The noble art of converting games from other machines comes again in the year 2010 with its spotless aura of approval.
This time it's because of Kichy/ASN, which has considered as very addictive and fun Maziacs, an old (1983!) ZX Spectrum game with its relative incarnations on Commodore 64 and MSX too. You play the role of a brave treasure hunter in search of the treasure box buried somewhere in a randomly generated maze teemed with horrible monsters which unfortunately have humans in their dietrician's prescription. Leashed prisoners will help you about the best path to walk to, and there's food too in order to set up your energy. Swords can be picked up in order to be sure to overcome a fighting monster, but remember: you can handle either the sword or the treasure box at one time! The challenge is: take the treasure back in the minimum number of moves, and you'll be awarded by score.
Download Maziacs now, and try to master the advanced levels. Once more time: simpler plays better!
We're going to switch gears for a moment: let's take a break from all the new releases and go back to our cover collection. Our mailbox received two unexpected but very welcome gifts from two German Plus/4 fans. Let's see what we got:
First up, Deacon has in his collection a copy of Quiwi, specifically the tape version we've been looking for. The blue style Kingsoft cover is now up (along with a photo of the tape). Second, Stefan (stnow) noticed that our Terra Nova page was still asking for a full size cover. This is an excellent Plus/4 game, and it definitely deserves the original artwork to be shown in it's full glory. Thanks to Stefan, this is now done. Check it out and enjoy!
Big thanks once again for the covers, guys! Our calling still stands: be sure to send us any new/missing Plus/4 related material.
That headline took care of all my urges of being silly, so let's get down to the serious business of what's new in the World of Commodore Plus/4. Hailing from Germany, Erich/Unlimited is here with the latest issue of the longest-running diskmag on our platform: Club Info. Issue 118 doesn't stray far from the usual pattern: side a is filled (German language) articles, while side b sports new and recently released goodies. Among these are: Kalah, Number Inversion, Solitario and Rechnerei 004. Check out this fresh release and enjoy!
And from the game side, here come two game previews which have never been finished. Ice-Age looks like a first engine for a classic arcade adventure game. A legend says that Logical Game has been coded by Beast in one single night, and it appears to be 80% ready! 5 levels ready, it stucks at game over screen and misses several refinements, but the rest is ok and ready to go.
Last but not least, Methapage 01 would have been the first issue of the one and only Methabolix's disk magazine, after the Terror News handover, but at that time it looked like a no future enterprise.
Stay tuned, 'coz this seems to be a first strike only, with more to come!
The Arok party is over, so we're back to the usual routine of scene hibernation working hard. Anyway, today Ati is here with two gifts. After wrestling with his tape device, he eventually managed what no-one could before: a working backup of SCN News 26 and Lunacy 3. This makes the former mag complete (after all this time)! It seems we're still missing the 8th part of the latter, though it's also possible that number 8 was simply skipped. Nevertheless, enjoy these two, and then go back to working hard on those new Plus/4 games/demos/utilities!
Csio confirmed his promise! After few hours only from the party release, which was marked as "80%", he did the final version of Sabrina Digi 2010, much clean and with a feature which allows you to stop plasma and listen to better digi sound! Don't miss it!
Árok Party 2010 is over, and all the dices have just been thrown: the Plus/4 has been involved in two entries, both in the 8bit Demo Competition. Unreal competed in the Graphics Compo too, but with a C64 picture.
Oldschool 2 by Skoro/ASN won the 8bit Demo Compo: several FLD/FPD/FPP effects, FLI plasmas, an original view on line morphing, big fast Kefrens, great graphics and SID music persuaded the jury. We're so proud because of this, our big congrats to Skoro and his co-workers, that's a stunning piece of code!
The 2nd ranked in the 8bit Demo Compo is another cute Plus/4 entry. Sabrina Digi 2010 80%, is a little cooperation digi demo, visuals by Csio/MHY and digi tune by Luca/FIRE. Tagged as "80%", Csio has promised to achieve a full version improving sound and cleaning up the whole stuff, in the very next days. You can read the complete results on the official Árok site, where you'll find several links to party pictures album (don't miss'em!). Waiting for loooong reports from attendands to read about who/what/where directly from the party core!
Congratulations again to all the developers, organizers, attendands which have shown once again their passion, stealing time to work family childrens and real life in general, and in particular to the Commodore Plus/4 scene guys which have demonstrated once again how cool they are. Looking forward to... Árok Party 2011, the 13th edition!
As you probably know, the biggest hungarian 8 bit demoscene meeting is almost here! You can check everything at the party's homepage Arok Homepage. More important for us, that TLC is going to the party and offers fast,live Commodore Plus4 service, 8501 replaces, and other ways to bring your old commie to life again (Please contact him in the forum before the partydate about details!) You can expect some fresh new Commodore Plus4 releases as it rumoured..
This year there will be a live concert by the SIDRIP ALLIANCE (formed by c64 musicians), and last but not least the organizers offers veeery loud SID music for all your ears... Be there!
A little while ago last year I mentioned the date June 27 in a news post. Does anyone remember that? No? Even so, I feel compelled to post a little follow up.
Today all adventure games would be solved - if each day just one person added one solution. We did make some progress (most notably almost all Hungarian games are now solved), but there's more to be done. So be sure to contribute - or ask someone if you'd like to but can't or don't know how. And keep solving those adventures!
Rounding off the list is one that I bumped into in the disk archives: Heyy Guys by Sensor/NST was previously missing. Just goes to show you: keep your eyes open and don't stop digging for old treasure!
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