Citazione di: Blasor il 13 Maggio, 2025, 23:00:22Bello come il sole.

Da integrare con Gunstar Super Heroes, riuscito molto meglio di Advance Guardian Heroes. E io adoro Guardian Heroes.

Concordo! Purtroppo non riuscii a finirlo per via del boss rush finale. 

CitazioneC64Audio.com website is closing down June 30th 2025, and having a sale. We're also moving to Bandcamp

Hi C64 friends,

Click here for the closing down sale, which is until 30th June 2025.
Click here for the new Bandcamp page, which I hope you will follow.

C64Audio.com has been a standalone website and a personal labour of love since 1997 (and for two years before then it was city.ac.uk/~xa325 serving GM and XG MIDI files! I'd like to thank you all for your support during that incredible time.

For much of that time it had a cart and digital download system I wrote myself in PHP, but the internet world changed and I moved to Shopify in 2016. Now it's time to bow to the inevitable and end. It's got to the point where C64Audio.com as a separate website isn't viable - costs have gone way up and albums that have a lot of effort put into them haven't got any visibility.

So, I'm closing the website at the end of June, and I have reduced a lot of things that I have limited stocks of: mostly box-sets. Physical stuff after that will only be available in a future Kickstarter.

I am not closing the Google Drive where I store all the albums - that will remain open for the long-term.

BUT, if you have purchases you didn't download or access to bonus material you should download that from the SendOwl link before 31st May, which is when I have to remove that facility from the website to avoid a massive cost increase.

Most products had downloads redirecting to Google Drive, so those will still be active on "Shared with Me", and I will send Google links to any customers who have lost them, now and in the future (I'm not stopping customer service, I love you lot too much).

About Bandcamp
I'm not splatting all the albums onto bandcamp at once to avoid overwhelming people and to give each album a moment in the sun.

Myself and Damian Manning (who is taking over as release manager!) will launch them (and new compilation albums) periodically, which means it might be a year or two before all of them are uploaded.

I'd be grateful if you'd support us by going to Bandcamp, having a good (free) listen to the first album uploaded (the full, continuous version of Marcel Donné's "Waiting for SID", which is amazing!)

The Future
I'm very proud of what I've done with my life on the C64, and my passion for 8-Bit Symphony and retro book writing remain undiminished - those stories aren't over.

I do have to concentrate on belatedly building another career to pay a daunting mortgage in a world of IT recruitment that cares more about "years of experience" than about actual achievements. I was on the wrong end of a cost-cutting exercise at American Express recently (Golang Engineer), and it came just when I thought things were going the right way. I bring the same level of quality to my regular work that I do to C64-related things (I only have one speed!). My LinkedIn is https://www.linkedin.com/in/c64audio/ if anyone has anything.

I'm even more grateful for the friends I've made along the way: my friends on Slack have kept me grounded and friendful for many years, and it's always heartening to see other friends and follow their lives on social media despite its decrease in quality.

I feel like, despite life difficulties, I have one more glorious super-campaign ahead (that's Rob Hubbard related) which I hope you'll jump on board.

I'll forever be glad that I poured resources into doing what I did: each album and concert represents something I can look back on and be glad about.

Back in Time Live is in good hands with FastLoaders, and many of the legacy albums are already on remix.kwed.org, so it's not that bad.

Anyway, it would be great if you'd visit the site and fill your boots one last time before the physical stuff goes away. Believe me, it's filling holes and not buying yachts!

Thanks again,
Chris
 
High Technology Publishing Ltd. | Leonard House 5-7 Newman Road | Bromley, KENT BR1 1RJ GB

Teste' ricevuta email, chiude lo storico c64audio.com di Chris Abbot, la "mente" dietro la serie di CD remix dell'era C64 "Back in Time" per intenderci.

Non spariscono del tutto per fortuna però, traslocano su Bandcamp (sospetto i futuri prodotti fisici verranno relegati a Kickstarter e similari)

Per l'occasione svuotano i magazzini, sia fisici che virtuali, con qualche offerta piuttosto interessante: date un'occhiata se vi va.