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Let's Type Diamond Drop from COMPUTE! Magazine - Commodore 64 - Issue 40, September 1983 In this video, I type in the C64 program Diamond Drop as published in COMPUTE! magazine, debug it, and then play it.Diamond Drop is a retro arcade game developed by Matt Giwer and published in the September, 1983 issue of COMPUTE! magazine. It's a really fun game and as always, was fun (and somewhat challenging) to get working. Would you like to play Diamond Drop? A download is available at Gaming Alexandria, a site dedicated to the preservation of video game history. The link is here: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/10/diamond-drop/ In the video, I mention two other COMPUTE! games that we have previously typed in and played: Blockhead, by Matt Giwer, and Caves of Ice, by Robert Tsuk and Marvin Bunker. You can see the videos for those here: Blockhead: https://youtu.be/cfOlfDMIABc?si=dg_MDivVASoxUFmW Caves of Ice: https://youtu.be/hSExS1Qa0Ow?si=_Cr0qluOUgD046q4 If you enjoy these Let's Type videos, there are more! You can check them out here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYLDSYZUkCJsO9CAR-qpwpjW9_OQM9s27&si=PpDpRlAulyFVYCFx If you're interested in checking out this issue of COMPUTE! for yourself, you can do so at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/1983-09-compute-magazine/mode/2up Video contents: 0:00 Intro 1:37 Let's Get Typing 5:44 Let's Run It 7:42 Further Debugging 9:18 Let's Play! 11:26 Outro The Clock Animation Stock Video is from Vecteezy.com: https://www.vecteezy.com/free-videos/clock-animation https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/10/diamond-drop/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHR3t1RZ88Y&t=5s