That is all.

Hi!

IDK what to say, but I'm here sometimes. Here's a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0dGhKLbpWk

#cosomusic This has only 8k views? Seriously?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8stc78peSk

This is an old classic, but I think this version by Ndidi O is perhaps the best. So intense. #cosomusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCvaXHCEMfc

The Sharp MZ80A has all the best chicks. Buy it!

@Bysodas The Settlers (Blue Byte, 1993), and this particular version is for the Amiga. :)

This is still the best game ever.

GOTO is the best command. I know it's got a bad reputation, but look how easily it handles this hog! I love GOTO.

Merry Christmas everyone! Let's travel 40 years back in time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QObx25qiSr4

@MaryOleeUpTheStream Honestly, I think it's just a matter of having more money than sense.

@EvilBunny If they say it didn't happen, it definitely happened.

LEN(B$)

From my Sharp MZ-80A owner's manual, which is full of these neat illustrations of various BASIC-commands (because of course you were expected to learn programming if you bought a computer).

A couple of years ago, I was lucky enough to get to interview Junko Ozawa, who created music and sound effects for Namco back in the early arcade days (and up to 2005-ish). I think this was the first English-language interview with her.

You can read it here:

https://spillhistorie.no/interview-with-namco-legend-junko-ozawa/

I uploaded these pictures to Atlas Obscura, they haven't been approved yet but I thought I'd share them here as well. It's the main gun at Kristiansand Kannonmuseum in Norway, built during WW2. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kristiansand-kanonmuseum

@BillyBones Nice!

@hammam Oh, cool!

I have released a couple of "proper" games for the Sharp MZ series of computers, these are Minesnake and Numbertron which can be found on Itch.io:

https://joachim.itch.io/numbertron
https://sharpworks.itch.io/minesnake-for-the-mz-80a

I'm actually working on PC-versions of both.

I also made a silly little game for Windows called SharpSCII Invaders:

https://joachim.itch.io/sharpscii-invaders

My greatest regret as a (sort of) game developer is that I never managed to finish my Sharp MZ-80A dungeon crawler. It kind of works, but there's too much left to do and too little RAM to do it in. #retrocomputing

@hammam I believe the first one I played on an actual PC was Beast. Very simple game where the goal is to squish monsters before they catch you, but it's kind of fun even today.

Photos of an old MicroProse catalogue. Lots of classics here!

Sound on, BTW. :)