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
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
Another visitor! Stay a while! Stay FOREVAAAHHH! Elvin Atombender’s threat at the start of this single-screen Epyx platformer was one of many components that suggested gaming had entered a new era. Add in puzzle elements, really smart level design, and chef’s kiss animation, and you’ve an 8-bit classic. Cracking on the breadbin, but I always rated the SMS version too.
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
Inspired by Gravitar, this game had you fight gravity and physics, attempting to rescue pods from inside caverns peppered with gun emplacements. It was hard as nails, but hugely compelling as you tapped keys to carefully adjust your craft – before inevitably crashing into a wall. The original’s on the Beeb, but the C64 release adds a fab Rob Hubbard soundtrack.
"Ich gehoere zu einer der letzten Generationen, die eine Kindheit ohne Internet erlebt hat. Das heisst aber nicht, dass diese weniger digital war!"
So sah das bei mir im Kinderzimmer der 80en aus. Stilecht mit der Happy Computer.. nur ne andere Datasette hatte ich. Aber wie war das eigentlich, so eine Kindheit ohne Internet?
Ich habe hier 👉https://t.ly/Kindheit versucht zu erklaeren, wie das war & bin mir sicher, dass sich da einige drin wiederfinden werden.
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
Never one to let tech (or reality) get in the way of his gaming ambitions, David Crane created a ‘house on a disk’, with a tiny character you could interact with.
To modern eyes, LCP is a proto-Sims crossed with a Tamagotchi. In 1985, it was like magic, with its oddball humour, bouts of poker, and impromptu piano sessions. It’s surely long overdue to be remade for mobile.
Today, thanks to @synergyeclipse30, I found out about the Commocoffee 64!
That’s right! In the mid-1980s the Italians made this computer do the task of making a cup of coffee. It was probably just a coffee maker without a built-in timer, which could be plugged into the datassette port of a C64, using the machine to do the timing
Transformable Arcade Zone, apparently. On its 1988 release, this was a late addition to bat-and-ball games, adding its own spin with weird power ups, levels with four bats, and even a construction kit. It was absurdly fast and had suspicious ricochets, along with being too reliant on luck to hit the last few bricks. But it was a solid attempt to wring the last drops out of a tired genre.
Fair play to the creators of this game, who could have put out a dull shooter based on the cult plastic kits. Instead, they went all-out with the alien nature of the toys and comics, and produced a baffling game where you piloted a Zoid in enemy territory. The ‘battle begins’ with you figuring out what to do – and… never really ends. Nice Rob Hubbard music on the C64 though.
After getting the #Commodore#C64 and #C128 running again, the next device to repair is the #C1571.
It had #corrosion and #rust on the main board and the power supply is beyond repairworthiness. I'd replace the latter with a #meanwell RD-35 with 5 and 12 volt output.
One #diode was rusty, a few traces needed #cleaning and five #resistor looked bad. Hope the black hybrid chip is still okay.
Sadly, the lower read head seems to be broken, my work might've been in vain. #floppydrive#retrocomputer