|  Magician's Curse +2 NTSC/PAL | | Posted by Luca on 2019-06-30 |
 Absence is decisely getting a fine rush into the cracking side of the scene. This time, it's the turn of a classic one from Gremlin Graphics, to be double trained and NTSC fixed by Chronos. Now you can complete the game by activating unlimited strength and featuring a super jump to stay above any obstacle.
Play Magician's Curse +2 NTSC/PAL it online, or download it as .prg file. |
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| | 3D Engine | | Posted by Csabo on 2019-06-20 |
 If you have been following the forum, you've seen George detailing the progress of his 3D Engine. Today is the day, the first version of this project is finally released! Check out this YouTube video to see it in action, or download it and give it a shot. The release also includes a converter (PC executable) which converts OBJ files (e.g from Blender) into the necessary Plus/4 SEQ equivalents. The set of SEQ included will draw a space shuttle. Enjoy! |
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| | It's A Mexican Standoff! Sigma Vs. Aurrerá Vs. Commodore | | Posted by Luca on 2019-06-12 |
 Even nowadays, in 2019, some dark corners exist, fields in the shadows of that vast territory — both in space and time — which we use to refer as: Commodore 16 history. The immense expansion of the Commodore home computers' phenomenon in the Eighties has someways contributed to build up some unexplored zones regarding the 264 series too, from where picking up infos software and hardware is basically quite a hard task to achieve.
The history about how the Commodore 16 did conquer a slice of the home computers' market in Mexico — and several Mexican teens too! — represents one of those fascinating obscure stuff we described just before. The whole tale orbits around Grupo Sigma S.A. and its collaboration with the supermarket chain Aurrerá to take the Commodore licence in Mexico, distributing a series of NTSC based Commodore machines, under the two logos "Sigma-Commodore". Sigma had then feeded the software request too, both importing/translating/upgrading true official CBM signed games (education games, mostly), and producing some new software for the internal market too.
Nowadays, the Commodore hardware produced by Sigma is a rarity, and in any case it's an item difficult to have even for the most skilled collectors here around, being strictly located in Mexico. On the software side, few sporadic signs of life have succesfully been unearthed: most of what we know, comes from the online markets, showing some bids around weird cartridges (see as example: Jack Attack, C16 Tutor, Domino (Sigma)...), and some quite rare publications (Introducción Al Basic Sigma Commodore 16 Parte I, Como Programar Su Sigma Commodore 16...). And that was all we knew about. Till now.
Finally, May 2019: Juan José Vélez, maintainer of SigmaCommodore.com, after very few posts since its opening in 2015, has freed 4 disk sides in .D64 format to all the nostalgic once-were-kids out there, coupled with the Facebook page featuring rare pictures about finds of that era. This little but remarkably precious collection is the very first actual contact with the Mexican's C16 experience, so let's see what's been found into it:
 – old Commodore's educational games, mostly about English grammar, defined in the comments as "upgraded" by Sigma D. M. (arguably, the in-house programming department at Sigma), some are labelled, some not, nothing can be understood about how they'd been released (single or compilation, cassette or cartridge...); moreover, there are several tags here and there, like "Compuclub", which hinder to know if that's a crack or an original one;
– commercial Commodore's third party games, originally NTSC compatible or switched to NTSC, some translated some not, some look like real commercial releases (UXB (Sigma)), some...meh who knows (Carreras BMX));
– type-ins from who knows which listmagazines;
– educationals and utilities unrecognizable as commercial;
– terrible NTSC hacks of some PAL driven European games (Starforce Nova NTSC));
– native stuff coming from out of the blue, the most lovable slice!
 Let's spot out some notable ones! Exorcista looks like the first genuine release we've detected as a real commercial Sigma release, due to that known picture (now you can see it into the game's entry) showing its big box, a straight message to all the collectors here. Memoria (Sigma) does not show any direct Sigma's label, but reading the gameplay's description right from the back of the one seen on the Sigma Commodore Facebook page, it seems it's a perfect match! FisiCalc, pretty nice scientific tool, it's a pity that the simulation does not work, is there a working version out there? Hey you, Cesar Joel Garcia G., what did you put down here with your Túnel Galáctico, a shooter written in ML with a cinematographic ending, absolute cuteness! Pasadizo: the classic 3D maze looks quite better from behind the shoulders.
Do you know which's the best part in all of this? The best part is that Juan José Vélez has just promised further stuff to be out in the near future! Nothing can make us happier! Meanwhile, here follows the complete list of contents: Halcon Galactico, Agenda Telefonica C-16 V1.1, CB, Decaimiento Radioactivo, Diagrama De Tres Ejes, FisiCalc, Formula Cuadratica, Graficador, Gráfico De Barras, Integrales, Integrales Numéricas, Triángulos, Trinomios, Melodysss, La Gran Maquina Musical, A Or An, Ajedrez, Anti-aéreo, Blackjack (Sigma), Campo De Fresones, Carreras BMX, Conecta Cuatro, Cuadro Magico, El Panel, Exorcista, Golf (Mexican), Guerra Estelar, Hangman (Sigma), Invasores, Jump Of Lady, Justa, Laberinto, POD (NTSC), GWNN (NTSC), Medial Vowels, Memoria (Sigma), Memoria De Letras, Misiles, Nave, Paracaidista, Pasadizo, Ratón, Rotación, Scramble (Sigma), Sentences, Spelling Errors, Snowy Day Nouns, Simon (Mexican), Spell-mean, Starforce Nova (NTSC), Stargo, Túnel Galáctico, UXB (Sigma), Xzap (Sigma), Veintiuno. |
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| | Berks Four +5 | | Posted by Csabo on 2019-06-08 |
 Berks Four is back in the news - as it should be, it's a fantastic game by any measure. The occasion is Absence releasing their crack of the game, called Berks Four +5. If you found the game too hard, now is your chance to cheat bend the rules a little. Want the Berks to get out of the way faster? Need to break those walls quicker? Did you end up at a gate and forgot to pick up all the keys? This crack has you covered!
Thanks to Chronos for this release! |
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| | RS232 File Sender and Receiver | | Posted by Csabo on 2019-06-03 |
Hardware enthusiasts, take notice: GMOLN just released RS232 File Receiver. He writes:
I would like to publish my File Sender and Receiver toolset for Commodore Plus/4. You can find a lot of details about these programs in the user manual PDF. I worked a lot on them, and I hope you will find them useful for the community.
Currently, I am working on a really usable VT100 compatible serial terminal program. It is nearly ready and it can handle most of the VT100 commands, colors, UTF8 characters (with limitations), etc. Unfortunately, it is not feasible to implement all VT100 features, because of the inherent limitations of the Commodore Plus/4...
In case of any questions about the File Sender / Receiver or VT100 terminal, you can reach me on gabormolnar@live.com. |
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