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Remember Apex Computer Productions?
They did the “Creatures” games and the 1994 classic ‘mayhem in monsterland’
Well I just found out they are still going – they have a mobile phone version of MIM and seem to be making the lil dino into a series of games (golf etc..):
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Yeah it was fuckin’ class! Creatures was the first game ever to put sprites in the borders of the screen. The torture screens where hilarious and great fun to play.
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I wonder if MIM is still the only rated 100% game!
Creatures & MIM class games, C64 is the mother of all consoles in my eyes ;)Edit: C64 is not a console i know
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They did bring out a cartridge only version though didn’t they? I remember talk years ago of a C65 (no messing) that would be somewhere between a C64 and an Amiga. Nostalgia <sniff>
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http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/aminet/pix/misc/c65-front.jpg
A limited number of C65 was made and fully working but Commodore-Amiga decided to drop the C65 because they feared it was too like the Amiga systems!
There was no Cart version of MIM released unless Apex did one for themselves.
They Should have released the C65!! The C64 scene still lives on the net today on IRC channels with a fair amount of them (still mostly Europe tho, not USA)
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Those guys rulez !!! They could code a 1MHz 6502 8bits processor in a way the processor would not understant what it can achieve :D
They had presented Mayehm in J2ME several months ago now, maybe even 2003. Very good to see it’s out at last. I HAVE to try it ! The C64 version was outstanding, as were the Creature games !
A few months ago, they were under Siemens’ spotlights:
communication-market.siemens.de/portal
It seems that mobile gaming is where most of oldschool coders meet again :)
Another jewel of C64 platformers has recently made its way to mobiles:
http://www.midlet-review.com/index?content=news&id=791
Useless to present this game ! Forbidden by Nintendo when it was released… why oh why ? -
There was a console C64, called the C64 GS (Game System), sold with a cartridge.
Flimbo’s Quest was one of the game I think.Edit: here it is
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Is that the C64 laptop thing? It was big, heavy & ugly looking thing with a 5in screen but still had its charms. Commodore going mobile / laptop wise with the C64 ended quickly of course!
Edit: Ah thats another C64.. lol shame on me for knowing about that piece! Here is the link to the C64 laptop … Beware!
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Nope that was the SX/DX 64 (1 or 2 disk units):
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dame you beat me to it with the pic! hehe
Edit: The Commodore – Amiga brand again has been sold to another company last year i think. Dame it will they stop and get some Commodore goodness back out there along with Amiga goodness too :D
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Yep, after Escom and Gateway, Tulip just sold it to Yeahronimo Media Ventures last December.
Tulip tried to make some money out of the brand but the C64 scene reacted badly !
I think that some game musicians still holding the rights on some games protested because Tulip ignored their rights selling games directly.
Bad to see all this…It all happens here:
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Lol If i could i would buy that brand name !
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Hah I loved my C64. Flimbos Quest was a classic! :)
Most of my games were on tape however so loadin was never fun. The only cartridges I had were *thinks*
Freddys Fiendish Circus, Batman and Robocop. Ah how I loved the movie tie-ins where EVERY one was a side scrolling platformer/shooter! :D -
Not much has changed in the last 20 years eh !
Fimbos Quest was a classic indeed, so too was its loading times lol
Lucky enough i still got 2 disk drives ;) ohhh they are so much better. . Better than the tapes :D
Hard enough to find many games tho on disk but there was the demo scene plus all those cool indie games that really were commercial but that side of the C64 was died after MIM release. -
C64 gaming activity is not dead !!!
Check http://www.protovision-online.de/
They sell a few games (a 4 player Bomberman clone !!!), and there is an awesome shoot’em up using the SuperCPU (65C816 @ 20MHz, the one of the SNES), be sure to check the trailer.
Also, two years ago, some Hungarian released a huge RPG with cinematic scenes, large world, lots of NPCs. All that need 14 disks ! Yes 14 …
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Man !!! This is a new trailer … Incredible… The progress is phenomenal since last year. Have a look at what can do a (slightly overcharged) C64 :) -
They sell a few games (a 4 player Bomberman clone) [/quote:f3786df3d0]
Long before Bomberman (well, a while) there was an incredible game for the C64 called Bug bomber I think, kept me up all night and caused the dog to eat my homework manys the time
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Surprised no-one mentioned this version (or did someone?):
http://www.gadgets.co.uk/commodore-64-c64-computer-dtv-direct-to-tv-games.html
Genius.
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While were talking retro. heres a link i came across recently.
The old ibm\sega venture resulting in the so called “Teradrive”! Who ever thought that was going to take off? Although i recently saw one of them in cash converters in cork for about 60 euro.
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Talking retro, did anyone else ever have one of these babies. My first computer, the Sharp MZ-700.
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While were talking retro. heres a link i came across recently.
The old ibm\sega venture resulting in the so called “Teradrive”! Who ever thought that was going to take off? Although i recently saw one of them in cash converters in cork for about 60 euro.
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wow, that might be worth a bit of cash!
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i stand corrected. atari release one for the xe game system 2 years later
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Great link :) , at last, I couldn’t remember the name of it. The Vectrex, use to have one of these. Was great you would slide in plastic asetates to change the screen colour. Canny get the pic loaded.
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Speaking of old computers that had cartridge slots, have a look at this…
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I have one on my Nokia 6600. Cool.
You can run it on lot of other Symbian Nokias too.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=575
Just download and install it and … err ‘find’ some C64 games … its cool. Actually its just cool to boot the thing up and look at the light blue cursor blinking in a tiny phone in your hand for hours…
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Just wondering how many of you C64 heads remember this beauty:
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Just wondering how many of you C64 heads remember this beauty:
http://users.adelphia.net/~mjonesgraphics/arkanoid.html[/quote:4a376a1b3d]
dont remember it on c64 (didnt have one), although i suspect there was a clone for the x65.
funny that game now is the “helloworld” of computer games.
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Yeah I remember it, think I had it on the original gameboy too
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Just wondering how many of you C64 heads remember this beauty:
http://users.adelphia.net/~mjonesgraphics/arkanoid.html[/quote:c5ef41e046]
Oh yeah – although I always preferred the Music – particularly the Ocean Loader.
Steve
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