Retro Gamer forum

what with the plethora of i/o device upgrades (i.e HD's, SD cards and CD/DVD drives) o/s and processor upgrades sound and video upgrades for the commodore and Atari 8bit's all the rage I'm surprised that no one has developed software beyond the current storage limit of 180k (commodore) and 131k A8 (...

Mogol Maniac, a skiing type game by Amiga corp (pre the amiga computer) for ther A8 and VCS came equiped with a joyboard which you connected to the joystick port...it was the only game they did for the A8 I seem to remember that video olympics (originally called a game of concentration) for the vcs ...

A couple you left out....Jas Brook(e) and David Whittaker

last i recall hearing of Rob Hubbard was that he jumped ship and was hijacked by EA (stateside)...or has he since come back home

And Jet fighter and the Space Invaders range from CGL i believe they also did a pacman type game also Coleco as well and not forgetting Entex lastly CEX (when they were in whitfield street, just of TCR) used to have lots of handheld game watches, table top electronic games etc, they even had an elec...

I robot...interesting game Chequered Flag Sinister (williams)...only prototypes are known to exist (esp. the A8 version) can't think of any more...backto playing mame I think there was a version of Contra released for home computers, it was done under the name 'gryzor' i remember it for the c64, it ...

How's about a large-ish plasma screen playing vids or dvd's of classic footie games, well known sporting events or 80's tv programmes

Or PC terminals full to the gills of old school emulators, so that peeps can relive the childhood gaming again

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit...as originally quoted by Oscar Wilde himself

Facebook, i thought only saddo's and paedo's used that....now i know why i can't be arsed to go on such sites

Answers only, in question order 1…Bandersnatch 2…Grandslam 3…Mastertronic 4…Virign/Mastertronic 5….MSX standard 6… CTIA (Colleen Television Interface Adapter) and GTIA (George’s Television Interface Adapter) 7…Microsoft’s version of USB 8…First product to officially use the Atari...

the only ideas i had was a classic gaming compo amongst the programmers behind those classic games (but playing eachothers games, not their own game) Also A review (an original review, i.e at the time of launch and a modern reflection on that review) of all the launch titles for each generation of c...

Vanderkaum....What ever happened to Rainbow Arts or Thalion or Kingsoft (well known for Amiga games) from the old day's (sorry, can't think of any other Software house that was german based)

Is their still a thriving Atari/Commodore community in Germany

But I think my view of modern computing would be a lot sunnier if a certain monopolising corporation just rolled over and died :evil: I think you'd have to blame IBM for that, after all they tied uo with M$ instead of tying up with the dear departed Gary Kildall (after all isn't pcdros/msdros based...

Perhaps you Amstrad peeps can help me....I seem to remember reading (as well as hearing back in the dim and prehistoric past) that like Acorn's first computer (the Atom) most of the original amstrad hardware and firmware were not actually designed by amstrad but by outside contractors...perhaps some...

life expectancy of a 360 if your taking life expectancy the time from when you purchased it...i'd say less then 2 day's before i get rid of it (i.e sell it to one of those games exchange places) As i was once told a little while back and heard it several times since....the 360 is a lot of overhyped ...

Don't have any of those problems caramel. Maybe its your end and not the forum?? As for the last post in a thread - I just click whatever the last page number is an use the mouse wheel to wizz down the page! You still on dial up BTW? I've tried it on 3 different pc's, 2 with bb (different locations...