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Matt Gray - Central Park - Last Ninja 2 (Remake) in c/c64

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ghee, sounds almost as good as it does on the SID! 😆

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Use vintage joysticks with your C64 emulator (scribe.disroot.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/c64

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If you have a vintage joystick that you used to use on your original C64 and would like to game with it on VICE or TheC64Mini, check this out! Not too long ago, I bought myself the D-SUB9 USB joystick adapter, from Retronic Design (based here, in Canada).

With this device, I can play my favorite C64 games on my PC (using VICE) or my TheC64Mini using my favorite joystick, the Wico TheBOSS.

I'm really glad it works so well. Some games I just can't play very well without using TheBOSS… keyboard keys and TheC64Joystick are just not good enough. The game, “Aliens The Video Game” is one of them. I just can't get by the first stage (the flying down to the planet surface) with using a keyboard on VICE; and I'm not much better with TheC64Joystick. So, again, it was a very satisfying moment for me this afternoon when I made it through that stage on the first try, with TheBOSS. In the words of George Costanza, “I'm back, BABY!”

I go into a bit further detail about it on my blog post here: https://www.my64.in.nf/doku.php?id=blog:2024-03-15

Text adventures for the beginner in c/c64

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you! Well, I wouldn't say text adventure games were a test of one's "smarts", but they are an aquired taste. I admit that I only have the patience to play through certain ones. But, the couple I've listed here are ones I found entertaining enough to finish. I hope others do, too!

"An Ethical E-Mail Service!" in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nice to see Disroot featured here. Although, I was kind of hoping that, rather than a demo, the video was going to discuss reasons why Disroot's "ethical email service" was a better choice than, say, Gmail or Proton or what-have-you. Maybe in a follow up video sometime in the future?

Are SX-64 welcome too? in c/c64

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nice! I've always wanted one of these, too. Looks like this one is in great shape. Enjoy! 😄

Chaluul's Curse - A C64 port of a PC adventure game released by Sönke Wolfgramm in c/c64

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Looks interesting! I'd like to give it a play-through. Is there a link to a download available?

Ah.. found one: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=233886

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Text adventures for the beginner (scribe.disroot.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/c64

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Greetings, all! My first post on Lemmy! 😀

For anyone new to the C64 scene, or returning to their Commodore roots, there may come a time when you might want to give text adventure games a try. If you do, here are a couple recommendations that I've enjoyed more recently.

For the noobie, Castle Quest, by Ricky Derocher, is a short and simple text adventure game, perfect for the beginner. The commands used by the text parser are uncomplicated and puzzles are relatively straight-forward.

Link to the itch.io page: https://rickyderocher.itch.io/castle-quest-commodore-64.

Once you get the hang of it, an enjoyable (and not too complicated) graphic text adventure you may want to try out is, The Curse of Rabenstein, by Stefan Vogt. Stefan has a great way of telling a story that draws you right in. Link to the itch.io page: https://8bitgames.itch.io/rabenstein.

Game on, Adventurer!

Hello world in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hello and thank you! To help me have a better understanding (and to evangelize with a bit of wisdom) in a short paragraph or two, would anyone like to summarize how D*Scribe / Lemmy compares to Reddit or other similar communities? Does it boil down to being a decentralized service, or is there more going on behind the scenes?

If it's strength is a decentralized community of sorts, does this mean that, with our account here, we can now access other Lemmy servers and discussion groups on other servers?