RobertB Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 bjonte has just released the teaser trailer for the upcoming C128 game Volley For Two! See https://kollektivet.nu/v42/ It has been years since the last C128 game has been released commercially, and it looks as if this one will be distributed on https://itch.io And it makes use of REU, GeoRAM, or SuperCPU ram for extended playback viewing! :) Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Defender Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Looks pretty neat... Thanks for sharing! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+evg2000 Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 my browser won't let me load the page, says "Dangerous pages attempt to install software that can harm the device, gather personal information or operate without your consent." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Very cool! Great to see new software for the C128!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertB Posted September 27, 2020 Author Share Posted September 27, 2020 The developer now tells me it's going to be free! He couldn't stand filling out forms for the US Internal Revenue Service! Sincerely, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore and Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 48 minutes ago, RobertB said: The developer now tells me it's going to be free! He couldn't stand filling out forms for the US Internal Revenue Service! Not sneezing at free software, just curious what forms the IRS wanted and why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 I wonder if it has something to do with that all three developers are Swedish/Danish, and that business possibly is done according to US tax rules so for foreigners to get payouts from the system, the IRS would be involved in detail. But that is just my guess, I haven't seen exactly how much paperwork is involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Defender Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Maybe they should just accept "donations"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertB Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 22 hours ago, carlsson said: I wonder if it has something to do with that all three developers are Swedish/Danish, and that business possibly is done according to US tax rules so for foreigners to get payouts from the system, the IRS would be involved in detail. Essentially, you are correct! Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Red tape -- for better or worse. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Since I realized @bjonte is a member here, I could just as well tag him to this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjonte Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 The game was always meant to be free. I never meant to go public with the itch.io idea.I investigated itch.io to accept donations. It turned out that I had to register at the IRS to avoid a blanket trade tax of 30%, which would be waste of people’s money. I don’t want to be registered in US at all because of privacy reasons and the direction US seems to be heading with Trump in command. On top of that I was late with the itch.io idea and the IRS takes six weeks to process an application. So even if I wanted, it would have been difficult to pull off. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjonte Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 On 9/26/2020 at 11:28 PM, evg2000 said: my browser won't let me load the page I heard that Bitdefender is classifying the page, that contains no tracking, no cookies, no javascript, just an embedded video, as malware. It must be the video link it chokes on for some reason. You can watch the video by a direct link to it instead. https://peertube.dk/videos/watch/4d378909-ef13-47d7-9def-92597ccbe7fb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Perhaps any site these days that has zero tracking cookies and zero scripts running in the background, is considered suspect just due to that? I mean those sites stick out from the crowd and we know to always watch for things that seem out of the ordinary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjonte Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Perhaps any site these days that has zero tracking cookies and zero scripts running in the background, is considered suspect just due to that?Haha, interesting idea! I hope it’s not just using AI to look for unusual pages. That would be a complete disaster. The funny thing is that Bitdefender happily accepts the direct link to the video. So the video itself isn’t flagged as problematic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 7 hours ago, bjonte said: I don’t want to be registered in US at all because of privacy reasons and the direction US seems to be heading with Trump in command. The IRS is the IRS, irrespective. So long as this agency exists, citizens will be in fear over their property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjonte Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 The game has been released and is available to download from https://kollektivet.nu/v42! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertB Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) Volley for Two review - https://vintageisthenewold.com/volley-for-two-a-new-game-to-join-the-select-club-of-new-games-exclusively-made-for-the-commodore-128/ Volley for Two music - https://soundcloud.com/encore64/volley-for-two-title-music Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan Edited October 11, 2020 by RobertB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 This couldn't come at a better time since the legendary Ray Carlsen just helped me diagnose and fix my own C128 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjonte Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 This couldn't come at a better time since the legendary Ray Carlsen just helped me diagnose and fix my own C128 [emoji4]Congratulations then! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 On 10/10/2020 at 2:19 AM, bjonte said: The game has been released and is available to download from https://kollektivet.nu/v42! The link is 404 BTW. Do you have an alternate link? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Defender Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 4 minutes ago, eightbit said: The link is 404 BTW. Do you have an alternate link? Thanks! Looks like this one works: https://kollektivet.nu/v42/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjonte Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 The link is 404 BTW. Do you have an alternate link? Thanks!A typo! I’ll edit the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Nice, got it. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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