|  2002 - The Year in Review | | Posted by Csabo on 2002-12-31 |
2002 is over. For the last news posting this year I thought it would be nice to reflect on what kind of year this has been. So here are some of the things that happened in the last 365 days in the World of the Plus/4.
On the emulator front the coders were quite busy. YAPE went from 0.33 to 0.42. Minus4 went from 2.1 to 2.5. Even the very first emulator (Mr. Lidovski's) got updated to 1.1 (plus the source was released as well). The year brought only one Artifex update back in March. Other than that, we didn't hear much from Zsolt Prievara, leaving the fans of his two excellent emulators a bit disappointed. (We hope that you were just busy, and that you will return!) Christian Nowak has surprised us with PlusIVe for the GP32, plus a port of YAPE.
New stuff on the web. Mike Dailly became the lucky owner of plus4.com. Several new Plus/4 related sites have appeared. James C's site has found it's final home at cbm264.com. The German c16doc.de opened and now carries all German diskmags, including the still running Club Info. Maugli/EDC created a new site for their crew, listing all of their releases. Ati has created a homepage for his stuff as well. And of course Lando's Classix and the Plus/4 Database has merged, more on this later.
New software. 28 brand new releases came out this year. While this may not sound much, it's definitely an increase from the past couple of years. Is the scene really growing? I sure hope so, but only time will tell. Still, respects to all those guys who released something this year. This included: bubis, Erich/Unlimited, Hifi and the TLT gang, James C, Paul Panks (Dunric), Skoro, SVS, and me (Csabo).
The people. So many guys did so many things. Let's see: Lando has done his share of work as usual, scanning tons of covers for the site. Noro has found his way back to the scene, and has given us five cool maps. bubis has been around too. Even though he is coding on the C=64 as a Resource member, he's done some really cool stuff for the plussy. MC/EDC dropped by a few times, and even wrote a D64 utility. That crazy guy from Italy (no other than SVS) hasn't stopped pouring out the cool stuff. His ROM Map and utilities are real gems. Luca has been busy uploading stuff to c64.rulez.org, and even entered a tune for the SID Compo II. James C has gathered lots of interesting stuff, including lots of magazine article scans. The list goes on.
For me, there's a few things too. There was the endless work on this site, when I look at it now, it's hard to believe how far it has come. Written four games for the MiniGame compo, one of them won 4th place. Released the Plus4IDE tool. Hacked a bunch of games to make them work with emulators. The database project keeps growing and changing, the number of programs listed has almost doubled since we've opened Plus/4 World. I'm glad the project is finally public, we're all building this.
It has been a good year. Thanks for everyone who made it happen. Let's hope that we can make 2003 an even better year! |
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