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I did some research and it seems that "comes back" and "returns" are perfectly synonymous, "returns" a little more formal. By the way, the first version of the game is the PC version, and since I had already made "Tutankham Returns", for Bagman I wanted a slightly different title and so I opted for "Comes Back". In any case, that's the title of the game and I certainly can't change it now, also because in several years no one has ever complained that the title wasn't "correct".

@@lucacarminati2095 no, comes back sounds silly as a title, sounds like broken English, I am a native speaker and can tell you for certain it sounds like broken English. Returns sounds far far better and more correct, like Donkey Kong Country Returns, you certainly wouldn't use "comes back" as a title

I candidly admit my ignorance on the terms "port" and "conversion", now I know, thanks. For the rest, probably everyone who knows Dig Dug knows that it is an arcade game, but not everyone knows Dig Dug, young people certainly don't. And just for those who don't know, I want to point out that this is a conversion of an existing game and not a game created by me.

@@lucacarminati2095 well it's pretty obvious, port means port code, what you have made is a conversion as everything was made from scratch and nothing was ported

Forse ti è sfuggito che sono l'autore del gioco. Se partecipassi alla sfida, sarei troppo avvantaggiato, conoscendo il gioco nel dettaglio. Comunque, grazie di apprezzare il mio lavoro. 😉

Glad you appreciate. 😁

Well, now you know! 😉

I'm glad you appreciate it, thank you.

Happy to hear it.

Just to be precise, this is not the arcade version but "Tutankham Returns", a PC version I made in 2020 with completely new levels.

@@lucacarminati2095 You MADE that game?? You have mad skills my friend, I'd love to understand coding/programming to that extent. I'm still wading in the Arduino kiddie pool just getting on my feet with C programming. Thanks again for the gameplay and for sharing your Tutankham project with us, Semper Fidelis!

Ciao. Trovi la mia mail nei crediti di qualunque mio gioco.

Do you mean musical notes?

@@lucacarminati2095 yeah just asking.

If you want, write to me at the email address you find in the game credits. I tell you that I transcribed the notes from this video th-cam.com/video/P0_XuS6Q-So/w-d-xo.html.

@@lucacarminati2095 the notes in video are wrong geez... alright I'll send you an email

I'm glad you noticed. 😉

Ciao Sam, bene, ti ringrazio.

Thank you. I hope you won't be disappointed. 😉

Simply press the keyboard keys corresponding to the letters you want to enter, or use the up/down cursor keys to select a letter and press Ctrl to enter it. You can also press the BackSpace key or the left cursor key to delete the last letter you entered. Maybe download the latest version of the game.

@@lucacarminati2095 Thanks... I needed that.

Thanks for appreciating!

Di certo non riparto completamente da zero. Riutilizzo routine già programmate in precedenza, quando possibile (ad esempio il multiplexer per avere più di 8 sprite contemporaneamente sullo schermo, oppure la gestione delle collisioni fra oggetti o fra oggetti e lo sfondo). Per quanto riguarda il gameplay in sé però, per buona parte va comunque riprogrammato, perché ogni gioco ha le sue diverse caratteristiche.

@@lucacarminati2095 complimenti davvero, sarebbe bello se ci fosse una scuola per imparare questa programmazione, purtroppo partire da zero penso sia un po un utopia.

Una scuola non c'è, però al giorno d'oggi in rete si trovano parecchi tutorial. Ovviamente se sei completamente a digiuno di programmazione in generale, allora sarebbe davvero complicato. In ogni modo, grazie di apprezzare il mio lavoro. 😉

Happy you like it! ;)

No sorry, for pc only.

Nice done game@@lucacarminati2095

Thank you!

Non sono sicuro che con i limiti del C64 si riesca a far meglio della versione esistente, però chissà...

Thank you! Your compliments make me really happy!

Pleased you appreciate, thanks!

Grazie a te per la disponibilità, nonostante tutto. 👍👍👍

Thank you so much!

Grazie mille!

I hope the game will be appreciated, thanks. Stefano is my brother.

@@lucacarminati2095 I certainly do. Congratulations on the release and thanks.

I'm very pleased you appreciate it, thank you very much! 😉

you surely never played the Colecovision version, dude. Or you played but were a lil' distracted ^_^

@@AIex_Kidd Except I did.

Dig Dug (2024) is a port of the arcade version with the original levels (15 levels of which the last 4 are repeated until reaching level 256, i.e. the kill screen), while in Dig Dug Revival (2023) the levels are generated procedurally (random) and are therefore different from each other and from game to game. And thank you for appreciating my work! 😉

Honestly, I don't know either. It seems to me that the CPU used was good enough. I recently made a version of Dig Dug Revival for C64 which has a less powerful CPU than the arcade and yet the game runs perfectly smoothly.

@@lucacarminati2095 It sure was good enough, it handled Galaga

Yep!@@125scratch2

Hi Carlos, I'm fine and I hope it's the same for you. I'm glad you follow me and appreciate my work. I also wish you and your family a very happy Christmas and a prosperous 2024! 👍🍾☃

The game is played via the VICE emulator which has the rasterline effect among its options. 😉

@@lucacarminati2095Thank you very much <3

I won't deny that Bagman was the main inspiration for this game. 😉

Sì, in effetti me lo avevi già chiesto, ma dubito che in futuro realizzerò ancora giochi per PC, visto lo scarso interesse (dimostrato dalla quantità di download ma soprattutto dal risicato numero di donazioni). I giochi che realizzo per C64 mi danno molta più soddisfazione

Già! 😉

Ciao, scrivimi pure all'indirizzo email che trovi nei crediti del gioco. A presto...

Grazie Alex! Spero proprio che questo video possa servire per capire meglio le dinamiche del gioco e quanto ha da offrire.

👍👍👍

Considering the lack of interest around my PC games (1200 downloads and $9 in donations for Pac-Mazing in 3 years), it will be unlikely that I will make more games like this in the future. The ones I make for C64 undoubtedly give me much more satisfaction.

Thanks for the advice, I'll take it into consideration

@@lucacarminati2095 Well, I bet you don't get much traction here, and you may on other platforms, because in this space, there is little competition. It will cost you time, nothing else. If you need help, I can archive all your videos and provide them to you. I think you have an email address somewhere on your website.

On which sites do you recommend I publish my videos?

@@lucacarminati2095 TH-cam might remove this post, so let me know if you see it. Rumble is the most popular, then Odysee, then BitChute.

Open this thread up. See how it says there are 5 replies, and if your'e FORTUNATE you can see this one? I can't name names. If I do, you will never see what I wrote, and I'm not removing anything.

Oh, I see I'm blind and/or stupid.

@@fuzzywzhe Ok, you answered yourself 😉

I probably won't be making any more PC games since they are much less popular than the ones I've been making for the C64 lately

The Mac version of the game is now available. Unfortunately, however, I have no way of verifying whether it works correctly. Download the game and let me know.

@@lucacarminati2095 I've downloaded it, but it doesn't seem to run. When I try to open 'HERO' it just opens the Text Editor.

@rminati2095 I've downloaded it, but when I try to open it (the HERO file), it opens the Text Editor. I downloaded the Mac ARM version (I have a Mac Studio M1 Max). The same happens with the x64 version by the way (just tried).

I'm sorry but as I said I have no way of verifying how the game works on Mac, and moreover I know nothing about this platform. A few days ago I published the Mac version of RandomPac and I was told that it works correctly (at least with Intel processor). Could you try downloading RandomPac and see if that also gives you the same problem? Thank you.

The video is recorded with VICE set to NTSC but the game runs on both PAL and NTSC

@@lucacarminati2095oh ok

I'm glad you said that, thanks.

Thank you so much!

Thank you. I think with a little more practice you can do better.

I'm really pleased, thank you!

Grazie a te per l'apprezzamento. Non farei nulla di tutto ciò se oggi non ci fossero persone come te che sanno apprezzare quanto di buono si può ancora fare con questa stupenda macchina

Yes, I'm aware of these small differences which I had to give up for technical reasons

Correction: regarding the fact that thin walls can be penetrated with the pump in the arcade version, I personally have always considered it a defect and therefore I felt it necessary to correct it in my PC and C64 versions