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Commodore Night 2007
Max from MCC
Before telling you how we spent a nice
evening last November, let me tell you
a little bit more about my little C=
history...
The origins
My parents bought me a C64+1541 drive
in 1984, after a year of ZX81
exploration. What a difference it was!
A couple of friends also had this
terrific machine, Christophe DW in my
neighborhood, and Hugues DJ , the son
of one of my father's colleague. The
exchanges of ideas, softwares and
tricks were intense! As were the
deprived sleep nights we passed, trying
to break some machine code, just for
the fun.
Commodore Night roots
Many years and a few PC later, I
discovered in 2004-2005 several
well-known emulators (CCS64, VICE)
running on PC and also on my brand new
iMac G5 (Power 64). I was astonished to
see that all the games we loved and
played for hours were available on new
machines, with high quality graphics
and sound. I then gathered a couple of
old friend, and the Commodore Night
2006 was born. It was thus an event
centered on emulation more than playing
with original machines, even though I
brought my old C64 and an SX64 that a
colleague offered to me for that
occasion. The SID chip of the SX was
dead, and the C64'SID surrendered after
the event.
Getting some oldies
For the 2007 edition, I thought it
would be nice to play on REAL machines.
The event had to be brilliant, as we
celebrated the C64 25th anniversary!
But my C64 and the SX were not enough.
I then traveled on eBay to get other
stuffs, and gathered a few 64's
(classic and C64C versions), a DTV64, a
C128 and an Amiga 500, plus an old Mac
SE30 (for my friend Torx who is a real
Mac-o-phile). And I don't talk about
all the joysticks, 1541 drives and
monitors sold with the machines.I also
got some original games.
The party
On November 24th, my old friend Hugues
DJ (Bug from MCC) came to set all this
mess up with me.
With our nice t-shirts, we felt like
if we were 18 again... My lovely wife
cooked delicious lasagnas. A dozen of
old friends came to join us in the
evening to make all theses beasts live
again. What a pleasure. With some
Belgian beers, nice videos and some
notes of Visa Rster.... If you look
well on YouTube, you may find some of
our dedicated production. All the
attendees could compete in Summer
Games, Zorro or Pitstop 2. We didn't
loose our reflexes of the eighties,
with a Quickshot II or an old Atari
stick. Who said microcomputers did not
conditionate people?
Maybe another edition in 2008?
More informations on:
http://homepage.mac.com/
endocrine.solutions/mcc64/
index.html
Greetings to all C64 lovers,
Max from MCC
1984-1989 Commodore C64 user & fan
Retrocomputing adept 2004-?
http://c64mcc.blogspot.com/