Game disk archiving

I am collecting the hardware and software from my past to preserve and show-display them in my home office for my personal pleasure. I have grown up with an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 2000, then later a 486/60MHz and later a Pentium with 200MHz. Especially the Amiga 500 has gotten me to start playing … Continue reading Game disk archiving →

Playing on real retro hardware

I've asked ChatGPT what it thinks about playing games on retro/old hardware vs. emulation: Playing retro games today is super easy: for many games, there are remakes that still run on modern computers or consoles - you can find them on your favorite gaming platform, like steam, which has a "Retro" tag for search, or … Continue reading Playing on real retro hardware →

Guiding a user through a story

I am playing Maniac Mansion on my C64 at the moment. After I've successfully found and purchased it off of ebay, in a very good condition with all of its original big box, including its contents: Box Manual Poster of announcement board Response card for purchasing merch The 5.25" disc - still working! …I wanted … Continue reading Guiding a user through a story →

Upgrading how video from the Amiga 500 is displayed

I have been looking into improving the video output on my Amiga 500 that I use for playing, capturing screenshots and capturing video. Not that the video quality was bad, but you could notice that there were distortions in the screenshots and the captured videos. It was more noticeable on my 1080p monitor that I … Continue reading Upgrading how video from the Amiga 500 is displayed →

Learnings from Maniac Mansion

Ron Gilbert talked about Maniac Mansion in a classic game postmortem at GDC. I've watched the recording for a second time now. Aside from the obvious fact that Ron is an excellent story teller, there's a few learnings and notes that I took away again. Some of the things he learned and mentioned were processed … Continue reading Learnings from Maniac Mansion →

I asked ChatGPT a few very relevant questions…

And it did well, I think: Until it tried to sell me quotes from the Beetles:

Avoiding your monkey wrench moment

Building up my excitement for Return to Monkey Island, I read the interview with the development and designer crew the other day: Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman reveal their one Monkey Island regret | Eurogamer.net. I knew about the puzzle they are talking about in the article, and that it was a huge challenge to … Continue reading Avoiding your monkey wrench moment →

If you had a rough day…

How satisfying 🙂 https://youtu.be/ARefBpL1Ylk works best with sound on. Or for individual, single blopps: https://youtu.be/2gBF15357Mk

Conquering levels in Lemmings

The more I play Lemmings, the more I realize that I tackle different levels quite methodically with the same set of steps, before I attempt in solving them. Right at the beginning of the level, when the lemmings start to fall out of the ceiling trapdoor, I would use the "Pause" button to pause the … Continue reading Conquering levels in Lemmings →

Lemmings love

So I have been what appears to be a retro crusade for the last 6 months or so. It all started with recovering a used Commodore Amiga 500 -- and getting it to work again. Since, I've researched and looked at a few games that I've played in my childhood - Monkey Island, Loom, Sim … Continue reading Lemmings love →