Posted By
Luca
on 2012-09-19
07:04:04
 |  The Jacksons Two
 In the end of this summer, here comes an unexpected Italian present from nowhere. Oh well, "nowhere" is not the right word: the present comes from a well known source of pretty juicy things!
Italy in the '80ies: so many Commodore users and a lacking law about those new media copyrights. In this environment, the newsstands became the real fulcrum of software distribution, both for big packs of hacked games and for legal original stuff.
The first title is Video Basic, awesome Italian BASIC course with great lessons, final tests, demos, original and legally rereleased games. It consists of 20 tapes full of stuff, especially the original games (part of them had just been published on listing magazines from the same publisher), which worth their proper single pages here at Plus/4 World. They are: Dama (Super Commodore), Sparacaratteri, Blackjack (Italian), Last Drow, Tacman, Killer, Yatzee, 3D Color Maze, U.F.O., Quindici, Pompieri, Dr. Chip, Backgammon (Super Commodore), Super-tris 3D, Bowling (Italian), Othello (Italian), Box, Torre Di Hanoi, Le Coppie, Intervallo, Tiro Alla Fune, Apple Hunt and Tank.
 The other great retrieval has been Music Master (Jackson), a fantastic collection of music stuff on a single tape, including some demos and a little tool to play on the keyboard (Sintetizzatore). No doubt the best of the whole pack is Music Editor, that allows anyone to compose TED tunes and save'em with an ML player, in order to use them into anyone's own program. The three included demos are: Natale, The Beatles and Marcia Turca, the 2nd does not have to be confused with The Beatles (Hack).
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