when it comes to old c64 games like elite
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Now you opened the pandora's box!
A couple of faves of mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdzfOXkZrY0
pretty good remake/remix of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB3T6jkvSuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_1miUy9TeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny743c32gPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFWpBQN3pBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J8tiAF6JEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnjA0VraDQ
plus may more...
Then there's the treasure trove of remixes: c64music.com & remix.kwed.org
Okay, here are some other heavy hitters.
Batman level 1 music still stands the test of time (with time stamp, which doesn't work - go to 3:00).
[video=youtube_share;jfAOp43OUVo]https://youtu.be/jfAOp43OUVo?t=3m1s[/video]
The other is Danger Freak. I've got this game from my parents - it never passed the loading screen, but the menu music was glorious!
[video=youtube;lXQgl-ebUAE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXQgl-ebUAE[/video]
Ok, ok, I'll admit this is fairly awesome:
[video=youtube_share;GqPtAsw7h_k]https://youtu.be/GqPtAsw7h_k[/video]
Skip to about 2.10 to get around the talky bit.
[video=youtube_share;GqPtAsw7h_k]https://youtu.be/GqPtAsw7h_k[/video]
Skip to about 2.10 to get around the talky bit.
I'm still programming the PET 4032 using Arthur Jordison's excellent CBM Prg Studio. If you haven't used it then I highly recommend it. BASIC or assembly, sprite editor for c64 etc.
Checkout YouTube's The 8 Bit Guy. He recently published a new game for the c64 called Planet X2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB_VBl7ut9Y
Checkout YouTube's The 8 Bit Guy. He recently published a new game for the c64 called Planet X2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB_VBl7ut9Y
I know this is a C64 thread, but just because of that i need to offer my allegiance to the Atari 800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioZRUVTKLx0
Now having got that out the way, erm does anyone remember a kind of 'super computer' from that era that had the specs all beat on the other 8 bit platforms? I'm not even sure if it ever got released, but at the time i was looking for an upgrade for my ZX81 (or 'old shakey Ram Pack' as i liked to call it) i was using a guide from the C&VG game magazine (back around 1987 or there abouts) that had all the main platforms (Spectrum, C64, Atari 800, Amstrad, BBC etc) rated on a block graph kind of thing along with detailed specs, and there was this one 8 bit that was head and shoulders ahead of everything (native 256 colours, as opposed to the Atari 800's approach) and had a faster CPU. For the life of me i've never been able to find exactly what that machine was.
It was not a 'QL' that came a bit later iirc, before the Amiga and AtariST 16-bit era. So any idea's?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioZRUVTKLx0
Now having got that out the way, erm does anyone remember a kind of 'super computer' from that era that had the specs all beat on the other 8 bit platforms? I'm not even sure if it ever got released, but at the time i was looking for an upgrade for my ZX81 (or 'old shakey Ram Pack' as i liked to call it) i was using a guide from the C&VG game magazine (back around 1987 or there abouts) that had all the main platforms (Spectrum, C64, Atari 800, Amstrad, BBC etc) rated on a block graph kind of thing along with detailed specs, and there was this one 8 bit that was head and shoulders ahead of everything (native 256 colours, as opposed to the Atari 800's approach) and had a faster CPU. For the life of me i've never been able to find exactly what that machine was.
It was not a 'QL' that came a bit later iirc, before the Amiga and AtariST 16-bit era. So any idea's?
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I know this is a C64 thread, but just because of that i need to offer my allegiance to the Atari 800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioZRUVTKLx0
Now having got that out the way, erm does anyone remember a kind of 'super computer' from that era that had the specs all beat on the other 8 bit platforms? I'm not even sure if it ever got released, but at the time i was looking for an upgrade for my ZX81 (or 'old shakey Ram Pack' as i liked to call it) i was using a guide from the C&VG game magazine (back around 1987 or there abouts) that had all the main platforms (Spectrum, C64, Atari 800, Amstrad, BBC etc) rated on a block graph kind of thing along with detailed specs, and there was this one 8 bit that was head and shoulders ahead of everything (native 256 colours, as opposed to the Atari 800's approach) and had a faster CPU. For the life of me i've never been able to find exactly what that machine was.
It was not a 'QL' that came a bit later iirc, before the Amiga and AtariST 16-bit era. So any idea's?
Acorn Archimedes?
Yeah that sounds like it could be it! Thanks now to source one
And btw i did enjoy the C64 quite a bit too, just to get back to that. One friend had one and often a game would not come to the Atari 800 that i could enjoy at his house on his C64. Good days.
now to source one And btw i did enjoy the C64 quite a bit too, just to get back to that. One friend had one and often a game would not come to the Atari 800 that i could enjoy at his house on his C64. Good days.
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I got the +4 also. Got me through college, coupled with an external floppy disk drive and a printer bigger than most TVs.
It could play all the C64 games, but keyboard was a step down.
On Commodore's part, too little to late. But they did give us the Amiga.
Shame they rested on their laurals after that.