Heaven/TQA Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Arsantica Team had 7 or 8 "employees" and "freelancers" of Desire PLC... making money by ancient software will be hard. Retro works but in combination with hardware (carts) or selling hardware (see Amiga carts etc). but for living? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Just for your information: I'm still having air in my lungs Keep holding it in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Here at Cosine Systems PLC I have two employees... well okay, they're cats but it's the same thing and the issues we have about them not actually doing any programming or having to be let out for toilet breaks because they can't work a door handle are the same as publishers had with some of their staff in the 1980s as well so close enough. Well I trump you on employee's, I have 5 +2 part timers. I circumvented the old just need to use the toilet ploy by installing a cat litter tray. The trouble is that they never write anything, all this put a load of monkeys with type writers together and they will eventually write the collective works of Shakespeare does not seem to apply to cats. Not had a single command typed in years!! Mind you as you eluded to, back in the day ZZap boys spent most of their time with the programmers down the pub getting totally wasted. I remember the article they did with Stavros aka Sanxion man and basically all the article had was how much bear eyc they drank down the pub and back at their home where they put him up and how many times he was sick in the sink Very productive.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 It's a pitty I am so "young". Would have been amazing to work in Video Game buz in the 80s. Not only because of all teh weed smooking at Atari "Back then" YOU wrote a game, not you and 20 others. EDIT: to be clear, not that much money as one earns in a real job, I am not drunk All the weed?? Jeff Minter took care of that department all alone It still stuns me that people make any money from the old machines but they do, its not a lot but it can be done and the best of luck to them as long as they realise what a fair price is. Choosing carts is safe but must eat in to the margins somewhat hence I've always held out for disk and digital. Fair play to all doing it and a huge round of applause for those that do it for free... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Arsantica Team had 7 or 8 "employees" and "freelancers" of Desire PLC... making money by ancient software will be hard. Retro works but in combination with hardware (carts) or selling hardware (see Amiga carts etc). but for living? Well that is (I think) their goal. They are working on some kind of retro-PC, and ofcourse they want to sell (their own) software for that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpc_games Posted June 5, 2014 Author Share Posted June 5, 2014 @PROWIZARD: Are you talking about the RetroPC1010 personal computer gaming system? www.retropc.com.au Yes, this is one of our other projects we are working on. @HEAVEN/TQA: It's not about the money, it's about keeping our Loved Atari computers alive and designing new software for a 20 year old computer. I miss that feeling of walking into a computer store with Atari's, commodore 64's, Apple IIe's BBC Micro's, Amstrads, Sinclair Spectrums, Sega SC3000H and I remember a Comx35 their as well. I also remember the sales person not knowing much about the computers. I probably knew more about the computers than he did. We probably will never have that type of feeling again so the best thing to do is just write new software for our Loved computers and keep that feeling alive. Pete manager RPC-Games! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 sales people not knowing what they are selling... did something changed? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 We called them box shifters in my day...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 We called them box shifters in my day...... i vaguely remember us calling them far worse during the CW years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Especially in Walthamstow You Kent lot were too polite.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Any news? Perhaps when the game is finished in time, it can be added to the best 800 games pack? Or wouldn't it be OS B / 48K compatible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 I suddenly got this feeling: @rpcgames Is there probably a slight chance that the game you are developing is actually only flicker-free on your own created retro PC hardware? Will this be a appetizer to buy your hardware? Perhaps an evil thought of me… but that's me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Ahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 I suspect 98% it's the case you need frame blending for flicker-free, ie LCD TV, Altirra emulator or video capture device. Does their retro PC even have emulation of other systems? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpc_games Posted June 14, 2014 Author Share Posted June 14, 2014 @ Prowizard: The RetroPC1010 is a totally different machine. See here www.retropc.com.au We are writing a game for it at the moment for when the machine is released, hopefully at the end of the year. Our game will be bundled with the RetroPC1010 Personal Gaming System and if you want to purchase a system and start writing software for it then I totally encourage you to do so when it's released. It's a totally new machine and I've heard that theirs a few software houses writing software for it today. Just check out the hardware specs on the website. 24bit hardware sprites, hardware scrolling and lots more. Check it out. We are predicting that this machine will boom world wide just like the Commodore 64 and Atari systems did back in the 80's but without Jack Trameil So if you want to be a part of it, check it out. @ Rybags: Centron 3D is being developed using an Atari 800XL, 130XE, 1x XF551 and 2x 1050 Disk Drives and using 2x 22" LCD TV's - flicker free. We were using a Commodore 1084 CRT monitor at the beginning of the project but that died about 1 week of usage so we had to use LCD TV's instead. The Commodore CRT monitor was just too old. We only have LCD TV's now to complete Centron 3D and there's no flicker with this type of TV. We've shaded most of the graphics to minimise flicker for CRT users. On the Commodore CRT monitor their was a little flicker but the game was totally playable. All is going good with Centron 3D and probably another 2 weeks and Centron 3D should be completed. Cheers Pete Manager RPC-Games! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunsen Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 We are predicting that this machine will boom world wide just like the Commodore 64 and Atari systems did back in the 80's but without Jack Trameil So if you want to be a part of it, check it out. Uh, where can I buy the stuff you smoked 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Puff… the dragon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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snicklin Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Not really relevant to Centron 3D, but with respect to your RetroPC, does it come with a 'C' compiler? If so, I guess a lot of software/emulators etc could be ported to the system? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Amusing - you're good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 (edited) Looked on the site and says it comes with utilities "written from the ground up" but when you go to the user library only one of all the sections has anything in and that's the game section where there's one game announced. Looked on the facebook page and the last update was 27/03/2013? Looks dead in the water?? Just saying that's what it looks like.. Edited June 14, 2014 by Mclaneinc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpc_games Posted June 14, 2014 Author Share Posted June 14, 2014 @ Sniklin: Yeah, I know hehehehehe I don't know if their will be a C compiler but I do know there is a BASIC compiler. I'll have a chat with them and ask. We could have an Atari Emulator for the RetroPC1010, so you could rewrite all the Atari 8 bit games on the RetroPC1010 in MoveOS BASIC and then compile the code. That's worth thinkin about. Maybe some $ involved too. @McLaneinc: hehehe no no no no, I can assure you it's not dead. Quite opposite in fact. The OS (MoveOS2.1) is still being written and the hardware is being tested at the moment so the website is least of their worries right now. If you read on their website they had a change a microcontroller due to poor support from the manufacturer so some routines in MoveOS2.1 has to be rewritten to take advantage of the full speed of the new microcontroller. So a huge delay is at hand at the moment and they are looking to launch at the end of the year or early next year. We already have the hardware details, memory maps etc, so that's how we can already begin our first game for the RetroPC1010. Called Runner. Type of Skate or Die game. I say now, I'm having the feeling of writing new software for the RetroPC1010 as I did when I bought my first Atari800XL back in 1980 something . I Feel like a kid again Pete Manager RPC-Games! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 To me, a C compiler is central to everything, so yeah, if you can get one onto your machines that would be beneficial. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popmilo Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 To me, a C compiler is central to everything, so yeah, if you can get one onto your machines that would be beneficial.C compiler is for pussies, asm all the way ! As working with new microcontroller means learning new assembly instructions, I wouldn't mind if it had 6502 emulator 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 @RPC...Good to hear its still going... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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