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General Discussion - Introductions / Re: What computer did you have...

Last post by GUNHED - Today at 16:54

It feels so lonely in the Atari 8-Bit category... 

Always liked the 800XL, we played Mercenary a lot at a friends place before I got my CPC. 

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Games / Re: Converted GX4000 .cpr - Th...

Last post by GUNHED - Today at 16:38

Syx, what a nightmare! You be proud that you finished it, because pretty much anybody else would have given up on that thing. However the result is very charming!!! 

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General Discussion - Introductions / Re: CPCRadio module

Last post by GUNHED - Today at 16:33

Dear Admin/Moderator: Please split the topic now. 

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Games / Re: The Key, a A "full" point ...

Last post by GUNHED - Today at 16:25

Well, just add a ZIP here... 

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Games / Re: Converted GX4000 .cpr - Th...

Last post by overange - Today at 15:51

@SyX that was such an interesting read on how you achieved the redesign and as it was mentioned the GX4000 was such a good system and only now, what it can do is being seen.
I really do hope someday someone can reproduce the ASIC and somehow either integrate a variant of this into an original CPC, or even make a modern GX4000 system Clone.

With the work that was done with plotting/Flipull+ could it be possible to re-engineer Gazza into the never released Plus Version based on the limited screen shoots?
Or even port ChaseHQ 2 from the Speccy and recreate a new version of what could of been?

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Games / Re: Converted GX4000 .cpr - Th...

Last post by iXien - Today at 14:02

But we are able to see the true potential of the machine. It's just that we're discovering it a little late... I mean... more than 30 years late 

I am not so sure, I am waiting until @norecess464 launches Sonic for seeing a real GX4000 game 

Funny thing about the cold reception of Flipull+, specially in general retro news sites and youtube channels, it looks that the people thinks that it is only a minor hack and nobody understand the graphical look that RedAngel brings to the game, as I said I prefer this clean look to the original one (for me all those tiles are too much noise for my eyes).

But the detail that nobody is getting, and it's logical because they are not playing, they are only looking pictures or videos; it is that now the game is less arcade and more puzzle. You can create strategies for finishing every screen, everything is less random. And that, plus the minimalist look, makes possible than now I can enjoy the game (even if the music is annoying and I worked hard to change it).

Honestly, I think the NES backgrounds can be blamed a little. Nowadays, when an old arcade game conversion is upgraded, it's usually to make it nearer to the arcade experience, at first visually. Here, you prefered to take the NES look of the game. You start to play and you discover that the arcade backgrounds disappeared, replaced by monochrome ones (and less detailed, due to the mode 0 constraincts). Strange for people that didn't really played the game and can consider these simplier graphics as a regression.
That's why I'm so puzzling why you didn't decide to prefer starting the game with nice backgrounds based on the Amiga version and closer to the arcade, making the NES backgrounds as a bonus remembering a nice conversion. You can be sure people would have told "whaooo, nice improvement to the original". Your upgrades are very nice but people judge a game to their first contact with him, the reason why first levels of lot of arcade games are more nice looking than their second half.

More seriously, you already got it. People looking at this new version doesn't really play it, while the biggest improvements you made are in the game mechanics. It's also something difficult to show in videos.

And simply, don't forget that Plotting/Flipull is a games far less famous than Pang. You can't expect as interest in this nice but very little puzzle game 

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General Discussion - Introductions / Re: Interview with James Higgi...

Last post by Anthony Flack - Today at 13:41

Also it was a logistic nightmare to deliver 300 copies of our magazine when at its peak and only in Spain. No wonder the editor would hang himself if he has to deliver hundreds more and worldwide 

There's worse problems to have than being too popular! Maybe you should have just put the price up.

Your interviews are great and very much appreciated. I played the heck out of The Apprentice when I was a kid and only owned a few games. I sure would have liked to know that pressing S uses the scroll to open locked doors! 

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Games / Re: Converted GX4000 .cpr - Th...

Last post by SyX - Today at 13:17

But we are able to see the true potential of the machine. It's just that we're discovering it a little late... I mean... more than 30 years late 

I am not so sure, I am waiting until @norecess464 launches Sonic for seeing a real GX4000 game 

Funny thing about the cold reception of Flipull+, specially in general retro news sites and youtube channels, it looks that the people thinks that it is only a minor hack and nobody understand the graphical look that RedAngel brings to the game, as I said I prefer this clean look to the original one (for me all those tiles are too much noise for my eyes).

But the detail that nobody is getting, and it's logical because they are not playing, they are only looking pictures or videos; it is that now the game is less arcade and more puzzle. You can create strategies for finishing every screen, everything is less random. And that, plus the minimalist look, makes possible than now I can enjoy the game (even if the music is annoying and I worked hard to change it).

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General Discussion - Introductions / Re: CPCRadio module

Last post by Prodatron - Today at 11:45

Is a Spotify client doable on CPC? Maybe on RSF3 or M4?

Not Spotify, but there is a SymbOS webradio client, which works with the RSF3:

Here is a video by DoctorCPC (it was recorded very close to your city ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6j99_DHYhI

Not sure, if this works with the SF3 as well.

As said, the RSF3 has the same features (not the SF3)

The MP3 part is included in the SF3 as well, but not the FM/DAB radio features.

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General Discussion - Introductions / Re: Interview with James Higgi...

Last post by Dubliner - Today at 09:03

And thanks too for the English translation.

The user with the nickname of the Irish city, living in the German metropolis of Cologne, would conduct interviews with several English people in Spanish? That would be something! :-)

But I'm definitely interested in this question, because I'd be lost without an online translator for writing. (Deepl.com from Cologne, in my case.)

I am actually Spanish, but a big The Dubliners fan