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rodneylives

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Three more videos:
Spaceworm (LS126) is a simple game, but it has an evocative presentation!

Fire Bug (LS129) is a machine code game about rescuing people from a burning building, while dodging KILLER GEESE.

Thousand Miler (LS37) is an adaptation of the French card game Milles Bournes. It's a pretty simple game, but the graphics help to sell it.

I also have posted a demonstration video of the explorer menu I created. It uses a pseudo-text terminal for its presentation. I hope people like it, and find it useful!

All of these videos, and some more from gumpy who's also been recording demonstrations of Loadstar software, in a Youtube playlist.
 
I've also made videos of Jon Mattson's Outpost:

Jon Mattson's Corsair:

Jon Mattson's Paint By Number:

And Jon Mattson's Zone 13 for the C128:
 
Also:
Blockheads 128

Shootout at Fort Apache

Gridlock

Vega Lander

Splat

The Night Before Christmas Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP_G9-b45RQ

Huggy Bear's First Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91eoe3yX-S8

PGM 64 Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGguSuVjBbA

Who Wants to Waste an Afternoon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21GoaVuNpQg

Peter and the Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3SFEteFDIU

Alfredo's Lost Cause
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul9_ocXjF_w

Alfredo's Transport Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1aBJ2QBo-g

Alfredo's Laser Lament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdQyyeh19Qw

Alfredo's Digestive Dilemma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_lwWZZZaDs
 
I thought I knew everything about Loadstar - especially during its Third Century (200+). But I have forgotten most of what I knew. The entertainments offered over the years are breath-taking in style and scope. I need time to do some MP4s and get them up here!
 
Yay! If you upload them to Youtube I'll add them to the playlist!

And/or, if we could find a friendly Peertube instance, we could put them up there. No ads! Not evil! I think my friend Phil has one actually!
 
Rev. Dave said:
I thought I knew everything about Loadstar - especially during its Third Century (200+). But I have forgotten most of what I knew. The entertainments offered over the years are breath-taking in style and scope. I need time to do some MP4s and get them up here!
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Hey Dave, it's Ricky Derocher. I did a lot of stuff (mostly construction kit and QuestWriter games) during your tenure as the editor of Loadstar.
 
gumpy said:
Hey Dave, it's Ricky Derocher. I did a lot of stuff (mostly construction kit and QuestWriter games) during your tenure as the editor of Loadstar.
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Hey Ricky! You finally got home from your infinite walk?!!! You provided some great entertainments - right up to the end. Thanks so much!
 
Rev. Dave said:
Hey Ricky! You finally got home from your infinite walk?!!! You provided some great entertainments - right up to the end. Thanks so much!
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I enjoy walking trails when I have the free time to! 🙂

I actually just got back from walking one.

My uncle Tim Vlk coded that Loadstar 2001 intro and drew the background picture as well- Since Loadstar #201 was in 2001 it made sense. My brother Josh transcribed the 2001 music using Quick Smith.

I still do C64 coding using a lot of the Loadstar tools!

 
gumpy said:
My uncle Tim Vlk coded that Loadstar 2001 intro and drew the background picture as well- Since Loadstar #201 was in 2001 it made sense. My brother Josh transcribed the 2001 music using Quick Smith.
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As a big fan of sci-fi & genre stuff (the term "geek" has been tossed my way a few times over the years 👀) I absolutely loved that 2001 intro.
 
It can do both, issues and programs. I think there's worth in presenting Loadstar both as it's individual features and as people would have loaded it to read.

Fender has suggested maybe making a package available to owners of the various retro computers like the Mega65. I wonder if that'd be feasible?
 
rodneylives said:
Fender has suggested maybe making a package available to owners of the various retro computers like the Mega65. I wonder if that'd be feasible?
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I think it's feasible but would likely depend on what type of hardware folks are using. For example, with the Kung Fu Flash somebody could load up all of the .d81 files on an SD card for quick access but then you would lose having any type of custom presenter.

Off the top of my head at the moment, I'm not sure if there is a way of having both (a) all of the issues available easily like on an SD card and (b) being able to use a custom presenter like you're working on.

For the C64x crowd your presenter should be packageable for them (since the C64x is just a PC stuffed into a C64 breadbin shaped case) but I don't know what options may be out there original hardware users.
 
It might lose the custom presenter, but that's not necessarily a deal-breaker.

I guess I should see about getting one of these devices at some point. the Mega64 is like $700 though, argh.
 
I gave it the wrong name, it's the Mega65. It's based on the prototype "64GS"-like computer that Commodore was working on shortly before they went under, implemented through a FPGA and with more upgrades besides those, but at the cost of being really expensive. I remember hearing that its FPGA is programmable though, so it can run other cores than just the ones it comes with.
 
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