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@CommodoreSpence @mos_8502 A former collegue of mine uesed to work for #Ariolasoft here in germany back in the 1980s and he told me, they were often using custom made interfaces to connect the C64 to a PC and cross-compile or cross-assemble the games. The binary blob would then be written directly to the C64 memory via that custom interface.

They also used to write custom character sets, sprite data and such stuff into the target machine (C64) in the same way.

There is a certain pleasure in looking back at those not so great games. Not to mock them, but rather as a reminder of the realities back then. Retrospectives focus on the big hits of their days. But we also spent our time with stuff like #DasMagazin. I'd be really curious to know the story of its development. Were there people behind who really stood behind their work? Maybe, one day, we should try to research all this.

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%2C1536/Das-Magazin.html

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@metin I was just considering subscribing to the #Ariolasoft tag ;)

Germans and their business sims... Das Haus (The House or The Building) is not even is not even about managing a department store, as the title screen may suggest, but it's literally about running a boarding house. Not the crazy type.

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%2C1527/Das-Haus-oder-Was-habe-ich-da-falsch-gemacht.html

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