade teacher mentioned in class that when she was young, the hot video game everyone wanted to play was Space Invaders. He came home asking about it, so I showed him a YouTube video of someone playing the original arcade game. A screen grab from it can be seen below on top. This morning, I had an appointment, so I asked him to busy himself by drawing a picture of Space Invaders. He did so, using a game called "Cabbage Patch Dolls Paint & Play," which was a cartridge for my old ColecoVision, which I still have hooked up. That is the one below. Remember, he saw Space Invaders exactly ONCE, yesterday, and drew this thing from memory on the ColecoVision this morning. The stars in the background are because of his familiarity with the Space Invaders clone in Gorf. The aliens are different because, he wants me to tell you, they are from Gorf.

Awwww.... but I love crazy rumor mills. Would be an awesome product if made. If they can make a modern day "Commodore 65" (the Mega 65), then why not this?

I would like to hear the answer to this as well. I think the Commodore 128 is the most consistently underrated computer of the entire era through its release, and then some.

Must be from my area, zzip (SE PA). Clover was regional here, and I remember the exact same thing.

Got to say, that is sweet!

Looks like I have not received any such email. On another forum I was told I'd probably get it Monday. Here's hoping.

I put in an order, the money is out of PayPal... but I can't tell if I got a December one, a March one, or neither of these. Does anyone know how you can tell if you have even been assigned a shipping date? As I said, the money is gone...

Think I will be pre-ordering one, if I can get in.

You lucky bastard! I didn't even know there WAS a Coleco-branded 3.5" drive for the ADAM. EDIT: Ha! Should have read rest of thread before posting my ragingly jealous congratulatory reply.

Gee, you are going to drive me to the irrational want zone. It would be fun to be able to play with Euro computers.

I do not have such a monitor (unless the 1084S does it and I don't know about it), but it's good to know it's easy if I ever give in. Thank you!

I think now that I am here almost two years later in 2021, I would add the following items: 1. The Ketek Command Center for the Commodore 128. Just an external housing/desk organizer/power strip deal that was meant to make your Commodore 8 bit look more like a then-modern PC box set up. Silly now but GOD I WANTED IT in 1992-1993. Saw one for sale once with a huge bunch of crap, asked the dude to separate, but he declined. Would have had to buy a couple of truck loads of crap to get it... my wife would have murdered me, wasn't worth it. Today I am not even sure I would use it. If anyone has one in the back of a closet somewhere, do let me know. 2. A ZX Spectrum. The original small black one with the rainbow on the diagonal in the right hand corner. I would never, ever bother doing what would need to be done in order to make the thing usable in the USA --- so this is truly irrational, because it would be purely decorative. On the other hand, this means I could take someone's non-working unit, which means some day when I've had a few and I am surfing the net, I may yet buy a cheap one and import it. 3. A Commodore 8280 - the dual 8" disk drives. I am fascinated by those. Indeed, I bought an 8" disk, just to have. Of course, in order to have the drive be worth anything, I'd need a computer to go with it, so... 4. Something in that CBM-II/PET-II Commodore line that was actually designed in house but was always rumored to be designed by Porsche. Don't really want or care about the computer as a computer particularly, but man those machines as little art pieces are dead sexxxy with that monitor and everything yeahhhhhh In terms of my old wants combined with these, I think I would order them now: 1. C65 (obviously) 2. Commodore 720 (CBM-II) / Commodore 8280, even though they do not match styles. 3. Commodore Amiga 4000 not T 4. Ketek Command Center 5. Coleco ADAM Disk Drive 6. ZX Spectrum 7. TI-99/4A VCR controller deal 8. Atari 1450XL 9. Atari 1200 I'd maybe throw on the TI voice module thing, but that is very obtainable, so if I ever really want it I'll buy it, so I don't know if it counts. Just can't see dropping half a hundy on something I'll play with once or twice then forget about. Anyway my strongest irrational wants right now are a portable wind-up gramophone and a reel-to-reel tape player. I also have my 1983 Chrysler LeBaron Town & Country Mark Cross Edition Convertible to spend money on, so I should probably calm down (that car supposedly talks using that same logic that TI used, but right now that whole system doesn't work, so one of my irrational wants is to look into getting that done).

I got my Commodore printer VERY late in the day, for I think my 16th birthday (in 1994 - after Commodore liquidated it!). To me the essential difference between a computer and a gaming machine is output - if you can't use it to do something of value for the "outside" world, it is not really a productivity machine, but a gaming machine.

I really enjoyed reading this thread and everyone's stories. I am more of a Commodore guy, I must admit, but I, like most of you posting here I guess, always thought of my Commodore 64C as a kid as more of a "productivity" machine - that is, a real computer - than a "games machine." When I got into the retro hobby seriously and added the Atari 800XL, I asked a guy I was trading with to include some real productivity software. I am always more interested in what these computers could do for real work than just for games. My "daily driver" among retro systems is the Commodore I always wanted without quite realizing it as a kid: a 128 with two drives, the RAM expansion, a printer, a "modem" (WiFi Card), mouse, etc. I will amuse myself from time to time by writing tests for my students on it (I teach an English literature course at a local University). Haven't done it in a while though - the pandemic made everything online for the last three semesters.

You're a ColecoVision expert AND a White Sox fan? You really are a bit of all right, NIAD!

I really would love to learn so much of this stuff, they don't know how lucky they are having someone right in the house who can do it all.