🧑⚕️🐁 The SNES mouse at the vet (museum lab). We cleaned the rollers and found out that it can't hear on the right ear (right button doesn't work) due to a malfunction in the microswitch. Fortunately, creating in Mario Paint doesn't necessarily require it. 🖌️🖼️🎨
🚪🔒 The last game remaining on our list available on our DOS retrogaming machines is Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I. Good games are not defined by graphics - text-based adventures from the early days of accessible computing are a testament to that.
🩸🏗️ We are slowly approaching the end of the list of games on our "no-LAN" machines - there are still a few 3D shooters left (which we absolutely must present) - this one uses the same engine as Duke Nukem 3D (Build), but it was released a year later. What's its name again? 🤔
🦈🏎️ Wacky Wheels (1994, Apogee Software) is the animal racing game equivalent of Mario Kart for DOS. The developer accidentally sent the source code to another publisher along with a demo version 😱, but the resulting competitor, Skunny Kart, wasn't equally successful.
💾💨Habemus papam 😢 For the first time, we wanted to use the Commodore 1541 disk drive for the Commodore 64, and it turned out not to be so trivial - a perfectly working C64 apparently has a faulty serial port, one of the drives smoked horribly in between, only then did we manage to succeed!
🚄🌆 The title screen in Transport Tycoon Deluxe (MicroProse, 1994) is the epitome of "infinite possibilities." Simulating the complexity of the real world at your fingertips. A video game crafted intricately by the talented Chris Sawyer, who coded it in assembly language for speed.
😍 Super Mario Bros 64 😲 Unofficial port of Nintendo's classic on Commodore 64. After several attempts, we loaded it with the help of Arduino Nano and 5 wires thanks to the uno2iec project 💪
Ich habe meine Commodore-Ecke aufgelöst. Es ist nur der Monitor übrig, den ich gerne verkaufen möchte.
Zur Abholung im Raum Rendsburg (S-H).
• Philips CM 8833 / Stereo / 3 Inputs und Umschalter / Kopfhörerbuchse
• Gepflegtes Nichtrauchergerät aus erster Hand
• Mit Anleitung + Schaltplan, der wie ein Roboter aussieht 🤖 🤯
• Funktioniert, nur Power-Schalter rastet nicht mehr ein
• Bitte PN mit Angeboten
👷📦 Sokoban, which means "warehouse keeper" in Japanese, is one of the early DOS games for PC with graphics in CGA mode, which was the original standard for color display on it. Have you ever played it?
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched 1983 as Timex Sinclair 2068 computer on the US market. Even when Commodore won the #8bitWars in the end, the ZX Spectrum sold 5 million units until 1992 for a initial price of £175 (48KB in the UK). With a Z80A 8-bit CPU running oh 3.5 MHz it was capable to do fancy computer graphics on a regular telly, at home for everybody.
Most likely because Quantel named their first system as simple as they did, Print'n'Plotter sold their graphic software under the same product name "Paintbox", but for the ZX Home Computers. In a resolution of 256×192 pixels and limited to 15 colours #IT was great for the budget. Demo graphics been fancy, even if not as WOOOW as the real Paintbox. https://gfkdsgn.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/quantel-paintbox/
Quantel wasn't in the Home computer business so not even MTV could afford more than a few. Real Paintbox systems are rare today, while the ZX Spectrum isn't so much.
The series of our 2023 tech anniversaries comes to a natural end and content plans for the next year have to be talked about internally. AFK