|  Rare Newsstand Compilation Found | | Posted by Luca on 2013-02-23 |
 This one is a very particular tape collection of pirated C16 games, because it's the one and only known newsstand collection released by Pubblirome with C16 games, in the time when Pubblirome was one of the most active C64 oriented publishers of newsstand cassettes.  Moreover, it's a LONG tape, with 20 hacked games per side (side A has Vic20 games recorded on), and in general the longer the tape is, the rarest is the chance to find it working. |
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| | Rare Maniax Tape Found | | Posted by Luca on 2013-02-15 |
 It's a Maniax, Maniax on the tape! And it's playing like it's never played as cracked!
We've finally found an original tape for Maniax, the colorful Qix clone released by our beloved Kingsoft in 1988! We've bought for less than a dozen Euros, and promptly dumped into .TAP format. It comes in its original tape suit as you can see in the cassette's picture, but in a deck with copied cover and inlay instructions, just like it should have been a sort of closure offer stuff.
The purchase of this original version has allowed us to understand few data about Maniax:
- some graphic tiles used as bonuses are originally broken in the tape version, this means it wasn't due to a bad cracking consequence;
- even in the original tape the infamous bug which randomly occurs after the 2nd level does happen, consisting both in a non moving main foe and preventing the background graphics to appear when an area is closed;
- the same bug does not generally happen in Maniax (MOS), hence might it the latter be a crack from the disk copy, maybe different from the tape one?
We're still hunting for the disk version of Maniax, even spotted around but at high prices. Who wanna join into the big hunting challenge? |
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| | Hires Color 7 | | Posted by Csabo on 2013-02-12 |
 Erich/Ultd is here with the 2nd release this year, the 7th part of his Hires Color series. Hires Color 7 contains 32 images and utilises the Magica driver. With several Duce and Veto (C64 graphicians) pictures included, it's a good selection. Thanks to Erich for this release, enjoy! |
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| | New Scans | | Posted by Csabo on 2013-02-10 |
Several new scans have been added to the Plus/4 World collection today:
* First, we have the German version of Targ Survival Kit, called Targ-Überlebenspackung. This was bundled with the German Mercenary Compendium Edition. Thanks to Rüdiger and C16 Chris for these! (Watch out for the ultra-hq versions, they are huge.)
* Hans got his hands on the manual for Page Setter V2.0, this has been added in PDF format (see: Page-Setter 2.0). He's been in contact with the program's author, so other info might be forthcoming.
* First time contributor Björn saw that we needed the cover for the Tynesoft game Munch It, so he scanned it and sent it in. This has been now added, and in very high quality too!
Thank to all who sent in this stuff, check it out and enjoy! |
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