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2006 - The Year In Review
Posted by Csabo on 2006-12-31
It's the last day of the year once again, and so comes our traditional year end review. Let's see what happened in the last 365 days in the world of the Plus/4.

In the Emulator arena YAPE continues to dominate, with six new updates it is now up to version 0.70. Forever was also updated twice: for the DOS platform it's simple the best. VICE is also still being updated, no big improvements on the Plus/4 front though. Emulation of machine has also extended to a few more platforms: Gaia released Pocket Commodore Plus/4 for the PocketPC, and YAPE was ported to the PSP.

Our collection grows, we're still adding cover scans and information. There were no big changes or newcomers in terms of websites this year, other than stuff for XeO3. This leads us into...

Software. Looking at the statistics is somewhat promising, we had 45 releases (up by two from last year, yay!). No new big-scale games just yet, but XeO3 and Bomberman previews were in the news (which one of you said vaporware?). We also had a few older games found/released and a few basic games off the Club Info disks. In the world of diskmags, Club Info, Lone News and Lamer News are still kicking. On the forefront of utilities is SVS, who just put out version 3.0 of Bal-Sys. Finally we have demos: there was 8 Shades Of Black, the C16 trackmo, an excellent community effort, something for us to be proud of. Monopsy 2, Oldschool, TED Storm and Roeddelroemp also amazed us and broke into our Top List.

Thanks to everyone in the community for the coding, the collecting, the feedback, just being here and keeping the Plus/4 alive. All the best for 2007!

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