{"id":4273,"date":"2015-06-11T14:33:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2015-06-11T14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:33:57","slug":"apple-ii-vs-commodore-64-trope-tank-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2015\/06\/apple-ii-vs-commodore-64-trope-tank-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Apple II vs. Commodore 64&#8221; Trope Tank Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2ix21XP7zw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/apple_commodore-300x165.png\" alt=\"Apple Commodore video\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" style=\"float:right; margin-left:8px\" \/><\/a>Erik Stayton&#8217;s 12-minute video &#8220;Apple II vs. Commodore 64&#8221; is now up on YouTube. It&#8217;s shot in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/trope_tank\">Trope Tank<\/a> with him in conversation with me there. We discuss several of the things you&#8217;d experience in emulation, but also make reference to material specifics of these systems and the two specific computers and controllers that were used.<\/p>\n<p>Erik played three quite different games that we had on hand, on disk, for both systems: <i>Skyfox, World Karate Championship,<\/i> and <i>Hacker.<\/i> Besides discussing graphics and sound quality, we also talk about the playability of these games with the controllers we have and issues such as loading times.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2ix21XP7zw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Stayton&#8217;s 12-minute video &#8220;Apple II vs. Commodore 64&#8221; is now up on YouTube. It&#8217;s shot in the Trope Tank with him in conversation with me there. We discuss several of the things you&#8217;d experience in emulation, but also make reference to material specifics of these systems and the two specific computers and controllers that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2015\/06\/apple-ii-vs-commodore-64-trope-tank-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Apple II vs. Commodore 64&#8221; Trope Tank Video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[167,69,11,23,36,10],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple-ii","tag-commodore-64","tag-games","tag-hardware","tag-mit","tag-platforms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}