kisrael Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Hi there! A shameless plug for a blog I'm starting: http://gazettegalore.blogspot.com/ I was fortunate enough to get a big pile of COMPUTE!'s Gazette with disk as a kid, and I decided to go through the whole decade plus' worth of type-in games and review them. It was an interesting time for games! I like how so many of the articles are describing the programming behind the game.. really empowering stuff for the hobbyist culture. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neglectoru Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 I think this is a very interesting project! I got my start with programming by typing in entries from Compute's Gazette. I was so happy when I convinced my parents to get a subscription to the disk (probably added years back to my life!), but I learned a lot from these programs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisrael Posted August 26, 2015 Author Share Posted August 26, 2015 I just added September, October, and November 1984. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Awesome! I'm really looking forward to reading this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I wrote a maze game for my my BBS that, like Castle Dungeon, was inspired by Atari's Adventure on the 2600. The maze game used my BBS/MusicTerm features of sprite and joystick support. The maze was drawn in the same color as the background, the priority on the sprite was changed to show up behind the characters. You could hit the fire button to show the full maze, done very quickly by changing the background color, though it would penalize you for doing so. The maze generation itself took a little bit of time to send over, especially as most callers were still at 300 baud, but once it was sent the process of reading the remote joystick and moving the sprite was quite snappy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 (edited) That is cool - my brother and I typed in a lot of those games, and we bought the discs whenever we could. Some of the games were darn good. I still have a pile of our Compute!'s Gazette magazines, which are fun to read though. Most of them are from 1984, so it's great to see these reviews. I thought Bagdad, Sno-Cat, Castle Dungeon and The Tomb were a lot of fun in particular. Edited August 27, 2015 by BydoEmpire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motrucker Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Hi there! A shameless plug for a blog I'm starting: http://gazettegalore.blogspot.com/ I was fortunate enough to get a big pile of COMPUTE!'s Gazette with disk as a kid, and I decided to go through the whole decade plus' worth of type-in games and review them. It was an interesting time for games! I like how so many of the articles are describing the programming behind the game.. really empowering stuff for the hobbyist culture. I think we all typed in programs from these magazine way back when. I used to have all of these mags, until a move and they were all lost. After that I used DLH Bombjack's site : http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/ But I may start using yours. Thanks for all the work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisrael Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 Yeah, I'm considering extracting individual game files into .T64 or .PRG files -- http://csdb.dk/release/?id=132307might be my best bet for that? Though I'd have to be using a windows emulator... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisrael Posted September 8, 2015 Author Share Posted September 8, 2015 http://gazettegalore.blogspot.com/- I'm up through the end of 1985 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 I'm about 2/3 of the way through the site so far, and enjoying it quite a bit. I love these kinds of efforts, and the combination of completism and obscurity particularly appeals to me. I played your browser version of Heatseeker / Heat Seeker, and it's an absolute blast! After a couple dozen attempts I was able to clear Difficult without losing a plane. That'd be a great candidate for a minigame on a console compilation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 I'm enjoying it as well. It's been a lot of fun to read so far. (And you have the distinction of writing a web log whose subject is unique!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo930 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Hi there! A shameless plug for a blog I'm starting: http://gazettegalore.blogspot.com/ I was fortunate enough to get a big pile of COMPUTE!'s Gazette with disk as a kid, and I decided to go through the whole decade plus' worth of type-in games and review them. It was an interesting time for games! I like how so many of the articles are describing the programming behind the game.. really empowering stuff for the hobbyist culture. I really like Dodge'em and the arcade games it's based on. I'll have to try that type in version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisrael Posted September 27, 2015 Author Share Posted September 27, 2015 I really like Dodge'em and the arcade games it's based on. I'll have to try that type in version. Cool , it would be good to hear what a connoisseur of the game thinks of it... the genre has never really worked well for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Wow, I had no idea Bouncers was based on a C64 type-in game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisrael Posted November 7, 2015 Author Share Posted November 7, 2015 Just wanted to bump this a bit! http://gazettegalore.blogspot.com/has gotten to 1990 - the point where the standalone magazine got folded back into COMPUTE, and COMPUTE itself got a new publisher (the Omni/Hustler folks) I also updated http://gazettegalore.alienbill.com/with direct D64 images of almost all of the games I ranked 4 and 5 stars Anyway, I've found some cool games, and in general try to talk about the computer culture of the time, so Commodore fans might enjoy it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laner Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Great idea - I devoured Compute!'s Gazette each month for several years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbit63 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 I just recently downloaded a C64 emulator, and it took me a while to figure out the awkward keyboard, but now I'm a whiz. I just finished programming in a game called "Going up" from Gazette!'s July '87 issue. I programmed it using MLX. When I finished, I couldn't get it to run because it asks for Disk or Tape. Very frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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