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Bombuzal and Amiga
The Amiga version of Bombuzal was included as a fully working game on the cover disk of the first issue of Amiga Power.
* Bombuzal on the Amiga at The Hall of Light ( HOL )

Bombuzal and 1990
* Bombuzal ( 1990, Spectrum )

Bombuzal and designed
Bombuzal is a computer puzzle game designed by Antony Crowther ( credited as Ratt in the game ) and David Bishop for Image Works.

C64 and /
The Commodore 1581 is a 3½ inch double sided double density floppy disk drive made by Commodore Business Machines ( CBM ) primarily for its C64 and C128 home / personal computers.
In both the C64 and SX-64 the extra pins of the processor were used to control the computer's memory map by bank switching, and in the C64 also for controlling three of the four signal lines of the Datassette tape recorder ( the electric motor control, key-press sensing and write data lines ; the read data line went to another I / O chip ).
It was possible, by writing the correct bit pattern to the processor at address $ 01, to completely expose almost the full 64KB of RAM in the C64, leaving no ROM or I / O hardware exposed except for the processor I / O port itself.
# Atari / C64 Video Game Music Player
* Gridrunner ( Atari 2600 / VIC-20 / ZX Spectrum, 1982 ; C64, 1983 )
* Matrix: Gridrunner 2 ( VIC-20, 1982 ; Atari 2600 / C64, 1983 ; C16, 1986 )
* Attack of the Mutant Camels ( Atari 2600 / C64, 1983 ) ( UK: Advance of the Megacamel )
* Laser Zone ( VIC-20 / C64, 1983 ; C16, 1986 )
* Hellgate ( VIC-20 / C64, 1984 )
* Psychedelia ( VIC-20 / ZX Spectrum / C64 / MSX, 1984 ) – A light synthesizer.
* Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord ( Macintosh, MZ-2500, X1 / turbo, FM-7, FM-77, PC-8801, PC-9801, MSX2, NES, Game Boy Color, WonderSwan Color, Cell phone, C64 / C128 )
* Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds ( Macintosh, MZ-2500, X1 / turbo, FM-7, FM-77, PC-8801, PC-9801, MSX2, NES, Game Boy Color, C64 )
* Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn ( X1 / turbo, FM-7, FM-77, PC-8801, PC-9801, MSX2, Famicom, Game Boy Color, C64 )
The Dragon reviewers criticized the " notoriously slow " technology of the C64 / 128 system but added that the C64 / 128 version would become nearly unplayable without a software-based fastloader utility which Strategic Simulations integrated into the game.

C64 and Amiga
The company's computer systems, especially the C64 and Amiga series, retain a cult-following among their users decades after its demise.
This period of the magazine was seen as a transitional time between transferring coverage from C64 to the Amiga.
Realising that the C64 market was in an undeniable decline in 1990, CU made the decision to concentrate fully on the Amiga, dropping C64 coverage and relaunched their redesigned magazine as CU Amiga.
A new decade had arrived and with it a successor of the C64, the Amiga 500 ( A500 ).
CU Amiga dropped all coverage of the C64 and concentrated on the new highly popular Amiga platform, which expanded to include: A3000, A500 +, A600, A1200.
* In 1989 on the Amiga computer, the demo " The 100 Most Remembered C64 Tunes " and later the PlaySID application was released, developed by Per Håkan Sundell and Ron Birk.
* Remix64. com – Community for C64 SID and Amiga music remixes
Examples for the mixed reviews the game received are 97 % and 92 % ratings from Zzap! 64 magazine for the C64 and Amiga versions respectively, compared to a review in Commodore User magazine awarding a mere 49 %.
He had a career spanning 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats.
These contest had entries for programming, custom hardware and computer graphics for the C16, C64, C128 and Amiga.
The game was well liked with players on both the computer and console sides, and inspired a winterized sequel in Ski or Die in 1989 for the C64, Amiga, Atari ST, PC and NES, and a true sequel, Skate or Die 2 in 1990, a NES-only game.
When the Commodore Amiga appeared, many former C64 demo programmers switched platforms and continued to make demos for the Amiga ( see Amiga demos ).
A platform video game, simply titled Trolls, was released in 1993 for Amiga, DOS and C64.
* R-Type intro music ( C64, Amiga )
* Rockford ( 1988 – Arcade, Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Arcade, Spectrum, Amstrad, C64 )-Rockford was originally a licensed arcade game produced by Arcadia Systems, and later converted to various home computer formats
* Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Limited Edition Collector's Set ( 1990, DOS, C64, Amiga, SSI )-a compilation of many early AD & D titles, including several Gold Box games.
Among Follin's works include the soundtracks to Software Creations ' Amiga, C64 and ST conversions of Ghouls ' n Ghosts, Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future ( Dreamcast ), Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade's Revenge ( Super Nintendo ), and home computer ports of Bionic Commando ( C64, Amiga ).

C64 and Atari
* Hover Bovver ( C64, 1983 ; Atari 2600, 1984 )
* Return of the Mutant Camels ( C64, 1987 ; Atari 2600, 1988 ) ( A. K. A.
The demo was essentially a large collection of C64 tunes that The Exceptions ported across to the Atari ST's Yamaha YM2149 sound chip using his own driver to get the most out of it.
For example, the C64 release of Treasure Island Hollis used more primitive graphics than the Atari ST version.
The Atari demos were also heavily influenced by C64 demos.
Sierra released disk and / or tape ports for the C64 ( which as a result ended up with two versions of the game ), Apple II, the original 128k Macintosh, IBM PC, Atari 2600 Supercharger, and the above-mentioned versions for the TRS-80 Color Computer and Sinclair developed by UK-based Cornsoft.
There he earned his living by doing C64 ports of Lucasfilm Atari 800 games.
* Boulder Dash Construction Kit ( 1986 – Apple II, C64, Spectrum, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST ) – This release included a small number of levels, but was titled Boulder Dash IV – The Game for the Spectrum re-release.
The Commodore 64 ( C64 ) and Atari 8-bit versions had a similar apparent bug.
In the C64 and Atari 8-bit ports one could even drive further out on the black border on the side of the screen.
Thanks to the reliability of the machine, and ample memory, the machine proved useful by many software houses to use for programming, and then porting the code to the machines they were made for, Spectrum 48k, Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64, this later stopped when the PC and Atari ST would emerge as the development systems of choice.
Conversions for the ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and PC soon followed.
( 1984 ) ( Atari 800 / XL, C64 )
* Mercenary: Escape from Targ ( 1985 ) ( Atari 800 / XL / XE, C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST )
** Mercenary: The Second City ( add-on dataset ) ( 1986 ) ( Atari 800 / XL / XE, C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST )

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