[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games
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Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games
Hi, As a 8-bit C64 game coder in eaarly 90ties and currently mostly
FE-focused dev, decided to give a go to a simple retro game
archive. This is purely fun project - so i decided to post it to
HN, mayne it'll resonate :)
Author : zepesm
Score : 117 points
Date : 2023-04-28 19:09 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (polishpixels.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (polishpixels.com)
| david927 wrote:
| Fajny!
| zepesm wrote:
| thx :)
| adamzochowski wrote:
| This is missing Electrobody / Electroman
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Man
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GosPJVggVmI
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| As per burmistrz for c64, I remember playing a differently
| looking version, all mostly black? Maybe v1?
| http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=20415&d=36&h=0
| zepesm wrote:
| yess :) i was focused on 8-bit mainly but there's a lot of pc-
| extravaganza titles to be preserved.
| jfrej wrote:
| Available to play in the Internet Archive! [1][2]
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| [1]https://archive.org/details/msdos_Electro_Body_1992
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| [2]https://archive.org/details/msdos_Electro_Man_1992
| pwiecz wrote:
| I remember playing a pretty simple Basic game on my Commodore+4
| called "Kubusiowe Litery" or "Kubusiowe Literki", unfortunately
| my cassette with the game got damaged, and I cannot find a source
| of it anywhere. I feel sad that the game may get lost in time
| like tears in rain. ;(
| zepesm wrote:
| actually, this "tears in the rain" vibe was one of the
| strongest behind this project. Preserve.
| mad0 wrote:
| Super! Moj tata bedzie wniebowziety :)
| zepesm wrote:
| no rejczel :)
| robohoe wrote:
| One thing that I don't miss about using Commodore 64 in 90s
| Poland was trying to decipher it without Internet :D.
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| I sure do miss the games and the sheer entertainment that it
| provided though. I wouldn't be here messing with software and
| cloud if it wasn't for that.
| nigma wrote:
| Mine came with a manual in German and some hardly readable
| photocopy of a translation written on a typewriter. That was a
| steep learning curve for a kid. Fortunately there were a lot of
| young and older folks who shared knowledge, engaged into demo
| scene or just played games. Later on I got a couple books and
| subscribed to the C&A magazine which helped me a lot with
| diving into graphics programming, extension ports, SID, etc.
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| The best part about C64 was it immediately booted into a Basic
| prompt that invited you to experiment with the hardware, like
| typing these magic POKE commands to set screen and text colors.
| tlug wrote:
| Great stuff. I always admire efforts like archive.org,
| textfiles.com and yours just fits well into that theme. The
| nature of today's Internet is that things disappear all too easy
| due to a simple redesign decision, people no longer care about
| "Cool URIs Don't Change" rule by Tim Berners-Lee. It's refreshing
| to see work like this and hope it will survive forever.
| zepesm wrote:
| Thanks, that means a lot.
| scyzoryk_xyz wrote:
| Zajebiste!
| zepesm wrote:
| thanks :)
| Tade0 wrote:
| I was searching for Franko and sure enough - it's there.
|
| My friend's mom forbade him from playing it because it was too
| violent. Little did she know he had a few way more risky
| positions on that PC.
| mirekrusin wrote:
| robbo was awesome
| zepesm wrote:
| actually, story behind C64 Robbo conversion is quite funny :)
| sanqui wrote:
| From a Czechoslovak video game archivist, well done! We have our
| own databases of video games and even a dedicated person
| reviewing every single public release on 8-bit micros, but no
| website with such a clear presentation. Inspiring!
| zepesm wrote:
| It's Angular/nestjs/mysql combo, CMS kidna "works", but if
| Czech friends would like to use it to share it's own creations
| i'll surely willing to help :)
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