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spengler posted:i think this is why the c64 demoscene is still a thing. this is awesome btw the bit at 5:40 (shown in the vid thumbnail) reminds me of ballblazer
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May 29, 2014 17:39
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wizball loving owns. amiga/ST ports may be a little better graphically but man that fuckin theme music and game over ditty sound so sick on the sid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxhP6vD3unY
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May 29, 2014 18:18
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Breetai posted:Beach Head II is a fantastic game that's comprised essentially of 4-5 minigames where you boat your people across to an island ruled by a despot, land them under machine gun fire, attack targets, and make your escape, and it's distinguished by the fact that Player 2 can take over completely from the computer making it a very early head-to-head minigame fest. Bruce and Roger Carver wrote Beachhead and Raid over Moscow. I got to meet one of them and apologize for pirating it. He offered me a job.
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May 29, 2014 20:11
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spengler posted:i think this is why the c64 demoscene is still a thing. Holy poo poo. This was all made with machine programming?
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May 29, 2014 20:14
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Ema Nymton posted:I once tried out C64 emulation specifically to confirm in my mind that Give my Regards to Broad Street really, actually exists. raditts posted:But didn't you need 128 mode to get the music to play in Ultima V? As for Below the Root, you were supposed to read the Green Sky Trilogy first, it's some good Young Adult fantasy. Instead of just making a video game adaptation, Zilpha Keatley Snyder wanted to write a 4th title for the series but present it as a computer game. A lot of little things in BTR make a LOT more sense when you read it. It's still fun to play, and someone even made a complete map out of screenshots. Wasteland is still fun. And PIRATES! was pretty awesome, I played a "take a drink every time you capture a ship" drinking game with it. Seconding "play Paradroid till you drop".
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Watching amazing C64 demos (Fairlight!) reminds me why I was hooked into computers in the first place. Even as a 5 year old kid I could sense the amazing mastery behind making that clumsy beige box show these wonderful things on that small screen my dad got to do some light CAD work at home. As to OP: you need to find two joysticks, a friend, and International Karate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOXR008V2I
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May 29, 2014 21:08
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I had one as a kid. Ignore these lists. Play these games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1A-BNafyDk Fort Apocalypse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeCZaxVP0nk Raid on Bungeling Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5EtR79G99Y Blue Max https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc1stgFZrQ4 Jumpman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdwHe4lO8as Prince of Persia thoughts and prayers fucked around with this message at 22:10 on May 29, 2014 |
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tango alpha delta posted:apologize for pirating it Beach-Head was one of the few titles I actually purchased, by saving up my after-school work money That was before I discovered the back pages of Computer Shopper magazine and learned the secret of "backups" gently caress, remember when Computer Shopper was >500 pages and came out 4 times a month?
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May 29, 2014 22:09
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Not Nipsy Russell posted:We were dirt poor when I was a kid. When I see now that the VIC 20 my mom gave me for Christmas 1982 was $300, I appreciate it even more. I remember not having enough to buy any games, so we went to the library and checked out a giant book of BASIC games. That kept me busy for a while, until I did enough work to save up and buy some carts for it. Speaking of text adventures, did anyone ever have that "Farmer's Daughter" one? It was one amongst many disks full of games that my older brothers traded around at school and it taught me at a young age that hillbillies can and will assrape you on sight. There was another one on the same disk called "Sweet 16", all I remember about it is that there's a room with a sex doll that malfunctions and rips off your dick if you try to use it.
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buttcrackmenace posted:Beach-Head was one of the few titles I actually purchased, by saving up my after-school work money I used to sign the Compute! Books out of the library and devour them. Jim Butterfield was some kind of god to me. RIP Jim.
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All this nostalgia but none of y'all fucks are in here? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3577352&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 Bloody shameful it is. I seem to be the only real defender of the C64 in there. Even though I don't have one now but do rock out the Atari 8bit machines. (I have two. Original 70s 800 and a 130xe.) Also play Defender of the Crown. C64 version is the most fun. Also Mayhem in Monsterland and HERO.
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May 29, 2014 22:31
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papa_november posted:The lack of C128 exclusives is still odd because there's a fuckton of them out there - something like 5 million were produced. Nothing compared to the C64's 12+ million, but far more than a lot of other platforms that got tons of memorable games. Build quality was better than the breadbox C64 too despite it being three times more complex. Its perfect compatibility with the C64 was the problem. There was an utter fuckton of software available for that system.
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May 29, 2014 23:08
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Captain Rufus posted:
That's the one where you can catapult dead animals with plague germs over the wall, right?
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I have a C128 (amongst other computers, and expansions.. I sort of collect them.. I think the rarest thing I have is a "robotron" series computer, produced in east germany before the fall of the wall [it runs on a reverse engineered Z80 Clone and Basic]) maybe I should visit that other thread with some pictures.
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The speccy playthrough on youtube is far better than the Commodore 64 one but the two versions are almost identical. If you can find a ROM with the cassette audio rip packed in Deus Ex Machina is one of the first fortes into "art games". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJBsYJ16IE Police Automaton posted:some pictures please
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May 29, 2014 23:24
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"Oh, you want more capacity on your portable media? Take a loving hole punch to it." 
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Breetai posted:"Oh, you want more capacity on your portable media? Take a loving hole punch to it." hahaha yes
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The amazing thing is the disks and drives can still work /today/ /right now/ wheras any PC floppies past 1994 were hosed 10 years ago.
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raditts posted:Speaking of text adventures, did anyone ever have that "Farmer's Daughter" one? It was one amongst many disks full of games that my older brothers traded around at school and it taught me at a young age that hillbillies can and will assrape you on sight. Breetai posted:"Oh, you want more capacity on your portable media? Take a loving hole punch to it." My dad once borrowed a third-party dual disk drive for the 64, it was made for copying... it had drivers you could load into the DD, so when you inserted 2 disks it would automatically copy one to the other. Even when you unplugged it from the computer. So he copied 100's of disks with it. Newfangled. But normally copying took 2 drives, Fast Hack'em, and a whole lot of flipping. You had to type real careful when using Commodore modems. The 300 baud one was super lovely, it plugged loosely into the cartridge port so if you bumped or moved the 64 at all it would lock up the system.
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dee eight posted:That's the one where you can catapult dead animals with plague germs over the wall, right? Ya goddamned RIGHT.        Yeah the ST and Amiga versions LOOK better. But the C64 PLAYS better. I took these shots for that CRPG community book project that's going on. I am covering Ultima 1 and Defender of the Crown for it.
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Captain Rufus posted:Ya goddamned RIGHT. This just reminded me of all the SSI Dungeons and Dragons games, plus the Buck Rogers game that came out on the same engine. I spent a lot of hours playing those games. Also, Skyfox was a fun, if somewhat simple, flight shoot 'em up. Lords of Conquest was a pretty fun Risk-like strategy game. It strained a lot of friendships.
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May 30, 2014 07:05
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all the games your brother stole and you had to trial-and-error the "codebook" copyright protection stuff with to play because he wouldn't let you have his photocopies
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May 30, 2014 07:08
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:all the games your brother stole and you had to trial-and-error the "codebook" copyright protection stuff with to play because he wouldn't let you have his photocopies this brother must have come with every computer sold because I had one of those too
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AE-35 Unit posted:this brother must have come with every computer sold because I had one of those too I'm pretty sure that most computers had a coupon your parents could send off to get that brother. I had one too. The jackass.
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so im messing around with Vice and CCS64. which one is the better emu? both of them are kind of obtuse and im having trouble getting my mouse to work in maniac mansion on either.
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May 30, 2014 07:48
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Glass Bottom Boat posted:so im messing around with Vice and CCS64. which one is the better emu? both of them are kind of obtuse and im having trouble getting my mouse to work in maniac mansion on either. Try the Joystick. Outside of GEOS gently caress all really used the mouse. And if a joystick isnt working swap joystick option. I use VICE because its free. Commodore Forever is really great if you don't mind paying for a good emulator that comes with gobs of games.
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Vice is better in the compatibility department I would say. Also yes, you need to use the joystick, the C64 wasn't really a mouse-computer.
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CaptainWinky posted:wizball loving owns. amiga/ST ports may be a little better graphically but man that fuckin theme music and game over ditty sound so sick on the sid yeah one of my favourites
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Ysa posted:Anyone remember a text game that involved a huge mansion that you had to work your way around and solve puzzles? The things that stick in my memory are it had some sort of shrub maze outside and on the main staircase there was a "live" suit of armor. This game taught me the meaning of the word foyer even though it was probably a decade later before I knew how to pronounce it correctly. It might've been Bastow Manor. My brother and I could never finish that goddamn thing.
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EXTREME INSERTION posted:It's the leather goddesses of Phobos
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Got a C64 for christmas when I must have been around 8 years old. I remember it took the better part of half an hour just to tune the TV to the right channel. I think my mom ended up getting rid of it after we got a sega. Still haven't forgiven her for that. Super Blitz and Battleship was my poo poo. Mainly because it was the only tapes that even existed anywhere near me.  
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tango alpha delta posted:Or if you are hardcore: tango alpha delta posted:It also had it's own 6502 CPU and 4 kilobytes of RAM. You replace the firmware with your own custom fast load code in one of the drive's 2 Kilobyte RAM banks. You are basically a wizard can I buy you a hat?
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i clicked through to the guys blog and he literally has posts where he collects computers at the dump to publish the things people had on their computer in 1995 why
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becrumbac posted:i clicked through to the guys blog and he literally has posts where he collects computers at the dump to publish the things people had on their computer in 1995 
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gary oldmans diary posted:below the root gently caress yes what a game
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Captain Rufus posted:All this nostalgia but none of y'all fucks are in here? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3577352&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 C64 Defender of the Crown was the best version because you could choose between stone, plague and fire projectiles for your catapult. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kk9UfFEYvM
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And of course there's the Barbarian, where you could cut off head and the corpse collecting goblin would kick it . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ORMf6SjTc
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