Well, I didn't quite give it away. I "lent" it to my little cusin. Or so I'm telling myself to this day.
In any case, due to school and work I moved on the the world of x86 compatible machines and kind of forgot about my beloved Commodore box. Only to find out that, year's later when I wanted to check up on it's state, it apparently broke some while back, got stored in my uncle attic for years and eventually had to be tossed out to make room. Quite the expected faith, actually, and truly my own fault for not showing I still had interest in it and checking up on it sooner.
To be fair, though, at that time I probably wouldn't have had the patience or knowledge to get it in working order again anyway. So I've let it be and moved on. But I never totally lost interest in the Commodore world and always had an emulator handy on most of my machines of the day for a trip down nostalgia lane with a quick play of The Great Giana Sisters or The Last Ninja, two of my all time favorite games.
With the retro computing boom in full effect lately and me recently discovering and joining the awesome Commodore 64/128 Facebook group, where I found lots of like minded geeks... all of them about the same age as me, haha... I'm now positively encouraged to embark on some eBay browsing and getting myself back into the C64 scene.
Wish me luck!
