Floppy Friday #16

This week’s Floppy Friday is all about Indiana Jones games. Well, two of them, anyway. First we look at Indiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom from 1985 and then we play Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – The Action Game from 1989. They’re very different games, which I’m sure you’ll see from this episode.

 

 

I think I’ve managed to fix the focus-related issue from last week (this happened when there was a major change in luminosity with the screen), so hopefully that’s better. Feedback welcome!

I’ve also made some progress with repairing the second of my two “breadbin” C64 machines: I received a new (old stock) VIC-II chip from China, and it means the system can now basically run a game, albeit without any video output: it’s quite typical to try a cartridge game called Kickman, as it bypasses some of the chips in the C64 which makes it more likely to work in the case of an internal hardware failure.

I posted what I’d found on the Lemon 64 forum, and someone…

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