VLM-3 Demo DVD - How to get your grubby mits on a copy!

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Usual mistake there...I have nothing against the platforms, its the COMPANYS I hate.
I tell someone I dont want to buy the Xbox because I hate microsoft, and they list what great games it has. I know it has great games, I know its controll pad isnt as bad as some people make out, and I know the hard drive will save you loads of money in the long run.
I just dont want microsoft to get a firm grip on another market place...its too dangerious. :(
Im not some fanboy who says the other platforms are crap or anything...theres no such thing as a bad games platform.
Its all about the games, and theres great games on all the main platforms.
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Darkflame wrote:Usual mistake there...I have nothing against the platforms, its the COMPANYS I hate.
I tell someone I dont want to buy the Xbox because I hate microsoft, and they list what great games it has. I know it has great games, I know its controll pad isnt as bad as some people make out, and I know the hard drive will save you loads of money in the long run.
I just dont want microsoft to get a firm grip on another market place...its too dangerious. :(
Im not some fanboy who says the other platforms are crap or anything...theres no such thing as a bad games platform.
Its all about the games, and theres great games on all the main platforms.
Couldn't agree more mate. If you do a search in this forum this has been gone over a few times - with a variety of heat levels too. :)

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Darkflame wrote:I still have a few of Jeff's games on my Commadore Plus/4 (you know, the black one everyone forgets about).
I had both a C16 and a +4. I bought the latter during a Commodore warehouse sale in 1986 at the old Sydney Showgrounds (paid A$99 for it, compared to it's reduced price of A$199)

I bought the +4 so that I could play the games specifically written for the +4 (there wasn't that many, though, a couple of Anco titles, Split Personalities (Domark) etc. :o
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I always thought that the +4 looked kewl... What was the keyboard like? I imagined it to be nice and clicky :)
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IIRC it was actually quite soft, but not a bad action.

I so wish the 16/plus4 had had sprites and SID... the extra colours were *lovely* an' all (and did something to catch up to the Atari 8-bit, which I loved for its colours and its DLIs) but without sprites and SID, even back then, I knew they wouldn't make it :].

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Didn't it have 121 colours? :?
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exactly.

121 colours (15 colours, with 8 brightness levels and black)
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I see "8 brightness levels" and I think "oooh, strobe effects" and "Psychedelia"... ;) 8O :P
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Which Yak wrote for the C-16.

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mmmm.... Pychedelia.

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Dr. M wrote:Which Yak wrote for the C-16.

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mmmm.... Psychedelia.

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And Voidrunner. Mmmmm, multi-coloured bar/wave thingy. 8)
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PVB wrote:
Dr. M wrote:Which Yak wrote for the C-16.

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mmmm.... Psychedelia.

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And Voidrunner. Mmmmm, multi-coloured bar/wave thingy. 8)
Never played it on the C16... but if it were to appear in the Lleague, I'd vote for it (sight unseen) ;)
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moobaa wrote:
PVB wrote:
Dr. M wrote:Which Yak wrote for the C-16.

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mmmm.... Psychedelia.

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And Voidrunner. Mmmmm, multi-coloured bar/wave thingy. 8)
Never played it on the C16... but if it were to appear in the Lleague, I'd vote for it (sight unseen) ;)
Voidrunner was the first Llamasoft game I bought. 8)

The rest, as they say, is history. :)
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I have Pychedelia :)
Really nice stuff :)
Allthough, I must confess, Im not sure whether its a legit copy or not :p
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The Commadore Plus/4s keybaord was very nice, im not too sure about games just written for it.
I think I have a few.
Did Mercenary:Escape From Targ run on the C16?
What about ACE2?

I also have a few CARTRIDGE games for it :D
Stupidly, their both text adventures.

The Plus/4s main features where the in built word processor...spreadsheet...and...err...dunno...what exactly where the other 2? :D

As far as I remember, the plus 4 had quite a nice colour pallette, allthough you could only display a few next too eachover else you get a cursor shaped block of colour.
It depended what graphic mode you were in...hmz...there was highres/low colour or lowres/highcolour.
As well as split screen for each.
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OK. Another 4 DVD's shipped today.

These are on their way to: mk1, Stephen, srs ghost & Darkflame

Enjoy! :D

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wheeee :)))
Thanks, that was fast.
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