@designfactotum Katakis, which became Denaris because of legal pressure by R-Type's Irem. After which Factor 5 made the C64 and Amiga conversions of R-Type. Good times. 💚
Ich habe gerade eine Einladung zu einem der nächsten Computerclub Treffen für Retro Freunde bekommen. Da lerne ich dann hoffentlich noch einige Gleichgesinnte mehr kennen.
Wer sich dafür interessiert, folgt bitte diesem Link:
Another evening of "work" and I finished implementing the chainlighting spell for our #roguelike on #c64 . The problem was there were too many enemies and so I died (also I had to spend two turns standing still to recover stamina).
The animation is a bit fast, but you should still be able to appreciate @politopo 's great #pixelart
@jbzfn the Currah speech synthesizer also existed for the Spectrum… and of course Macintalk was there from the first Mac. Of course, being 32/16 bit was almost cheating, compared to the other 80's computers…
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
@rommudoh there is hope for the read/write head. If it’s one open wire you can probably save it. Check my last video and/or Forum64 (link in video description).
Using Visual Studio & Vice emulator with Kick Asembler to develop native Commodore 64 programs in assembly language. Even pushes your symbols to the monitor!
@gimulnautti At the dawn of time certain individuals held the belief that using an assembler is lame, because it takes away the fun of calculating addresses by hand. A monitor should be enough for everyone, right? 🙃
@amarok All these tracks are available on HVSC, but I've curated this playlist on Spotify to promote C64 chiptune music and assist in introducing SID artists to new audiences. It's just another avenue for those who primarily use streaming services to discover C64 music through algorithms. But for that to happen I also need to promote the playlist via my channels from time to time 😊
Another dead C1541 on our desk. This one was reported as "not working". It was gutted for its 6502 and 6522 VIA chips, but supposedly even with those in place it wasn't working. So let's have a closer look... #commodore#c64#c1541#floppydrive
@gimulnautti I’m not aware of anything special going on after line 255. Certain VIC tricks require you to write specific registers at very specific cycles within a line, but otherwise the inner logic repeats in a deterministic way for every line, with certain functions getting disabled in the upper and lower border (even if you open them).
Se avete avuto un #c64 negli anni ottanta lo avete giocato quasi sicuramente su cassetta pirata dell'edicola.
Senza sapere che il suo titolo era "Raid On Bungeling Bay" e che è stato il primo gioco realizzato da Will Wright, il pluripremiato autore di SimCity e The Sims.
