Cut the story short, in 1989 I sold all my original Commodore 64 tapes, all the Turbo Tapes, my own code, Commodore 64, datasette - the entire lot to a local friend at school.

Years later, in 2014 I started digging into my experiences with computers and everything else, and I always knew that I lost all the tapes and codes I must have played around with during my "learning to code" using the Commodore 64.

I have to give a big thanks to my project SOASC, because when that started in 2006/2007 one of my other friends offered me his Commodore 64C and all the original tapes and turbo tapes he had lying around. During that year, I did a recording of these tapes using M-TAP and created TAP files where I could grab out games. At that point in time I was not looking for any of my code at all - since I already had known it was long lost and gone anyway.

Well, just by chance about a week ago in late April 2025, I was looking for the "Turbo Tape" we called "PIL L", or arrow L along with the "ABC Turbo" software on these tap files. I did find them, but I also got a complete shock when I also managed to find "basic" programs that myself had written in 1989 - that seems to be copied to his tapes all the way back in 1989!

I never found any of these back in 2007 (I was not looking) and I most likely only ripped out Turbo Tape programs (not C64 kernal loading ones). Glad I did that in 2025, because below are traces of my coding years on the Commodore 64.

To be honest, I can't remember anything of what I coded back in those days, everything is just a mind blur of the heavy kind. But, this has my signature writing on them and "my humour", in fact its even 1989 (C) DEMO- SERVICE by Stein E. Which is my name!

Since I have the tapes shown below, I started re-recording them as 44.1Khz, Mono WAV files these days trying to find more traces of not only my potentional code, but also the really get an overview of "what games did I really play while using Turbo Tape 64"?

I have found a shit-load of games I had forgotten very long time ago. It's funny how just a title screen or the first instance of the game triggers memories instantly. I'm so happy for this "happy accident" and it has been a very long hunt.

I have attached the actual Commodore 64 .prg binaries below, if you want to try them yourselves.