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Another one I remember was Arcade Game Construction Kit that in hindsight blows me away with its power on the C64. A full dev-kit for platformer and top-view games including sprite editor/animator, level-editor, tile-editor, sound-editor, etc. All windowed.

I spent days in a beanbag chair with a comfy Epyx joystick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Epyx_500XJ.jpg oh my god that form-factor needs to come back) making games.




Interesting, I know that stick as the Konix Speedking.

Not complaining, the more names I find for it, the better chance I have of finding one.


A Speedlink Competition Pro USB looks a bit like this and is available (though not at Amazon anymore).


Yeah, I have one of those Epyx joysticks too. It's great.




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