|  Rumble With A Shamble: Robots Rumble! | | Posted by Luca on 2019-05-31 |
 In space, no one can hear you scream "Damn magneeeeeet!". There's too much metallic crap in the universe, we need a hero to melt it down once and forever. And the man in charge is: you!
Open up your ears... yes, it's a loud Robots Rumble! Digital Monastery, the game developing department of Hokuto Force hits the Commodore Plus/4 (or Commodore 16 +64K) once again with this puzzle & action game that will make you punches your computer desk in frustration! Originally written as a C64 game for the RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition 2019, this game "speaks in French" again: it's Majikeyric behind the code, and this time Uctumi is with him for the musical score, and Miguetelo as well who did the graphics and the game concept:
Old broken robots must be pushed down into the lava on all the planets you visit. It appears to be quite a delicate duty to accomplish without troubles, if you wanna avoid severe pollution or dangerous interactions with other moving element. And no, the inner caves of a planet are not that simple vertical void where to kick stuff safely. The solution? Guiding magnets! The broken robots still have their wheels, hence a couple of well charged magnets are able to carefully move them in order to go thru the obstacles into the caves. Beware to finish out of charge! Be warned about the many situations the player can meet: breaking glass floors, climbing through light lifts, using teleportation, etc. Luckily, some mobile platforms help to fill gaps between two distant floors, in the case.
Robots Rumble is the ecologic space duty game the spring 2019 was waiting for on Commodore Plus/4, but it also is a challenge for your nerves! It's a game of memory, great view and fine problem solving capabilities. So keep calm, move those magnets in the right way, aaaaand the robot takes the riiiight waaaaAAAAMN YA TELEPORT RAY! |
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| | They're Back! Berks Four! | | Posted by Luca on 2019-05-21 |
 Oh my, they're back! After 34 years they're back, and the story resumes exactly where it was left off, in their impenetrable city of Berks 3!
It's Jon Williams, ladies and gentlemen, straight from the pantheon where the C16/Plus4 VIPs of the heydays populate our memories. But this time, it's a full 64K affair! After a short period spent to leave a footprint in the Atari scene too, the Berks are now back to their original system, in the fourth chapter of the series: Berks Four! If the glorious ancestor did make you search for keys in a 30 rooms environment, the 2019 dated newcomer throws in your face a gauntlet made of 4 different worlds with increasing complexity, from a simple initial one consisting in 16 rooms to a challenging fourth world which needs to be divided in three separate zones to be solved.
At first glance, the game looks like an easier beast to tame: Berks, Drones, blocks, keys, hearts. Your tank shoots double fire this time, and all in all it seems that your enemies won't be up for long time; you can bounce against the walls and the score doesn't reduce, and this time you can hit both Berks and shootaway blocks without loosing a life. And then, in the exact time you feel home & dry while progressing into the game, they become a myriad, the Drones are everywhere till new breeds of them come in, brand new featured items will surprise you, some wicked new baddies will tangle your movement, and soon everything will become a frantic exploit that raises your senses to the max.
 The whole production flows as clean and silky an actual commercial prod would have been, and it changes from the traditional look and gameplay typical of the series so gradually to preserve the oldschool spirit of the game, yet morphing into a modern game's structure based on a classic concept. One over anything else: in this fourth chapter, nobody can comfortably play into those vast worlds without the new live mapping option featured, which gets refreshed time after time, even considering the remaining shootaway blocks. All in all, Berks Four truly represents what the Berks fans have dreamt for so long time.
Jon Williams's fans, let's prepare, you got a long way to go while playing this definitive consecration of the most loved series in the Commodore 16 history ever, even with the password system featured. Surprises won't miss, so you've been warned. And now, no further words, it's time to aim at higher scores by unleashing your best performance, gaining better percentages in solving any single word! Back to our youth, forth to success, it's Berks Four! |
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| | The Götz-Tobias Heger Collection 4/4 | | Posted by Luca on 2019-05-19 |
 So here we are, this long ride to include in the database a selection of missing and unseen programs coming from the Götz-Tobias "GeTE" Heger colllection, has just reached the fourth and last chapter: more than 200 demos, utilities, games, magazines and cracks have been added, with their load of infos about the very first steps of the Plus/4 scene.
This last update includes several games we missed from the best German type-ins authors, kings of the magazines from the 80ies: we have a wonderful Solitaire (Compute Mit) by Michael Meissner, Super Oktogon signed by Roby YU, Space Night created by Peter Wirbelauer, and Terminator (Colossus-Soft) naturally by Colossus-Soft; we discovered a U C Demo II subsequent to the first (and only, we thought so at least...) one, and it's fascinating to see how many obscure groups' attempts took place in that precise era (The First H.R.C. Demo, Ruelps Construction Kit (HCS)); on the utilities side, Grafix MC 3.2 looks like a professional (and probably commercial) program , and Graphprint Plus/4 seems to be one of the most advanced math functions analyzer we've seen ever. In the very end, let's mark all the great releases from Götz-Tobias Heger himself, call him both TSG or GeTE or GETE-Soft: cracks, utilities and intros, he really loved the Plus/4 since day zero!
So, 4th and last spitting out, it's done! Here's the complete list of the added programs, thank you again TSG: Geschaeftbriefe Deutsch English, Grafix MC 3.2, Graphprint Plus/4, Konjugi, Loadermaker V1.3, Modem RS232 V1.2, Proglan, Speak, Special-Timer, Speckled Gnome Cruncher, Speckled Gnome Cruncher II, Tonkopf-Justier-Programm 1.2, Window Manager, Textword 2, Adressen 116 (alternative), Adressen-Brief, Turbo-Plus (3 versions), Uni-Loader, Zed, Solitaire (Compute Mit), Shark Attack (crack), Space 1999 (crack), Spirale, Super Cobra (crack), Super Oktogon, Super-Muehle 32K, Space Night, Strip Poker (crack), Terminator (Colossus-Soft), Trizons (crack), Thai Boxing (crack), The Way Of The Tiger (crack), Tom Thumb (crack), Turbocar, Xadium (crack), Xargon Wars (crack), Ruelps Construction Kit (HCS), Special Effects, Soundtrack, Synthesizer (Demo), The First H.R.C. Demo, The Prisoner HAS, TEK Porno Show 01, TEK Porno Show 03, U C Demo II. |
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| | The Götz-Tobias Heger Collection 3/4 | | Posted by Luca on 2019-05-16 |
 We're keeping a perfect step with this multiple parts' big release, so why breaking the flow? Let's go ahead, reaching the 3rd quarter's giveaway of the Götz-Tobias "GeTE" Heger colllection's update, with brand new programs absolutely unseen before.
You know what we mean: it's a demos, utilities and games/cracks affair. So let's underline some of the new entries. The TTL crack of the seminal Mercenary - Flucht Aus Targ is certainly a historical one to point out: he's one of the VIPs in the ancient German scene, and anything from him has to be considered as pure mythology; Intro (Roby YU) is the first and apparently only demo by Roby YU, it's a cracktro used to be spreaded as first loading of his collections; we've got several original versions of entries we only had as modified or cracked programs: Rocket Man, Shaolin, WSYS, Schatztaucher; Textverarbeitung, the most common type-in about 80 columns text typing, has now been covered in all the known versions which have been around in the heydays of the listing magazines; other bits include the Andreas Bachler's softography addons, an ancient Turbo Tape Copy V1.5 by KMS that looks quite old, a Notemaker Preview which has never reached the alpha release, and more.
No more lazy talking, let's spit out the solid complete list for this 3rd wave, waiting the last forthcoming one in the next days: Kundenrechnungen, WSYS (complete D64), Textverarbeitung (alternative), Textprogramm, The Final Deleter (V3.3), Trace (Compute Mit), Text 80, Type, Turbo-Cursor, Superdat (original), Schraffieren, Soundhelfer, Soundmachine, Speichersplit, Multi-disk (Sprenger Software) (1541/1551), Turbo Tape Copy V1.5, Psychedelia (crack), RAM-Deleter (2 versions), Vokabeltrainer, Vokabelstar, The Disc Wizard (TSG), Maniax (crack), Monty On The Run (crack), Mr. Puniverse (crack), Mercenary - Flucht Aus Targ (crack), NASA, Osterei-Sucherei, Paperboy (crack), Pferderennen, Phantom (German) (crack), Pilot 1, Pilot In Space, Platform Diving (alternative), Poker (Tronic), Quiwi (crack), Rocket Man (original), Return Of Rockman (crack), Shaolin (original), Schatztaucher (original), Skat (Tronic), Safeguard (crack), Greet Demo '90, Hier Kommt Alex, Intro 1989, Intro (Roby YU), Kung Fu Fighting (Micro Maniac), Notemaker Preview, Playmate Show 1, Raster-Demo. |
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| | The Götz-Tobias Heger Collection 2/4 | | Posted by Luca on 2019-05-14 |
 Oh well, still so much meat on the bbq, so why waiting further time to face the new big wave of programs for this series. It's a one-two attack in the vey center of the ring, and you don't have to tighten your high guard, the 2nd quarter of the Götz-Tobias "GeTE" Heger collection's gran riserva is already here!
Again, more utilities, more demos, more games from nowhere. Picked up from this massive update, spotlights on to some selecteded ones: Demo '89 is a little onefilre from Men Of Science we've missed somewhat, look at that juicy DYPP; Dual Drive Utility Program is the oldest known release from Mr. L, and it looks like the grandpa of the succeeding Double Drive Filecopy; finally, a clean and original release of the colorful type-in Marble Madness, and this allowed to add the ending too; a 16K version of Japan Sea has surfaced, and it has its own TED tune instead of the questionable digitized voice of the bigger version; Pigmy didn't remember this, but there was a Basic demo released with his Digital Drums, and now we have it on the same D64; let's continue to add several cracks from quite obscure German labels, plus TSG himself has preserved his cracktros alone (a cracktro is a demo put as standalone in a cracks' collection), but we've also found the single release of a rare crack intro from The Bitsoft LTD. (a crack intro is a demo packed with a cracked program).
Thank you again Tobias, it's just because of you that the follow new programs are now saved from the dust of time: Data-Maker, DD Backup C16, Debugger V1.1, Der C64 Als Magier, Disk-Butler V3.0, Disksorter, Disksorter 5-Spalti, Disksorter (Compiled), Disksorter V3.5, Krussoft-Disksorter, Ligatabelle, Diskstart, Disk-Start, Druck '89 V1.0, Dual Drive Utility Program, Data-Base, Digital Drums (with demo), Double Screen, Demo Writer V1.3, Getsetreg, Haushalt-Konten, Laufschrift, Mastercopy V2.1, Menue-Generator, Tex Willer, Feindfahrt U 107 (crack), Fighting Warrior (crack), Fingers Malone (crack), Fussballmanager, Ghosts 'n Goblins (crack), Gridtrap (crack), Goldrush (crack), Hang Man, Indoor Sports (crack), Invincible (crack), Japan Sea (C16 version), Jetbrix (hack), Jumper (alternative), Kaiser (LWM), Leaper (disk), Legionnaire (crack), Marble Madness (original D64), Bytesoft Intro, C64 Picture Show, Compacted Intros, Camera, CD Intro Preview, Cheap Trial, Demo-Ruckeln, Demo '89, Dallas (Demo), Disco In Moskau. |
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| | The Götz-Tobias Heger Collection 1/4 | | Posted by Luca on 2019-05-12 |
 We at Plus/4 World are very happy when someone send to us his personal collection, saved from the corruptibility of the matter by converting'em into immaterial digital images, and then passed to us, in order to be preserved and shared all over the world. Checking dozens, sometimes hundreds, of programs could turn out to be a time wasting work, but the diligence applied to this job reveals to be a sweet duty, until it becomes a real treasure hunt with pleasant discoveries and unknown pieces of history resurfacing.
It happened again, this time we've put our hands in the collection of Götz-Tobias "GeTE" Heger, a big bunch of stuff in D64 and PRG formats, mostly based on the German scene between the 80s and the early 90s, including the programs coming from the vast German publishing of type-ins (for example, the collection has contributed to find and save several programs from Compute Mit Sonderheft SA), some early (and precious!) game cracks, and utilities and cracks released by TSG himself under different nicknames.
Moreover, the GeTE collection has brought a decisive contribution to compose the whole jigsaw of the obscure balkanic side of the C16/Plus4 history: we picked up several missing originals of what now can be recognized as the Roby YU production.
Lastly, we've found some very obscure German diskmagazines, and we've tried to interpret their unfortunate stories.
 Up to 200 single programs circa have been sorted out in order to be included into our general database, and several fixes and updates have just been done too. Hence, the whole bunch willl be announced in four separate dates, starting from this first one. Thank you Tobias, your present have been much appreciated!
The complete list of newly added entries follows: SYS-X, Commodisk 1, Commodisk 2, Commodisk 3, Name Changer, 3,5''-Label Printsystem, Textverarbeitung (alternative), All-Dat, Apfelberge 3D, Auto-Starter, Adress 16, Artikelmanager, Buchhaltung 16, Auto-Old, AVP, Basic-Compressor, Basicmon, Basic-Start, Bio-Horoskop, Biorhythmus 32K, Biorhythmus 32K, Biorhythmus (Austrospeed), Briefmarkenverwaltung, Capri II, Chr-Former, Computer-Kommunikation, 7501 Einzelschritt-Emulator (complete version), A-07 (crack), Atlantik Krieg, Attack!, Auf Wiedersehen Monty (crack), Astro Plumber (crack), Bazooka Bill, BMX Racer (Basic), Speed King (crack), Bobby (Italian), Bombs Away (alternative), Break Out, Canoe Slalom (crack), Car-Race, Mayhem (crack), Classic Adventure (crack), Cokin Super, Corman (alternative), Dallas, Das Haus Des Magiers (alternative), Droid (version), Duell, Emerald Mine (crack), Audio-Cassetten-Index, 8 Bit Classics 03, 8 Bit Classics 04, Anleitung The Jet, Terror Sampling III, Terror Sampling I, To Be On Top (MB) (alternative), Intermusik. |
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| | HVTC Update May 2019 | | Posted by Luca on 2019-05-06 |
High Voltage TED Collection, (HVTC for closer friends of it) rises up again with a new update, taking the overall number of single files to 657.
This time, the largest slice of the new stuff comes from the Very Rare Formats battle arena, ignited by Battle of the Bits. Almost all the entries have been used as experimentation fields for generic non-Commodore composers using Knaecketraecker and TEDzakker, and this marks a very notable goal: apart of the pure results of those noble efforts, having the chance to use one tracker or editor you can play with — or more to pick up and use as better option — is a real step ahead! Again, fixes, rarities (like the Rabló-Rulett IRQ tape loader tune) and new scene tunes don't miss to be included there.
Don't forget to completely delete the whole previous collection (that's the way to do at any new update!), then download/unzip the new one!
This is the straight link to the ZIP file. |
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