Great work, Perifractic! As a software developer, I do appreciate the geeky programming insights into these games. I had assumed there was some sort of procedural generation going on inside the code.
My LFP is still alive here in 2020. I booted my C64 up a few months ago to check on him. One thing that always bugged me as a kid was that he would never watch the TV. Thanks for this video and many others!
Puppyfractic with the whistle was so cute! The David Crane era of Activision always made amazing games back in the day for the Atari 2600 and also the Commodore 64 computer.
Sadly I only had the cassette version of Little Compter People so no game saves and reduced content. Didn't stop me having the computer turned on for days to see what happens to the LCPerson with the transformer red hot and ready for melting.
I think it was Zzap!64 that printed a program that could reset the LCP. It was in BASIC so easily reverse engineered. I created an "LCP Hotel" that could save LCP data and so house many different LCPs. From memory, the data was stored on Cyl 1, Track 4.
My LCP was called Otis. I played the game for quite a long time, but when I sold my C64 I gave the disk to someone. I wonder what happened to him. A friend of the family asked about it a couple of years ago, as she remembered me playing it and thought it was great.
I remember there was a 3rd party program called "Little Computer Evictor". You clould clean up the house-on-a-disk and start over even when your LCP had met an ahum unfortunate accident.... Think I still have it somewhere in my collection... never had the neverve to try it out :-D
LCP = Little Computer Pooch 💖 Interesting to know about the unique code ... without knowing this, I would have guessed there was some unique ID inside the C=64 that could be accessed, or maybe even the date/time when the game was first run - or prompt the user to enter date, time, or their birthdate, etc - use those values to seed the RNG and save number to disk for use from then on. Writing a unique number to disk when the disk is created is just so over engineered it's wonderful ... from a time when companies would go the extra mile to make things more magical. And the Free LCP Disk Rescue service is awesome. Well done Activision !
Wow! I well remember the hubub around LCP when they came out. The mazagines I subscribed to had feature articles and even school mates were excited about it as it seemed something revolutionary (at the time...) Cheers once again for the memories Christian!
Looks like you got that heart you deserved was also wondering what your avatar was as well. I always call it a user image but I keep forgetting what to call it. Thanks for accidentally straightening that out for me.
One of the best games ever. Loved it. Only had the tape version. Did not realise the disk version had more content. Still I was more than happy with my version :). Great Vid as always.
I was about to say the same thing! He used the polynomial counter because it could be reversed: You could feed it the number it had just spit out and it would then return the number from the previous seed. The layout of each screen for Pitfall was stored in one or two bytes, with each bit representing some aspect of the screen's arrangement. For example, treasure/no treasure, vine/no vine, pit/no pit, scorpion/no scorpion, logs/no logs etc. If you were above ground going to the right would advance the counter by one and then to go the other direction the counter would be fed the current number to get the previous one, etc. If you were below ground, this would happen 3 times (or was it 5?) for each screen so that going underground would move you along more than one screen. Using this trick he was able to squeeze over 200 screens onto a 4k cartridge. Genius! He talks about it in this video: th-cam.com/video/6JGHgohIztY/w-d-xo.html
@@JustWasted3HoursHere I remember mapping the circular world that was *Pitfall!* -- including all the tunnel shortcuts -- so I could find the optimal path for the most treasure within the time limit. I had no idea it was algorithmic. I'll have to dig up my old PostScript map/program and implement "polynomial counters" just for fun!
Another fantastic episode, Perifractic. I really like the episodes that delve into the inner working of games. These are both really interesting and informative.
@3:00 you connected a strange thought in my head -- ... did you know they made Star Wars Tamagotchis? -- I had the Rancor one in middle school. -- It's that monster that Jabba tries to feed Luke to. -- You could do all the regular stuff with it, but the animations were much more colorful. -- for example, when you went to feed it, you could do choose between pig men, and Twi'lek "dancer" girls. Both of which were very entertaining to watch. -- Oh, and at the start, when you very first set it up, there was a little intro animation where it was dropped off via a spaceship onto the planet for you!
My “kids”, now 39 and 45, loved Little Computer People on our Atari 1040ST. It was the cleverest piece of software I had ever seen. Heck, I even liked to go spends hour with him.
Took delivery of my own C64 only yesterday, and now after watching that I can't wait to find Little computer people to download and play. I had a rubber key Spectrum growing up but unfortunately this game passed me by and never got to play it. Nice one PF.
I remember seeing this on a market stall - yes, they still sold computer games back then - alongside Arctic Fox, and the Empire Strikes Back. My dad bought Arctic Fox for himself, as though I'd never play it!! He didn't like the sound of Little Computer People, and it might be because of the price.
I only played LCP once or twice...but I had no idea that every LCP person was indiginous to each specific Activision 5 1/4" Diskette. Fantastic info! Quite a feat for the day... I'm 49 (soon to be 50!..Ouch!) and really enjoying your videos and TH-cam! channel. David Crane was a C64 God back in the 80's.... I get a lot of great and interesting info from your channel among others. Great job Perifractic & Puppyfractic....! :o) Tony K. , Melbourne, Florida.
They really did push the limits of computers back then. Great video, really interesting. My fav games of all time we’re probably Atic Atac on ZX Spectrum and Uridium\Revs on C64.
I let it run for days without feeding it *trying* to kill it, but it would just get sick and stay that way. And yes, in Roller Coaster Tycoon I would pick up park guests and drop them into the water to drown, or put them on a coaster then remove part of the track etc. Didn't everybody do that?
Yes I'll admit it, as a kid of around 5 or 6, I thought there was an actually real person in the computer you have to look after lol, got to love those innocent days when we don't know our arse from our elbow lol.
I remember buying this game at KMART back then, and it would not work. Its strange how SOME of the store bought software for the commodore 64 would not work.
With the advancements in AI, I think it would be kind of fun to have something novel like this again, maybe a modern remake that you can truly interact with your little computer person.
I honestly had no idea this game existed, but then again, I was a '90s kid and missed out on all the coolest stuff of the '80s! Well, I didn't miss out on the Turtles, thankfully! :)
This episode will self destruct in 5..4..3..2..1...🧨 Great episode! I grew up on the C64 but never heard of the Little Computer People, wish I would have.
Love these little behind the scenes peeks into how & why a game is the way it is. When I was a kid, this sort of stuff was just mind-blowing. By the way, Puppyfractic is the best co-host ever! Sorry, Ladyfractic. Actually, she's pretty good too.
Came to see this video because of the current-day version of LCP - The Prepper.... lol I've always wanted to program a newer version of LCP that took "plug-ins", pieces of code that would add new actions... But alas I never got around to it... Love your idea of them saving the data in the toilet, but isn't the dog a sprite too?
So the disk duplicators were based on 1541? It would be great to see a story on one of the retrocomputing channels about those machines. Even greater if one of them still exists.
I lost my copy of LCP but I did find copy on line,Also I did find in my collection Little computer people Hotel so I can change my person. It is cool on how each person is different some like to play games more than others or just love to play the piano. thanks for the memories but I am going to buy the game again.
I remember a friend of mine had this game, and it drove him nuts trying to keep his little guy alive, so much so his mother took the game away from him. It's a cool game, but I'm kind of glad I never got into this one, and I really did not get into SIM type games till SIMCity.
@@RetroRecipes Here's a couple of modern ones. I knew I've seen some older ones back in the late 90's/early 2000s but I can't quite remember: th-cam.com/video/I9kuT1JikOo/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/MrtY5Eq0R4k/w-d-xo.html
puppy fractic a.k.a "the dog whistler" =) this episode was really intersting...didn't know that this game was unique on each release, i recall my c64 lcp had a cap on his head =)
Puppyfractic and her whistle cracks me up big time haha and that music went so well with it as well. Still need a bit of work with your dad jokes, am kidding ofc would be wrong not to do them. Great video as always guys, keep up the great work and roll on the next video. Take care 🙂
Nice intro with PF!!, (and outro) - and thanks for the video - i dont get ANY notfications from TH-cam anymore, all my subscriptions gone! - dont know what happened!? but i will popin "manually" now and then, Levi&Dex
That makes complete sense! That's why for example Windows 10 doesn't like DOS based software, there's a little person inside that hates DOS software and games and refuse to allow me to run them. BRB I need to know how legal it is to kill that person in my PC.
The "sims people" seem so fragile against an LCP .... I recall that to "accidentally" kill your LCP took forever - whilst a "sim" just has to not use a phone for a day and they are unhappy and leave food all over the place..
With the cassette version if you had an Action Replay cartridge back in the day you could of freezed the game , turned off your C64 while you went to school then load it back in when you got home and carried on were you left off.
Absolutely awesome job with this one, brings back great memories! I had a LCP named ROY, Him writing letters to you was probably the coolest most endearing thing! if I didn't feed him or interact he would get sad and mope around, and it would literally make you feel sad for the little fella. I don't know that he ever died, maybe when he turned green and stayed in bed people considered that to be dead? It seems to me that once he got sick there was no recovery, like he was too sad to eat. It seems there was a way to start over, as I remember setting the time and him coming in the front door.... not sure how you reset but I was able to somehow The 'game' was entertaining for quite a while, trying to interact with him, finding new things to command him to do. It did eventually get old watching him after hours of interaction, but somehow it never really lost its charm. I could load him up today and still be entertained for a while by him roaming around his house doing little computer people stuff
I had the cassette version on the C64 and didn't really get the buzz that magazines like ZZap64 and the like were giving it. I guess the disk version was the one to get...
I believe the dog would disappear. It turns out that the version I was using for the screen recording was the tape version even though it was from a .D64 file, so my dog stayed on screen. (I inserted the disk drive close-ups later to tell the full story.) #Editing #ArtisticLicense
Great work, Perifractic! As a software developer, I do appreciate the geeky programming insights into these games. I had assumed there was some sort of procedural generation going on inside the code.
I have little Fractic people (and doggies) living inside my computer.. they visit me regularly and talk about the good old days of Commodore...
My LFP is still alive here in 2020. I booted my C64 up a few months ago to check on him. One thing that always bugged me as a kid was that he would never watch the TV. Thanks for this video and many others!
Puppyfractic with the whistle was so cute! The David Crane era of Activision always made amazing games back in the day for the Atari 2600 and also the Commodore 64 computer.
David Crane is responsible for more lost hours of my younger years than anyone else. The man is a legend and I'd love to me him one day.
Little Computer People, the ancestor of everything from virtual pets to the Sims ^^
Sadly I only had the cassette version of Little Compter People so no game saves and reduced content. Didn't stop me having the computer turned on for days to see what happens to the LCPerson with the transformer red hot and ready for melting.
I think it was Zzap!64 that printed a program that could reset the LCP. It was in BASIC so easily reverse engineered. I created an "LCP Hotel" that could save LCP data and so house many different LCPs. From memory, the data was stored on Cyl 1, Track 4.
Wow that's cool!
Puppyfractic with that whistle gets me every time... And I think an EP should be released of her busting out a tune.
I love this micro-series of stories delving into the how and why of game design! Thank you, thank you!
Puppyfractic really needs to find a new co-host. One that appreciate whistles more maybe and doesn't constantly try to steal the spotlight.
I like the opening song-it’s got some major Kraftwerk vibes!
My LCP was called Otis. I played the game for quite a long time, but when I sold my C64 I gave the disk to someone. I wonder what happened to him.
A friend of the family asked about it a couple of years ago, as she remembered me playing it and thought it was great.
Peri, of course little people live in every computer! You're one of them. We're all watching you on our computers.
Don't forget phones tablets and other devices but they are all computers nowadays mostly.
I remember there was a 3rd party program called "Little Computer Evictor".
You clould clean up the house-on-a-disk and start over even when your LCP had met an ahum unfortunate accident....
Think I still have it somewhere in my collection... never had the neverve to try it out :-D
That's cool, let me know if you find it.
@@RetroRecipes Agreed that would be good... :-)
I have it as an emulator file if you would like that.
@@tim_nj_devil176 Yes please! Can you share a Google Drive link or such-like?
@@RetroRecipes I just emailed them to you.
LCP = Little Computer Pooch 💖
Interesting to know about the unique code ... without knowing this, I would have guessed there was some unique ID inside the C=64 that could be accessed, or maybe even the date/time when the game was first run - or prompt the user to enter date, time, or their birthdate, etc - use those values to seed the RNG and save number to disk for use from then on. Writing a unique number to disk when the disk is created is just so over engineered it's wonderful ... from a time when companies would go the extra mile to make things more magical. And the Free LCP Disk Rescue service is awesome. Well done Activision !
Wow! I well remember the hubub around LCP when they came out. The mazagines I subscribed to had feature articles and even school mates were excited about it as it seemed something revolutionary (at the time...) Cheers once again for the memories Christian!
This channel is adding a new wrinkle to my brain! So many games I didn't know I'd just about remembered!!!
My avatar is from LCP! Got this little guy from the C64 version of the game :)
Looks like you got that heart you deserved was also wondering what your avatar was as well. I always call it a user image but I keep forgetting what to call it.
Thanks for accidentally straightening that out for me.
One of the best games ever. Loved it. Only had the tape version. Did not realise the disk version had more content. Still I was more than happy with my version :). Great Vid as always.
David loved his polynomial counters. It was how he did Pitfall.
I was about to say the same thing! He used the polynomial counter because it could be reversed: You could feed it the number it had just spit out and it would then return the number from the previous seed. The layout of each screen for Pitfall was stored in one or two bytes, with each bit representing some aspect of the screen's arrangement. For example, treasure/no treasure, vine/no vine, pit/no pit, scorpion/no scorpion, logs/no logs etc. If you were above ground going to the right would advance the counter by one and then to go the other direction the counter would be fed the current number to get the previous one, etc. If you were below ground, this would happen 3 times (or was it 5?) for each screen so that going underground would move you along more than one screen. Using this trick he was able to squeeze over 200 screens onto a 4k cartridge. Genius! He talks about it in this video: th-cam.com/video/6JGHgohIztY/w-d-xo.html
@@JustWasted3HoursHere I remember mapping the circular world that was *Pitfall!* -- including all the tunnel shortcuts -- so I could find the optimal path for the most treasure within the time limit. I had no idea it was algorithmic. I'll have to dig up my old PostScript map/program and implement "polynomial counters" just for fun!
@@BenInSeattle Postscript? Wow, that's going back a few years!
The dog's expression when he heard that Gary had killed someone... was PRICELESS 😂😂😂.
This is my favorite piece of Commodore 64 software. I have two copies of the casette, though only one have the instructions.
When I was younger I imagined the door to my controls on my SX-64 was the door for my LCP house.
I spent months on end exploring this 'game'... I loved it... did my homework while letting little Alex get on with his life... ah... youth...
Another fantastic episode, Perifractic.
I really like the episodes that delve into the inner working of games. These are both really interesting and informative.
Love how you have one of my favourite Anthony Rother songs in this episode. That’s Perryfantastic
LCP!! Would try and leave it running for days to see how long I could keep the little fella going
Great Perifractic! Same age here! Seems to me I lived the same life of yours in the late 80s! Same games, same reviews, same memories. Cheerio!
Small world!
@3:00 you connected a strange thought in my head -- ... did you know they made Star Wars Tamagotchis? -- I had the Rancor one in middle school. -- It's that monster that Jabba tries to feed Luke to. -- You could do all the regular stuff with it, but the animations were much more colorful. -- for example, when you went to feed it, you could do choose between pig men, and Twi'lek "dancer" girls. Both of which were very entertaining to watch. -- Oh, and at the start, when you very first set it up, there was a little intro animation where it was dropped off via a spaceship onto the planet for you!
My “kids”, now 39 and 45, loved Little Computer People on our Atari 1040ST. It was the cleverest piece of software I had ever seen. Heck, I even liked to go spends hour with him.
"Little computer people" Anthony Rother. Great choice!
PCBWAY = Puppyfractic could be whistling at you. That gave me a good chuckle, thanks
Wow, the code trick in Ghostbusters was already clever, and we see the update of it in here!
Took delivery of my own C64 only yesterday, and now after watching that I can't wait to find Little computer people to download and play. I had a rubber key Spectrum growing up but unfortunately this game passed me by and never got to play it. Nice one PF.
Awesome! Have fun!
I remember seeing this on a market stall - yes, they still sold computer games back then - alongside Arctic Fox, and the Empire Strikes Back. My dad bought Arctic Fox for himself, as though I'd never play it!! He didn't like the sound of Little Computer People, and it might be because of the price.
I only played LCP once or twice...but I had no idea that every LCP person was indiginous to each specific Activision 5 1/4" Diskette. Fantastic info! Quite a feat for the day... I'm 49 (soon to be 50!..Ouch!) and really enjoying your videos and TH-cam! channel. David Crane was a C64 God back in the 80's.... I get a lot of great and interesting info from your channel among others. Great job Perifractic & Puppyfractic....! :o) Tony K. , Melbourne, Florida.
Thank you for your kind words. Means a lot! 👍🕹
7:52 - priceless look 😁
I forgot all about this software, brought back a memory : ) Yeah I'm old too
Puppyfractic and her whistle has to be part of your intro, she's earned it. :)
They really did push the limits of computers back then.
Great video, really interesting. My fav games of all time we’re probably Atic Atac on ZX Spectrum and Uridium\Revs on C64.
Dman that was a great story and you kinda glossed over it a bit, but showed some smart thinking and work, Awesome trip down memory lane
I let it run for days without feeding it *trying* to kill it, but it would just get sick and stay that way. And yes, in Roller Coaster Tycoon I would pick up park guests and drop them into the water to drown, or put them on a coaster then remove part of the track etc. Didn't everybody do that?
Anthony Rother song. 🖤
Puppy had me in stitches with that whistle!😂
She's multi talented!
The thousand yard stare at the end was best, the dog went to Vet-nam. 8:36
Omg I was starting to think I had imagined this game as I was only around 6 or 7 when it came out. THANK YOU!!
Also: you have a super relaxing voice, like soothing ASMR. =D
You’re welcome! Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
The math and the hardware behind this is awesome. Thanks.. little people rule. Lol
Yes I'll admit it, as a kid of around 5 or 6, I thought there was an actually real person in the computer you have to look after lol, got to love those innocent days when we don't know our arse from our elbow lol.
That's very sweet
Great video. I forgot about LCP. Thanks.
I remember buying this game at KMART back then, and it would not work. Its strange how SOME of the store bought software for the commodore 64 would not work.
Activision Little People Organization? Puppyfractic might love that!
With the advancements in AI, I think it would be kind of fun to have something novel like this again, maybe a modern remake that you can truly interact with your little computer person.
I honestly had no idea this game existed, but then again, I was a '90s kid and missed out on all the coolest stuff of the '80s! Well, I didn't miss out on the Turtles, thankfully! :)
I love Tomogatchi’s, Tomogatchi’s are my life!
awesome video as always. thank you for this I loved the puppy whistle by the way!
I'm pretty sure Little Computer People was also inspired by Steven Lisberger's film "TRON".
This episode will self destruct in 5..4..3..2..1...🧨 Great episode! I grew up on the C64 but never heard of the Little Computer People, wish I would have.
Same here. :-O
It's incredible how Puppyfractic can be so expressive. :-)
Love these little behind the scenes peeks into how & why a game is the way it is. When I was a kid, this sort of stuff was just mind-blowing. By the way, Puppyfractic is the best co-host ever! Sorry, Ladyfractic. Actually, she's pretty good too.
Damn! That song! Little computer people! I haven’t heard it since decade! By the way. Love your content. Keep ot going!
Thank you ! I hope to!
I had this on the C64 and Amiga 500... the C64 version was much smoother. Seems like the little dude in my Amiga walked slow as Fudge.
Came to see this video because of the current-day version of LCP - The Prepper.... lol
I've always wanted to program a newer version of LCP that took "plug-ins", pieces of code that would add new actions... But alas I never got around to it...
Love your idea of them saving the data in the toilet, but isn't the dog a sprite too?
still wild and most can't best a cailc bite I love it
So the disk duplicators were based on 1541? It would be great to see a story on one of the retrocomputing channels about those machines. Even greater if one of them still exists.
I don't think the duplicators themselves were, but the hospital one was
I'm a lcp that come out from the Matrix Saying hi ... 40 years later ... Yes's from the futureFractic!
Woah!
Now, this takes me back!
My Grandfather was called Fred Young and he had big ears ... How weird!!
Well of course he did, you are a little computer people on my screen, obviously your granddad was one too!
wow yes remember it cant think if i played it but was cool. Oh they was the good old days back then.
I lost my copy of LCP but I did find copy on line,Also I did find in my collection Little computer people Hotel so I can change my person. It is cool on how each person is different some like to play games more than others or just love to play the piano. thanks for the memories but I am going to buy the game again.
I spent far too long playing little computer people when it came out. Making them dance was the good bit.
I would love to see Ashley play LCP ❤
They got to him. Peri is now part of the cover up that they don't really live in your computer.
Puppyfractic is so cute ! I love!
Another wonderful video! Interesting and funny. Also, can’t get enough of puppyfractic with that whistle! 😂
I totally don't recall this I guess I missed it when it came out.
the game i never had but wanted it so much !!!
Loved LCP, though it was a great idea.
I remember a friend of mine had this game, and it drove him nuts trying to keep his little guy alive, so much so his mother took the game away from him. It's a cool game, but I'm kind of glad I never got into this one, and I really did not get into SIM type games till SIMCity.
We need an episode dedicated to Puppyfractic trying video games designed for dogs. (Yes, there have been multiple attempts at this over the years.)
Great idea! Do you know the names of any?
@@RetroRecipes Here's a couple of modern ones. I knew I've seen some older ones back in the late 90's/early 2000s but I can't quite remember:
th-cam.com/video/I9kuT1JikOo/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/MrtY5Eq0R4k/w-d-xo.html
@@RetroRecipes I believe the Ipad one is just called "games for dogs" in the itunes store
Had that game and loved it.
puppy fractic a.k.a "the dog whistler" =) this episode was really intersting...didn't know that this game was unique on each release, i recall my c64 lcp had a cap on his head =)
Puppyfractic and her whistle cracks me up big time haha and that music went so well with it as well. Still need a bit of work with your dad jokes, am kidding ofc would be wrong not to do them. Great video as always guys, keep up the great work and roll on the next video. Take care 🙂
Hehe thank you pawfully much
Awesome video... Thanks
Nice intro with PF!!, (and outro) - and thanks for the video - i dont get ANY notfications from TH-cam anymore, all my subscriptions gone! - dont know what happened!? but i will popin "manually" now and then, Levi&Dex
Reminds me of the show reboot form my childhood.
9:43 completely misheard that, wasn't looking.
"I was talking to the dog." I died.
3:55 omg. Have you been saying “Hello Chip Tippers” all this time? I always thought it was “Hello Chip Dippers” !!
No it's dippers. That's for live chat "tips"/donations
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And also in this video, You perfectly explain why IPv4 is doomed :) (6:25)
Hi Puppyfractic! You're the star
lol the doggo face! :D great video
That makes complete sense! That's why for example Windows 10 doesn't like DOS based software, there's a little person inside that hates DOS software and games and refuse to allow me to run them. BRB I need to know how legal it is to kill that person in my PC.
Um.... Replacing it with Windows XP should be easier solution = )
@@vpupkoff Or using Windows 7 32bit. Unless you need full screen Did..But let's not forget Dosbox.
The "sims people" seem so fragile against an LCP .... I recall that to "accidentally" kill your LCP took forever - whilst a "sim" just has to not use a phone for a day and they are unhappy and leave food all over the place..
Excellent video, but I hope that Puppyfractic got that walk that you promised.
She actually did!
@@RetroRecipes Good Perifractic!
With the cassette version if you had an Action Replay cartridge back in the day you could of freezed the game , turned off your C64 while you went to school then load it back in when you got home and carried on were you left off.
Great point! I had Action Replay, but I think only after my LCP days... :-(
Absolutely awesome job with this one, brings back great memories! I had a LCP named ROY, Him writing letters to you was probably the coolest most endearing thing! if I didn't feed him or interact he would get sad and mope around, and it would literally make you feel sad for the little fella. I don't know that he ever died, maybe when he turned green and stayed in bed people considered that to be dead? It seems to me that once he got sick there was no recovery, like he was too sad to eat. It seems there was a way to start over, as I remember setting the time and him coming in the front door.... not sure how you reset but I was able to somehow
The 'game' was entertaining for quite a while, trying to interact with him, finding new things to command him to do. It did eventually get old watching him after hours of interaction, but somehow it never really lost its charm. I could load him up today and still be entertained for a while by him roaming around his house doing little computer people stuff
It is indeed charming. Glad you liked this. I'm planning a recipode on the AI behind the letter writing so stay tuned! 👍🕹
I had the cassette version on the C64 and didn't really get the buzz that magazines like ZZap64 and the like were giving it. I guess the disk version was the one to get...
Here for the dog.
So - what happened to the dog sprite when the LCP went to the toilet and, err, flushed his state to disk?
I believe the dog would disappear. It turns out that the version I was using for the screen recording was the tape version even though it was from a .D64 file, so my dog stayed on screen. (I inserted the disk drive close-ups later to tell the full story.) #Editing #ArtisticLicense
So is there a way to mod a disk image of LCP to choose from the available options? That would be a cool hack.
Not yet. One website I found did try, but it was deemed too complex. David Crane still beats us all!