Amiga, Commodore and creativity

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Fucking Kurwa Awesome.

 

[Tails]

Anyone fancy PC looking like old Commodore/Amiga?

Avaible from Commodore-USA from $475 up to $1,295... PC64 and Amiga "remakes" are going be made also. Honestly, I don't know what to thing about this whole business, probably will fail in the end, but it looks somewhat *interesting* visually. Of course it runs only Windows/Linux other x86 operating systems, forget about AmigaOS 4.x or PPC systems.

 

[zeitgeist]

The black version doesn't look that horrible, but it really could do without that touchpad.

 

[Tails]

Yeah, I was thinking the same about touchpad. Other issue is the Windows key, like they couldn't make C= one for better overall effect. From what I read, Amiga communities find those products as disgraces and not real Commodore/Amigas. Can't really blame them, this hardware is way overpriced for the guts it has.

 

[Luzur]

Commodore USA is making a keyboard computer that will look like the classic breadbox C64, according to the website.

 

[Suchy]

Hear Teh Awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSOS2uwqpfw

 

[Luzur]

grabbed me a couple of Amiga games today:

and on a sidenote, maybe not exactly Commodore related, but i managed to scrounge up two very nice retro computer programs.

 

[Luzur]

also got Horace goes Skiing and Aufwiedersehen Monty today, in the mail.

feels like its going to be a good week.

 

[lisac2k]

Aufwiedersehen Monty

Wasted so much time on that one back in the times of Reagan and Gorbatschow...

Horace goes Skiing

Never knew that was the real name, I thought it was something like "Skiing" or "Ski-something". Good one, too, but I prefer Monty.

 

[Luzur]

a new Doom port has been announced.

for VIC-20.

The first person view is 32x64 pixels.
Frame rate is about 3FPS right now... hopefully I'll be able to bump that up a bit, although I doubt I'll be able to get more than 5.
I'm aiming for 20 or so maps, loaded from disk. I'll release the map editor at the same time as the game.
Code is a mixture of C and assembly - just like the original game!

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

a new Doom port has been announced.

for VIC-20.

The first person view is 32x64 pixels.
Frame rate is about 3FPS right now... hopefully I'll be able to bump that up a bit, although I doubt I'll be able to get more than 5.
I'm aiming for 20 or so maps, loaded from disk. I'll release the map editor at the same time as the game.
Code is a mixture of C and assembly - just like the original game!

Good grief....

The brilliance of these coders is unbelievable.

And nice game finds there. Very nice indeed. I enjoyed Knightmare quite a bit, and the Monty and Horace games as well.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I fucking LOVED Norton Commander.

 

[Luzur]

got a list of 2010 C64 games.

its in swedish but got pics and links so...

http://commodore64.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4547

also, Brian Bagnall's new book "Commodore: a company on the edge" has been released.

http://www.variantpress.com/

Brian Bagnall’s new book, Commodore: a Company on the Edge, is available. This first book ends in 1984 when Jack Tramiel leaves the company, and the next book will focus on the Amiga years and CBM’s demise. New interviews with Brian Dougherty – GEOS developer, John Feagans – PET developer, Andy Finkel – Commodore game developer, Bill Gardei – C65 systems engineer, Neil Harris – Commodore game developer/marketing, Manfred Kapp – Commodore cofounder, Dale Luck – Amiga developer, Bill Mensch – 6502 and 65816 designer, Dick Sanford – Chief Financial Officer of Commodore, Bill Seiler – PET, VIC-20 systems engineer/surfer, Kit Spencer – Commodore’s marketing guru, Yash Terakura – Commodore Japan engineer, Michael Tomczyk – VIC product manager/marketing. Plus additional fact-checking interviews with Chuck Peddle, Bil Herd and Bob Yannes.

 

[Fowyr]

I fucking LOVED Norton Commander.

I used it to 2007, now I use FAR.

 

[DraQ]

I fucking LOVED Norton Commander.

I've set it to run automatically on my DOSBox's startup.

And commodore Doom port is just...

 

[Suchy]

 

[Luzur]

i want that C= thing.

 

[piydek]

FUUUCK, Suchy, where did you get that? The magazine on that table on which it says "Moj mikro" is an old Yugoslavian magazine about computers that mainly dealt with C64, ZX Spectrum, programming in basic and similar stuff. My uncle has had a huge pile of those magazines back in 1986 and later when i drooled over the little pictures at the end of the magazine with occasional Amiga game review in it. Good old days, so cool.

EDIT:

Hell, the stick-note on the monitor says "ne igraj se poslije 12 sati!", which means "don't play games after midnight!" in Croatian. And the clock says it's 23 minutes past midnight. Now that's some serious nerd-rebellion.

 

[DraQ]

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[Awor Szurkrarz]

 

[Suchy]

FUUUCK, Suchy, where did you get that? The magazine on that table on which it says "Moj mikro" is an old Yugoslavian magazine about computers that mainly dealt with C64, ZX Spectrum, programming in basic and similar stuff. My uncle has had a huge pile of those magazines back in 1986 and later when i drooled over the little pictures at the end of the magazine with occasional Amiga game review in it. Good old days, so cool.

EDIT:

Hell, the stick-note on the monitor says "ne igraj se poslije 12 sati!", which means "don't play games after midnight!" in Croatian. And the clock says it's 23 minutes past midnight. Now that's some serious nerd-rebellion.

I found it on Reddit.
Following the link in the pic, you end up here: http://interstation3d.com/portfolio.html

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I haven't seen a QuickShot joystick (like the one on the left) in over a decade.

 

[Mortmal]

Thats a great pic, a perfect sum up of the good'ol amiga days.

 

[piydek]

I found it on Reddit.
Following the link in the pic, you end up here: http://interstation3d.com/portfolio.html

Thanks, I didn't even see that link on the pic. The guy is from Croatia but lives and works in USA. That explains the picture.

 

[Chateaubryan]

And I thought I would never cry anymore.