"I started making this C64 game in 1984. It’s time to finish it!"

[avatar! | 1,826]

I love the Ultima vibe

Wonder if it will ever make it to LRG or anything like that?

Hope he finishes it by his goal of 2024, and hope to be able to play it!

 

Edited June 12, 2023 by avatar!

[CMR | 521]

I saw this.  It looks pretty cool.

[DefaultGen | 5,426]

Wow, he has a serious amount of documentation for such an old project. I couldn’t imagine laying eyes on my own 40 year old project. I’d probably want to change everything!

[RH | 4,952]

I didn't get a computer in my home until I was 16 (which was 1997).  Right away I wanted to do something but all I had was Q-Basic.

I kept the source for a long time for all of my early projects and the last place I'm aware of that it ended up on was a 100MB Zip disk.  My zip drive died and I think I tossed the discs, which saddens me.  It also had some papers I'd written in college.

I'd still love to see that source though.  One application I wrote (because I was a math nerd, first, before a computer nerd) was a spirograph program, where I'd adjust the radius of inner and outer circles and then spin the one around another, drawing from a point to point, from each iteration.  It was poorly optimized but worked like a charm.  I really wish I had that code, though I could simulate it easy enough.

My next project was to try to make "Fireworks" where I'd slowly draw a line on a screen to a random point, and then have it "burst" with short lines spreading out in arcs, and the sparkles would be affected by gravity.  I only half-finished that one before I went to college and at that point, I had friends and other things to occupy my time.  I really wish I had that code, and I'd love to finish it just to reconnect with those old times and when discovering how to make things with a computer was exciting.