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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!

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

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 We recover many ST hits there, as well as of unpublished pictures by Pixelbrother of TCE (great work!).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].

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.

The famous coder of Oxygen crew (and current author of SainT emulator) is just coming to open a new contest: coding a demo with as much possibles 16*16 sprites! This kind of screen was initialised by TCB coders 15 years ago. Here are the rules:
1. Demo run at 50 FPS
2. 520-STF or 1040-STF Machine
3. 2 bitplans background
4. No cheated wave (all shifts are used)
5. Nice waveform covering the whole screen
6. The wave loops in 360 frames (7.2 sec)
7. Use exactly same sprite as Sowatt Demo
8. Sound-chip music
9. 5 lines high scroll-text
Also the author offers 50 euros to the person who manages to crack the password protection of his new record!

More information on ATARI 16*16 Sprite Demo Contest.

After the last releases he made last weeks, The Byte would deserve a break. But nothing can stop The Byte, and we are all glad to get more menus from him! This time, he has re-released both Games CD under the BSW label.

BSW GCD 10v2 contains:
- Into The Eagles Nest
- Battleships
- Black Lamp
- Super Breakout
- Dragon Force

BSW GCD 11v2 contains:
- Addictaball
- Crystal Castles
- Karateka
- Locomotion
- Pac-Mania

Grab both disks here: [url=../newsattach/GCD_10v2.ZIP]BSW GCD 10v2[/url] and [url=../newsattach/GCD_11v2.ZIP]BSW GCD 11v2[/url].

Our favorite converter/handler of ST images is just coming to be updated. Here is what Zorg writes:

Bugs fixed:
. Fixed MSA conversion which was broken
. Fixed ST files track number detection which was broken too

Added:
. Possibility to choose the format of the destination file name and of the zip file name in the options window

Modifications:
. Added filesize control during Explorer->Disk image transfert to avoid loading huge files in memory for nothing
. Updated Zipforge component to version 2.55. The program is now smaller

Greets, nice updates! Go on MSA Converter Website to get latest version!