The entertainmemt for the kids of the 80's.

for some reason, the version of Phoenix I like more is the Atari 2600 one, Arcade and C64 seems somehow slower and clunky.

So, why only compare these 2 versions? - I get that this C16/Plus4 version is fairly new and it does look absolutely stunning. ❤ - But if you're going to make a comparison video, you might as well bring as many ports into the fold as you can find, right? - On the ZX Spectrum it is called "Pheenix" and the C64 version is called "Eagle Empire". - The Amstrad CPC's is just called "Phoenix" and the Amiga version is called "Mega Phoenix". - And those are just the ones I can recall off the top of my head. I bet there is a whole slew of ports for many of the other Retro's out there... like BBC Micro, ATARI, NES, SNES, Sega, and possibly some of the Sony Playstations... yes, many of the later platforms have also gotten remakes of quite a few of the old classics.

3:57 I can still remember the first time I saw/played this game back in 1981. It was in Larkins wee shop at the bottom of the street in Letterkenny (county Donegal, Ireland). I thought it was incredibly futuristic at the time Ha ha! ....the strange thing is that I'm only, after all these years, realizing that the music tis the Classical Guitar piece "Romance"! EDIT My favourite game of that period was "Scramble"!

Portage sympathique

Φοβερό παιχνίδι, το έπαιζα στα ηλεκτρονικά και το ήθελα σπίτι. Πολύ καλή μεταφορά στον πλας.

Animo para los 1000. Ahí te sigo y recomiendo, si querés mira lo que hago. Saludos y éxitos.

Great video George :) I agree with your reasons, especially where simplicity meets the beauty :) Cheers!

I wouldn’t call the Amiga mini a replica. It is an emulator in Linux.

Seeing stunt car racer being played on a plus 4 at the start just melted my brain a little.... You sir have gained yourself a subscriber. I was one of the lucky ones who managed to get a job in an independent computer game shop in the UK, originally on Saturdays from school selling computer game's on tapes for speccy,C64, BBC/accorn , msx etc. Later for the 1st two years after leaving school full time. Those machines we owned back in the day are the things of nostalgia, & still have a place in my life today.👍👍

Thank you! It is a really great summary! Maybe I can add one more, though partially you covereed it. With the new cross-tools on PC I can create much more magnificient titles I could ever imagine, just think about the converted HFLI gfx and the editors (Plus4emu's converter and latr some more let us create). That kind of high quality gfx was unimaginable in the 80s. (eg. Dreamtime)

I’d say reason 2 was valid 15 to 20 years ago. Today some of those retro machines cost more than they used to 30 or 40 years ago.

That was absolutely perfect George. Excellent work. :)

Keep up the great work

i want that black Monitor for the cbm 264 series .....

True

Here are another two reasons George. When you switch the computer on it was ready for input. No waiting for an OS to start up. Also there was usually only one screen size you had to design the game or application for.

Very nice 🎉

Can you convert this for Commodore 128? I really want to run this on my 128!!!

Not a bad attempt for the Plus/4. After the success of the PET in business, Commodore were obsessed with computers for business, even the Commodore 64 was initially sold for business, but it had excellent gaming capabilities and sound making it a hit. The Commodore Plus/4 was another failed business attempt, but inferior to the C64 for gaming a few years later, unsurprisingly it flopped, but the worst was the Commodore 16 they spent a fortune advertising, only 16K in 1984 with inferior hardware, terrible. Later was the Commodore 128, but the vast majority of people barely used anything except 64 mode and it was rarely used for business. The Amiga saved Commodore, sadly it was all downhill again after that.

Amazing work 🎉

The result is Beautiful! It's pronounced Lissazhou.

Well done!

Love it!!

So the playback of the rendered screenshots is going to read a file from disk and replace every pixel on the screen? It seems like that would be too slow. I'm just trying to clarify the details of how it works.

How does the playback work? Page flipping? Draw, erase, draw? How can it draw that many points that quickly? Is it drawing points or lines? I'll look at the other video.

I did such graphics with basic, too on the ST. Made a simple backface-culling, that was not fully correct, but almoust...long ago.

Great video, I'm waiting for further lists of games from various systems played on CRT

Ciao, i loved Great Gianna Sisters back then in the early 1990's on my Amiga Computer.. many greetings from brunswick in germany and please stay safe 🙃

Great video. Love the original hardware. I had this on my c16. A great game. Runs faster than my old version used to on the c16.

Fascinating

Excellent! I like that idea for a video. Great job

A great classic my friend

Very nice design

on this one (to the opposite pf Arkanoid) the music is rather distracting and annoying than enjoyable

Obviously putting the fantastic Arkanoid intro music as base soundtrack was the thing to do. Had to wait 35 years for that 😅

it could also work on the c64 with the super expander cart as well

The slowdown is a bit odd. The plus 4 is using basically the same CPU as the arcade cabinet and at a higher clock speed (1.76mhz), though presumably it has to get involved with the graphics while the arcade cabinet had the vector graphics unit.

Why do they not have a ZX [space] ./ control scheme? It would mimic the arcade control panel fairly well. The monochrome version should be able to run in a higher resolution and better emulate the vector graphics.

Beautiful! the selected music is so calming and fits very well to the scene. It was a nice, relaxed watch. Thank you!

the best video on youtube😊

Thank you for such a detailed explanation what happens in the code. I really enjoyed your presentation ! :-) BTW I noticed two issue in the code I originally uploaded: 1) I made the mistake in the code I go first to GRAPHIC mode, then setting the colors. This is a wrong sequence from me. Your SCNCLR required because I cleared the screen with with the default colors, not the new ones. I dunno why I did not detect this... So setting first the colors, then giving the GRAPHIC1,1 command will make the SCNCLR command (you rightfully added) unnecessary. --> Even smaller code 🙂 2) I also promised a better looking star. Just made it. Not perfect, but a little better. 60 DRAW1,160,9 TO 166,23 TO 151,14 TO 169,14 TO 153,23 TO 160,9 Possible improvements: 3) I really like the dotted look of the pinetree, but if anyone wish to create more dense tree with more dots (and does not mind the slower drawing) then the STEP number need to be decreased to 0.05 or even less. It will make the drawing more dense, but will be much slower. Or can make is faster changing the STEP from 0.1 to 0.2. 4) If we would make this tree in Graphic3 mode, the horizontal resolution would drop to 160 pixels, and it requires the recalculation of the horizontal pixels. BUT if you draw the tree and the star with Color 3 (Draw3,...) after you finished the drawing, you can do a simple palette animation I mean changing the Color3 afterwards with FOR cycles, it will change the color of the full tree. (or the tree could be drawn with green Color1, and draw only the star with Color 3, and you can color cycle only the star) Thank you for the great show!

Nice! Never used graphics in a C64 before as its BASIC was so damned primitive so I've just loaded BASIC 3.5 into my Ultimate 64 and tried it. Here it is in BBC BASIC minus the star: 10MODE 1:VDU 19,3,2;0;0;0; 20FOR I=0 TO 140 STEP 0.1 30PLOT 69,(I*COS(I)+320)*2,900+(I*(SIN(I)*0.4-2)*2) 40NEXT I BBC screen is 1279X1023 and the origin starts top left so had to change the formula bit to make it fit the screen more.

Neat! 👍

Nice. (But maybe 8 month too early (or 4 month too late))

Very cool 🎉

Nice code :) ... and it's great to see Plus/4 in action :) Cheers!

Interesting Sokoban-like game but with several unique twists and very attractive colors and patterns. I was looking through an old Commodore User issue from 1986 and saw that this game got a 9 in review score and had to check if there was a video of it. Thanks!

I had this game on cartridge for the plus 4. Thanks for sharing this, good memories

It's a lot slower than the original Commodore 64 version.