Looks like my "computers are a bit shit nowadays, hey?" thread (https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/112630830459040204) is going around again, so - hello, new followers!
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Looks like my "computers are a bit shit nowadays, hey?" thread (https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/112630830459040204) is going around again, so - hello, new followers! I collect vintage game controllers and do a few #retrogaming and #retrocomputing posts, but have a lot of long-term #3Dprinting and #Arduino projects on the go - AMA about and and all of that. I don't talk specifics about my work, but have done IT stuff my whole life and am proud to fight for my users, whoever they are at any given time. 1/2
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I am also proud of other things. I almost never post here about anything ever lumped into "politics", and CW when I do, but if you don't consider yourself *at least* generally in favour of LGBT folks and rights then we should not interact. I am mostly here to share fun, kind and interesting things I make or find with like-minded people, and am completely uninterested in humouring bad-faith rhetoric. 2/2
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@timixretroplays fwiw, thank you for doing another intro! I remember that thread from back when, and then apparently forgot to follow. Thanks to this post, the words "Gravis GamePad" have graced my day, and... excuse me WHAT, Secret Agent HD? Excuse me while I, uh, get beset by acute nostalgia for a bit. ️
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@danderson sounds like you've come to the right place!
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@timixretroplays Yes, although that's reminded me of another game of a comparable era, whose name I've forgotten and that I've failed to find so much I've started wondering if I made it up. Time for my annual attempt to find that, before I go play the Secret Agent remaster
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@danderson what do you remember about that game? If you recall it playing very similarly to Secret Agent, it might have been Crystal Caves, which also has a "HD" remake. I'm also in a couple of different Discord servers where people would love to help rediscover an old game (including Apogee, who have been properly "back" as an indie publisher for a few years now).
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@timixretroplays Turns out, this time I found it! It was "Framed", a 1995 shareware game by Machination, a UK developer (I'm guessing solo human) who seems to not have published anything else.
tl;dr prison break as a side scroller, with some "challenge room" elements similar to crystal caves/secret agent, but also a little escapists-style "figure out how to break out". It's a bit rougher than I remember it, but isn't that always the way https://www.mobygames.com/game/6285/framed/
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@timixretroplays It's bizarre just how little of this game or its creators is out there. There's a couple of ancient addresses pulled from the registration info in the shareware, two names of the people who _probably_ were behind Machination, and... that's it. I can't find any other existence of this company or these people outside of this one relatively obscure shareware. I wonder what became of them.