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davidcalgary29

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  1. 5200 Klax isn't very nice. The playfield leaves a lot to be desired, and the digitized speech could be better. Really, Hypnotic Land, which is simply dreadful, looks better than this one. The 7800 port looks great, on the other hand, but I can't play it because the sound is so bad. It really is an integral part of the game, and the experience on the 7800 is ruined for me because of these deficiencies.
  2. Christmas came again...in February!!! Thank you so much, @Paolo! I now have a piece of Naples in my office!
  3. The Lurking Horror was really quite effective with its atmospheric creepiness. Did no one else play it?
  4. I think that the North American specialized home computer magazine market was rapidly disintegrating in the late '80s and just wasn't profitable enough to sustain anything by the early '90s. Just look at COMPUTE's Gazette: it had a (comparatively) massive circulation based on its massive installed hardware base, and it still died by '95. Or maybe platform-specific North American computer magazines just needed to get creative to survive tough times: didn't LOADSTAR last until 2005 or something like that?
  5. Mr. Do!'s Castle is just crying out for a graphical update. I just don't understand why the progammer squashed the playfield like that.
  6. There's a "free trial" option, but it requires credit card info...and that gives me pause.
  7. Is this a legit site? I'm tempted to subscribe to support the community, but have never heard of this. At all. Does anyone subscribe to it?
  8. Not all Atari users migrated to the ST platform after its launch in 1985. I didn't get my first ST until the 21st century, for instance, but used my 130XE as my "main" computer until 1993, alongside an AT clone. The Atari user base was shrinking in the late '80s, and the publishing company probably wanted to capture as much crossover market as they could. Both ANTIC and ANALOG did readers a horrible disservice by not directing them to European Atari mags when they folded. I saw The New Atari User/Page 6 very rarely on Canadian newsstands, but had no idea that there were a host of other Atari newsletters and magazines that I could have read at the time. I think I first heard about Current Notes on here, in 2003(?), but would have loved to have read it in the '90s.
  9. Polish software houses were putting out some pretty amazing stuff in the '90s. Hans Kloss is a great Mission: Impossible -esque game, and Klatwa certainly demonstrates that point-and-click graphic adventures were possible on the A8. The only times I yearned for other platforms' libraries in the '80s was when the A8 lost out on The Bard's Tale, Ultima V, and Phantasie III.
  10. It won't be a repro, though: it'll be a copy of the 2024 run.
  11. There's supposed to be another Kickstarter campaign this year for a third run.
  12. I just got a shipping notification for my Spectrum Next. It feels like it's been years since I put down my Kickstarter pledge...and it has been! Very excited now.
  13. I hate to say it, but the red, green, and black 800s are really quite hideous. If Atari was going to go with a McBurger colour scheme, I think that the original light beige body shell was the only viable choice. Can you imagine what a white or yellow 800 body would like like after 45 years of use and sun damage?
  14. I agree. As long as it's not terrible, and sells enough units to be profitable, then it will be a success for the A8. I think that a significant chunk of the public believes that the only home computer that was sold in North America in the '80s was the Commodore 64.
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