Unboxing and loading Heroes of the Lance (SSI, 1988) on the Commodore 128 / C64 setup using a 1571 disk drive and Commodore 1702 CRT monitor.

Exploring the original box contents, pulling Goldmoon’s stats from the manual to get past the copy-protection screen, and taking on the first dungeon enemy in real-hardware side-scrolling combat.

Did you ever have to look up stats in the physical game manual to pass copy protection on 8-bit computers?

#Commodore64 #C64 #RetroGaming #Dragonlance #SSIGames #DND #ADND #DungeonsAndDragons #FloppyDeepDive

Will post shorts Until February 1st of 2027, then will stop since YouTube wants me to do it for free. 10 Million views in 90 days to get paid, what a joke!

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Hey, it’s Tom from Texas. I run the machines we grew up with.

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