@thelog 492059 wrote:
The amstrad 464 was a pretty nifty machine. develpoers used to like it cos it was very user friendly to program and games like dizzy and other mutli platform titles used to have obvious signs of higher levels of polish on amstrad. We had the amstrad young programers guide that came with it and we would spend hours typing out lines of code form the text book just to see some crappy animation.
Here a link for a good emulator http://www.winape.net/download/WinAPE20A18.zip
its good cos it launches you from the command line insead of just loading the games like other emulator. So if you did want to spend hours typing out code, fire away.
lol too much of a temptation as a great time eater… especially as I once wanted to become a games developer – Most of my programming was learnt on the BBC micro and electron, though the CPC464 was really a BBC with a Z80 processor and a few enhancements to the graphics.
A couple years ago me and some mates from the rural areas round were thinking of doing flash games or other small games but it hasn’t as yet come about due to everyone getting caught up in real life stuff. Though perhaps we should get this together as this area is like Northern Europe and in winter it is not uncommon to find travelling/socialising a hassle or quite impossible due to weather and that is a good time for doing things like writing computer programs.
That said the last PC game I played would have been Wolfenstein. I did even buy a book about graphics and coding in assembler but couldn’t quite get the sample code to work, was around that time I moved from coding to multimedia/systems integration..
