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@CheekyC64Gamer To expand: This was me, in my teens (just) loading Exploding Fist off the old breadbin from tape (with that funky Pavloda.) But, the key thing, was it was an old dial channel TV. Pull the volume to turn on, and it has no good indicator of volume as you turn it. So you guess. 🤔
@CheekyC64Gamer It was this one that scared the crap out of me..
(Totally under-estimated how loud I'd set the volume.)
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@zappedtothe Airborne Ranger!
I freaking love Airborne Ranger.
Parachute in some supply pods, get parachuted into the mission area, make your way to the objective, 'neutralise' hostiles where necessary (or allowed), and destroy/photograph/rescue/etc at your mission objective.
Great fun.
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@markmoxon I didn't realise that Revs+ on the C64 had any tracks that the BBC version didn't have. Very cool to see more detail on the track data format. I knew two or three of the tracks quite well from many years of playing it on the C64 with my trusty paddles for steering.
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@SarahJaneAvory Maybe it would have been easier to say "Like Empire" .. but different. (Especially in the landing-on-the-planet aspects.)
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@Bhaal_Spawn With Nazi depiction in games, it's so common now I kinda forget what the symbology even means. 🤔 The frequent use of it in fiction was probably inevitable. Now the original organization was wiped out, and the whole look is so theatrical. It's like it was made for wartime games.
@FloppyDeepDive For all the classic point-and-click games (especially if you're fussy, like me), I think it's got to a point with ScummVM now, where they're all best played in ScummVM, rather than the original engine. Then you can tweak *all* the options. 😁
@fuzzweed @CommodoreBlog Ultima V was an interesting case: the games fast-load only works on NTSC machines so, on PAL C64's it loaded *slow*. 😐 Injecting the Action Replay fast-load made things *so* much quicker. But there was a conflict with the dungeon sections, and it would load battles wrong. 😭
@C64Reloaded I still had my C64 when a friend bought himself an Amiga 2000. The first two games I saw on it were Outrun, and F/A-18 Interceptor. I was blown away.
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