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  • Commodore 64 Ultimate Starlight

    From Bo Holt@1:129/305 to All on Fri Mar 6 14:45:48 2026
    Greetings!

    I received my C64U Starlight Monday. I absolutely love this machine. I'm 45 and got a CoCo 2 for my fifth birthday and have been into computers my whole life. I'm living an alternate reality childhood had I gotten a Commodore instead of a CoCo. My oldest nephew is five, and he and his little brother LOVE all my retro tech. We played Nintendo for FOUR HOURS STRAIGHT last Saturday, first time I've done that since I was single-digit aged. I'm going to take the machine to them and teach them BASIC, all that good stuff.

    I've made a few videos this week with Commodore at youtube.com/bollingholt

    I'm hoping to attach my 1541 to it this weekend and go through some BOXES of disks I recently acquired with a TI-99/4A haul, but I think it's mainly Commodore software. Looking forward to it!!!

    Bo Holt

    ... Torture: The Ultimate Art Form.

    --- Renegade v1.40/DOS
    * Origin: The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info (1:129/305)
  • From Daniel@3:633/10 to All on Sun Mar 8 08:30:01 2026
    Bo Holt <usenet@vk3heg.net> writes:

    Greetings!

    I received my C64U Starlight Monday. I absolutely love this machine. I'm 45 and got a CoCo 2 for my fifth birthday and have been into computers my whole life. I'm living an alternate reality childhood had I gotten a Commodore instead of a CoCo. My oldest nephew is five, and he and his little brother LOVE all my retro tech. We played Nintendo for FOUR HOURS STRAIGHT last Saturday, first time I've done that since I was single-digit aged. I'm going to take the machine to them and teach them BASIC, all that good stuff.

    I've made a few videos this week with Commodore at youtube.com/bollingholt

    I'm hoping to attach my 1541 to it this weekend and go through some BOXES of disks I recently acquired with a TI-99/4A haul, but I think it's mainly Commodore software. Looking forward to it!!!

    Bo Holt

    ... Torture: The Ultimate Art Form.

    Good news. Tell us how you get along. I considered getting a c64 from perifractic but I can't get over the funky keyboard layout of the
    commodores. I have a mini and can't really find a good for it. And I'm
    not nostalgic for the games.

    I hope you find a treasure in that pile of floppies.

    Daniel
    sysop | air & wave bbs
    finger | calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.12
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Bo Holt@1:129/305 to Daniel on Sun Mar 8 08:51:17 2026
    Good news. Tell us how you get along. I considered getting a c64 from perifractic but I can't get over the funky keyboard layout of the commodores. I have a mini and can't really find a good for it. And I'm
    not nostalgic for the games.

    I hope you find a treasure in that pile of floppies.

    Daniel
    sysop | air & wave bbs
    finger | calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.12
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
    I cut my teeh on a CoCo 2, so it's "new nostalgia" for me LOL. I didn't attach the floppy this weekend as plans changed, but I did go to my warehouse and grab the disks. Went tech thrifing though ;)

    Bo

    ... Gunpowder and alcohol DO mix - but it tastes awful!

    --- Renegade v1.40/DOS
    * Origin: The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info (1:129/305)
  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@3:633/10 to All on Mon Mar 9 10:00:02 2026
    Bo Holt <usenet@vk3heg.net> wrote:
    I'm going to take the machine to them and teach
    them BASIC

    Oh no! Keep the kids away from BASIC as it is
    one of the most horrendous programming languages
    ever invented.

    Better to fire up a Fedora Linux or FreeBSD VM and have
    the kids learn Python or anything saner than BASIC.

    Back in the 1980s BASIC was better than nothing, but
    should not be used again in 2026.

    br,
    KK

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.12
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)