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That's really impressive graphics given it's still the same engine underneath the hood. Thanks so much for showing this!!! ❤

Hey there! ShadowThief author here! Randomly stumbled on this video; brought me all the feels. Thanks for the retro love. Of course I was always ambitious about my “trilogy” of content, but technology moves fast. (And yes, my film and effects career moved fast too.) By the time I got back to programming for the Palm, we had much cooler devices and I eventually spent another year on another Palm game, right before the Palm platform itself went away. You can Google EDGE: Extreme Dungeon Game Experience and see what ShadowThief essentially evolved into. Not as 1-bit nostalgic, perhaps, but enough to win Game of the Year the last year Palm had such an award. (And a lot of fun to play, especially on the Tapwave Zodiac.) I’d also hoped for future adventures and a level editor there, but alas… Palms were quickly gone and the era of the iPhone began soon after. Anyway, great video. I did notice one strategy you didn’t employ. You can also press the down button at any time to “kneel.” When archers shoot at you, you can either jump or kneel and avoid some of the arrows hitting you. Not a big deal with proper potion management, but might avoid a trip or two to Hel. ;-) Thanks again for the trip down memory lane! Cheers! z

So this is a classic GET IN THE DUNGEON and COLLECT THE TREASURE, and finally KILL THE WOOZLE game. :3 Love it!

this is the most interesting thing ive seen today this is crazy cool

This is a truly admirable effort for a portable classic computer!

Gosh I remember typing this game into my TI back in the day and really enjoying it. There was a certain charm to these games at a time when personal computers were still exciting and interesting, each with its own quirks and features, something that has sadly been lost now...

Very cool! (Subliminal Message: More Castle Dain Please!)

The routine you put in for randomization is a nice workaround.

Good stuff Frank!

Omg, I just saw this. I'm the author Frank Elsesser. Was sooo great to see this. Thanks for the memories!

Great Video! I have a palm pilot Zire 71 around here somewhere lol. I may dust it off, and try this. Thanks.

Castle Dain is GREAT fun! I cherish my physical copy.

This is Awesome! I LOVED this magazine and its games as a kid. Unfortunately, my parents did not have much money, and I went a whole year without any way to save my programs. If the electricity went out or the computer was accidentally turned off, EVERYTHING WAS LOST! The 10 year old version of me is still screaming in horror remembering this. I was so happy when I got a cassette tape drive for my TI-99/4A on my 11th birthday. It is crazy how computers have changed.

I've waited 40 years to see this game. As a kid I loved COMPUTE! magazine.

I found Castle Dain to be SUPER enjoyable. From the physical ziploc packaging to the game itself. Thank you!

Wow, Frank, super cool and very authentic. Wait a minute, I recognize one of those names. 😄

Have you ever looked at doing a port for modern Windows? I would gladly pay for that.

Wait a sec, you're really a fan of Wizardry 4?? I remember when it came out the idea of playing the bad guy sounded intriguing. Since then I've amused myself by reading walkthroughs by people much more masochistic than myself. 😅 Funny that Roe R Adams III helped designed both Ultima 3, probably one of the most accessible classic CRPGs ever and Wizardry 4. Hats off to you tho, you're in a totally different league! By the way, did you ever get to any of the endings?

Looks awesome, love the artwork and overall design! This reminds me of the packaging style for Copts and Robbers as well as many other games of the era. Great job in seeing this through to completion! 👏👌

That is so cool Frank

I had one back in 88 and loved it bought it of a mate for £120 and made a few games on it

well done!

Fantastic! Thank you so much for creating this!

This looks amazing! I wish I had known to follow your development progress. Will be checking your dev playlist ASAP.

Awesome! Just Awesome. Well done 👍

Really cool hack! If you could have added the ability to plug in a keyboard and other C-64 peripherals, it could be used as a real C-64 or as a handheld unit. Still, you did an amazing job! Well done!!!

I loved Ultima III. After we played it to death we would go into the game and rewrite the maps and make our own world... Great times.

Brilliant Video!

Update: I removed the ROM 5X chip and the conflict went away. I have no idea how to resolve this though. Thanks.

Hey there, fantastic video as always, saved me lots of time! I received Mockingboard 4C+ for Christmas and already had the 5X ROM Chip installed, finally got motivated to do this so I can play Nox Archaist, Lord of Storms DLC with Mockingboard support. As an aside, there is supposed to be a way to modify the 5X ROM so the accelerator is disabled by default. But for now, the Tab-Control trick is super handy to know. So I am writing this in particular to let you know I am seeing the same conflict when playing Nox. I am not manually enabling the Mockingboard. Rather, after the Mockingboard has been automatically detected and enabled by Nox, I am getting the rolling "C4F4-" conflict you show around 6 minutes in. So it's definitely not your IIC+, not sure if it's something special with the 5X ROM and the Mockingboard? I am going to email Ian about it and ask if he has any ideas. I'll reference your video and let you know. Thanks again, love your videos!!

I remember this game, and the Compute magazine it came in. I tried programming it, but it was excessively difficult to debug and I finally lost interest. My friend however managed to finish it so I did get to see it in the finished form back in the day. Thanks for the video!

I was there too! Nice video!

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I appreciate the link and the nicely detailed explainer of getting the covers made, thanks! I've been looking for something like this for a few years now.

This is quite impressive for such a (then) young author! It's about on a par with Mystery House I guess. Hey I'm impressed that you were able to capture a color image from a green monochrome monitor for your video's cover image :o)

Thanks for sharing.

I like your channel. Very polished editing and exactly what I look for on TH-cam. Do you ever call in to BBS on your Apple computers? There are still quite a few out there. You can even use a modern computer via SyncTerm

Some Great ideas! -Mark.

Wow hands down I like that idea very nice. I am trying to get me one of those football 1977 games. My teenage years

That is the greatest thing I've ever seen!! WOW. 👍I'm just blown away, I want to come over!! lol. You have a museum!! The "Burger King" games were a nice added touch, I don't remember those. Really man, that is the coolest. well done