This D&D Game Broke the C64 in 1987 #retrogaming #classic

By Floppy Deep Dive | Aug 04, 2026
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Unboxing and booting up the legendary SSI Gold Box classic Pool of Radiance (1988) on original Commodore 64 hardware! From setting aside the code wheel for copy protection to crunching disk heads on the 1541 drive, nothing beats real silicon running on a Commodore 1702 CRT monitor.


Did you ever finish this AD&D classic back in the day, or did the copy protection wheel get you?


#Shorts #Commodore64 #c64 #RetroGaming #DND


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


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