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1. Keyframe ◴[] No.45169043[source]
Friend of mine just finished a few year-long journey of developing and releasing a game, soon in physical format as well for Commodore 64 https://delta-machine.itch.io/tantooman There's still something magical in developing for ye olde machines, even by using modern tools like you know, text editors :), cross-compilers, etc.
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2. Keyframe ◴[] No.45169302[source]
Thanks, AI!
3. MomsAVoxell ◴[] No.45172581[source]
Awesome, thanks for sharing!

There are many modern games being developed for these 40-something year old computing platforms, which - incidentally - still work great as a gaming/hacking/fun platform, and therefore are attracting all kinds of interesting hacks and devs.

My favourite recent endeavour, is DBugs' EncounterHD - a reboot of an early text adventure game, but given the modern UI and tooling treatment (by a world-class AAA-title developer, it has to be said) ..

https://defenceforce.itch.io/encounter

This is essentially, a text adventure game for a somewhat obscure 80's-era UK-based 8-bit computer, the Oric-1/Atmos, but now in the 21st Century, DBug has done an outstanding job of adding graphics and realtime dynamics/sound to it, some ~30 years after the fact...

It has become a delightful thing to play - on a Steam Deck, for instance, it is quite comfortable!

The game ships within its own build of an Oric-1/Atmos emulator, which you can escape to and use as if it were an Oric Atmos - if you want an Oric-1/Atmos emulator to further play with - and there are other delightful treats in EncounterHD among the lives of the characters in the game... watch out for the Game & Watch, for instance, which features a familiar grumpy monkey in fully playable form ..