Get Lamp Has Arrived

September 1, 2010September 5, 2010Retrocosm Leave a comment

I’m pleased to say my copy of Get Lamp has arrived this morning and I’m very much looking forward to watching it. Whilst I would imagine it will concentrate mainly on games created on the other side of the pond it would be nice to see a mention of Level 9. Snowball and the adventures of Kim Kimberly remain my fondest memories of solo text adventuring, dumpy droids, cyladders and toroidal walkways anyone?

Arfle barfle gloop?

Level 9 Memorial

(Update)

I decided I really would like to play Snowball again so I set about trying to find a suitable emulator for the Commodore 64 and the software. After much searching, many broken links and incompatible formats I ended up opting for the Spectrum emulator ZXSP for OS X and an SNA version of Snowball. Works very nicely, I took some screenshots:-

Commodore Vic 20 Accessories Brochure

July 19, 2010August 13, 2013Retrocosm Leave a comment

Here are some more scans of some further promotional literature I found amongst my recent Vic 20 purchases. There are a couple of items shown that I never knew existed, probably just as well as I’d have lusted after them but would never have been able to afford them, especially the memory expansion board.

Commodore Vic 20 Brochure And Price List

July 19, 2010August 13, 2013Retrocosm Leave a comment

Well I’ve finally managed to sort through all the items I recently ordered from Ebay including a couple of Vic 20’s, a couple of Datasettes and a whole load of cartridges, cassette games, paddles and joysticks.

Also included in one of the boxes which I thought might be of interest to some was an original Commodore UK price list from October 1982 and a brochure and other promotional literature. You have to love the fact that the floppy drive cost more than the computer. I have therefore scanned these items and included them below. If anyone has any concerns regarding copyright infringement please contact me and I’ll remove images immediately.