[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games
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       Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games
        
       Hi, As a 8-bit C64 game coder in eaarly 90ties and currently mostly
       FE-focused dev, decided to give a go to a simple retro game
       archive. This is purely fun project - so i decided to post it to
       HN, mayne it'll resonate :)
        
       Author : zepesm
       Score  : 117 points
       Date   : 2023-04-28 19:09 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (polishpixels.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (polishpixels.com)
        
       | david927 wrote:
       | Fajny!
        
         | zepesm wrote:
         | thx :)
        
       | adamzochowski wrote:
       | This is missing Electrobody / Electroman
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Man
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GosPJVggVmI
       | 
       | As per burmistrz for c64, I remember playing a differently
       | looking version, all mostly black? Maybe v1?
       | http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=20415&d=36&h=0
        
         | zepesm wrote:
         | yess :) i was focused on 8-bit mainly but there's a lot of pc-
         | extravaganza titles to be preserved.
        
         | jfrej wrote:
         | Available to play in the Internet Archive! [1][2]
         | 
         | [1]https://archive.org/details/msdos_Electro_Body_1992
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         | [2]https://archive.org/details/msdos_Electro_Man_1992
        
       | pwiecz wrote:
       | I remember playing a pretty simple Basic game on my Commodore+4
       | called "Kubusiowe Litery" or "Kubusiowe Literki", unfortunately
       | my cassette with the game got damaged, and I cannot find a source
       | of it anywhere. I feel sad that the game may get lost in time
       | like tears in rain. ;(
        
         | zepesm wrote:
         | actually, this "tears in the rain" vibe was one of the
         | strongest behind this project. Preserve.
        
       | mad0 wrote:
       | Super! Moj tata bedzie wniebowziety :)
        
         | zepesm wrote:
         | no rejczel :)
        
       | robohoe wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | nigma wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | tlug wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | zepesm wrote:
         | Thanks, that means a lot.
        
       | scyzoryk_xyz wrote:
       | Zajebiste!
        
         | zepesm wrote:
         | thanks :)
        
       | Tade0 wrote:
       | I was searching for Franko and sure enough - it's there.
       | 
       | My friend's mom forbade him from playing it because it was too
       | violent. Little did she know he had a few way more risky
       | positions on that PC.
        
       | mirekrusin wrote:
       | robbo was awesome
        
         | zepesm wrote:
         | actually, story behind C64 Robbo conversion is quite funny :)
        
       | sanqui wrote:
       | 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!
        
         | zepesm wrote:
         | 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 :)
        
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