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Another Rare Surprise
Posted by Csabo on 2011-06-29
About ten years ago (how time flies!), back when Plus/4 World didn't even have its forums yet, SVS asked about a mysterious program called Print Shop. The only other mention of a software with similar name was in the Hungarian magazine Terror News 14 - though we didn't have it in any of our archives. That is, until the 2nd pack of Moldi's treasure brought us Print Shop, converted by Totya. This is definitely the one that Terror News mentions. So, that's all there is to it, right?

Print Shop +4Not quite! To my pleasant surprise, I received an email from Cassy. He wrote:
Back in 1992 I converted Print Shop to the Plussy. I'd like to ask you to put it up on Plus/4 World. I'd be grateful if it wouldn't be forgotten. Thanks in advance!
Well, it is my pleasure, of course From the looks of it, it's a very nice piece of software. You can use your +4 to design greeting cards, note cards, banners and a whole lot more. Check it out and enjoy! Big thanks to Cassy for sending this in!
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Botticelli Bilderdisk 36
Posted by Csabo on 2011-06-23
Botticelli Bilderdisk 36This summer is starting out great, we're getting new releases! Erich/Unlimited has just sent us his new release: Botticelli Bilderdisk 36. It's two disk-sides of pictures in Botticelli format, using the Magica viewer. The quality and theme of the pictures is quite varied: you'll find many things from hand-pixelled scenes to digitized stills. Check it out and enjoy!
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New TAP Image Recovered
Posted by Csabo on 2011-06-10
Abraka-dabraWe'd like to drop a quick note here about a new treasure that Lacus just sent in. Abraka-dabra (which translates to "abracadabra" ) is an old Hungarian educational title. Lacus managed to get his hands on a factory tape and grabbed the TAP files. This means that it came with no cover or packaging whatsoever (we're still on the lookout for that). Check it out if you're so inclined, though for non-Hungarian speakers it will be incomprehensible. Nevertheless, it's one more piece of the puzzle! Thanks to Lacus for this, enjoy!
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Perfect Visions 3 Released
Posted by Csabo on 2011-06-06
Perfect Visions 3More good news this month: Ati has just released the final version of Perfect Visions 3. Unlike the party version (released at Busodore 2011), this one features an original TED tune. Download this release and enjoy the final version: it has nice vectors (including full frame-rate filled cube and 25 fps glenz) and what is probably the first ZoomDypp on our platform. If you like it, don't forget to vote! Enjoy!
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Club Info 122 Release
Posted by Csabo on 2011-06-05
Club Info 122Erich/Ultd just released the second Club Info issue of 2011: Club Info 122 is here! The disk image is full on both side: side A has the articles (news, hardware, game and utility reviews, etc), side B has the new and recent stuff. Of these, the following are being added to our database for the first time: OZ History (and edutainment title from Australia), Zitadelle (a German BASIC game) and Bloedsinn Hoch3 (a joke program from Lukian). Check it out and enjoy!
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Happy Birthday Mermaid!
Posted by Luca on 2011-06-03
Half 70Oh, let me remember the proverb...ah yes: better late than never!

The 21th of April a beloved scener, highly respected in many different scenes, reached her 35th year of life. The 35 years'turning point is a significative and important goal for everyone since Dante had thought to begin writing the Divine Comedy with the sentence "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita", translated: "In the midst of our life's walking", an innovative poetic way to refer exactly to this age: 35!

Ladies, gentlemen: our birthday one is Mermaid. She does code, she composes chip music, she's worldwide famous for her unique skills in drawing on an innumerable range of different media, as she has shown to all of us makin'up her übercute parallax scrolling part in 8 Shades of Black 16K trackmo. That's because we hope to see more 264 releases from her in the (near?) future. Even though all the skills, experience and knowledge of the deep mechanics under the scene in general, all the people who had the luck to swap words and ideas with Vanja remember about her courtesy when relating with them, and the strong personality she never save to spread all around.

In the end, we all join the loud voice of Csio's birthtro, with graphics and SID music by Mermaid herself: happy 35th birthday Vanja!
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Moldi's Treasure 3/10
Posted by Luca on 2011-06-02
Knight Rider 2Have you been a good boy this year? The 3rd bunch has come!
Another sifting session, another bundle of stuff to view and download. This time, we have some very weird programs to spit out, like Reakcioidö game or Videofeliratozo or the questions'part of Az Atom Szerkezete (spreaded together? alone? we dunno yet...). We have finally found out a completely working version of Gentlemen's Knight Rider 2 megademo on two sides, and now we're able to entirely watch the fantastic pieces of code W-Man is capable to put down. Another megademo, Wonderland 3 got fixed: now the last part loads ok on any drive, the weird bug it did show in the past was a bad copy affair.

TCFS DemoBut now, let's hurtle to the real gem of this 3rd bunch, in which we definitely solve one of the most ancient mysteries in the Plus/4 scene.
For dozens years we only got one file of the vanished demo, the 14th part to be precise. Now, A.D. 2011, Moldi gives us a tangle of files, and they show to load each other. After a painstaking work of rebuilding, we've shown the final result to the original coder (ah, the power of Facebook!) and he approved it, recognizing it has been rebuilt exactly in the original shape.
Gentlemen: after 22 years in the dark, the TCFS Demo is here, a milestone of the scene! Dated September 1989, it has to be marked as one of the older megademos ever, only kept second by A Trip, a real hidden gem!

This is the complete list for the 3nd batch, enjoy all of them and wait for the fourth session:
Zoom, Zenei ABC, Videofeliratozo, Videofeliratozo Plus4, Videozo, Turbobasic +, Turbo Plus (version), Turbo-32000, TDD-player, Szamologep, Super Bongo, Sejtautomata, Rejtvenyszerk, Nyilvantarto, Lissajous, Letter Writer, Legiharc-modok, Johnny's Letter Writer, Johnny's Packer, Deli Compacker (HCS), Debil, Basic-packer (x2), Wave, Torpedo 3D, Titkosügynök (version), Szamtoto, Risiko, Reakcioidö, Pinball (Commodore), Biologia, Az Atom Szerkezete (part), Wonderland 3 (fix), TCFS Demo, To Be On Top (MB), The Mad Cat, Perpetual Lives Plus4, Megabass, Knight Rider 2, Kaufhaus Digi.
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