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Artinum · Zapper Beiträge: 184

Alas no. My old Atari is now long since gone, as is my Amiga. The perils of leaving them in your mother's attic, I'm afraid.

I'm not overly surprised you don't know the 65XE. It's an 8-bit machine that was totally compatible with the 800XL, though I think a bit more compact. It had a tape drive but you could get disk drives for it. It also had a cartridge slot at the back, which meant no loading times for Fractalus or Archon.

There are indeed two Archons, being Archon and Archon II. I've seen the second through emulation and I couldn't fathom it out either. The first is a much better game.

Another game I rather miss is an early (pre-Windows NT/etc) PC game called "Magic Carpet". I tried it on my laptop last night in case it could be persuaded to run but alas, no. Perhaps I could create a DOS boot disk and play it that way, though it would be difficult as my floppy drive is external... Hmmm...

I also enjoyed Command and Conquer.

Artinum.