Thread 11908213

You are transported back in time to 1982 and are placed in a position of highest authority within Commodore Japan. How do you make the Commodore Max actually successful?

I play Johnny B Good

>>11908213 (OP)
Have it come with BASIC.

>>11908223
Done. Next?

>>11908216
>Chuck! Chuck, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Berry. You know that new soon to be outdated form of gaming computer that will be completely obsolete with the advent of game consoles and home computers you're looking for? Well, listen to this!

https://youtu.be/Ivj2eJeC2wM
This is the REAL gaming that zoomers will never know. You had to be there to understand how fun this was.

>>11908240
user is underage

>>11908263
>You had to be there to understand how fun this was
Artificial fun

Find OP's father, show him every "You are transported to year and placed in a position of highest authority" thread his son made, before kicking him in the balls

>>11908978
This is the only one I made and my father passed away 2 years ago

Localize and port Wizardry to it.

>>11909241
Commodore MAX Machine does not have a Pascal interpreter to run Wizardry.

>>11909247
Pascal is a compiled language though.

>>11909250
Pascal allowed users to compile code as a P-code application which could be executed in a virtual machine, independent of hardware architecture. My usage of "Pascal interpreter" was technically incorrect, but I believe Wizardry required P-code support.

>>11909273
Depends on the compiler. Turbo Pascal for example compiled straight to native machine code.
Anyway, you can just implement the p-code VM. It was literally made to be simple to port.

And in the 8bit era it wasn't unusual to completely rewrite games from scratch for ports. So none of this really matters.

>>11909247
The bigger problem is that it has barely any RAM and Jew Tramiel was only willing to go up to 6kb, not nearly enough for wizardry

>>11909359
Just buy more RAM.

>>11909359
The NES only had 2kb
And the MAX uses cartridges too, so RAM wasn't that important.

Where's a homebrew port of Wizardry for TI-99/4A? Make it require a P-code card and 32K RAM expansion card.

>>11909237
How's that relevant in 1982?

>>11909371
NES games have a little thing called mappers which add RAM and capabilities, such as the MMC1 which the wizardry port uses. It also came out many years later.

>>11909424
>i have a little thing
Obviously your boyclit because your skull is empty

>>11909707
Do you get a dopamine hit whenever you type nonsense?

>>11909717
Do you get a copeamine hit whenever you type cope? Every post you make is dripping with it.

>>11910116
>>11909717
FIGHT!FIGHT!FIGHT!
Make the thread actually good!

>>11909424
It's not as fancy as an MMC1 chip but the MAX could also directly map memory from the cartridge to the system.
RAM expansions even used the same cart slot.

The reason you needed more memory on Apple II machines is because those games were on floppy and you had to preload a lot of stuff since floppies are slow as shit.

And the NES version was also an upgraded port with higher resolution and color sprites than the original, no one said it had to be as fancy as the NES port.
It could be even a downgrade from the Apple II version and many people would still have been interested.

>>11908213 (OP)
What's the end goal here?

Developers now
>It's impossible to port it because I read on a wiki that it lacks the Shitfuck 1.2c expansion chip
Developers back then
>Sure, I'll port Doom to a 3.58Mhz 6502. What about it?

>>11910998

Grok has more content to pretend to be a 40 year old virgin interested in retro gaming so that he can convince you to vote for Elon Musk's party.

>>11911025
Some things should not be done just because they "can" be done
See Street Fighter 2 for the ZX Spectrum for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iZLph7xbJI

>>11911039
Wizardry is a turn-based game. Speed isn't really an important factor. And what slowed down the original Wizardry was the floppy load times.

The 8-bit era was full of massively downgraded ports that were still quite popular because you could play it on your relatively cheap machine at home.
You're approaching this in a modern mindset, not as a Japanese person in 81 where a shitty port would be the only way to play this groundbreaking unique game.

>>11910998
Roleplaying on /vr/

Xevious would have saved the Commodore System.

>>11912291
I once had a funny thought that instead of releasing Atari 2800 in Japan in 1983, Atari should have used 7800 motherboards to create a plug-and-play Xevious system by placing the game rom inside its bios (like they did with Asteroids in Europe).

>>11908223
yep and add some extra ram and a few other bits and it'd be perfect

>>11908213 (OP)
Rebrand it as a domestic product under a japanese name and then market the fuck out of it, pay for good reviews like the AAA console titles do. It's not rocket surgery.
Marketing = sales
Virtually everything remembers about most games is bullshit marketing.
Oooh Genesis has Blast Processing... it's DMA transfer.
Oooh Nintendo Seal of doesn't mean jack shit because there's a ton crap games anyway with it and no one takes it seriously.
People want what's hot and what they know. They don't care if it's good or not.

That's why Saturn and Dreamcast basically bombed out Sega... not because they were bad consoles (though the dreamcast controller is dogshit) but because... sega cd and 32x burned Sega's rep to the point that even a couple good looking games on the Saturn wouldn't make people budge on hesitating to buy another Sega console after two wipes in a row. Sega was known but they dropped their "what's hot" status to "what's not".

>>11908263
I was so jealous of my friends because they had floppy drives and I didn't.
However this isn't a turbo loader, I'm sure most (pirated) titles were loading quite a bit faster than this.

>>11915275
As a burger who had a stack of drives in the mid 80's I find these stories about eurostan in the 00s are so bizarre.

>>11916610
>in the 1900s
Europeans weren't THAT advanced, but I get why some flyover might think that.

>>11916610
>eurostan
You say this as if you aren't from there.

>>11916882
>>11916889

>>11916610
>stack of drives
I only ever need the initial 2 FDDs for most of my computers on this side of the pond, they didn't break every other week. Could waste my money on BBS instead. It's funny to think I likely had a better connection then than rural sharties have today, that's some actual bizarre shit.

>>11917391
>I only ever need the initial 2 FDDs for most of my computers on this side of the pond,
Must be a europoor thing. We started sticking HDDs in just about everything mid 80's.

>>11917717
Now that's some sad bs & projection. Why do clappers have this inferiority complex?

>>11917717
>it was a stack of hard drives, actually
That would just exacerbate the problem of stupidity as it implies that you buy shoddy HDDs instead if you stacks of the things lying about. A poor man buys cheap shoes every year, whilst a rich man just buys a good pair until he wants another.

>>11918219
>NOOO! Everyone was poor like me and my parents
Talk about sad BS and projection. Imagine being so retarded that you'd cry about and deny historical facts.
>>11918458
>It was a complete lack of reading comprehension, actually
How embarrassing
>it implies
Even more embarrassing
Are you seething so hard that you can't think straight or are you just reatrded.