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Man, I have to get my 800xl running again. This looks very interesting!
by ddingus 2y ago
Man, I have to get my 800xl running again.
This looks very interesting!
- Bluestein 2y agoI had one of those. Good times! Also, came with a (treasured) spacefighting game on a cartridge (can't remember the name) and another - rather more strange one - on a listing, where you could run a (rather detailed) nuclear plant. Great machine ...
- ddingus 2y agoProbably Star Raiders. Great Game!
- Bluestein 2y agoI am sure that was it. Now, to find an emulator online :)
- ddingus 2y agoAlterra is one of the better ones. That is a great game! It was very influential too. No scoring system, just a rank. I still enjoy playing once in a while. There is a slow down that happens when multiple enemies are destroyed and the computer cannot compute all the particles. Someone fixed it a while back and the game runs at a perfect 60/50hz. I played that and the game seemed stale, not "alive" like the original. Same with an arcade game by Williams: DEFENDER. The slowdowns are awesome and add to the game experience in ways not really foreseen by the original creator.
- Bluestein 2y agoKind of like an unforeseen "bullet time"?
- lakkal 2y agoThe reactor simulation was probably Scram. I had it on cassette. It was written in Basic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram_(video_game)
- Bluestein 2y agoIndeed. It being BASIC tracks well with my remembering having played it, with no tape drive. I must have typed it! :)