And now a surprisingly lukewarm review of Mario Bros in the July 1987 issue of Your Commodore.

Mario Bros is now usually regarded as a essential part of the classic gaming experience rather than as some quaint deficient curiosity.

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I wanted to post a comment on his site, but the bl**dy thing wouldn't play ball. Perhaps the chappie may stumble on this site and read it here: Great, er, thingy! Reminds me of the Action Replay memory monitor, so with that in mind I'd like to request a few handy functions you may like consider addi...

Glad to have the interest confirmed. I had an idea quite a few people liked it anyway because my posts seem to be quite popular (blush). As always, more interesting magazines are linked-to on my homepage: http://www.leftiness.org/Record.htm , one example being The Games Machine's article on '80s MID...

Informative, though rather dry:

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Issue 2 MIDI was brand new to home computing in 1984. Just the barebone basics of MIDI sequencing were available for the home user's primitive workstations, though the sheer novelty of working in the digital domain for the first time would not have been lost. And so soon after the professionals too....

This may be useful too, though I've not investigated it: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/archive/h ... /25059.php

More pictures. I did have more games, but foolishly threw them out at a time when I was jaded with video games and extremely impatient with them. I remember getting one game from a conman, several years after the Atari had commercially died. Remember you used to get those market traders who ran 'auc...

Your USB stick ought to do. If it's working through the Direct-X software interface it should just work right off the bat. My USB joypad certainly does. Even though it's now the cold light of day, I'm still torn right down the middle on whether or not I should have an Atari VCS sound system to compl...

I wouldn't know what a Weebl is. But what I do know is that since I investigated Space Invaders for the Atari 2600, which I forgot I had, I've had a real reminder of why that console was my first love before the Commodore 64. I've had a bit of a spending splurge on Ebay. No more than a tenner per ga...

If your keyboard skills are shaky, you're in for a nice surprise when you discover a sequencer's Quantisation mode. With Quantisation applied to your MIDI playing, it won't matter if your timing is a little shaky. If you're recording a track in 4/4 time and the computer knows it, Quant' mode will ti...

Let's start with the trackers. I've used Magix Music Maker myself and as far as I can recall it has no MIDI capability. Well, not the very old versions I last saw anyway. I don't know what you mean when you say 'MMM doesn't have a keyboard'. If you mean an on-screen virtual layout is what you're aft...

Why not do your own music? SID2MIDI is available, the SID files are available and there are piles of virtual instruments (including SID emulators) freely downloadable. It doesn't take long and you can concentrate on being creative rather than scrabbling around for somebody's email address or letting...

They look to be the same basic game but in slightly differing styles. Glad to see it's on the Amiga too, I'll certainly be downloading that one for use on both emulator and genuine machine. (It also had a great cover of an old Scott Joplin ragtime tune. Along with the likes of Foxx Fights Back, Bomb...

I think there's a difference between games being harder and games being clumsy clodhoppers, or too fast, or trying to get you thinking about too many things at once. Doesn't help matters when many old games I play put those together. Cerebral games or games which test skill and memory can be hard bu...