Never said differently... you youngster you.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
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Never said differently... you youngster you.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Drugs or not, you had to be talented to be a programmer back then, there was no two ways about it. These systems had so little resources that literally every byte mattered; note how the Commodore 64 can't scroll the beginning of the level and keep playing the background music in real time.Quote:
Originally Posted by StehleSay it wasn't so...Quote:
Originally Posted by Caballero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJiPv-3p7MM
Nowadays even a potato phone has multiple cores and tons of RAM and you don't have to bother writing good code because "the compiler will optimize it for you" :rolleyes:
Semi-related: a C64 port of the first Metal Gear existed, but the loading delays were crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awR1s4Pe7UQ
One of the few games I ever legitimately beat... in it's many iterations.Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
(PC's, game consoles, etc. ... who remembers 72+ hours of constant marathon-ing play on a wild DARPA level! Luved it!!) :alien:
My Espresso recipes are by request now...
I got pretty far in the NES version, but never managed to finish it... even if you took notes, it was so difficult without a manual or walkthrough. Also, fuck having to cycle through cards to find the right one for each door :dabs:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stehle
Videogames were harder back then. Contra wasn't designed for regular human beings :no:
I am not an old person but my first bit of kit was a c64 hand-me-down because we were relatively poor and it was old as fuck when I got given it - I remember taking the cassette for International Truck Racing and putting it into my Walkman to listen to and it's how I know to this day that the government is hiding something.
I remember Short Circuit the game being shit but maybe it wasn't?
Okay anon here is the one that broke me trying to beat it....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_(video_game)
...even had one of these, less sophisticated of course and way more expensive then...
https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/prod...45-000058.html
My farm manager* on our lunch break and after hours worked the left controller... two people and we never got past the worst melee level.
Yeah...Mulder... first attempt at programming was a cassette on a VIC-20...
*Young lad, but good... spelled me for piss breaks on Metal Gear.
Hadn't heard of it (though I was never into flight simulators in general, they seemed too complex and boring for me). Did a quick search and found this. Seems pretty advanced for its time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUujxm535DI
I do remember those special flight sim joysticks with lots of triggers, buttons and sliders... and steering wheels, gear handles and pedals for racing games. I had an A4Tech brand gamepad myself, plugged to the yellow game port. Wonder how many people know what that is these days :)
Have two more videos. These games came around at the same time as yours and I did get to play them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MXc_olWk_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6wOnNVpaVk
I was this close to beating Tunnel B1, but the last mission was impossible. You had to destroy this helicopter to exit the level but it was impossible to hit!
I remember Descent! I also remember that I sucked pretty badly at it. :)
By the way, those NFOs I posted yesterday came from a CD that I burned about 30 years ago. With a bit of care I guess that storage medium does keep for a while..