Floppy Friday #27

Apr 30, 2021

In this week's Floppy Friday we stumble across a diskette from the German Commodore 64 magazine, Game On, from June 1992.

It contains three games – The Pearl of Dawn, Twin Down and No Deeper Meaning – and a couple of graphics/music demos – Mstocephaloid/XS and Destination '91. I didn't know they were demos when I loaded them, of course, but we got there eventually.

Being on a floppy that basically came free with a magazine, none of these are especially "top shelf" (I use that in the North American sense of the term, although in fairness it's also true for the British meaning ;-). It was still fun to explore, though, just to get a sense for what the C64 scene was like in the early 90s.

Here's this week's episode:

That's it for another week. See you next time!

2 responses to “Floppy Friday #27”

Shavais

May 3, 2021 at 9:41 pm

A friend of mine had a C64 back then. I'm amazed that those things still work! After how many years!? Computers don't last that long these days! And the floppies still work!? That's incredible!

He eventually sold it and got and Amiga, which he was sooo stoked about, hehe. And, I mean, at the time it was impressive.

I had a Tandy Color computer. I made some little games for it using basic and assembler for the 6809, as I recall. So many hours poured into that! I was 14, and reading this big giant book on assembler language graphics. The one thing I remember from it is "Bressingham's algorithm" for drawing a line, lol. Then my tape drive died and ate my tapes in the process. Decades later my dad would still sometimes tell the story of hearing my agonized wail from downstairs and across the house.

Still to this day I pour completely stupid amounts of hours into little hobby game dev projects. I mean the tech has changed and all, but. It's still kind of the same in a way. I guess I'll get back to it!

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1. Kean Walmsley
  
  May 4, 2021 at 4:39 am
  
  It is pretty incredible. Every time a game loads I'm amazed.
  
  Back in the day I had a Spectrum, not a C64. But my first exposure to coding would either have been on a BBC Micro at school or on my Dad's TRS-80 Model III. I'm not sure which came first.
  
  Thanks for sharing your story!
  
  Kean
  
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