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Published: 2009-09-02 21:21:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 8085; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 1081
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Small Update Ver 1-2: The accompanying documents have been updated with links updated too.I found that it was kinda hard to find good quality emulator icons on the web so I decided to create my own set. This is a set of icons I made for computer emulators, it is photographic but is very comprehensive and the pictures are very clean. I wanted to do them in illustration vector style but it would have taken me too long to do it with my spare time. Despite this all the pictures have been cleaned throughly, color corrected and fully smoothed alpha and just finding good quality photos for this was a huge job. It includes Windows, Mac and Png versions. The Windows icons are in Vista format (The 256 x 256 pixels icon is Png compressed) but they are Win XP compatible as well. You may modify them for personal use.
You can obtain a zip file that contains everything by clicking on Download File at the right of this web page.
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And please for those Commodore 64 fans out there don't get me wrong about the slow floppy drive bashing cause that is just a joke (like many similar ones) that a lot of Commodore 64 owners themselves did back there about the super slow floppy drive.
I respected the computer a lot and the floppy drive was turtle slow but it got the job done anyway and the computer was OK and many of those that had the opportunity to have one had a lot of fun with them just like I did in those opportunities that I had to use one. Also many people that have gone today as far as being IT managers or computer professionals had humble beginnings with machines like these!
These little jewels although simple were more than good enough to help jumpstart many people's computer careers because the same basic principles that govern these older computers still apply to the modern ones that we use today the same.
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I remember using some of those computers, thanks for posting!
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Yeah I used some of those computers too, my first PC was a Tandy TRS-80 (The Coco!) that recorded things in audio cassettes, my God! and my second computer was a PCjr running blazingly faster than my TRS-80 at the incredible speed of 4.77 megaherz Wow! and it had the incredible technological advance of guess what, floppys! (Well they were way better than audio cassettes ja,ja,ja)
Well, I really had a lot of fun with them and they got me into computers which I use everyday and have used them for work for years. Yeah watching those icon images bring back a lot of good memories. I became a computer enthusiast in a jiffy and I remember that I liked a lot of them and not just PCs, I wanted to have a Mac II, and an Amiga and an Apple IIGS and many others! I simply liked the whole subject of computing a lot and today is no difference but of course I like other things too, it's just that they became a hobby for me and I made a living out of computers for quite a while.
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Nice!
I recall the VIC20 and the Commodore 64 storing files on audio cassette for a while (ah manual playback, now THAT was file searching) ... then C64 got an external floppy, I think. The closest thing our Commodore 128 had to a hard drive was a RAM extension you plug into the back ... so we still had to swap 5 1/2" floppies a lot.
It was possible to play some 3D flight sim games like Space Rogue and Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator on the C64 ("You really screwed the pooch this time" XD
Then the C-128 enabled pre-rendered 3D animation of basic shapes... but it took hours to get a hundred frames.
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Yeah the Commodore 64 got a floppy drive alright, the only thing is that it was probably the slowest floppy disk drive in the history of computing cause it took about twice the time that it took our solar system to form to load a file ja,ja,ja. Well it got the job done, my uncle had a 64 with the floppy drive and I remember us loading a game called Castle of Dr. Creep or something like that (took about two minutes or more to load the game from the floppy) and playing that quite a bit and I had a ball with it.
You could put another floppy unit on my PCjr on a module that you put on top of the machine and there was a small hard drive that you could put on top of it too but we never bought that and we had to do a lot of the floppy shuffle too. I remember having to switch the DOS 2.10 disk after booting so I could load Flight Simulator and King Quest I, II and III that came on floppys too. Mine even had a mouse already, it was the very first mouse designed by Microsoft that connected to a special port at the back of the PCjr with a special module that you attached to the side of the computer, I had the very first Microsoft PC mouse! I still use mice by Microsoft and Logitech.
Flight Simulator could run in my PCjr at about 3 or 4 frames per second (yikes!) with very crude graphics but I knew the moment that I saw it working way back then that it was going to be the future of gaming and I was right! Now, in the version I had I couldn't see the plane from the outside and one day I saw the special version that Microsoft did for the Amiga and it was way ahead of the one I had and you could see the plane from outside with a lot of detail and the graphics were way faster and better than those in my PCjr.
Yes it is true that many of those older computers could do very basic rendering (a few of them) and it was indeed slower than the proverbial snail. A curious datum that many people don't know and many people insist that the first desktop computer 3D animations were done in Macs or Amigas or other computers but this is incorrect cause the very first 3D animations done on a desktop PC were done in IBM compatible computers, it just required very expensive special hardware and software add-ons that you had to buy separately.
I remember reading about it and there were systems based on the Truevision Targa graphic cards that ran in the several thousands of dollars for the graphic card alone but these cards were able to do 24 bit colors when we the regular consumers were still using cards with 4 to 256 colors and with special software IBM PCs were able to do the job. I remember seeing a system based on a 6 Mhz PC AT but of course it was very slow too cause those computers were sooooo slow back then.
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