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5 Cover Scans From Crown! - 2004-02-28 |  Crown brings up a new pack of high quality cover scans for the site. First up we have two replacements Auf Wiedersehen Monty and Panic Penguin. Thai Boxing now also has the definitive covers: front/back in high quality, separate UK and German releases. The others are brand new: we now have a Catacombs cover and for the first time an original TAP. This (unlike the cracked version) lets you select which character you want to play. And last but not least we have the scans and the TAP file for Super Gran. Thanks to Crown for these! Enjoy! |
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The First Releases Arrive! - 2004-02-28 | | The wait is finally over, the first brand new pieces of software finally made their way to Plus/4 World. Cool Pod and Summerjam are two digi demos by Hifi/TLT (who else?). They sample music from P.O.D. and The Underdog Project, respectively. This is hopefully the first in the long line of new demos, games and utilities that are to come this year. Cheers to TLT for keeping the scene alive! |
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Retro Gamer Issue Two - Out Now!! - 2004-02-28 |  It's not every day you find a magazine that contains pure retro gaming content and it's here were Retro Gamer aims to be the UK's first regular gaming title dedicated to vintage video games. I first found out about this new magazine last month. Being a printer I learned that a printing company called Polestar Colchester had won a 40,000 print run of Retro Gamer, that being issue 1 at the time. From what I can tell issue one was deep with Sepcturm and Mastertronic related features and knowing it was a 40,000 run the chances of finding it would be impossible sadly. :-(
Anyways, I have issue 2 here in my hands and it looks very cool indeed. As you expect it covers all kinds of machines and if they can they share the same topics with all the platforms that were graced with the same software such as starting out collecting with a title we all know as Manic Miner along with its follow ups. Here they list the selling price for no less than 14 machines! Manic Miner for C16/Plus4 came in at £3-£5 which is fair I would say. Issue 2 has a big section devoted to Commodore and yes even the C16/C116 and Plus4 made its way in the mag! Not too much was said but enough to keep you happy with machine comments for C16, "With 16k of RAM, it is remarkable that this machine survived" and for the Plus4, "The Plus/4 was a modest success, even with a little dedicated software base". Those were the last liners but at least they never put us down as so many have done in the past due to ignornace of not knowing anything about our system at all. They even have a fun and intresting wirte up about, "Eight shades of black". 127 or 128 colours? 
Last of all I found that these nice people also added a Commodore Web Resourse page with 3 links on offer for our system with those being, www.plus4.org, www.xeo3.com and lastly our good selfs here at Plus4 World. So if you've landed here because of Retro Gamer then a warm welcome to you!
I just might have to subscribe and keep a close eye on any other C16/Plus4 installments. If you fancy grabbing a copy for yourselves then head on over to www.livepublishing.co.uk and pop your name down for one. |
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German Cover Scans! - 2004-02-22 |   Sidius - hailing from Berlin - sent us todays new cover scans. First up is Stone-Castle release #5: Steinzeit (that means Stone Age). He also sent us perfect quality replacements for Safari and Gärtner.
Some of you may have noticed that Vokabel C16, a previously unknown piece of software was added not too long ago. (All we have currently is a poor quality scan, which was hunted down on ebay by Crown, btw.) While we still don't know much about this particular release, Sidius did send us yet another new coverscan: Text C16. Can a software title be any more generic? Anywho, Text C16 is apparently a powerful word-processor for the good old Commdore 16, released by CSJ - Computersoft Jonigk, and produced by RushWare. The design on these two cover scans are almost identical, so Vokabel C16 could be a CSJ or a RushWare release. Of course it would be good to have the actual programs as well, not to mention all the Stone-Castle games. Thanks to Sidius for this cool stuff! Enjoy! |
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Forever Emulator v1.24 is out - 2004-02-18 | | The first ever Commodore plus/4 emulator for DOS has seen another update recently. Visit the website for your copy and the source code, although the download does not seem to work at the time of this writing. It is basically a bugfix release with one new feature, a hardware reset. Many thanks to Litwr for keeping up the good work! |
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Tomb Of Tarrabash Revealed! - 2004-02-13 |  This unique release from Audiogenic was one of the elusive ones, we just could not get our hands on an original copy. Well, the wait is over: Ulysses777 brings you the cover scans and TAP files for Tomb Of Tarrabash! This cool platformer may be a little hard to get into, but it's definitely a game that can keep you occupied. If you haven't been in the tomb yet, this is the time to check it out... We have also added the TAP file for Solo. Enjoy! |
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2 Covers From SVS! - 2004-02-12 |   That's right, the utility guru himself actually took time away from coding his utilities to scan the covers of two... utilities. (What, did you really expect game covers?) We now have the Italian cover for Script/Plus, along with an advertisement page, and also the cover for Calc/Plus. Jim Hehl's Calc/Plus documentation is also on-line. If you haven't played with this yet, now is the time to check out what these can do. Thanks for the scans, enjoy! |
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FIRE homepage online now! - 2004-02-11 |  Last week a cruel flu had stopped me, and I was forced to rest in my room. Hence, catching the bouncing ball, I designed a commemorative homepage dedicated to crew of mine. After so many years spent in the Plus/4 scene, FIRE surely deserves a site containing all the stuff released under its label. There will be a new URL under the plus4.net hierarchy for it soon, you'll know when it will happen; while waiting, lemme know if you like it or not. Now enjoy! |
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Two More New Covers! - 2004-02-11 |   Plus4Vampyre scanned two more covers for us. The first one is C16 Star Games Classics, which is yet another repackaged compilation tape stuffed with classic C16 Gremlin Graphics games. The second is a scan of Witness, an Infocom text adventure. He also sent us the D64 image for this game as well. Excellent stuff! Enjoy! |
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Tons of TAPs! - 2004-02-03 | | Today's second update comes from Crown, whose datasette must be burning after transferring this many programs from tape. Let's start with Math Games and Word Problems: we have added not less than 8 TAP files, one for each game that's on this compilation release. Next we have the TAP for Panik!, this time the version that works both on the C16 & Plus/4. We also have a new Paintbox TAP file: this actually contains a demo picture after the program! See the details page for loading instuctions on that. Finally we have Music Master's TAP file for the first time, but even this one comes with an added bonus, there's a demotune recorded after the program. Load it (instructions are on the details page once again), it's nice to listen to. Many thanks to Crown for these! |
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