Random questions - assistance greatly appreciated

[WhoShotMrWhite]

Couple of random questions so decided to bundle them here...

1. Anyone from here in the sunny North West, specifically Liverpool area?
2. Eprom burners, anyone got one and is there any point in getting a burnt 37.350 over an original? also, any legality issues in wanting, buying one?
3. 1541 ultimates, any good? and just how many games could you fit on a C64 disk back in the day, I seem to remember my geeky mate having disks with 3-5 titles on, whereas a tape could only obviously handle one per side (unless you used the counter and seperated em', not ideal)
4. Any demogroups out there still making stuff for the wee A500/A1200 (stock, not mad ninja powered models)
5. As per point 1, if you are, anyone recall the joyeth Willie Wonka like place that was Bits and Bytes in town? - swear that place was HEAVEN!!!

 

[moijk]

3. The 1541 Ultimate and Chamelon 64 is the two best for their purpose on the c64.

You could fit 144 files totalling about 166 kB each side of a 5.25" disk using the 1541. So if the 144 files were small games, that would be the definitive limit.

You could on start the cassette with a load menu which let you choose which game to load, and then it just seeked until it came across the game you were looking for. which would of course take quite a long time for the last on the cassette.

 

[Puni/Void]

Hi there,

I'd like to have a go at question number 4.

Good news! There are still groups making various kinds of productions for less powerful Amiga's.

A group called Retro released a music-disk this month. It works fine on my unexpanded Amiga 1200 and it should work properly on an Amiga 500 with 1MB of RAM as well.

Here's a link for you: ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/pmc/Retro/Demos/RETROspective/h0ffmans_RETROspective.exe

It's a nice little production. I enjoyed it.

Retro released four prods in 2010. Check it out here.

Another group is Moods Plateau from Germany. They released three (!) OCS/ECS intros in 2011. The latest prod is Sero from the TRSAC party in Denmark. Link: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=57994
Their productions have a unique design in my opinion. Well worth checking out.

A group I'm a member of, namely Void, also focuses on stuff for low-end machines. We haven't been very active lately, but our last production (a music-disk) works on a standard Amiga 1200. You can find it here. A sequel is in the making, but it will be released under a different label (Tussejuv Rangers).

Please do also check groups like Paradise (hi Rebb!), Up Rough!, Zymosis (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=56646), Disaster Area, Depth and more. If my memory is correct, you'll find several prods from these groups for low-end machines.

Hope this was of some help.

 

[rkauer]

2. No one will stop you to download an image and burn it yourself for private use, but there's no sense in using 37.350, go right to 3.1 (40.63). But you can't buy it from this site, as it will be a warez.

3. Both are awesome for C64. For C128 only the 1541U will do.

4. None, I'm afraid. [EDIT] @Puni/Void: AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

 

[Puni/Void]

Thanks, Rkauer.