Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 6
Rarity : Scarce
Comments: Not what you'd expect to find on a cartridge, though given this comes from Sweden, who knows what to expect? Sadly this is just a solo play game provided, but it does give a modest challenge and would be an ideal learning tool for new players to the game.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 7
Rarity : Uncommon
Comments: A spreadsheet program for the C64, and a very good one at that. Comes in a curious cartridge/disc combination, the cartridge is a copy protect feature and you can only load the program whilst it is plugged in. Very customisable also, just about anything you want to calculate in cells.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 6
Rarity : Uncommon
Comments: A cartridge only version of Calc Result, with only a small part of the functionality cut down to make room on the cartridge. Works very much like the parent product but without the obvious customisation.
Company : Handic/Commodore
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 4
Rarity : Scarce
Comments: A Swedish release of the clown jumping, balloon bursting game.
Company : Handic/Commodore
Year : 1983
Author : Andrew Spencer
Rating : 6
Rarity : Scarce
Comments: A Swedish release of the Commodore football classic. No idea why the name was changed, but nothing appears to be different about the program itself on the cartridge.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 5
Rarity : Uncommon
Comments: As the name says, it is a diary program to keep track of all those important dates, functions, meetings and the so on that busy C64 owners must have attended back then. And pigs might fly. At least you could make it comprehensive and save it all out too.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 5
Rarity : Uncommon
Comments: Another programming language available from those dedicated Swedish developers, to accompany the other really popular programs such as Cobol, Pascal and Comal. Still, at least the manual gives enough depth to get you started.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 5
Rarity : Uncommon
Comments: Plot, plot, plot away, we're going to plot some graphs today. And quite a neat little program it is, allowing BASIC scripts to be written to draw out the lines and curves.
Company : HES
Year : 1982
Author : Jeff Minter
Rating : 7
Rarity : Scarce
Comments: A Swedish release of the Jeff Minter classic. Note how this version is the original English release, there's no HES rebranding on the title screen.
Company : Handic/Commodore
Year : 1982
Author : Unknown
Rating : 7
Rarity : Scarce
Comments: A Swedish release of the balloon balancing, clown on a bike game.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 5
Rarity : Rare
Comments: Some sort of word processing cartridge. Not exactly easy to navigate if you have no sense of the Scandinavian languages!
Company : Handic/Commodore
Year : 1982
Author : Unknown
Rating : 5
Rarity : Common
Comments: A Swedish release of the space shooter classic.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Arne Fernlund
Rating : 4
Rarity : Rare
Comments: A pretty dire attempt at a shoot-em-up here. Looks and plays like the hyperspace section from "Attack of the Mutant Camels", but that's about it. Worse graphics and sound, and none of the playability of the game in question.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 5
Rarity : Uncommon
Comments: A statistics, graph and probability calculation program. Works a little different to how you expect, in that it provides a range of new commands and you write Basic programs to carry out the graph building yourself.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 5
Rarity : Rare
Comments: God knows on this one, probably some sort of modem teledata transfer program. Any ideas, please let me know!
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 5
Rarity : Rare
Comments: Another word processing type program, but doesn't appear to be as sophisticated as the Muistio program.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 4
Rarity : Scarce
Comments: A simple text adventure, with the usual 2 word input that characterises the early attempts to put the world into something other than graphics. Very difficult to start off, and the parser isn't very wide ranging either. But that's what happens when you try to cram something like this into just 8K or 16K.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 6
Rarity : Scarce
Comments: The same as The Fourth Sarcophagus in the design and detail, but easier to start off with, at least you can figure out how to get out of the plane successfully and not die! Seems to have a better premise and storyline, if you can call it that, and throws some interesting situations at you to puzzle round.
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 5
Rarity : Rare
Comments: God knows on this one as well. Any ideas, please let me know!
Company : Handic
Year : 1983
Author : Unknown
Rating : 5
Rarity : Rare
Comments: About as much as Teledata64 admitedly. Appears to be another sort of terminal communication program.
Company : Handic/Commodore
Year : 1982
Author : Unknown
Rating : 4
Rarity : Rare
Comments: One of the finds of the year courtesy of my friend Kim Lemon (of Lemon64 fame). This is the MAX C64 computer release (from Japan) somehow turning up in Sweden and being sold there. Packaging is in Swedish unsurprisingly. Game is crap admitedly, as the programmer only had 4K to work with. No 2 player option and all graphics are without animation. But this is now one of the highlights of my collection!
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