D-Pad Hero for real

Picture © by www.dpadhero.com

So this game D-Pad Hero got released some days ago. Its for the over 25 years old 8-bit Nintendo, the NES. You have perhaps played Guitar Hero for a modern console. We have seen Guitar Hero beeing ported to the Commodore 64, but it seems the Commodore version have not enjoyed the same level of buzz the new guys are having. This is probably because the Commodore 64 version of Guitar Hero, Shredz64, needs an external interface to be playable. You buy this interface to be able to connect a PlayStation Guitar Hero controller to your Commodore 64, which is extremely cool, but cumbersome and inaccessible.

The great deal about D-Pad Hero, is that it’s designed to be played with the original controller. This makes it much more accessible, compared to Shredz64. People are able to play the game in emulators with their keyboards, as well as gamepads connected to the computer. You can also connect an original NES gamepad to your pc, if you got the equipment.

As you can see, I am playing D-Pad Hero with an original controller.

But what kind of emulator is DScaler? That’s no emulator, it’s a video capture application! Which should make you able to deduce that ..

.. it is not being emulated, it is being played back on real hardware!

Download the game for free from http://dpadhero.com/Download.html. You can find an emulator over there as well. If you want to play it on real hardware, you can do as me and use one of these.

Old demos, still awesome!

Lately I have been looking at some old demos, and I found this demogroup from Finland called PWP. They state that they create audio-visual megamultimedia. Never before have I found something Finnish to be funny, cool or even mildly entertaining. This is so much more. It is awesome on many different levels!

Warez cd, internet bomb. Haha, I love it!

Great story, even better music!

Another great story, with the same theme as the last one.

Note that these demos where written for very old, limited computers. The two last ones where made for the Commodore VIC-20, which runs on 1MHz and was released in 1981. This is more or less incredible, what these fine coders made hardware this old do! In our day and age, limitations like these are considered severe. Our hardware is so much more advanced in every way, and coders don’t have to exploit the hardware in the same way these guys are doing. For example: my cellphone runs at 200MHz, your iPhone runs at around 400MHz. This is nothing compared to modern PCs, still 1MHz is enough to make me smile.