Commodore 64

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with Commodore 64, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 13 complaints

Loading the monitor was manual and could not be done while another machine code program ran2026-09-02
Running machine code often crashed the machine, so unsaved assembly sources were lost2025-04-25
Loading any program is painfully slow2022-12-22
Programs need hunting diskettes, different load commands, and long waits to start2022-11-21
Very slow and user can't figure out how to do anything useful2021-11-24
Interface is so slow that keystrokes are missed2021-11-23
Editing, saving, loading compiler and recompiling was tedious with a stock disk drive2021-10-01
Scroll bars are hidden, so the page is hard to navigate2020-05-16
Had to know the RUN command; game loading took ten minutes with strobe animations2019-12-24
No editor, so typing in long BASIC programs by line number becomes unmaintainable2018-10-17
Hard to find documentation and tools; books missing key knowledge; no proper text editor2018-02-16
Games took about nine minutes to load2017-09-30
Only drag and drop upload, no way to pick files without a graphical file manager2017-06-09