LIMBO for Commodore 64 Preview available for download
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Was my first gaming PC too. Dad loved electronics, so I was raised on C64, Intellivision, and Atari early on.
It was a wonderfully diverse machine. The european gaming scene in particular was so odd in many ways, very much unlike the american and japanese schools of design. Not better necessarily, but off kilter in all the right ways. Quite a fun platform for becoming aquainted with the medium.
SID is legendary and it has been hugely influential in electronic and popular music, despite it only ever being limited to Commodore computers and never being in any actual synthesizer.
Not entirely true, though the synthesizer would never have existed if it wasn't for the C64.
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I grew up with the C64 as my first gaming computer. Around the early 2000s a friend showed me what people in the demo scene were doing to push its limits. My mind was blown by the graphic effects and music quality. I would love to play the finished version of Limbo someday. Awesome work!
I've never owned a C64 but a friend has one and my abiding memory is that of very muddy colors. What was up with that? The sounds it produced were amazing for the time, but the colors? Well, not really.
You need to remember this is a microcomputer from 1982. I'm not well versed in the computers technical limitations, but it certainly could be colourful when in the right hands.
You need to remember this is a microcomputer from 1982. I'm not well versed in the computers technical limitations, but it certainly could be colourful when in the right hands.
That looks good, but from a quick scan there were other computers around that time with brighter color palettes.
The C64 was cutting edge for its time, but it did have a distinctive color palette I guess.
You must be from Another World because I haven't the faintest what you are talking about.
IMO they also tended to look rather garish in comparison. The C64 palette was quite easy on the eyes.
Lack of bright colours was probably a weakness of the palette, but what we got blended well, and there would always have to be a trade off with only 16 colours available. IMO the colour choice paid dividends in reproducing more realistic images, and there was always the colour saturation control if you wanted a brighter image. I would have liked a more vivid red as an option, but you can't have everything.
Thamalus made so any amazing games.
Delta, Sanxion, Hawkeye, Snare, Retrograde, Creatures, Creatures 2, and no doubt more I've forgotten.
They did, and they all had that awsome Oli Frey cover art. One of the best publishers for the platform.
