it was for @Eccles

It's quite interesting that of those very early video games, the most successful software publishers are those who developed decent "engines" and then re-used

*cough cough Ocean software*

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Was thinking Ultimate Play the Game from 1982/84, Fred

oof ultra boomer vidya talk

THeir Isometric game engine, though Manic Miner/JSW is the same

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-jim-yikes-gif-11355570

ocean ye

it's awkward being between boom and zoom

team 17

😛

the only reason JSW 2 was made was so they could fix a game breaking bug

That isometric game engine was used right through to the late 80s with Head Over Heels and Batman

The game-breaking bug (THAT) game breaking bug was only present on the Spectrum, and could be patched

by using a poke

member the time CD Projekt was a shitty publisher

member the time CD Projekt was the only publisher in pl

benevolent monopoly 😂

(not really)

oh shit
im sorry

When i've got one of my Spectrums repaired, i'll make a loading screen for AA

I'm sure it'd amuse him

remember when the Commodore Amiga had a chance in the end to succeed against IBM Pcs

yeah i dont

hahaha when i worked in localisation

i was talking to a guy

and someone mentioned arcanum

and i was like 'oh the translation was ok but it broke the game ffs'

and one guy is like

'awh ok... i made that'

lmao

poor guy tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1zilZyeh7o

orc idol wtf

@Eccles one of your Speccys?

is it a 48K, a 128K, or an Amstrad Version?

They're both rubber-keyed 48Ks, got em about 10 years ago for spares, finally got round to trying to fix em

i would love to get a Speccy

to bad i live in the USA

I'm using them to practice repairing on before moving on to some of my rairer stuff to restore

THE FUCKING PLOT

LMAO