Wow, this really takes me back. I coded this PC port. It was the first product I completed in my career as a game developer. I can't believe people still play it! Thanks for bringing back the memories!
@@petegardner9965 Fantastic :-) Please send me an email using the contact link at the bottom of www.oldskool.org so that I can send you some questions (RUclips comments aren't really appropriate). Thank you so much!
I think it was in 2010 when I was looking through the executable and I found an interesting string. After some reverse engineering I found out that right after selecting a graphics mode, pressing Tab will slightly alter the credits screen so it shows the real name of The Old Kid.
To the right is the harder path, unless the PC port was coded opposite to the others, no? I played it a bit back in the day but I liked the arcade version a lot more ;-)
Those are stickers added to the monitor for when it was in use as a specialized word processor, they represent hard and soft function keys. I keep meaning to remove the stickers.
Awesome. 😁Thanks for the reboot 👊😜 You went all oldschool with that system. Nice! I played this on a NEC powermate with a VGA card and soundblaster with game card for a mach III joystick. That system is long gone and recall it getting toasted after a nasty rainstorm with big-time lighting 😆
Thx for sharing... I thought you play on hercules...but cga 4 green-tones is a cool alternative ! My euro-pc is not able for this....but I can use my multicolor-monitor... so perhaps it works too...
Wow, this really takes me back. I coded this PC port. It was the first product I completed in my career as a game developer. I can't believe people still play it! Thanks for bringing back the memories!
Do you still have the source? Can I ask you some questions over email about its history, maybe even make it a full interview?
@@JimLeonard I don't have the source, as that is the property of Unlimited Software. But I'll answer any questions you like!
@@petegardner9965 GREAT. And here from Italy some days ago ... ruclips.net/video/Rkjk0NfUeAg/видео.html
@@petegardner9965 Fantastic :-) Please send me an email using the contact link at the bottom of www.oldskool.org so that I can send you some questions (RUclips comments aren't really appropriate). Thank you so much!
I think it was in 2010 when I was looking through the executable and I found an interesting string. After some reverse engineering I found out that right after selecting a graphics mode, pressing Tab will slightly alter the credits screen so it shows the real name of The Old Kid.
In four colors -- all of them green! What program were those function key stickers designed to go with?
A text editor used with an AT&T internal system, name escapes me, sorry. Not my original monitor, and I keep meaning to take the stickers off :-)
To the right is the harder path, unless the PC port was coded opposite to the others, no? I played it a bit back in the day but I liked the arcade version a lot more ;-)
What's with the F and SF labels on the monitor? Are those some kind of LED indicators or something?
Those are stickers added to the monitor for when it was in use as a specialized word processor, they represent hard and soft function keys. I keep meaning to remove the stickers.
You’re still my hero, Jim :-)
still my hero and my master too :) He said that now I have the crown but ... it's not the truth :)))
Awesome. 😁Thanks for the reboot 👊😜 You went all oldschool with that system. Nice! I played this on a NEC powermate with a VGA card and soundblaster with game card for a mach III joystick. That system is long gone and recall it getting toasted after a nasty rainstorm with big-time lighting 😆
Thx for sharing... I thought you play on hercules...but cga 4 green-tones is a cool alternative ! My euro-pc is not able for this....but I can use my multicolor-monitor... so perhaps it works too...
Neat! Where's the Professor Farnsworth's "Good News Everyone" message coming from? Is that a DHCP thing?
It's the success message using the DHCP executable in the mTCP suite of programs.
I had a Sanyo like that! Well on the outside looked more pretty, but the inside was more or less the same.
Jim, that sound is amazing (Old floppy drive)
Actually, that was the hard drive :-) It's what you think it is: Seagate ST-225.