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Trained by VodChus 😂

Nice job Phil. I watched both parts and enjoyed immensely. Devpac all the way :) I also used rossi monitor as an AR substitute before I got one.

Så härligt att se :) du har en ny medlem nu :)

Thanks for mentioning the warper. But credit where credit is due, reading from index to the next second index and using the blitter to detect the overlap for compression was inspired by Nomad.

Speaking of scene drama, was there anything beyond the usual ego/competition that made the verbal jabs between class and myth so spicy?

Obvious throwaway account, but great interview, loved to hear some of the history of THG from before I got into the PC scene. It was a local THG member in the UK taught me how to blue box and the rest, as they say, is history. (Razor Blade/Razor 1911).

Consider having such a great tool in the 80s - thanx for this nice episode ❤

Great video. Matcham! Back in the 80's, I hand wrote a letter to him asking if he could help me convert C64 Time Cruncher to the Amiga and he replied and provided a complete 68000 source listing for Time Cruncher V4. Excellent product for the time.

Fantastic episode! Awesome that you are capturing this bit of computer history. I’ll reach out to you both on separate channels…

Wow, Chris, this has been a nostalgic trip! Brings back the days of being a Quartex member. I still have my old USRobotics modem with a "Registered Sysop" plate. It deserves a museum spot for all the interesting bytes that passed through it! Chris and I have stayed close friends, chatting daily. He even jump-started my career in the '90s, teaching me Visual Basic on a crash course weekend visiting him in Nashville. Chris made mention of Nightwriter’s C-64 collection-though I bet Waremonger from QTX had everything, even laser disc movies! I still chat with Warmonger, and we love reminiscing. And if you've seen any QTX crack intro line "Your Link to Perfection," that was mine! Thanks for the memories, Chris

Pontus, I really enjoyed this episode. It reminded me to back in the days when I received the original sourcecode of AR and NP and hat to compare both as an expert witness for a court case. That was I guess around 1988 when I was in business with Klaus Roreger (the owner of the company behind NP and Professional Dos). Keep up with FLT TV, it's always a pleasure ... snd you know .. pleasure is and was always our business ;-) cheers, mws

Jesus. Just got to the end. I wrote a de sqz app back in the day too. Going to hunt it out now.

Nice ❤

Love these stories. Reminds me of trading C64 warez with the US groups using 9600 US Robotics modems. Mine was imported from the US and I had this Tandy 120v to 240v converter to make the power supply work in the UK. Also remember fixing PAL games to make them work for NTSC due to timing. Cheers (Weetibix/SCG).

Fantastic. I vote for an interview with Mitch/ESI if you could get him.. that would be amazing

WOW! This has been a nostalgic journey, Chris. Those were truly the days. The scene was at its peak back then. I used to run a BBS for a group known by the initials "QTX." If you were in that scene you know the name. I still have my USRobotics modem with the gold plate that reads "Registered Sysop." It deserves a place in a museum for all the fascinating data that passed through it. Chris and I have become good friends and still chat daily. He played a significant role in launching my career in the early '90s by teaching me Visual Basic (VB). Actually, one of my fondest memories is flying to Nashville for a weekend crash course on VB, which I needed to complete a program for a sales engineering program I was developing. Chris mentioned this interview would be coming out, and I anticipated to watch it. This has brought back memories. You mentioned "Nightwriter" who had an extensive collection of wares on the C-64. However, I doubt he could match Warmonger's collection from QTX, which included everything, even laser disc movies. Remember those? I also speak with Waremonger frequently and talk about the old days as we figure out and play the "cool stuff" on our respective steamdeck. The stories I could tell! One time Strider from FLT gave me some junk ware called XOR I think it was called to put on my BBS as a credited import. I'll stop my reminiscing here, but I want to close with this: Chris has always been a solid friend. Despite the miles between us, technology has made the world smaller. Also, if you've ever seen the line "Your Link to Perfection" on a crack intro, that was my creation.

Two Humble Guys talking! Great interview!! :)

That was AWESOME❤

Another one bites the dust from Bacchus : One of the best interview, a must watch, packed with cracking stories from the other side of the atlantic ...

Furlough!!!!!

Adobe podcast audio ai can fix all this

Incredible interview with one of the legends of piracy!

Any chance of getting an interview with Hardcore of The Dream Team ? That's one of the names, that still sticks out in my mind to this day. Will watch this a bit later today, but looking forward to it!!

Great suggestion! 👻🦇🎃

Howdy!! Nice trainer, well done.

Mega-trained :)

I always loved well made trainers like this one! Most were just inf lives, which is meh. When I got the Action Replay I started coding my own trained version of my games, saving the freezes to disk. Happy Halloween! :)

The title makes me think of the top notch game Wizball, which is about cauldrons, somehow. Happy hacking.

🙏💯❤️👏👍👌🤟

Awesome, this evening's viewing lined up.

great work

This is awesome! I love your tunes!

I have installed the .crt file of your Action Replay FLT fix default on my VICE. Did you burn out a real hardware cart of it? Is this something you have considered selling as a mail order cart? To replace the AR7.0 or 6.22? Good video as usual 👍

When you step back and realise that the demo was created with no more than 64k of memory you then find yourself thinking how the fuck did they do this when a Microsoft text document with 1 line of text is probably bigger

4:36 is cool af

Important computer history. I wish it would be better known. Thanks.

The Beatles of the C64 demo scene. i enjoyed every seconf from the brain killer demo. the ideas and the theme is simpy outragous cool ! 10/10 from my side. Greetings from Delysid . and end part is so sweet and the music is haunting

I am visiting AngelDawn/Hoodlum tomorrow shall i ask him to make another logo? he said it was the worst logo he ever did since 1989.btw tell JBM he sucks :) stay tuned.IKARI c64 - The Real Number One.little hint "Luke and Chuck" aka "TSH&Kevin" uploading Flt Logo to the Iron Fortress BBS.Flt do me a favour kick the iso section thx in advance

Greetings?? We have no time for greetings!! :)

Absolutely flawless!!!! Long live the c64

Well this was just wonderful. Anyone in these comments care to tell the short story of how the sprites in front / behind, what I assume is a char bitmap, is achieved (aside from having super-human skills)? The timing is so tight! \(o.o)/

This is my childhood basically.. I get the shivers, each time I hear this tune and watch anything Fairlight related

I remember watching cracks and demos in the late 80s. Had plenty of games cracked by Fairlight.

Nostalgia overload! Thanks for an awesome show! ❤👍👍

Pure Love

Absolute legend. To kid me the crackers were like mythical figures. I was so poor and you guys allowed me to play games I'd never get to.

The zoomy stripe effect at 53:28 ... my intuition is that it's all in one bank, using 15 different "screens". The thing is, it doesn't need to consume all of a screen's RAM ... just the final 8 bytes, for the sprite pointers. This leaves most of the remaining 16K available for sprite images ... 256-15 = 241 available sprite images ... massive overkill seeing as the sprite pointers only point to 15*8 = 120 sprite images. I'm assuming screen 15 is not suitable because sprite 7's pointer would be on top of the ghost byte.

Is the sprite/background priority effect a "bug" or was it on purpose? For games, it's useful for creating a "cutout mask" to allow foreground objects to appear in front of a player sprite. For example, you could be a ninja walking around a tree. When you're walking in front of the tree, there is no mask. But when you're walking behind the tree, the mask is "displayed". But this mask is invisible because it appears behind the background. The big advantage compared to just using sprites is that you only need to "activate" whatever mask(s) are near the player character. Also, the mask bitmap data is more compact since you can expand it horizontally (assuming a multi-color background).

Fantastic! And fun to see you after 36 years - I was the journalist that interviewed you for Norsk Datormagazin back in 1988 at the Stjørdal copyparty. We talked about the Maximum Retaliation Game, and of course Timecruncher. For those who want to read the interviews, there's a magazine scan available here (in Norwegian): www.stone-oakvalley-studios.com/uploads/0043f3bd/norsk_datormagazin_dmz_1988-02.pdf

nom nom such good music