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New Stuff From Plus4Vampyre! - 2004-03-28
We're closing this week with yet another pack of goodies from Plus4Vampyre. The following cover scans have been added today: Letter Sequences - Long and Short from CBM U.S., Mercenary Compendium Edition (German covers plus box scans), and two utilities from CSJ: Utility C16 and Vokabel C16. Besides the covers, we also have some new programs to download for you: Gärtner, Safari and Steinzeit from Stone-Castle finally made their way to the archive. Finally we'd like to bring your attention to this newly added German adventure: Verschwundene Juwelen (The Lost Jewels). Thanks to Oliver for these! Enjoy!

7 More Cover Scans! - 2004-03-26
Plus4Vampyre continues to send in those rare cover scans that we just could not find anywhere else. Good for us! Let's see what today's addition brings to our collection: Power Pack (Anco) (tape release scans), Brian Clough's Football Fortunes, Castle Dracula (Adventure 5) from Microdeal, Cave Fighter (Blue Ribbon Release), Experiences in Software (a newly added compilation package from CBM U.S.) and Script/Plus (European Release). Quite a list, huh? They are worth checking out. We also have two additions from Rüdiger: The cover scan for Five Star Games III (a 5+2 game compilation tape), plus a new entry to our publications list: C16 Machine Language for the Absolute Beginnger. This one is from Melbourne House. Many thanks to Plus4Vampyre and Rüdiger for these (and sorry about the mix-up)!

YAPE 0.56 is out! - 2004-03-16
Gaia's Commodore Plus/4 emulator has been updated once again, mostly a bugfix release. In Gaia's own words on the YAPE Homepage: "This 0.56 version fixes a couple of bugs and glitches that were making their way to the previous release, and introduces an option to select either the Windows messaging or DirectInput for keyboard and joystick emulation. Latter is cycle exact but for compatibility with older computers an input method with the trusty old Windows Message Queue is also available." Get your copy now! Link: http://yape.homeserver.hu/

Disk Based Text Adventure Covers! - 2004-03-12
Sidius sent us four text adventure box scans, plus some original game supplement scans for these classic disk based text adventures: Zork II and Zork III (which completes the Zork series), Starcross and Suspended. Beautiful stuff, check it out! Many thanks to Sidius for these.

Replacement Covers! - 2004-03-11
Crown submitted full size replacement cover scans for these games: Bomb Jack II, Bubble Trouble, C16 Compilation, Dizzy Dice, Fighting Warrior and Frenesis. Many thanks!

YAPE v0.55 is out!! - 2004-03-08
In the words of our good friend BB Software "The best Commodore Plus/4 emulator was updated with some nice things", and that she has! Lets take a peek at the new: cycle based TED and SID sound WaveMapper sound option cycle based keyboard & joystick emulation (via DirectInput) improved a few SID waveforms (noise, triangle) tweaked clocking of the 1541, even more disk turbos work enhanced the autostart feature bitmap fetch reload fixed Unfortunately the update that was currently in development for PC joystick emulation to the new DirectInput interface has missed this version, but fear not as Gaia hopes to fixup a release sometime in the near future! As always head on over to the homepage and grab your nows. Cheers to BB Software for this news and many thanks once again Gaia for your continued support into YAPE! Link: http://yape.homeserver.hu/

Plus4Lst Updated! - 2004-03-05
Those of us who still hack games have most likely already used István Bozsik's great tool, Plus4Lst. (You may know him as the author of Hexaéder.) With this utility, you can turn a regular C16/Plus4 basic program into HTML listing, with all the GOTO etc statements turned into hyperlinks. While playing around with text adventures, it occurred to me, that it would be great to be able to generate lowercase listing. I fired off an email to the author about this idea, and today I have received the reply: an updated version of Plus4Lst (Version 1.2), which has this new feature built-in! Now that's what I call good customer service! :-) What this means is that uppercase words will be printed like "Object" instead of "[BJECT" (where [ is shift+O). Very useful, check it out! Big thanks to István for this!

Awesome Covers! - 2004-03-05
Wow, this stuff will blow your mind! Rüdiger sent in a whole bunch of covers, among them a few which were most-wanted. Let's start with two (previously unlisted) compilations: Best of Elite Vol 2. and C16 Greatest Hits. We have two Kingsoft releases: Crillion and Karting Grand Prix. The next two are from Audiogenic: Leapin' Louie and Grand Master. We have the cover for Liberator Space Fiends, which was the original The Magnificent Seven release of these two games. Space Fiends was re-released by Alternative Software as Fiends, we have this cover as well. Finally we have one of my personal favourites, and a very rare item: Pottit. This may be one of the two softwares ever releases by Romik. Enjoy!

4 Brand New Covers! - 2004-03-03
The covers are still pouring in! This time we're happy to announce 4 more from Sidius. We now have the original Elite release cover scan for Bomb Jack. Also added are Petch, Joey from Blue Ribbon and an italian cover, C16 Super Games 2. Excellent stuff, many thanks!