Have you read Blogging Ultima and Blogging Dragon Quest? same deal.
If your going to blog Wizards Crown you must also add Eternal Dagger to it.
I had thought of doing a 'blogging Questrony1/2/Legacy of the Ancients/Legend of Blacksilver' or doing the Magic Candle series.
I read the Ultima one I believe. I have a similar concept in mind. I'm going to intersperse a traditional technical review with a story-based ongoing account. I think I'll do the technical review in normal text and the story in italics and just go back and forth as necessary. I'll see how things go. The first few parts of the account will be the pre-stuff, like the system setup, environment, game and box, character creation, etc. I'm doing it to both force me to play a classic CRPG from my collection and to get something out of it for AA while I'm busy with other stuff. I figure I can do it whenever and that have a large series of articles to compile into one at the end.
yakumo9275 wrote:
I only got to use a c128 once and that was in c64 mode but it had a 3.5" disk drive which was pretty nifty to me.
The 3.5" drives are still very competitively bid on. I have a ton of 5.25" disk drives, but no 3.5". It's not that important as I have a plethora of options to connect to modern PC's and do all kinds of nifty transfers and what-not. Frankly, there's little to be done with the C-128 in its native mode, so most people do spend their time in the C-64 mode. A few games have been made, but none that have truly pushed what a stock 64K video memory C-128 could do as far as I know.
yakumo9275 wrote:
I used to have a Warpspeed 2.0 cart for my c64 and that thing rocked. It apparently had a 128mode on the cart (I dont know if it was a seperate cart or inbuilt). When I was in school there was a spate of cockroach roms everyone wanted, as jiffydos was expensive.
I believe I have a Warpspeed. I have many accelerators, both cartridge and software-based. What's nice about JiffyDOS is that it speeds up both sides, offers considerable improvement and can be disabled entirely. As you say, it's always been expensive, though it's certainly cheaper now to get it than it was back in the late 80's when it was a hot item. Again, from a technical standpoint, it was worth it to get it for the C-128D since that has a very easy-to-remove case and easy access as opposed to most other models in the line.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
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*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Have you read Blogging Ultima and Blogging Dragon Quest? same deal.
If your going to blog Wizards Crown you must also add Eternal Dagger to it.
I had thought of doing a 'blogging Questrony1/2/Legacy of the Ancients/Legend of Blacksilver' or doing the Magic Candle series.
I read the Ultima one I believe. I have a similar concept in mind. I'm going to intersperse a traditional technical review with a story-based ongoing account. I think I'll do the technical review in normal text and the story in italics and just go back and forth as necessary. I'll see how things go. The first few parts of the account will be the pre-stuff, like the system setup, environment, game and box, character creation, etc. I'm doing it to both force me to play a classic CRPG from my collection and to get something out of it for AA while I'm busy with other stuff. I figure I can do it whenever and that have a large series of articles to compile into one at the end.
I only got to use a c128 once and that was in c64 mode but it had a 3.5" disk drive which was pretty nifty to me.
The 3.5" drives are still very competitively bid on. I have a ton of 5.25" disk drives, but no 3.5". It's not that important as I have a plethora of options to connect to modern PC's and do all kinds of nifty transfers and what-not. Frankly, there's little to be done with the C-128 in its native mode, so most people do spend their time in the C-64 mode. A few games have been made, but none that have truly pushed what a stock 64K video memory C-128 could do as far as I know.
I used to have a Warpspeed 2.0 cart for my c64 and that thing rocked. It apparently had a 128mode on the cart (I dont know if it was a seperate cart or inbuilt). When I was in school there was a spate of cockroach roms everyone wanted, as jiffydos was expensive.
I believe I have a Warpspeed. I have many accelerators, both cartridge and software-based. What's nice about JiffyDOS is that it speeds up both sides, offers considerable improvement and can be disabled entirely. As you say, it's always been expensive, though it's certainly cheaper now to get it than it was back in the late 80's when it was a hot item. Again, from a technical standpoint, it was worth it to get it for the C-128D since that has a very easy-to-remove case and easy access as opposed to most other models in the line.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.