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Comment on The Magnavox Odyssey2 / Philips Videopac G7000 by Mark Blom

Mark Blom — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:21:54 +0000

Did you know that even today new games are being released on cartridge for this system???
Most recently, a group called Revival Studios (http://www.revival-studios.com) released a bunch of new games for the Videopac and Odyssey2

Comment on Time Commanders by music lessons

music lessons — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:59:40 +0000

Thanks for the new stuff you have unveiled in your short article. One thing I would really like to comment on is that FSBO associations are built eventually. By releasing yourself to the owners the first few days their FSBO can be announced, prior to masses start off calling on Monday, you produce a good network. By sending them methods, educational resources, free accounts, and forms, you become the ally. If you take a personal curiosity about them along with their predicament, you produce a solid network that, many times, pays off when the owners decide to go with a representative they know and also trust — preferably you actually.

Comment on The Hobbit (ZX Spectrum, 1982), and how a kid became a geek by Brian Rhodes

Brian Rhodes — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:23:13 +0000

A lovely article, about how the right thing came to you at the right time, it’s the perfect way for a kid to learn!! Good stuff.

Comment on Now playing: The Bard’s Tale II – The Destiny Knight by Alan

Alan — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:15:44 +0000

Nice read .. I have just completed tales of the unknown amstrad version on my laptop .. I have been looking for the second part but can not find anywhere – where I can download the game .. Its a shame .. I would love to move my team over of course because once i completed the game I have members at level 39 ect .. I guess I will have to play the 64 version .. But after being hooked on this game and time and time playing it 15 years trying ( of course not completly, I mean I may not have played it for 10 years ) But finally finished it ..

Comment on TGomL: Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (PC, 1999) by Thomas G.

Thomas G. — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:41:46 +0000

I agree whole-heartily, SMAC or SMAX. I was first exposed to this game believe it or not in 2002 in a begin bin in the electronics department of Wal-Mart for $9.99. it is a challenge to get it to run on newer PCs, but certainly possible. The Unofficial Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire Patch by Brendan Casey makes it easier to get to run. The patch and instructions can be downloaded at: http://www.civgaming.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7511

Comment on The Hobbit (ZX Spectrum, 1982), and how a kid became a geek by sky love

sky love — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:35:36 +0000

That completely describes me!!!!

Comment on TGomL: Chaos (ZX Spectrum, 1985) by Dehumanizer

Dehumanizer — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:14:37 +0000

Maximum overkill would be to create a real Golden Dragon, have it killed, and raise it from the dead. 9 attack, 9 defense, flying, breath attack, and undead.

Comment on Conversion Wars #1: Out Run (part 1 of 3: 8-bit home computer ports) by Dehumanizer

Dehumanizer — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:12:26 +0000

Interesting read. Thanks for the link.

Comment on Conversion Wars #1: Out Run (part 1 of 3: 8-bit home computer ports) by Reassembler

Reassembler — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:34:22 +0000

I interviewed Alan, who coded multiple versions of the game here:
http://reassembler.blogspot.com/2010/05/interview-with-alan-laird.html

Comment on TGomL: Chaos (ZX Spectrum, 1985) by james sleat

james sleat — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:51:44 +0000

ahh i used to Love this game! I still do, nothing beats casting a real Vampire and destroying everyone!

Comment on Laser Squad (ZX Spectrum, 1988) by Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:38:39 +0000

I loved Laser Squad so much I created Stellar Forces (http://www.stellarforces.com/) since there didn’t seem to be any modern free-to-play equivalent. My best gaming memories are playing two-player Laser Squad for hours.

Comment on Laser Squad (ZX Spectrum, 1988) by Dehumanizer

Dehumanizer — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:28:34 +0000

Thanks for the comment. The Amiga version is actually very close to all the others (you can see screenshots of every version here) : they’re all based on the Spectrum graphics, but with more color. The only really different version is the MS-DOS one, with a completely different (and garish, and, IMO, much worse) graphical style.

Comment on Laser Squad (ZX Spectrum, 1988) by Ognito inc

Ognito inc — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:58:11 +0000

Epic game! Didn’t know it shared the creator with Chaos. I played Chaos for hours in Spectrum and Laser Squad for hours, later, on PC. Heard that LS was fabulous in the Commodore Amiga Version…

Comment on AWStats tip: removing ‘chromebar’ from search keyphrases by Neil Ferree

Neil Ferree — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:56:55 +0000

Glad I found your article on chromebar search. I was wondering the same thing? I don’t mind it at all. I find a lot of my visitors come fro SU so I don’t get what the fuss is all about?

Comment on Violence Fight: the quarrelers! (2 of 2) by Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:38:05 +0000

Wait, if Tony Won was born in 1940, and this game takes place in the early 1950′s, that means he can’t be older than 14 years old. And also, he’d be a 14 year old over seven feet tall and close to 250 lbs. Kid must have had a rough life.

Comment on New ‘disposable email’ service: Mail60 by Jason Munro

Jason Munro — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:16:24 +0000

Cool idea! Thanks for using Hastymail for this (I am the maintainer). Hastymail has a read-only mode, though I have not tested it in a while, that might be ideal for keeping your disposable mail service from being tampered with. We are very close to our next stable release and have a ton of fixes and improvements in place since the last stable package and I recommend updating as soon as it is available (within the next week or two I hope “)

Thanks again,
Jason

Comment on AWStats tip: removing ‘chromebar’ from search keyphrases by Gabriel Harper

Gabriel Harper — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:22:42 +0000

Nice detective work! I came across the same thing and your explanation & solution are excellent.

Of course, the irony being that you are now actually ranked for chromebar. hah.

Comment on TGomL: Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (PC, 1999) by KW

KW — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:08:53 +0000

What impressed me to no end was the authenticity of the science that it was built upon. Sure, it was science fiction, but it was HARD science fiction, based heavily on existing technology. Retroviral Engineering? We’re using that, just not to the extent and purpose that it was used in SMAC. Zakarov’s quote from his fictional work Nonlinear Genetics? Much MUCH more accurate than almost anything that comes from Hollywood.

And hidden under shiny sparkly tech advances and new base facilities were text and audio clips that supplied a great deal of social commentary.

SMAC is an unsurpassed masterpiece in its genre. Like many delicacies, it’s an acquired taste, but more than a decade later, it still gleams with enough innate lustre that beats the cheap polish of many modern games.

Comment on TGomL: Penetrator (ZX Spectrum, 1982) by scuff67

scuff67 — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:38:14 +0000

I think I had the world record on this game. I played for 24 hours and gave up with over 100 lives left.

Comment on AWStats tip: removing ‘chromebar’ from search keyphrases by Patrick Powers

Patrick Powers — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:17:44 +0000

Might you also comment sometime on the difficulty of printing all 8 (or so) pages of AWStats when AWStats has been opened in Chrome? It comes out as a monochrome plot and only then after one has selected the appropriate pages and printed ‘selection’. This is the case even when printing as a PDF. However if trying to do this using IE then it all seems fine. Very odd.

Many thanks

Patrick

Comment on Violence Fight: the quarrelers! (2 of 2) by Dehumanizer

Dehumanizer — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:27:22 +0000

So, I was right: it’s an automatic translation, in this case of “assassination fist”.

Either that or someone who wasn’t very good in English wrote “ken (hands)” at the time, because he didn’t know the word for fist, and nobody noticed that later…

Comment on Violence Fight: the quarrelers! (2 of 2) by Davos Godinho

Davos Godinho — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:33:29 +0000

“I still don’t know what “Assassination Ken (Hands)” means; that’s the kind of phrase one would expect from an automatic translator.”

As an avid fan of samurai and ninja stories you should know that Ansatsuken (暗殺拳?, literally “assassination fist”) is a Japanese neologism used frequently in fictional works to describe any martial art style or fighting technique that has been developed with the purpose of killing an opponent. The term satsujinken (殺人拳?, literally “murderer fist”) is used interchangeably as well.

Comment on TGomL: Doomdark’s Revenge (ZX Spectrum, 1984) by Pedro Matos

Pedro Matos — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:21:11 +0000

After Lords of Midnight’s huge impact on me, I was so eager of Doomdark’s Revenge release that I remember I bought it previously than it was available in Portugal, during a summer holiday in which I came across Gibraltar, and therefore was one of the first Portuguese to ever try it.
Some years later (yes, I really stated years!) I got through the mammoth task of creating the full map by running through the whole landscape with some characters and hiding Luxor in a cave (hence the usefulness of these is not entirely neglectible) and I still keep the large square-matrix paper with the colour-coded squares as a reminder of this effort and the commitment that passion can bring along.
The lesson to learn is that for full commitment achievement we have to add some passion to the motivations. This is the only reason that I can find to justify, after all this time, the occasional “googling” of Icemark-related entries to see what’s going around, and fortunately, there is still plenty going around…

Comment on Best plot in a video game EVER? by robsan

robsan — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:17:45 +0000

Haha priceless

Comment on Bad Comic Panels #10: “Just like a woman! [...] you’re too scatterbrained and emotional!” by Jorge Timóteo

Jorge Timóteo — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:54:20 +0000

Those were the days…