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Re: Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games

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From a Czechoslovak video game archivist, well done! We have our own databases of video games and even a dedicated person reviewing every single public release on 8-bit micros, but no website with such a clear presentation. Inspiring!

It's Angular/nestjs/mysql combo, CMS kidna "works", but if Czech friends would like to use it to share it's own creations i'll surely willing to help :)

Re: Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games

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Great stuff. I always admire efforts like archive.org, textfiles.com and yours just fits well into that theme. The nature of today's Internet is that things disappear all too easy due to a simple redesign decision, people no longer care about "Cool URIs Don't Change" rule by Tim Berners-Lee. It's refreshing to see work like this and hope it will survive forever.

Re: Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games

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post #15

Great stuff. I always admire efforts like archive.org, textfiles.com and yours just fits well into that theme. The nature of today's Internet is that things disappear all too easy due to a simple redesign decision, people no longer care about "Cool URIs Don't Change" rule by Tim Berners-Lee. It's refreshing to see work like this and hope it will survive forever.

Thanks, that means a lot.

Re: Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games

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One thing that I don't miss about using Commodore 64 in 90s Poland was trying to decipher it without Internet :D. I sure do miss the games and the sheer entertainment that it provided though. I wouldn't be here messing with software and cloud if it wasn't for that.

Mine came with a manual in German and some hardly readable photocopy of a translation written on a typewriter. That was a steep learning curve for a kid. Fortunately there were a lot of young and older folks who shared knowledge, engaged into demo scene or just played games. Later on I got a couple books and subscribed to the C&A magazine which helped me a lot with diving into graphics programming, extension ports, SID, etc.

The best part about C64 was it immediately booted into a Basic prompt that invited you to experiment with the hardware, like typing these magic POKE commands to set screen and text colors.

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