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News Archive - November 2001
  Forum Update!
25 Nov 01
 

We're so confident we'll release something before the end of this year, we created a new forum for discussing it! :)

 
  Game of the Week - International Basketball
25 Nov 01
 

"Superb sizzling follow up to International Soccer from Commodore. One of a stack of new sports simulations."

A htmlized review of the game from the UK Zzap!64 C64 computer games' magazine has been added to our Game of the Week section.

 
  Game of the Week - Sky Jet
25 Nov 01
 

Ditto!

 
  Game of the Week - Lode Runner
18 Nov 01
 

"At last its here on cassette. Terrible graphics and sound, astounding addiction"

A htmlized review of the game from the UK Zzap!64 C64 computer games' magazine has been added to our Game of the Week section.

Note: For the needs of the htmlization proccess, the infamous custom Zzap!64 level has been re-designed and is now available for download!

 
  Game of the Week - The Dam Busters
18 Nov 01
 

"Blockbusting mega-release from US Gold with a remarkably authentic atmosphere."

This htlmized review contains text from both issue 2 and 3 as there was a little 'misunderstanding' the first time it was reviewed...

Warren Pilkington was again all to quick to rip the Sids out of Everyone's a Wally and last week's Brian Jack's Superstar Challenge. As a result, these reviews were updated with the respective SIDs. Thanks Wozza! :)

Finally, I'd like to thank Jason Sabourin of Retro View fame for contributing the truly rare Colossal Cave Adventure which graced our Rare Games Corner a few weeks ago.

 
  Project Status
11 Nov 01
 

Entries in database: 14238 (+108)
Missing: 49 (+3)
Not 100% working: 72 (-2)

Due to several tasks taking a much larger development time than anticipated, GB V2 won't be ready for release this Christmas. We therefore are thinking of a limited beta release, starting with the GB V2.0 program, a possibly limited beta database and screenshots in about Christmas time and continuing well into 2002 with the official release which will present Gamebase in its complete form. This will mean that if, for example, you download the 60MB screenshot pack on Christmas, you'll have to overwrite it with the official over-100MB screenshot pack a few months later. Do you want this limited release to happen, or you prefer to wait for the finished product? A post has appeared in our forum about this subject, and you better voice your opinion for the decision is to be taken within this month.

 
  Crackerbase 64
11 Nov 01
 

Sander van der Aa has spent quite some time to create a database of the C64 cracking group intros, complete with screenshots, for use with Gamebase v1.3. You can download the database and the six screenshot files (800k each) at his site All Commodore Links -- and if you know of cracker intros that are not included, why not help the guy produce an update!

 
  Game of the Week -
Brian Jack's Superstar Challenge
11 Nov 01
 

A htmlized review of the game from the UK Zzap!64 C64 computer games' magazine has been added to our Game of the Week section.

 
  Game of the Week - Moon Cresta
11 Nov 01
 

Ditto!

Many thanks go to Warren Pilkington who was too quick at ripping both sids from last week's games (their reviews are now updated). However this week's Brian Jack too needs Sid extraction -- and let's not forget Everyone's a Wally and Talladega whose reviews remain sidless to this day...

 
  Rare Games Corner NOT Updated!
11 Nov 01
 

I'm tired of searching the net to see if a game is present or not in order to put it in the corner -- as a result I'll cease doing it! We have the list of gamebase games online, so YOU can make the search and propose five titles through our forum, out of which I'll be chosing the most worthwhile for the corner. Needless to say, no game proposals (or no worthwhile game proposals) will mean no update for the corner...

 
  Game of the Week - Estra
3 Nov 01
 

A htmlized review of the game from the UK Zzap!64 C64 computer games' magazine has been added to our Game of the Week section.

This week I'm off for military re-training in Greek Macedonia so I won't have internet access, but hopefully I'll be back in one piece next Sunday -- just in time for our next update...

 
  Game of the Week - Almazz
3 Nov 01
 

A htmlized review of the game from the UK Zzap!64 C64 computer games' magazine has been added to our Game of the Week section.

Both games of the week need their SIDs extracted, so get ripping!

 
  Rare Games Corner Updated
3 Nov 01
 

With a game-related demo for a change!

By the way, last month's unfortunate mention of Zork being a transfer of the mainframe Adventure caused letters of protest by disatisfied adventurers to flood my mailbox. The not-entirely-true statement has been removed in order to protect the innocent, but let me just mention here that although Zork is a port of the mainframe Dungeon, Dungeon was inspired and heavilly influenced by Adventure -- so there! :)

 

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