Reviving 80s classic game Dizzy for one last time
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Reviving 80s classic game Dizzy for one last time
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#2The title music of Fantasy World Dizzy is so memorable! https://youtu.be/NYYxMUM_l70
Or the Amiga version: https://youtu.be/xnsi2WAy6aY
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No. Stop using Medium, please.
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#4“To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in.” No. Stop using Medium, please.
What do Medium users (i.e. authors) get in exchange for having this annoyance put in front of their readers?
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#5“To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in.” No. Stop using Medium, please.
What do Medium users (i.e. authors) get in exchange for having this annoyance put in front of their readers?
I'm still trying to work this out as well. Why does Medium even register on Google search results? I thought showing one thing to the crawler and another to the user got you demoted.
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#6Gah, a shame EA are getting it via CodeMasters.
A shame someone at CodeMasters couldn't sign off them getting it before this happens.
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#7“To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in.” No. Stop using Medium, please.
What do Medium users (i.e. authors) get in exchange for having this annoyance put in front of their readers?
Medium just sort of became the go-to for vaguely technical blogs. I'm sure there's much better platforms out there
Re: Reviving 80s classic game Dizzy for one last time
#8The title music of Fantasy World Dizzy is so memorable! https://youtu.be/NYYxMUM_l70 Or the Amiga version: https://youtu.be/xnsi2WAy6aY
Oh gosh. Is that really what DOS games used to sound like? I had an Amiga until the late nineties so missed out on that... static!? (wasn't sure if my speakers were playing up when it first started)
How did the Amiga sound so much better at the time. Think I need to go digging and watch some YouTube videos about it.
Re: Reviving 80s classic game Dizzy for one last time
#9The title music of Fantasy World Dizzy is so memorable! https://youtu.be/NYYxMUM_l70 Or the Amiga version: https://youtu.be/xnsi2WAy6aY
Oh gosh. Is that really what DOS games used to sound like? I had an Amiga until the late nineties so missed out on that... static!? (wasn't sure if my speakers were playing up when it first started) How did the Amiga sound so much better at the time. Think I need to go digging and watch some YouTube videos about it.
> Oh gosh. Is that really what DOS games used to sound like?
If you only had a PC speaker, yes, although some games sounded better. At some point in the 90s, Sound Blaster cards started getting popular and those sounded way better than this example.
Re: Reviving 80s classic game Dizzy for one last time
#10The title music of Fantasy World Dizzy is so memorable! https://youtu.be/NYYxMUM_l70 Or the Amiga version: https://youtu.be/xnsi2WAy6aY
Oh gosh. Is that really what DOS games used to sound like? I had an Amiga until the late nineties so missed out on that... static!? (wasn't sure if my speakers were playing up when it first started) How did the Amiga sound so much better at the time. Think I need to go digging and watch some YouTube videos about it.
PC's didn't have any dedicated sound hardware (unless you had a sound card), so any kind of sound/music playback would have to be done in real-time on the CPU, which didn't leave much for the rest of your game. C64, Amiga, etc. all had dedicated sound chips which could do a lot of the synthesis and mixing without burdening the CPU. (This is the same reason why PCs didn't get side-scrolling games until much later than consoles: consoles had dedicated hardware for scrolling tilemaps and displaying sprites, while PCs just had a memory-mapped framebuffer of pixels.)