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Reviving 80s classic game Dizzy for one last time

8 points by newsymonger 5y ago

FartyMcFarter 5y ago
The title music of Fantasy World Dizzy is so memorable! https://youtu.be/NYYxMUM_l70 https://youtu.be/NYYxMUM_l70 Or the Amiga version: https://youtu.be/xnsi2WAy6aY https://youtu.be/xnsi2WAy6aY
- EspadaV9 5y ago
  Oh gosh. Is that really what DOS games used to sound like? I had an Amiga until the late nineties so missed out on that... static!? (wasn't sure if my speakers were playing up when it first started) How did the Amiga sound so much better at the time. Think I need to go digging and watch some YouTube videos about it.
  - FartyMcFarter 5y ago
    > Oh gosh. Is that really what DOS games used to sound like? If you only had a PC speaker, yes, although some games sounded better. At some point in the 90s, Sound Blaster cards started getting popular and those sounded way better than this example.
  - professoretc 5y ago
    PC's didn't have any dedicated sound hardware (unless you had a sound card), so any kind of sound/music playback would have to be done in real-time on the CPU, which didn't leave much for the rest of your game. C64, Amiga, etc. all had dedicated sound chips which could do a lot of the synthesis and mixing without burdening the CPU. (This is the same reason why PCs didn't get side-scrolling games until much later than consoles: consoles had dedicated hardware for scrolling tilemaps and displaying sprites, while PCs just had a memory-mapped framebuffer of pixels.)
jzb 5y ago
“To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in.” No. Stop using Medium, please.
- ZeroGravitas 5y ago
  What do Medium users (i.e. authors) get in exchange for having this annoyance put in front of their readers?
  - bencollier49 5y ago
    I'm still trying to work this out as well. Why does Medium even register on Google search results? I thought showing one thing to the crawler and another to the user got you demoted.
  - ChrisRR 5y ago
    Medium just sort of became the go-to for vaguely technical blogs. I'm sure there's much better platforms out there
stuaxo 5y ago
Gah, a shame EA are getting it via CodeMasters. A shame someone at CodeMasters couldn't sign off them getting it before this happens.

8 points by newsymonger 5y ago

The title music of Fantasy World Dizzy is so memorable! https://youtu.be/NYYxMUM_l70 https://youtu.be/NYYxMUM_l70 Or the Amiga version: https://youtu.be/xnsi2WAy6aY https://youtu.be/xnsi2WAy6aY

EspadaV9 5y ago
Oh gosh. Is that really what DOS games used to sound like? I had an Amiga until the late nineties so missed out on that... static!? (wasn't sure if my speakers were playing up when it first started) How did the Amiga sound so much better at the time. Think I need to go digging and watch some YouTube videos about it.
- FartyMcFarter 5y ago
  > Oh gosh. Is that really what DOS games used to sound like? If you only had a PC speaker, yes, although some games sounded better. At some point in the 90s, Sound Blaster cards started getting popular and those sounded way better than this example.
- professoretc 5y ago
  PC's didn't have any dedicated sound hardware (unless you had a sound card), so any kind of sound/music playback would have to be done in real-time on the CPU, which didn't leave much for the rest of your game. C64, Amiga, etc. all had dedicated sound chips which could do a lot of the synthesis and mixing without burdening the CPU. (This is the same reason why PCs didn't get side-scrolling games until much later than consoles: consoles had dedicated hardware for scrolling tilemaps and displaying sprites, while PCs just had a memory-mapped framebuffer of pixels.)

jzb 5y ago

“To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in.” No. Stop using Medium, please.

ZeroGravitas 5y ago
What do Medium users (i.e. authors) get in exchange for having this annoyance put in front of their readers?
- bencollier49 5y ago
  I'm still trying to work this out as well. Why does Medium even register on Google search results? I thought showing one thing to the crawler and another to the user got you demoted.
- ChrisRR 5y ago
  Medium just sort of became the go-to for vaguely technical blogs. I'm sure there's much better platforms out there

stuaxo 5y ago

Gah, a shame EA are getting it via CodeMasters. A shame someone at CodeMasters couldn't sign off them getting it before this happens.