When I was a youngster in the late 1980s, I formed an Amiga game dev team with 2 friends.
Before making games, we started by trying to sell game music that used minimal RAM, made with our music editor SIDmon.
To promote our game music, this energetic music module was composed by our musician Ramon Braumuller. The file, including tiny sampled sounds, is only 22 kilobytes.
And there we go. Briley Witch Chronicles 2 has been released and we managed to get started. Players of part 1 will feel right at home. It obviously uses the same game engine, some music and graphics changed, but the great UI stayed mostly the same. So no great learning curve there. The story picks up right before some festivities in Maepole village. #brileywitch#commodore#c64#retrogaming
Portal is a 1986 game by Activision. It's a cyberpunk thriller / playable novel. You return from a 100 year exploration trip through the galaxy to find the Earth deserted and desolate. You log onto Worldnet to connect to Homer, the AI, to figure out what happened to humanity. #commodore#c64#InteractiveFiction#retrogaming
Quite some time ago, I asked you what I should restore next, and you voted for a #Commodore#Amiga#CD32 that was showing no picture. This project was waiting in my to-do box for some months now, and I did a bit here and a bit there. Let's use this #RetroWeekend to (hopefully) fix this machine.
Folks! My friend was at a “junk” shop and found an old computer he thought I might like (a Vic 20? Uh yeah) so he bought it and sent it to me. It works straight away. But the amazing thing? See next post in this thread
Hat vielleicht noch jemand eine MOS 8501 CPU für den #Commodore#C16 über? Die hier wurde vom Vorgänger bei einem Reparaturversuch falsch herum auf den Sockel gesteckt und ist dabei gestorben. Das Gerät soll weiter leben. #Retrocomputing
When I was a young Commodore-era game developer, C (without the ++ or # back then) was for wimps, and hardcore coders used Assembly, ditching the OS to have maximum available hardware resources. 👴
Newest member of the #Commodore family is an #SX64.
Sadly it's a white-screener and its keyboard cable is missing.
Will see what I can do about that cable and according to Miss Google the white screen is a duff PLA chip. #retrogaming#RetroComputing#C64
Apparently, this coffee-making Commodore 64 peripheral actually existed, produced in Italy in the mid-1980s, to be plugged into the cartridge port of the C64.
Serious expansion for the C64: a IEEE488 interface! Only with the edge connector, but nevertheless! HPIB and GPIB devices and obviously all the early CBM disk drives! #commodore#c64#retrocomputing#ieee488
So my PET 3016 crashes irregularly when using the RAM/ROM expansion to 32K RAM. I have no clue why. I am using the expansion shown below. It allows for both the whole RAM and ROM to be replaced. Which in theory is a good thing, as I gain 32K and also BASIC V4. #commodore#commodorePET#commodorePET3016#retrocomputing
Andy Warhol holding a mouse next to an Amiga 1000 with a tilted monitor, around its public introduction in July 1985. Such a magical time of the digital revolution. ❤️