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paranoid marvin wrote:

Antiriad2097 wrote:

paranoid marvin wrote:What is unforgivable however is the number of ST/Amiga games that had terrible or no end screens at all

Like Nebulus?

Nebulus was originally an 8-bit game,the port I assume was faithful.
(including the end sequence)

I would imagine so also. Anyway, I was playing the C64 version

I just finally managed to complete Nebulus for the first time yesterday and my hopes for any kind of reward for this long task :) were dashed by a simple screen that states "congratulations, you have completed your mission" and then returns to the high score table. Wonder if they ran out of memory o...

cancelled?

normally something gets cancelled after a single season where the programme isn't working out, i doubt knightmare was cancelled, it ran for years and was extremely popular. just ran its natural course.

got to be the lemmings getting nuked, very cute animals but fantastic fun seeing them all split into millions of pieces simultaneously..... hmm, does that sound sick?

Starflight, it will absorb you for a few weeks:

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=2086

i have to agree with the last post, with everything given to you on a plate with pretty pictures (icons) and everything being Visual nowadays, i think people have probably forgotten how to hack....

i don't fully see the point in them, i may have a look if it's a game i really loved (like paradroid) but really, as above, it's very easy to download an emulator of your favourite machine and play the original game...

fair enough... the reason i started buying retro gamer from last month's issue is that i'm interested in re-living great memories from the past (the 80s) and finding out about new (if any is being made) software on the 8-bit home computers. That's just my own personal interests tho, i don't even kno...

blimey, i guess i have no real idea who the readers of Retro Gamer are then. I've never really seen the point in remakes myself and am mainly interested in the 'commercially dead' machines, as you put it. But if most people are interested in reading about remakes then i think i'm reading the wrong m...

that would be great to see, but there may be a lack of new material

Yie Ar Kung Fu

Just out of interest, how do you know what is interesting to RG forumites?

personally I use VICE to do any coding with for the c64...

wasn't aware that there were any homebrew 2600 titles?!

i too have recently decided to start coding on the c64 (writing a game of my own) which is mainly why i decided to reply to your post. Your example of moving a sprite around the screen is possibly the simplest piece of coding you could attempt (in machine language or in BASIC), thus proving why the ...