I knew the c64 could do this with the 1541 drives (Ive owned 2 types of em, and modded one with jiffy dos chips), but my experience with newer pc drives have lead me to believe the low level of hardware access needed, to control the stepper directly, was not available. Anyone have a link that says different?

I was gonna say the same thing about the C64. I know personally from 20 years ago that this could be achieved on C64 drive so was not skeptical that someone could not pull the same thing off today.

As an old C64 gamer, I didn't even know most of these controllers existed. Head tracking, with sound activation?? MIDI(?) keyboards? Wow. Hey game developers out there, what the hell have you done for us lately? This dusty old junk from ages ago was far more innovative (ignoring the problems) than anything you've presented in a decade (not counting the wii, since it's also from Nintendo). Some of these techs are long overdue for a revisit.

grinter: I wouldn't get too excited about the game. I only played through the XLA trial, but if the full game is any good then they need to fire everyone involved with the demo. It's a slow 2d puzzle-action-platformer thing: jumping, yawning and unlocking doors and what not. Kind of like Goonies on the C64, if you have a long memory. Problem: it controls like molasses, and if the difficulty ever rises over "none" I can't imagine the frustration that would be involved in waiting for your hero to get anywhere.

Time to *promote, dude!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPW40ygds4 (C64 port)

This is great! I love the SID music chip. I have over 30,000 C64 songs on my computer at home and i listen to them regularly. Things sure have changed since then, but this brings me back to a better time!

this was actually my favourite game for a long long time, mainly because I couldn't get it, because I had a BBC Micro and it was only on C64. I even wrote to the publisher to beg them to port it. I can't remember why I liked it, I just liked it. Stranger things have happened.

the c64 had sprites

Any intro with a C64 in it.. I highly respect.

I actually played that game on the C64 back then. "Boulder Dash" was much better, though

is it really from a C64?!? woh.
these 300 trailer edits never fail to amuse me.

Scroller? Meh, 720 was brilliant. Go C64!

heh the "how old was your first computer" theme.

bbc electron, vic 20, and C64 were the first ones i had.

edit:actually that's not true, we had an orange box that had pong on it in the hardware, no idea what it was called. - thats the first i remember.

From YT:

I couldn't find any NES remixes I liked so I used C64 remixes instead for the music.

Here are the tunes used in this video, all by Instant Remedy -

Game On (Issue 0989)
Last Ninja - The Palace
Ghosts 'n Goblins (Trance Version)

Full list of games in the video (might be some errors) -

1. Super Mario Brothers
2. Contra
3. Dragon warrior 1
4. Dr. Mario
5. Excite Bike
6. Lola 3
7. Ice Climber
8. Gradius
9. Ice Hockey
10. Kiwi Craze
11. Little Nemo
12. Scheherazade
13. Abradox
14. Addams Family
15. Adventure Island 1
16. Basewars
17. Marble Madness
18. Kirby
19. Batman 1
20. Battle Chess
21. Mappy Land
22. Maniac Mansion
23. Kid Icarus
24. Silius
25. Duck Hunt
26. Treasure Island 2
27. Goonies 2
28. Castlevania 1
29. Bugs Bunny Birthday
30. Bomberman 1
31. Battletoads
32. Bionic Commando
33. Blades of Steel
34. Blaster Master
35. Castlevania 2
36. Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
37. Casino Kid
38. Caveman Games
39. Crystalis
40. Deja Vu
41. Double Dribble
42. Duck Tales
43. Double Dragon 2
44. Golgo 13
45. Hogans Alley
46. Jackie Chan
47. Castlevania 3
48. Double Dragon 1
49. Ninja Gaiden 1
50. North & South
51. Prince Of Persia
52. Metroid
53. Metal Gear
54. Pirates
55. Mega Man 2
56. Micro Machines
57. Paper Boy
58. Punch Out
59. Super Mario Brothers 2
60. Ultima IV
61. The Three Stooges
62. The Guardian Legend
63. Bucky O'Hare
64. Wizards & Warriors 2
65. Zelda
66. Turtles 1
67. Tiny Toons Adventures
68. Wrath of the Black Ninja
69. Super Mario Brothers 3
70. Tecmo Super Bowl
71. Tombs & Treasures
72. Snakes Revenge
73. Super Contra
74. Snake Rattle n Roll
75. Talespin
76. Star Tropics 1
77. Spy Hunter
78. Zelda 2
79. Yo! Noid
80. Turtles 2
81. Silver Surfer
82. Robin Hood
83. R.C. Pro Am
84. River City Ransom
85. Shadowgate
86. Robocop
87. Rygar
88. Tetris
89. Supercars
90. Rampage
91. Willow
92. Final Fantasy
93. Mario Brothers
94. Ghosts & Goblins
95. Joe & Mac
96. Donkey Kong
97. Chip & Dale
98. Legendary Wings
99. Bubble Bobble
100. Faxandu

Ok, fine so there were no Spectrum videos on the sift, so I found one, and now it's posted here... To counter this C64 reminicsing, here's a Sinclair ZX Spectrum trip down memory lane