so damn close...

[PVB]

The actual game files (as listed in the two web pages above) aren't that huge (116MB), so I'll bung them up on Dropbox and send Giles the link.

[PVB]

I'll post up the old archive software pages in here tonight and then you can post a shopping list.

Thanks for that!

My immeadiate interest would be in Star Fire for the PET, but if Headbanger's Heaven and Micro Breakout for the VIC are lurking in the archive as well then I wouldn't say no.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1004067/stuff/Headbanger_8K.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1004067/stuff/h ... er_prg.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1004067/stuff/microbreakout.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1004067/stuff/star%20fire.zip

[Rory]

Just downloaded them, thanks a million PVB!!!

[gilesgoat]

Thanks to PVB I now have a big .zip file with a bit of everything I have to have a look at.

"As soon as possible" I'll try to put together some pages on the LS site and the material too.

[PVB]

I'm going to put all the game files separately on Dropbox and then update the links on the Archive pages, so we've got them available to all in the meantime.

Hope to have it all done by tomorrow afternoon.

For now, have a look here at the old Magicnet Llamasoft web site:

http://www.medwaypvb.pwp.blueyonder.co. ... epies!.htm

(for any newbies, click on any of the three buttons to go to various sections)

[PVB]

All done:

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=82100

[Marius]

Do actual programmers miss the 80's? I know that a lot of gamers miss the "golden age" of gaming...well, their golden age anyway...but since there are a few programmers here at yakyak, is this the case? Was is more fun programming back then, or has it taken a turn for the better?

[gilesgoat]

Do actual programmers miss the 80's? I know that a lot of gamers miss the "golden age" of gaming...well, their golden age anyway...but since there are a few programmers here at yakyak, is this the case? Was is more fun programming back then, or has it taken a turn for the better?

Well programming is still fun, in those times machines were a "a bit more fun" because they were simpler to understand and you had lot more "hands on metal" ( for those who likes that ).

What I miss of the 80's was "the full era" .. well .. that was the time of beach & sun & pizza with friends & videogames at the Arcade Rooms & IceCream & summer & fanculo tutto il resto.

I really *SO* miss proper Arcade Rooms where you could have find cabs with stuff like Xevious, Phoenix, Zoo Keeper, Tempest and the rest and the feeling of "I am in a real aracde room" showelling coins into the machines and watching "experts" doing nifty tricks.

To the question "Was it better with the Z80 ?" the answer is "YES, YES it was !"

Boy George, Europe, The Cure, Cindy Lauper, Queens, Sex Pistols and stuff like that.

Yes it was messed up I know but you can't beat the thrill of Jet Pac and Sabre Wulf

[Marius]

I certainly miss the noisy, crowded, smoke-filled arcades as well...man, it was like an orgy of sounds and sights

[Dio]

Do actual programmers miss the 80's? I know that a lot of gamers miss the "golden age" of gaming...well, their golden age anyway...but since there are a few programmers here at yakyak, is this the case? Was is more fun programming back then, or has it taken a turn for the better?

Yeah, I do. You could create something brilliant on your own. I'd want a dev system of some kind if I was going back as far as the Spectrum era though .

[Firefox]

I miss the 80s. I don't know if I miss *programming* in the 80s, though.

Programming in the 80s was exciting because it was a new field with untapped possibilities. It was, however, a bit of a trial - doing a build took a *long* time, you had to save your work to tapes or disks or (if you were very lucky) a 20 megabyte harddrive; tools were very primitive... There was no internet, so even finding stuff out was arduous - you had to order books by post, spend hours trawling through libraries, and still might not find the answer to your question.

Nowadays every new year brings better and better toys. Bog-standard PCs are stupidly powerful with virtually infinite storage and they're connected to the internet that allows you to download amazingly good tools (often for free) and do serious research into any topic in minutes. Not to mention being part of communities of other people that are interested in the same stuff.

Maybe I still enjoy programming because I work in embedded systems, where I work in small teams or often on my own, and I'm still working very much "on the metal". Perhaps if I was working in a team of several hundred on some corporate accounting system I'd say the 80s were definitely better...