There's a Kickstarter campaign going on right now, with less than two weeks left.  The book is titled, "Dare to Dream - The Vision of What Commodore and Amiga Could Have Been... Should Have Been..."

Check it out and contribute if you can:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dar...miga-today


This campaign was mentioned in the "Paul Docherty's Heart Of Neon" thread, but I'm creating this dedicated thread to ensure that the topic isn't accidentally missed by anyone.

Just wanted to mention that the July 2024 Issue #99 of Commodore Free Magazine is now available to download for free!

Highlights in this issue:

• Review Corespace C64
  
• CBM 264 Machine line
  
• Silica Shop
  
• Gina sisters 264 review
  
• Elite game history
  
• Insomnia Game festival
  

I recently received a request via my Commodore blog to do a review of a game that was published for the C128, called "Maidstone Quest".  Apparently, it was advertised in a 1990 issue of Run! magazine.

I haven't been able to track down a copy of it yet, but perhaps someone from the forum here has come across it at one point.  If you do happen to have a copy of the game, or know where to find one, please let me know.

Here's the ad that was published in Run!

   

Happy Anniversary, Gang!

We've made it through to another year.  Time sure goes by fast!

Thanks to all of you who have signed up to the forum and a special thank you to all have contributed to the conversations here.  It's been great sharing our enjoyment of this hobby together.  Looking forward to many more years of discussing Commodore 8-bit computing with you all!

- Sysop.

Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) normally doesn’t meet up in July, but we’ve made an exception this year as we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to chat with Bill Winters, a.k.a. AmigaBill - the world’s greatest ambassador for everything Amiga.  We’re trying something new this month, hosting the meeting through Google Meet instead of Zoom.  Join us for a fun summer evening over the Internet, where you can watch, listen, and interact with AmigaBill.


Mark your calendars:
The meeting takes place on Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 7:00PM ET.  (Toronto)

Join the event here:
https://meet.google.com/wqi-xcmy-buw


The Google Meet link is also available at the TPUG website:
https://www.tpug.ca

A video recording will be uploaded to YouTube afterwards, so please subscribe to the TPUG channel to stay informed:
https://www.youtube.com/@TorontoPETUsersGroup


Among Bill's community contributions:

- Founded the Westchester Amiga User Group (WAUG) in 1988, still going strong today 36 years later.

- Co-founded the Guru Meditation YouTube channel.

- Streaming the ultimate online Amiga party on Twitch every Sunday throughout the year... “Sunday Funday!”



Thanks for attending !


P.S.  Bill is also an Emmy Award winning Director of Photography, which you can read about here:
https://billwinters.net



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So,

Paul Docherty is a documentary maker who is currently (and has been for a while) making a documentary about Jeff Minter and Llamasoft. A commendable endeavour. However, I have the distinct feeling that Paul has been stringing his Patreon followers along for a bit in order to maximize the amount of money he is making off this project.

See, I don't know how long it would normally take to edit a documentary together, but the first Patreon posts that Paul made about this, stem from november 2019. In July 2024 this project has been going on for 57 months. At almost $1.000 per months that is $57.000 in total. 

If you're receiving money per month, your incentive is to keep things going for as many months as you can, instead of finishing as quickly as possible.


https://www.patreon.com/heartofneon/home

I just downloaded and played Mars Patrol. It's a Moon Patrol "clone" (but I should really say port I suppose) which is actually pretty well made. I say pretty well because it's a little too easy if anything. I never get very far in Moon Patrol but in Mars Patrol I got much farther.

mars patrol on indieretronews

So far this forum only has US-based machines.  Any love for the Spectrum line?  Oddly enough my first computer was with the US-based Timex-Sinclair 1000, but still basically a Spectrum machine (ZX81).

I feel this should be a decision I can make without having to get input, but to heck with it.  I figured I'd get some thoughts on the subject if for no other reason than to read some perspectives I may not have thought of.

Consider a collection of mostly simple code routines - BASIC, ASM, doesn't matter.  Example routines may be:

• Prompt the user and read an integer
  
• Wait for a menu option, i.e. 1-9
  
• Clear the screen with a cool effect.
  
• Convert a value from 1 form to another.
  

Just wondering if anyone else has not been able to log in to Lemon64.  It's been about 24 hours of just this for me:

   

Anyone else seeing this?