It's the singer, not the song
- Penn Jillette
Triggered by that 
thing.
Living with computers since 1980, online since September 1989 (Videotel, BBS, Fidonet-like, Internet).
From Rome, Italy
#c64 #commodore64 #BASIC #XCBASIC
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After three months and one reshipping episode (one month passed just because of the lost package), I finally have this thing in my home!
The only sad thing: I won't be able to test this until late into next week!
(If you're curious: https://ultimate64.com/U2PLBLU-TA )
After seeing lots of people preordering the C64 Ultimate Elite or whatever it's called, I went in the other direction and bought a C64 Reloaded MK2, despite having two C64Rs MK1 from 2015 already.
I moved the chips from one of those to the new one (from the other one I took the other SID).
Now I have the luxury of switching from 6581 to 8580 and back at will, while the C64 is on.
Also, there's this fancy thing of connecting to the board from a PC through the dedicated USB serial port, in order to configure stuff.
And there's also custom Kernals and character ROMs and things like that, but I didn't try those at the moment.
Next silly money spending scheduled: a 1541 Ultimate 2 +L (the tape adapters are sold out right now, or I would have ordered it already ðĪŠ)
ðĒ Near-Mage is OUT NOW on PC!
What time is it? Time to study some Magick!
An adventure game about Transylvania, made in Transylvania.
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1685870/NearMage/
You have been invited to stay in Transylvania for the summer... Only to find out that you come from a long line of witches. Meet your new vampyre and strigoi classmates, embrace your destiny, and enroll in the Transylvanian Institute for Magick! A supernatural adventure made in Transylvania.
@profoundlynerdy They managed to make a pretty good "demake" of the classic PC demo :)
@jdyer Finally indeed! :D
I'm fondly attached to this game, I was about 10 years old when I played it on the ZX Spectrum with my dad, both of us (we're Italians) improved a lot our English with it! (Especially me, I had started learning it like a year before :)
I was going to link you something and answer a few of your questions, but - like you asked - I won't say anything until you finish the game (or abandon it).
Can't wait to read what you'll write next!!
@profoundlynerdy Maybe Martin Piper's channel? He focuses on the C64, and not every video is about looking behind the code of games, but you might still find it interesting...? :)
Christopher Sacchi