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News
Archive - January 2001 |
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Gamebase
International! |
28
Jan 01
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After
sorting through all the translation offers, it seems
that Gamebase will come out in the following languages:
Danish
- Dutch - French - German - Greek
Hungarian
- Italian - Japanese - Norwegian
Spanish
- Swedish - Turkish
Thanks
to all who offered their language skills!
Is
your language missing from the list?? Don't
worry, you can still volunteer!
;-)
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Game of the Week - Elite |
28
Jan 01
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Seeing
that no new articles are contributed, causing our Game
of the Week section to look like 'Game of the Month'
(or worse!), we decided to display every now and then
reviews that appeared in the British magazine ZZAP!64
(1985-94), in order to make the section more interesting.
This week we present the first game reviewed in ZZAP!64
which was also the first game to receive the magazine's
famous Gold Medal Award. It is none other than Firebird's
Elite, and you can read all about it here!
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Rare
Games Corner Updated |
28
Jan 01
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How
strong are your crossword skills? Here's a chance to
find out: Datasoft's Crosscheck has just been
added to the
Rare Games Corner!
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Missing
Games List Updated
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28
Jan 01
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Missing:
82 (-6)
Uncovered
some more elusive little proggies :)
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Entries
in database: 11864
(+34)
Unchecked: 1277 (-305)
Missing: 88 (+18)
Not 100% working: 76 (-5)
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Forever Lost? - Updated |
21
Jan 01
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Some
of you offered interesting bits of information for the
games mentioned in The Others
page, so an update was necessary!
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Rare
Games Corner Updated |
21
Jan 01
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What
would you say if we offered a Ticket to Paris to
all GB fans? You don't believe it? Well, take a look
in the Corner for a copy of Blue
Lion Software's educational title!
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A
New Splash Screen |
21
Jan 01
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And
Tobias Hultman did the trick! Check it out in
the Artwork page. Now, how
about somebody making a cool GB banner for The C64
Banner Exchange? ;-)
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Multilanguage
Support for GB V2! |
14
Jan 01
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We
gladly inform you that the latest addition by James
'Great Maker' Burrows to the Gamebase V2 interface is
support for easy translation to any language!
There
will be an easy-to-navigate INI file containing every
text message used throughout the GB interface, which
people will be able to alter, replacing the English
values to their own language. It will affect all prompts,
labels, menu text, button text, window captions, messages
-- basically any text in the GB V2 program that isn't
stored in the games' database.
When
GB2 is released we can have INI files for German, Italian,
Spanish, French, Dutch, Greek, etc. available for download.
We just need someone to change the messages to their
own language for us. The German version will be prepared
in-house by The Borg (brrr!), but if you feel you have
the strong language skills :) needed for the translation
to your own language, pls contact
us and
we'll notify you when the time comes (it'll be the last
thing done in Gamebase, as currently the text seems
to be ever-changing)...
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Forever
Lost? - 4 New Candidates! |
14
Jan 01
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Four
more games deemed suitable for the section
were added today. They are, In chronological order,
the English version of Ariolasoft's Kaiser, Infogrames'
Phalsberg, S.S.I.'s Realms of Darkness,
and the official English version of Kingsoft's Hagar
the Horrible. You know anything about them? Drop
us a line!
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Rare
Games Corner SPECIAL! |
14
Jan 01
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Not
a lot of people know this, but the tape text-only versions
of all later Level 9 adventure games (Knight Orc,
Gnome Ranger, Time and Magik, Lancelot,
Ingrid's Back, Scapeghost) contained much
more detailed text in locations' and items' descriptions
(in order to make-up for the absence of graphics) than
their disk counterparts, making playing both tape and
disk versions a separate experience. Sadly, most of
these one-sided text-only three-parters tended to be
erased by collectors, who in many instances mistakingly
believed them not to be 100% versions and were replacing
them with the 2-sided disk versions.
This
week we present in our
Rare Games Corner the ones we
have managed to uncover so far. We are still missing
text-only versions of Knight Orc and Scapeghost,
which feel free to submit
if you happen to possess a copy...
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Entries
in database: 11830
(+130)
Unchecked: 1582 (-116)
Missing: 70
Not 100% working: 81
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Rare
Games Corner Updated |
7
Jan 01
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What
a better way to celebrate the new millenium than playing
First Star's Millenium Warriors! The last C64
game from the company that brought us such classics
as the Boulder Dash and the Spy vs Spy
series, it sadly remained very little known. A worthy
addition to the
Rare's Corner.
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History
in the making!
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7
Jan 01
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Or
a pathetic attempt to pass old news as new? Anyway,
you can read all about it here
and make your own mind!
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