Commodore 64

go.

I had a Commodore.

I was much more happy with that.

I didn't.

Commodore 64.

Well, that's still Commodore, isn't

it? I had an Acorn Electron when everyone else had a BBC, but then Acorn was a little bit better than the BBC, I think.

But there's, you know, like the Dyson guy, he invented, well, he came up with the

But I do want to hear about the old tech that you can't let go of.

Do you have floppy disks? Do you have a Commodore 64? Do you have a mini disk? What do you have? What do you suspect might be on it? Send me a text.

But with me to chat about it is Melanie Swalwell, Professor of Digital Media Heritage at Swinburne University.

Melanie, welcome to Life Matters.

And I always amazed me with Evercade and their guys behind the scenes, how they adapt these games to modern consoles, how they adapt the controls to modern consoles.

and then they can mess about with the game code themselves and like i say they added in they've taken out the game boy and put in a hyper megatech and we've been playing banjo kazooie on it and they've added a versus r in rather than n64 and it looks like it should have been held along very clever guys that got behind the scenes at evercade and i just think they're going from strength to strength um i know they've sold i think it would have versus r has sold a million well over a million consoles now has it yeah yeah um and i think they've got 100 cartridges out now and now with the nexus now out um i think that's powerful enough to play ps2 bits and pieces so i think you'll start seeing some ps2 compilations coming um yeah i just love it and i started to be although i have my older consoles set up um through an oss at home um some i have here in the studio as well um I tend to find now when friends come round and want to play retro, I normally jump on the Evercade, because if you've got a multi-cart, like a Visco or an Atari or a C64, you can put two cartridges in the Versus R, and you could have up to 20 games there.

You ain't got to change the cartridges.

Oh, lovely.

I would love...

In this day and age, you could see an evolution of Cannibal Run on the 2600, Cannibal Run on the Commodore 64, Cannibal Run on the Mega Drive.

You know, just adapt it and adapt it.

And it creates this evolutionary thing just to see what if the game was released here, there, or over there.

You know, there's only some little video clips and things out there.

But I'm curious just to hear... what you would go for so i mean what first of all what machine are you envisaging

straight away in my mind's eye this had to be a commodore 64 game

you're going to be in the

Yes.

It is Cuthbert the Commodore owner.

With Sam the Spectrum owner and Brian the BBC owner.

Drawn by...

There's a skull.

The thing that sticks, it's so stupid, the thing that sticks in your head over 40 years is on the second one on page 46 there.

In the very bottom left-hand panel, there's Cuthbert the Commodore owner playing a game, presumably on his C64.

And the sound effects that Mr. Brooker has written are something that's, where it goes, tack, zap, glocker, ping, pow, the word glocker.

That's the end of it.

They seem to be enhancing the, since they started with the C64 Mini was the first one they did, I think.

And they've gone on since then to do that.

I think so,

You can't break into it.

$6.3 billion stolen by the North Koreans? I thought the North Koreans were still using, like, Commodore 64 computers, for crying out loud.

Okay, again, what does this tell you? I don't know.

I'm just telling you, okay? Okay.