That game has some of the best music.
Thanks for the mention. :-)
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- March 26th, 2015, 7:18 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle 008: Druid
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1867
- January 17th, 2015, 6:50 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: YDKF Episode 155: Cassettes
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3592
Re: YDKF Episode 155: Cassettes
Well I guess it was a little more complex than an EQ adjustment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette One problem I had was some people who had really bad cassette decks would ruin my tapes when I loaned them out. I remember loaning out a tape and getting it back and there was an "echo...
- January 17th, 2015, 6:42 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: YDKF Episode 155: Cassettes
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3592
Re: YDKF Episode 155: Cassettes
I was one of those guys who always noticed the difference. Chrome/metal tapes were better but you had to have decks that could properly support the right bias levels for it to work, and we didn't have money anyway, so I always got the regular ones. Like Dolby NR, the playback would apply a different...
- January 7th, 2015, 9:22 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: YDKF Episode 155: Cassettes
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3592
Re: YDKF Episode 155: Cassettes
I grew up in a college town with a college radio station. They would play some pretty obscure stuff. I recorded off the radio but the deck was mono and my parents couldn't afford to buy me much media, so diskettes and cassette tapes were always re-used. A shame I have none of those college radio rec...
- July 13th, 2014, 7:31 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: YDKF Episode 152: Star Wars Video Games
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3893
Re: YDKF Episode 152: Star Wars Video Games
Flack wrote:Lady Jaye is one of half a dozen people who pointed out that KOTOR is an RPG but not an MMORPG. Apparently that's pretty important.
Also, it's probably the best xbox game I ever played. I played it through twice. I have no idea if it holds up today, but you should give it a try.
- July 1st, 2014, 11:23 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Audiobook
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11284
Re: Audiobook
So how do I get an autographed copy?
- April 29th, 2014, 8:12 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 127: BASIC Programming
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5741
Re: Episode 127: BASIC Programming
Oh, and I forgot in my progression of languages, that I finally spent time learning MOS 6502 assembly about a year ago, just for the fun of it. And came up with this. :-)
- April 29th, 2014, 8:11 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 127: BASIC Programming
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5741
Re: Episode 127: BASIC Programming
For me it was BASIC - Pascal - C - Assembly - C++ - Object Pascal. Not including all the various scripting languages. The hurdle one needs to jump if they learned an old BASIC first is the switch from procedural to object oriented programming. When I taught myself C (and later took a course in it, b...
- October 28th, 2013, 6:51 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle Episode 016: Impossible Mission
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1589
Re: Sprite Castle Episode 016: Impossible Mission
I finally played this game all the way through to win the end when I got it on my Nintendo DS. As far as I can tell, it is a perfect port. The DS version has two modes -- one with updated graphics and one that uses the exact same C64 graphics. The only difference is the graphics. Probably one of the...
- October 25th, 2013, 5:13 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Sprite Castle Episode 015: Paradroid
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2805
Re: Sprite Castle Episode 015: Paradroid
Cool. I never did learn to play that game but always thought it looked so cool.
- October 22nd, 2013, 8:02 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Suggestions/Feedback/Requests
- Replies: 32
- Views: 24959
Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests
GOG is great -- they sell old games and make sure they will run on modern systems, including all the Ultimas.
http://www.gog.com/game/ultima_4
In fact it looks like Ultima IV is one of the free games they give you when you make an account.
http://www.gog.com/game/ultima_4
In fact it looks like Ultima IV is one of the free games they give you when you make an account.
- October 18th, 2013, 9:13 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 007: HardBall!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1507
Re: Episode 007: HardBall!
Loved this game. Remember seeing it in the Princess Bride.
- October 14th, 2013, 12:19 pm
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Suggestions/Feedback/Requests
- Replies: 32
- Views: 24959
Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests
Ultima IV might be tough to do in the show's short format, but I may be able to zip through it a bit. Agreed, but you will thrive on the challenge. :-) You could show the initial character creation and walking into town, but I suppose even that would run a little long. Druid and Druid II, awesome. ...
- October 14th, 2013, 8:57 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Suggestions/Feedback/Requests
- Replies: 32
- Views: 24959
Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests
Ultima IV.
Druid.
Druid.
- October 11th, 2013, 6:35 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 131: Phun with Boxes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1595
Re: Episode 131: Phun with Boxes
I'm about six chapters into Exploding the Phone. Great book so far, lot's of interesting history lessons in there. The descriptions of the massive mechanical switching systems invented to automate long distance calling are really fascinating.
- October 9th, 2013, 8:25 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 001: Dig Dug
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2254
Re: Episode 001: Dig Dug
These are cool. Will you be posting videos from other C64 players/reviewers/casters, or will this be 100% Rob?
- August 24th, 2013, 6:53 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 134: The OK Krackers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6859
Re: Episode 134: The OK Krackers
That's cool. It's becoming a lost art.
- August 23rd, 2013, 11:47 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 134: The OK Krackers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6859
Re: Episode 134: The OK Krackers
Some hackers - mostly for bragging rights - could read the machine code directly without a dissassembler. There was a time when there were no assemblers so that was the only way to even write code. :D Of course, with a chip like the 6502, with less than 60 documented instructions, reading the machi...
- August 22nd, 2013, 7:28 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 134: The OK Krackers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6859
Re: Episode 134: The OK Krackers
RUP wrote:I too played a lot of the pirated games on my Atari 800 "Back in the day". I always wondered and still do, How did people break into the software and gain access to the game code itself?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_language_monitor
- August 12th, 2013, 7:54 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 140: Reclaiming Spaces
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1261
Re: Episode 140: Reclaiming Spaces
I did the same thing, re buying stuff for collections that I didn't actually care about, because, well, I was collecting stuff. I bought some Sega Saturn games from Salvation Army because I knew they were cheap for what they were, even though I didn't care about the Saturn or even have one. But I ha...
- March 13th, 2013, 7:59 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 127: BASIC Programming
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5741
Re: Basic computing
Our 1541 drive was constantly out of alignment. Very often it could not be used, and sometimes when it could be used I couldn't load files that were saved before it was re-aligned. But I would sit there for hours typing in programs from Computes! Gazette anyway. I even wrote some of my own programs ...
- February 20th, 2013, 10:50 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: >> You Don't Know Flack: Podcast Ideas
- Replies: 104
- Views: 89659
Re: >> You Don't Know Flack: Podcast Ideas/Status [STICKY]
BTW I listened to the Arcadia one. Not bad, though I was kinda rooting for you to go into the environmental.
- February 20th, 2013, 10:46 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: >> You Don't Know Flack: Podcast Ideas
- Replies: 104
- Views: 89659
Re: >> You Don't Know Flack: Podcast Ideas/Status [STICKY]
C128 sounds good. Look forward to that.
- February 4th, 2013, 10:29 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 122: MAME Cabinets
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2238
Re: Episode 122: MAME Cabinets
Gah you're right, I forgot all about the scanline effects! I will definitely mention those next week and will also mention the digital bezels. I'll be honest with you -- I don't mind the LCD monitors all that much. From a building perspective they are so much lighter and don't run nearly as hot as ...
- February 4th, 2013, 9:14 am
- Forum: Rob's World (RSS Feeds)
- Topic: Episode 122: MAME Cabinets
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2238
Re: Episode 122: MAME Cabinets
Listened to it this morning. One video option you didn't mention is using an LCD with a scan line effect in MAME. I have seen some great looking jamma multi-game tables for sale that were perfect except for the fact that they used an LCD screen instead of an arcade monitor, which would be a total de...