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BBC goes to open source

August 16, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image The source of the famous Apathetic Games by Bad Brew Crew are just coming to be published. Cyrano Jones (aka The Law of BBC) put them freely on the official D-Bug website.

Download the source on D-Bug Extra page.

Second lot of BSW GCD

August 16, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image Here is another batch of Blue SoftWare Games CD. They are still provided by The Byte (thanks).

BSW GCD GCD 25v2 contains:
- Speedball
- Speedball 2
- The Sentinel
- docs of Speedball 2

BSW GCD GCD 33v2 contains:
- Bug Bash (single level demo)
- Crafton & Xunk
- Custodian
- Skull digery
- Eden Blues
- Rick Dangerous
- Stone Breaker
- Tetris
- Joust

BSW GCD GCD 37v2 contains:
- Chase
- Veteran
- Klax
- Lucky Luke Nitroglycerine
- Plutos
- Savage (3 games)
- Star Wars

BSW GCD GCD 43 contains:
- Thunderstrike
- Fred Feuerstein
- Dragonlord

Download [url=../newsattach/GCD_25v2.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 25v2[/url], [url=../newsattach/GCD_33v2.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 33v2[/url], [url=../newsattach/GCD_37v2.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 37v2[/url] and [url=../newsattach/GCD_43.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 43[/url].

Longscreen demo by X-Troll

August 16, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image An old demo (and very rare) has been recently published. It was coded by Sunnyboy in 1988-89 and it features many scrolled screens, that are loaded while the next one are displayed. Nexus 6 from X-Troll has imaged the disk while Cyclone added the necessary program disk and reworked the sources a bit.

- Download the [url=../newsattach/LONGSCR.ZIP]Longscreen demo[/url] (two disks inside).
- Go the X-Troll website for more details how to run the demo perfeclty with Steem or SainT.

Roger 2K in the works

August 11, 2004 by Silver Surfer

News illustration image Roger fans everywhere will be happy to know that a sequel of the briliant platformer Roger released in January this year on Atari Forum is currently being worked on by the author Tobe. 2 early tech previews have been released on Atari Forum so far, the excitment and anticipation in the Roger Fanclub camp is hard to describe. It is a safe bet that celebrations throughout the world will take place once this game is released!

Discuss Roger 2K on the forum

Visit Tobes Atari ST website, http://atari.freemind-tobe.com/

First lot of BSW GCD

August 11, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image The Byte of Blue SoftWare (also member of TCE) redid several compilations of games. We recover many ST hits there, as well as of unpublished pictures by Pixelbrother of TCE (great work!).
This is the first bunch of BSW GCD that have been released, a second bunch should follow shortly here.

BSW GCD 13v2 contains:
- Albedo
- Alpine Games
- Blastaball

BSW GCD 14v2 contains:
- Screaming Wings
- Extensor
- Masters Of The Universe
- Nebulus
- Pengy

BSW GCD 19v2 contains:
- Arkanoid 2 Revenge of Doh
- Crazy Cars 2
- Asteroids Deluxe

BSW GCD 24v2 contains:
- Arcade Fruit Machine
- BATslot
- Star Goose

Download [url=../newsattach/GCD_13v2.ZIP]BSW GCD 13v2[/url], [url=../newsattach/GCD_14v2.ZIP]BSW GCD 14v2[/url], [url=../newsattach/GCD_19v2.ZIP]BSW GCD 19v2[/url] and [url=../newsattach/GCD_24v2.ZIP]BSW GCD 24v2[/url].

Minefield: new game available by MJJ-Prod

August 6, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image Steph of MJJ-Prod is just coming to publish a new clone of Minesweeper, named Minefield. The game - that has been coded in GFA Basic - features some crazy levels, nice pictures and good tune by Jedi of Sector One. It deserves a test ;-)

Download the complete image-disk of [url=../newsattach/MINFIELD.ZIP]Minefield[/url] now.

Screenshot of Arkanoid
Random review

This is a classic. You'll be hooked right from the first level. It's always fun the play a quick game of "Arkanoid". One tip though, try not to get to frustrated, your computer mouse will be thankful :-) A real recommendation!

August 6, 2001 by ST Graveyard

Read the review of Arkanoid

Did you know?

Jack Tramiel bought Atari's home computer and home videogame business in 1984.

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