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Reged: 02/02/13
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Loc: 026, NL
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Re: Crazy Kong - Correct Sound For All Variants?
09/02/13 12:25 PM
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> > My original c64 has always had major graphics corruption, there appears to be a > > timing issue on colour ram when one of the scroll positions is used. I ended up > > missing it when using an emulator or c128. Most games weren't affected as they > didn't > > scroll color ram, but there were a few games that became so unplayable I had to fix > > them by changing the scrolling from 1 pixel per frame to 2 pixels every 2 frames. > > You hacked your games instead of taking your C64 to the repair shop..oh yeah > > While you were doing that (probably) I was bullied for having a Spectrum. The extent > of my coding ability was debugging BASIC programs typed in from books and magazines. > > Those were hard times, when I was about 13-14 I knew two people who had a > Spectrum...everyone else had a C64. And when they got Amigas I still had my > Spectrum.. > > S
Haha, I forgot all about those books, should have a few here, 50 Games for your VIC-20 or something along those lines.
I miss my VIC...
P.S. I didn't get it until we were well into the nineties, but as a 7 year old, it was pretty impressive to see what all those lines of code (finally) could do after a few days of intense copying, praying you didn't get a syntax error at line 'X'
"Those voices in his head might not be real, but they have really good ideas!"
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