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Final calender release ... or is it?
December 24, 2018 by Marcer
We whish you a merry Xmas with a nice package with Goodies for ya...We have following goodies in store :
- Willy The Kid - Damn rare title digged up by brume
- Jack Nicklaus Golf Data Disk 5 - found in the mass but not released
- Tank Game (Engine) - Found in a private collection and never released for the public before
- Bentley Bear General Store - Mono Version - Who even cared about this game? So who even tried to find it? well...Marcer did! I'm not sure who will enjoy it... collectors maybe :-)
- Blade Runner - Demo Version of a Game engine. (Pretty neat code here. I (Marcer) have the code if somebody wants it.. STOS(!). very promising stuff.)
Enjoy and download it here.
Midway Battles: another rare game for your pleasure only.
December 23, 2018 by Brume
Just one day before xmas eve, here is another release. This time we offer you a rare game named Midway Battles published by TDC Distributors. Game was officially ported from 8 bit machines, but wasn't spread very well. Until now.
The great intro was coded by Tronic of Elite with setup routines by Bod of Effect.
Please note you'll need TOS 1.0 or EmuTOS to run the game.
Enjoy and download it here.
Wizard's Crown: we are just in time to ascend the throne
December 22, 2018 by Brume
Wow! Just a few minutes before midnight, here is our new gift. This time, CB presents you Wizard's Crown by SSI. The game has been Falcon 030 + installation fixed. Also please note this is the English version.
Here are some words by CB:
"If you want to reinitialize the game don't use the option from main menu and instead unpack the zip file you will find in the data folder and replace all files inside Wizard.dat!"
Enjoy and download the game here.
Another rare disk unearthed on the 21st day of our Advent
December 21, 2018 by muguk
Back in the day, there were quite a few Awesome menus and one of our team has unearthed another one that didn't see the light of day. Awesome Menu 31 is now available!
The menu contains what looks to be a horse racing game, a clay pigeon type shooting game and some WIP game engine work by Ghost/Phalanx (we think?).
Download the disk here.
Release #20 .. OK, we found some more Infocom games!
December 20, 2018 by muguk
Down the back of CB's sofa we found the last two Gold Edition titles: Leather Goddesses of Phobos and Planetfall.
We promise that this is the last of the text adventures from Infocom.
LGoP was Infocom's first "sex farce" and featured selectable "naughtiness" levels ranging from "tame" to "lewd" and Planetfall has you playing the starring role of a lowly Ensign Seventh Class on the S.P.S. Feinstein. Have fun with either release and, because they are the Gold Editions, there are built-in Invisiclues in case you get stuck!
You can download both games in this single file.
Release day #19: Fashion Chipmusic Editor v1.1
December 19, 2018 by muguk
Just in case you only thought we were going to offer you yet another Infocom game, here's a special curveball that Brume found and preserved: Fashion's Chipmusic Editor v1.1.
Suffice to say that this was thought to be lost and was probably rarer than hen's teeth, until today!
The editor comes with a single music track for you to load in called 'Rebels'. A quick hint: close the Disk Op window in order to start the track playing.
Download this rare gem here.
Now go and get composing some tunes!
Comments This is a game I have mixed feelings about. I like it and hate it at the same time, mainly due to a few niggling issues which are probably down to the original coin-op design combined with a Tiertex conversion that has some problems of its own. My main gripe is getting stuck on walls through no fault of your own, which leads to a lot of cheap deaths and can be very frustrating. The horizontal flick-screen scrolling is also pretty annoying, as it can lead to you getting ambushed by enemies hiding just off-screen. Graphics Graphically, there is good use of colour, with well-drawn sprites and backgrounds. However, the animation can be very jerky at times, and when combined with the occasional bit of slowdown, it gives the game a rather messy and unpolished feel. Sound The sound isn't bad, with pleasant music on the title screen and the high-score entry screen. A little ditty also plays just before you start a level, which isn't bad either, although it does delay getting into the action. Thankfully, it isn't too long. Gameplay Gameplay is the biggest letdown for me, and the original coin-op wasn't exactly a blockbuster to begin with. The conversion definitely has some issues, some of which may be down to the transition to home computers. There are holes dotted around the levels which you have to jump over, and this is handled rather clumsily by holding fire and up on the joystick. This is far too easy to do by accident. The coin-op would have had a separate button for jumping, and I realise concessions had to be made for single-button joysticks, but it doesn't really work very well. Too often, you find yourself jumping into trouble when you didn't intend to. Conclusion Overall, this is a mediocre conversion of a mediocre arcade machine. Despite all that, though, I actually come back to play it from time to time, just to try and get a bit further. So, it must have some appeal after all, warts and all.
August 31, 2026 by NeepieLantern
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"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs, on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer