|  Boring Stuff! | | Posted by Csabo on 2023-12-30 |
 Did you think that his little programme from back in October was the only thing gerliczer was planning to haunt you with this year? You were almost right. But unfortunately, your luck has run out. After two days of fretting, swearing and name calling he managed to hunt down and eliminate the pesky bug blocking the release. Please, welcome with the well-deserved tedium his new intro: Boring Stuff. |
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|  | On the heels of the Pets Rescue and Alpharay loader, BSZ brings you all an SD2IEC loader for Lykia! | [ comments ] |
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| | Merry Christmas To You All! | | Posted by 5tarbuck on 2023-12-23 |
| Ho ho ho!!! Have you all been good this year? Then Santa and his hard-working helpers have a little gift for you... |
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| | Encouraged the by the resounding success of the previous loader, BSZ just made an SD2IEC loader for Alpharay! | [ comment ] |
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| | Doomed PETSCII Pacman! | | Posted by Csabo on 2023-12-10 |
 Have you ever wondered what would combining Doom and Pac-Man would end up like? Wonder no more, Doomed PETSCII Pacman by Ko-Ko is here to answer that.
Don't expect typical Pac-Man gameplay, almost everything works slightly differently. Eating power pellets can have terrible effects, but they are needed to level up. Eating ghosts is deadly as always. In addition to the conventional Pac-Man enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde) this game also has Zinky and Drinky!
Enjoy! |
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| | C16+4: Do The Math And Find The Mag | | Posted by Luca on 2023-12-05 |
 We've known about C64Mark through his delicious redux versions of some C16 cult games, and due to his weekly activity as live streamer on his Twitch channel. Probably the audience doesn't know him as a collector of games of the era in their physical copies, and games' magazines in early times.
Exactly as regards this latest passion of him, a few days ago he had the chance to put his hands on a rare series of fanzines, titled as 20 User, where the number 20 is a straight reference to the funny sum of "16+4", does this rings more than one bell into your head?
C64Mark has found and consequently purchased five issues in series from 1 to 5, and of course we don't know if there are further issues of this magazine, which presents itself as "the official magazine of C16 and Plus/4 User's Club". What we do know, however, is that the people behind the product used to sign as Micro Media, and the editorial board was located in the heart of Scotland, in Carluke, a city in the Lanarkshire county.
20 User fanzine is a precious testimony of the era, every issue includes passionate reviews of the games and news about the next releases to be, shining of that teen energy of which somone of us could have some memories about. Do you remember if one of these magazines has ever come into your hands?
[Issue 1] [Issue 2] [Issue 3] [Issue 4] [Issue 5] |
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| | Into The Eagle's Nest Deluxe | | Posted by Csabo on 2023-12-05 |
09 September 1990: Mutschler Péter, better known as Mucsi, has released a Plus/4 porting of the C64's Gauntlet-styled game Into The Eagle's Nest. It was a lovable conversion work, but the game resulted as compromised by some strongly personal choices in the graphics, some notable bugs, plus the bugs naturally present even in the original game. All in all, a brave attempt, reaching a debatable result. It's Csabo/LOD, who embraced the task to integer the old code with new fixes and some new features from scratch, also to enrich the presentation with a cool intro and add so many stuff and fixes, in order to have a real tangible Into The Eagle's Nest Deluxe! Once purged from any kind of bug, and found the right compomises to keep its aspect at best on Plus/4, Into The Eagle's Nest Deluxe is now the best way to play the super classic from Pandora software house.
As the game says: "let's get down to some serious destruction!"
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| | Meet Your Own Ghosts At Blackwood Manor | | Posted by Luca on 2023-12-02 |
 It's Christmas time for Mr. and Mrs. King, and what's better than living that magic time of the year by moving into a remote Scottish manor house, just days before the end of 1986?
The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor is an award-winning interactive horror from Stefan Vogt, the acclaimed author of Hibernated 1 and The Curse of Rabenstein. Take on the role of novelist Thomas King and his wife Cora. Seeking inspiration for his next book, Thomas begins to explore the history of Blackwood Manor, only to uncover a dark secret that dates back centuries to the days of the Great Scottish Witch Hunts. It's a complex interactive fiction piece written in Infocom's advanced Z-machine format XZIP. The game has three different endings, a bad, a neutral and a good ending, depending on the player's choices. It is very likely that the player, on a first playthrough, will not reach the good ending, even though it is possible. Reaching the bad or neutral ending first is part of the experience and helps the player understanding the true intentions of some of the NPCs and the impact of decisions made, so they may be reconsidered. The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor is following the path of some of the most iconic interactive fiction works from the 80s and early 90s, trying to resemble a retro look and feel but it also aims to meet modern era expectations. There are no dead ends and the diffculty level is moderate. Generally it's more about experiencing a story rather than drowning the player in frustration.
Initially released as freeware/NYP under the new label Moonmist Entertainment on a plethora of systems from the '80s, a commercial distribution by poly.play is on the way. We suggest to play it for free, but the author has spent tons of time passion and work on this game, so we think that you should show some appreciation by dropping a very reasonable quid at the official page. |
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