Hi Folks!

I am now online with my real C64
works pretty good after I sorted out a
few issues.
I think I will do a Youtube Video
on this Session. Check out my channel
quipzz on YT for BBS Videos and stuff

Greetings

Snobsoft.de 6401

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Snobsoft to All on Sun Feb 23 2025 02:23 am

Hi Folks!

I am now online with my real C64
works pretty good after I sorted out a few issues.
I think I will do a Youtube Video
on this Session. Check out my channel quipzz on YT for BBS Videos and stuff

Greetings

Snobsoft.de 6401

hey there's an ADs section where this stuff goes.
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Snobsoft wrote to All <=-

I am now online with my real C64
works pretty good after I sorted out a
few issues.
I think I will do a Youtube Video
on this Session. Check out my channel
quipzz on YT for BBS Videos and stuff

I'd love to see it in action! I'm quite nostalgic thinking back, my
first experiences online were with a C64 and a 300 baud Anchor
Signalman modem. Remembering the first time I connected to BBSes, my
computer wasn't just local, but a connection to a whole world of
information. I still feel that way, I suppose. :)



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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Snobsoft to All on Sun Feb 23 2025 02:23:11

Hi Folks!

I am now online with my real C64
works pretty good after I sorted out a few issues.
I think I will do a Youtube Video
on this Session. Check out my channel quipzz on YT for BBS Videos and stuff

Greetings

Snobsoft.de 6401

I would love to get ahold of a C64... just too pricy for my pocket. Are you using the RS232 WIFI interface to connect it and what are you using for storage. Seen many ways people are doing it now... I follow Retro Recipes on YTand saw how he was doing it.

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: KrAAB to Snobsoft on Mon Feb 24 2025 09:56 pm

I would love to get ahold of a C64... just too pricy for my pocket. Are you using the RS232 WIFI interface to connect it and what are you using for storage. Seen many ways people are doing it now... I follow Retro Recipes on YTand saw how he was doing it.

just watch ebay a lot. you can get one for a couple of hundred bucks.
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Snobsoft to All on Sun Feb 23 2025 02:23 am

I am now online with my real C64

Me too! Happen to be on the ol'
breadbin at the moment. Got my board
answering PETSCII on port 2064, too!

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Re: Re: Now online with my C64
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Snobsoft on Mon Feb 24 2025 09:00 am

Snobsoft wrote to All <=-

I am now online with my real C6 > Sn> works pretty good after I sorte > Sn> out a
few issues.
I think I will do a Youtube Vid > Sn> on this Session. Check out my channel
quipzz on YT for BBS Videos and > Sn> stuff

I'd love to see it in action! I'm
quite nostalgic thinking back, my
first experiences online were with > C64 and a 300 baud Anchor
Signalman modem. Remembering the fi > time I connected to BBSes, my
computer wasn't just local, but a
connection to a whole world of
information. I still feel that way, > suppose. :)

Yes, that was really magical back then.Now that I managed to get back in here with my C64, I find it pretty awesome
again. Especially since I'm now on Port6464, which the Partybowl Sysop set up just for me. This makes everything
PETSCII - pretty colorful and of courcenot so fast at 300 baud. But it looks cool. Thanks, Droidmike!

The filming of the video is completed
btw, and I'm already busy editing. It
should be out soon.

Greetings from Hamburg/Germany

Snobsoft.de 6401

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: KrAAB to Snobsoft on Mon Feb 24 2025 09:56 pm

I would love to get ahold of a
C64...
just too pricy for my pocket. Are
you
using the RS232 WIFI interface to
connect it and what are you using
for
storage. Seen many ways people are
doing it now... I follow Retro
Recipes
on YTand saw how he was doing it.

I am using a nullmodem cable and a mini
pc running the modem emulator tcpser
as shown in this video i did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thCV-Gf4DAo

For storage I use one of my 1541

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: phigan to Snobsoft on Tue Feb 25 2025 11:35 am

I am now online with my real C64

Me too! Happen to be on the ol'
breadbin at the moment. Got my board
answering PETSCII on port 2064, too!

Great. I am online with Putty for once. But otherwise, it's just more awesome with the real C64.

For me, here in the Partybowl, I am actually getting a bit of that old BBS feeling again. I wouldn't have thought so. I started back in 1984/85 with a 300 baud acoustic coupler on the C64. Here in Germany, phone costs were very high - so you had to watch every minute. That's why the Snobsoft BBS, which I brought back online after 40 years, still has a one-minute inactivity timeout built in. Back then, it was to protect the user from accidentally staying on the line and incurring unnecessary phone costs. Today it can be annoying - I think I'll remove it since I've realized how relaxing it is in comparison in the Partybowl when I can take my time to understand all the menus without getting a timeout right away. Especially for me as an 80s BBS enthusiast, these "modern" 90s-style BBS are still quite unfamiliar in terms of handling, but I am slowly getting used to it.

BTW: Does anyone have an idea how to make it so that the BBS is accessible via Telnet and Dial-up on the C64? I've managed either one, but not both at the same time. I would need some kind of switch to allow either Telnet or Dial-up. The Snobsoft can only handle one port. Maybe with a Raspberry Pi at the user port of the C64 somehow? I appreciate any tips.

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: KrAAB to Snobsoft on Mon Feb 24 2025 09:56 pm

just watch ebay a lot. you can get one for a couple of hundred bucks.
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I hadn't looked, but are You saying a the cost for a 64 PC or a System with 1541 FD , Modem and 64 ?

Just curious.
Ed
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Feb 27 2025 12:08 pm

Re: Now online with my C64
By: KrAAB to Snobsoft on Mon Feb 24 2025 09:56 pm

just watch ebay a lot. you can get one for a couple of hundred bucks.
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I hadn't looked, but are You saying a the cost for a 64 PC or a System with 1541 FD , Modem and 64 ?

Just curious.

go look. they post stuff every week.
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Feb 27 2025 12:08 pm

I hadn't looked, but are You saying
a
the cost for a 64 PC or a System
with
1541 FD , Modem and 64 ?

Based on the prices here on eBay Germany, I'd say (in dollars):

C64 functional with power supply - $50-80
1541 - $100
Modem - $50
Acoustic coupler - $150-200
RS232 adapter (new) - $50

These are only approximate estimates and could be incorrect.
Overall, everything has become more expensive.
But there are still bargains to be found -
maybe not necessarily on eBay.

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Feb 27 2025 12:08 pm

go look. they post stuff every week.
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Thanks, I haven't looked at EBay fer ages, mainly because I haven't got a major credit card to pay for an item there.
Long time ago I told a neighbor about a thing I was wanting and the neighbor stood me someone was selling what I wanted .
My neighbor bought it for me and I paid the neighbor back.

What I wanted was a SyQuest Drive to read some EZ-135 Disks I had made, but the Drive I had no longer operated.

Now have a SyQuest EZ Flyer that can read those disks.

I saved lots of files to that EZ-135 drive to keep from filling up space on the HDD in my old 486 box.

The newer drive came with a SCSI Card for my XP box.
Now I can see those old files that were saved back then.
Ed
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MRO, In my last post it had the word stood,
That should had read: the neighbor told me...

I forgot to read my entry before tapping the button.
Ed
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Mar 06 2025 04:12 pm

Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Feb 27 2025 12:08 pm

go look. they post stuff every week.

Thanks, I haven't looked at EBay fer ages, mainly because I haven't got a major credit card to pay for an item there.
Long time ago I told a neighbor about a thing I was wanting and the neighbor stood me someone was selling what I wanted .

use a debit card.
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Feb 27 2025 12:08 pm

Based on the prices here on eBay Germany, I'd say (in dollars):

C64 functional with power supply - $50-80
1541 - $100
Modem - $50
Acoustic coupler - $150-200
RS232 adapter (new) - $50

These are only approximate estimates and could be incorrect.
Overall, everything has become more expensive.
But there are still bargains to be found -
maybe not necessarily on eBay.

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As I told MRO, I will take a look at eBay to see what Commodore gear is for sale there.

My first C=64 cost around $300.00USD, some years later I bought another one for &100.00USD.

A friend had a C=64 before I bought mine and told me that after typing a BASIC PRG in and running it after he finished using the PRG it would have to be entered in again the next day if he wanted to RUN it.
I had seen an article in Popular Electronics magazine where a 7414 IC circuit could allow a ordinary cassette recorder to Save and Load files on tape.

The circuit was connected to the C=64 Cassette Port and to the mike and speaker jacks on the Cassette Recorder.
He also subscribed to Popular Electronics and built the circuit..
He enjoyed using the C=64 more after that.

THEN I got my setup, a C=64, VIC300 Modem and a C=1541 Floppy Drive.

A PRG on cassette tape came with the Modem so I asked him to bring his circuit and Recorder to my house so I could see what that PRG would do.

After we Loaded the terminal(?) PRG I Saved it to disk and his jaw dropped when he noticed how quick that small PRG got Saved on the floppy disk.
...
A few days later he was the proud owner of a 1541 too

Ed
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to Snobsoft on Thu Mar 06 2025 04:54 pm

Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Feb 27 2025 12:08 pm

Based on the prices here on eBay Germany, I'd say (in dollars):

C64 functional with power supply - $50-80
1541 - $100
Modem - $50
Acoustic coupler - $150-200
RS232 adapter (new) - $50

These are only approximate estimates and could be incorrect.
Overall, everything has become more expensive.
But there are still bargains to be found -
maybe not necessarily on eBay.

Those look like really great prices.
I didn't know you were in germany. I would buy it right now if I were you.

As I told MRO, I will take a look at eBay to see what Commodore gear is for sale there.

i see there's a party bowl tagline. did you quote wrong?
is that someone else saying that? I dont see that post.

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After we Loaded the terminal(?) PRG I Saved it to disk and his jaw dropped when he noticed how quick that small PRG got Saved on the floppy disk.
...
A few days later he was the proud owner of a 1541 too

that's all nice but just go on ebay and buy one if you want it.
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to Snobsoft on Thu Mar 06 2025 04:54 pm

A friend had a C=64 before I bought
mine and told me that after typing a
BASIC PRG in and running it after he
finished using the PRG it would have
to
be entered in again the next day if
he
wanted to RUN it.

That's crazy. That would have really
annoyed me. I was lucky back in 1983
to be able to start with a 1541 on
the C64. Exactly the 1541 that I now
currently have as Drive #9 on the
C64 Snobsoft BBS. Yes, the floppy
with its 42 years is thus even older
than Snobsoft and still works.

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Mar 06 2025 04:12 pm

use a debit card.
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I'm not keen on either Debit or Credit (cards).

For my first internet purchase I sent an email asking if the seller would accept my personal check and delay shipping the item till the check cleared. The Seller advertised the movie"Bill and Coo" for a reasonable price and I wanted that old movie I saw when a youngster.

The stars are Birds
Ed
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to Snobsoft on Thu Mar 06 2025 04:54 pm

Those look like really great prices.
I didn't know you were in germany. I would buy it right now if I were you.

i see there's a party bowl tagline. did you quote wrong?
is that someone else saying that? I dont see that post.

that's all nice but just go on ebay and buy one if you want it.
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Some of the quotes were from Snobsoft in Germany.
I live in Indiana.

I'm not needing a C=64 PC or System, I bought mine in 1984 and still have it. Tho not turned it on fer years

Last time the system was on I put a few 5.25" FD's in the drive and the data on them was still readable.
Now I got another ROUNDTUIT to add to the list.

There is always something or someone to keep me humble.
Ed
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to Snobsoft on Thu Mar 06 2025 04:54 pm

That's crazy. That would have really
annoyed me. I was lucky back in 1983
to be able to start with a 1541 on
the C64. Exactly the 1541 that I now
currently have as Drive #9 on the
C64 Snobsoft BBS. Yes, the floppy
with its 42 years is thus even older
than Snobsoft and still works.

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I got the 1541 the same day I got the computer as You did.
It still is #8, a 1581 is #9 here.
Months later I HAD to have a 1526 Printer which cost $350.00 USD, Ouch!
Ed
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Sun Mar 09 2025 03:37 pm

Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Mar 06 2025 04:12 pm

use a debit card.

I'm not keen on either Debit or Credit (cards).

For my first internet purchase I sent an email asking if the seller would accept my personal check and delay shipping the item till the check cleared.

you have a checking account so get the debit card with it.
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to Snobsoft on Sun Mar 09 2025 03:54 pm

I got the 1541 the same day I got
the
computer as You did.
It still is #8, a 1581 is #9 here.
Months later I HAD to have a 1526
Printer which cost $350.00 USD,
Ouch!
Ed

For decades, I only had my 1983 C64 +
1541. But since I relaunched the
Snobsoft BBS after a 40-year hiatus,
hardware donations have started
coming in on a larger scale. Many
people think, rather than throwing
all this 'junk' away, I'd rather
give it to the nice sysop next
door :D It's getting to the point
where I'm wondering if I should even
accept everything (if I can accept
it all, due to space constraints),
or pass some of it on.

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Sun Mar 09 2025 03:37 pm

you have a checking account so get the debit card with it.
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I will check and see if there are any stores that have a eBay card.

I have got a Amazon prepaid card to use for Amazon purchases before.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Ed
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It was nice of those previous owners to donate their Commodore items to You.

I have been given a C=64 system by another person that didn't use it anymore who knew that I would be interested in having it if I need it to replace mine, if ever.
Ed
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Tue Mar 11 2025 02:25 pm

Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Sun Mar 09 2025 03:37 pm

you have a checking account so get the debit card with it.
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I will check and see if there are any stores that have a eBay card.

I have got a Amazon prepaid card to use for Amazon purchases before.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Ed

come on dude. listen to me. get a fucking debit card. dont be the guy
at the grocery store who writes the checks.

write me privately if you have any questions. i lived weird for a while too.
i didnt have any debt until i was like 30.
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