If a game is absolutely freaking breaking your balls, get revenge on the bleeding thing by Freezing the utility cartridge and going into the Poke section: POKE 788,0 And go back to the game. TAKE THAT YOU BUSTARD! That's what you get for scrambling me, mate! (And it makes Win-Vice go bananas too, mo...

If you've played Giana Sisters for longer than twenty seconds with no trouble, there probably isn't any. Not the kind I'm talking about. How does it compare to its equivilent Super Mario title, be it 'Bros 1, 2, 3, 'World 1, 2, etc.? ________________________________________ Vanguard, oh yes mate: ht...

I just hope the DS version has been cracked and trained if it's anything like its shoddy parent. Even playing the more forgiving Amiga version with the infinite lives going, it's still a frustratingly fiddly game which is just unplayable towards the end because too many movements have to timed just-...

I'll go with aggressive. One reason I like my 3 active Comodores for recording is because they add a special edge when used with the smoother sounding synths. For example, the Roland JD800 or JX3 were proper professional musicians' synths, but sometimes in a recording they needed to be blended with ...

Perhaps not freaks so much as people who knew what they had and were dead chuffed. I do know that many Spectrum users wish they had something like the SID in their computers, their wishes partially fulfilled with the Spectrum Plus units. I also know that in around 1985 (?) an audio cassette was issu...

We all know how computer game music composers were never taken seriously back in the '80s, despite the fact that they were part of a real industry and moulding a new art form with each new release. But when I hear old game music like Outrun performed as a piano solo, electric guitar rocker or by a f...

Poor sod. We all know how that goes, even those of us who thought our antivirus programs were riding the surf. 50Gb of pure Commodore goodness gone? Condolences mate, though I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that you should have backed up your goodies as you went along. Those who bitch about pr...

If anyone's buying a copy of Commodore 64 Forever, http://www.lemon64.com/links/redirect.php?id=1531, could they tell me if the package supports MIDI? The emulator in the Amiga Forever set supports it, even though the Amiga also didn't have its own inbuilt MIDI, so there may be a ghost of a chance. ...

Ah, the good ol' NES. Not as flexible a synth as the Commodore 64 was but it still had a very unique sound. I always liked the bass registers, 'phat' I think they call it now. http://vtatila.kapsi.fi/nes_sound.html - I think this resource may prove useful. The NES and the 64, a nice coupling don't y...

I found the game more agreeable on the Amiga though: http://roms.zophar.net/download-file/215575 It handles better and is graphically slicker too. I quite liked this one, even playing for a while without the 'trainer' mode. It still has its quirks, but you can actually play this one. Although there'...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUkL9osyVv8&feature=related - Oxygene covers. And let's not forget the Bomb Jack soundtrack, which is also a Jarre cover. Interesting that the 'future' of synthesisers came so soon after that film, which to me only proves those hippies weren't as forward-thinking a...

Did you see the hippy on the Barclays' Bank computer film?

....This plastic society man, if you ned a scapegoat it goes on the computer... Like, wow man!

Yes, it is a good game isn't it. Cloned countless times, but it gives you a real variety on the C64, unlike with the Atari console owners who had to put up with a rather clumsy version of Space Invaders, not to mention their own hideous single version of Pacman for two years. Less can be said of Gre...

http://roms.zophar.net/download-file/69658

Nice chunky graphics, trainer mode for a slow reflex day and a lovely Commodore graphic at the beginning. What more can be said?

Loading's the usual affair; LOAD "*",8,1: <shift and run/stop>

The Commodore 64's SID straddled what is for me the two great eras of sound synthesis. First came the early, more abstract and freeforming period, the whacked-out hippy stuff. Then you got the kind of synthesisers we all know today, with their well-defined presets allowing the user to imitate 'real'...