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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 21:18:24 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • Vertigo
   • Alexander Bochmann
   @vertigo @galaxis I just meant that in the last 30 years people have learned things that enable them to make games today that nobody in the 80s knew how to do. Yes, maybe you need acceleration to do anything but still images with FLI and still have CPU time left, but FLI is just one example.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 20:41:03 UTC Hallå Kitteh
     Show me one person who believed, in 1982, or maybe especially in 1985 after the Amiga 1000 came out, that people would still be making and selling new C64 games in 2018.
     
     And yet people are doing just that. Simply amazing.
     
     A friend of a friend bought 3 of them and claims they are genuinely good games too.
     
     http://www.psytronik.net/
   • Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 21:22:57 UTC Alexander Bochmann

     • Vertigo

     @vertigo @clacke Hey, I bought a 2600 game in 2012 (now available for free): https://starcastle2600.blogspot.de/p/star-castle-2600-story.html

     Hallå Kitteh repeated this.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 22-May-2018 07:20:00 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • deʃhipu
     @deshipu How many do we need?
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 22-May-2018 07:35:52 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Vertigo
     • Alexander Bochmann
     @galaxis @vertigo Wow, that's a cool background story. And it certainly has the same spirit as those C64 games. The things people do with the C64 today are to a large degree things that were deemed "not possible" 30 years ago. (I don't know if these C64 games specifically are that, but I'm assuming they are taking the lessons from the demo scene to push the envelope)
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 19:49:42 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Vertigo
     • Alexander Bochmann
     @vertigo @galaxis Not newer hardware, I'm talking about new capabilities in decades-old hardware.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 21:26:17 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Vertigo
     • Alexander Bochmann
     @vertigo @galaxis I'm not under the impression that these games require acceleration or other expansions. Some of them are even available for C16 and Plus 4.