Latest Retro Gamer

[arnoldemu]

Latest Retro Gamer has an article on Games that were not released for CPC but were mentioned in magazines.


Some interesting stuff.

Toki: Screenshots are shown of GX4000 Sprites created on an Atari ST. Would be great to see these on the CPCWiki website so we can see more detail of what these sprites look like.

Repton 3: My version of Repton 3 is mentioned and I'm named.

Streetfighter 2: US Gold version is mentioned along with AA. In addition the new StreetFighter 2 that is being made is also mentioned.

Killing Fist: This gets a mention. It says that the title screen preview is hard to find. I think it's on CPC-Power? I remember seeing 2 previews of this. One had a title screen with sampled music. second one had an in game screen (overscan) with 2 fighters on it. I believe both are on cpc-power.

Sparticus: I didn't know a demo had been on an AA cassette, so that is why I requested it to take a look. Another reason is that I was passed some source from Odin, the sources were on BBC Micro CPM formatted discs. I have managed to get the CPC source code off those. There is some code for Nodes of Yesod and for Sparticus, but it's probably just the demo. Will take a look at this and get it released soon.


In the Retro section the latest C64 cartridge competition gets a mention. Nice.

I also see that Mountain Panic for the BBC gets mentioned here, it's been out for a while, but good to see it reviewed. Didn't they review this before???


Some good stuff this time. I've read the pages over and over and now the print has come off 

[Carnivius]

I mentioned in the shoutbox that I had read through this issue in WH Smith.  It was ok.  Guess I just grateful for any CPC stuff in it.

[Gryzor]

Ooh, sounds interesting; I haven't received it yet and I have several issues of RG on the backlog, but maybe I'll read it when it appears!

[Executioner]

Repton 3: My version of Repton 3 is mentioned and I'm named.

When did you do this? On the CPC?

[arnoldemu]

When did you do this? On the CPC?

Yes on the CPC, back in 2008. I didn't release it though. I asked for official permission but was not allowed.

[Axelay]

I also see that Mountain Panic for the BBC gets mentioned here, it's been out for a while, but good to see it reviewed. Didn't they review this before???

Oh, that's good to hear, played the demo that came out some years ago and it seemed very promising, but it took so long I stopped checking for updates!

[Executioner]

I asked for official permission but was not allowed.

Ahh, bugger! You'd think they'd allow it 30 years after it's original release.

[Gryzor]

It's ok, you can email it to me, it won't go out

[beaker]

I also see that Mountain Panic for the BBC gets mentioned here, it's been out for a while, but good to see it reviewed. Didn't they review this before???

Shut up, shut up, shut up about Mountain Panic. I bought my copy back on 3rd Jan and still haven't received the actual disks despite repeated promises, emails and messages on various forums  I've just about given up buying any new retro software in future. Fortunately I've got the SSD images but it stinks a bit having paid for postage etc for physical copies. Of course if they turn up in the post on Monday I'll be singing a different tune but at the moment I'm a bit peed off with the whole situation.

[Gryzor]

So? Did you get it?

[beaker]

Take a wild guess 

I did get an email from him on the 29th March apologising for the long delay. He said he'd mastered the Repton disks and located the Slogger boards I'd asked him about last November and that it would be sent early the following week but nothing as yet  I emailed him 4 days asking if he'd sent them but not had a reply yet.

I did get excited earlier on today when DHL phoned me out of the blue saying they had a package for me but it wasn't that  I live in continued hope though 

[ivarf]

Yes on the CPC, back in 2008. I didn't release it though. I asked for official permission but was not allowed.

May I get an unoffical permission to hack the box where the game is located? I need IP, an open share, ftp or www with password.
The hacked intro will have an awesome mode 1 textscreen - yellow on nice blue with the text






Hacked

by

F i s h e r m a n s   F r i e n d

[Carnivius]

Am a little annoyed and surprised by something I saw in the current RG magazine.  Oh well.

[ivarf]

Am a little annoyed and surprised by something I saw in the current RG magazine.  Oh well.

What was it?

[Carnivius]

What was it?

Picture of a Master System homebrew game in the letters section.  The game is based on my friend's games that I too have been developing a fangame of sorts for but this Master System game's player sprite looks like it was heavily based on my player sprite and not my friend's game.

[Gryzor]

Bring it up on the RG forum?

[beaker]

Or you could always PM TMR on this forum if it's in the Homebrew section. What was the name of the game? I've stopped subscribing to RG a few months back as with the exception of Jason's Homebrew section, the rest of the magazine is really in the doldrums at the moment IMHO, with terrible Freelance articles and the magazine is covering the same old ground with either another Strider or Ultimate article every few months. Seems to have gotten worse since Stuart left 

[Carnivius]

The game's called D.A.R.C.   Seems it was made a couple years back but this be first I seen of it (my game that it seems to have based the player sprite on has been in development on and off since November 2006, and even had a very old crappy shot of it in an old issue of Retro Gamer shortly after that time).   Not a huge deal but I had a similar thing happen with an another old project of mine where a friend of mine copied the sprite style for his game, released his first and then I was getting comments from idiots saying I copied him and I eventually just abandoned that game.   

Looks like a fun lil game though and at least mine has much more in the way of graphics (for one thing they stuck to the simple left and right shooting whereas I expanded to 8 directions all with individually done sprites for each direction) so shouldn't get anyone saying I copied their sprite design style.

[chinnyhill10]

Or you could always PM TMR on this forum if it's in the Homebrew section. What was the name of the game? I've stopped subscribing to RG a few months back as with the exception of Jason's Homebrew section, the rest of the magazine is really in the doldrums at the moment IMHO, with terrible Freelance articles and the magazine is covering the same old ground with either another Strider or Ultimate article every few months. Seems to have gotten worse since Stuart left 

Retro Gamer is a shambles.


In the old days mags used to evolve and change. Even AA's longest serving editor only worked at the mag for 3 years and during his time he refreshed the mag a couple of times and new staff came and went.


RG just never changes. It's the groundhog day of magazines. Same old articles, same old writers, same old design, zzzzzzzzzzzzz.


I used to buy every issue, not any more. It's dull, repetitive and badly needs a refresh.

[Gryzor]

I tend to agree; I renewed my sibscription last December, but haven't read an issue in several months now. Saving them for the summer, but it definitely doesn't have the sparkle and excitement of older days.

[TFM]

Well, maybe it would a good idea to write some good articles for it and this would also increase the percentage of CPC content in it.


Since I don't have to time personally I do at least not bitch at it.

[Gryzor]

Are you serious? So the answer to every product we buy and don't like is "make one better on your own instead of bitching"? Oh man...

[TFM]

Sure I'm serious. If they have problems, why not supporting them. And as nice side effect they will have more CPC topics. I call that constructive critics.    Or do your seriously think that negative input will make things better?

[Gryzor]

I don't like a particular thing with how my bathroom sink faucet works; so I should make new ones myself.
I couldn't find a ladder that perfectly suited me as my old one - so I should probably make one instead of buying one I found but didn't 100% satisfy my needs.
The meat I bought yetsterday was a bit too fatty for my taste, so I guess I should become a farmer, raise animals just the way I like it and slaughter them myself.

Man, what are you on?

You don't even have your definitions straigt - constructive criticism is constructive criticism; it's not making content yourself.

And then, of course, if a company doesn't take negative input in seriously, we know where it's heading...

[Carnivius]

Eh, I dunno.  There hasn't been a good robocop game in years so I thought I'd try make one.