[Epona]

Ah well, I never had a Commodore 64, but your comment about LOAD"*" reminded me of the Spectrum days of my youth. I had a copy of The Hobbit - text adventure with horrid blocky 16 colour fixed pictures by way of 'eye candy' - and the damn thing would never load - listening to the whine of the cassette player for half an hour, then having the blooming thing crash at the last buuuuuuuuuur-biiip.

What do you want to do?: GIVE THE KEY TO GANDALF
Syntax Error 23375m%$,
What do you want to do?: GIVE KEY TO GANDALF
I do not understand the word TO
What do you want to do?: GIVE KEY GANDALF
Give the key to what??: GANDALF
There is no verb in the command GANDALF
What do you want to do?: THROW THE FREAKIN KEY AT THE SODDING WIZARD
You give the key to Gandalf
What do you want to do?:

Ah, those were the days.