Udo Gertz Page
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Udo
had to be one of the best C16 and Plus/4 programmers going. Time
and time again we loaded up his games just see what the CBM64 was
missing out on. These game's were not only class but took the
machine where no one had been before. One game was Summer
Events, Sadly I dont have this title any more :( and was the
first game I can remember on any 8 bit machine, to go beyond the
big borders and fill the whole screen with graphics. The first
event was swimming and this was a remarkable achievement and showed
us that the C16-Plus4 could keep up with its big brother the
CBM64.
I would like to
dedicate this page to Udo Gertz and show you just a few of the
Real game covers and a brief desrciption of the game and my
own view of the game. I'm not sure what happened to Udo after
his works. I sort of remember he was moving over to the Amiga and
Summer Events was to be his last game. My brother thinks around
this time he was called up into the Army as this is a call of
duty in his country "Germany", But we're
both not sure and this would of
stopped Udo's support for theC16-Plus/4 if this were true ?
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Tom Thumb
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with out question has to be the greatest 16k platform game ever made on any system !
Udo had the gift to make all his games look as if they were made from sprites. Clean
amazing graphic's made Tom Thumb a unique game to the C16/Plus4. The game is stonking in size and
to any die hard fan of Tom there is over 2 hours of awesome run and jump action. One of the best
features is being able to see other sections of the game you cant reach until some time later.
With this in mind you could'nt stop wondering just maybe you could jump off keys or some treasure
in reach of the higher levels. Once you get going your soon be fronted with all kinds of Monsters
that hinder your path. The Blue Flying Bugs can be the biggest problem as they fly in with out warning
and can even catch you out when jumping off springs! With Keys, Treasure, Laser Traps, Spikes, Spiders,
Bats and all kinds of Spirits that abound inside the pyramid Tom Thumb has to be the Grand Master of
C16/Plus4 gaming history.
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Tom for Commodore 64
Kingsoft Presents
Winter Demo
Running Winter Events
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Winter Events For Different Emulators
Because there are
different ways of getting Winter Events to run on emulators and to make things easyer I
have setup ready to run versions of the game found below.-
Minus4 Dos (.PRG Version)
Copy all the Winter Events files into the
Minus4 folder. From the Plus4 screen press F10 and select "WINTER~1.PRG". Type RUN and press RETURN to play.
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Flamingo (.PRG Version)
With Flamingo's GUI select Disk #8 as the Winter Events
directory. From the Plus4 screen type DLOAD"WINTEREVENTS.PRG" and press RETURN. Type RUN and press RETURN to play.
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WinEMU (.PRG Version)
In the WinEMUSetup.exe set Drive 8 to "PC directory (1551).
From the Plus4 screen press F8 and Select the
file "WINTEREVENTS.PRG". Back on the Plus4 screen type RUN and press RETURN to play.
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CP4, WinEMU, YAPE and C16/Plus4 (.D64 Version)
CP4:
With CP4's preferences set Drive 08 with
Winter Events.d64 image. From the Plus4 screen type DLOAD "WINTEREVENTS" and press RETRUN. Type
RUN and press RETURN to play.
WinEMU:
With WinEMU run WinEMUSetup.exe and set Drive 8 to D64 file from here also set where the Winter
Events.D64 image is held. Run WinEMU and from the Plus4 screen type DLOAD "WINTEREVENTS" and press RETRUN.
Type RUN and press RETURN to play.
YAPE:
With YAPE, Goto "File" on the top menu and select "Attach D64 image". Find and select
Winter Events.d64 image and you will return to the Plus4 screen. From the Plus4 screen type DLOAD
"WINTEREVENTS" and press RETRUN. Type RUN and press RETURN to play.
If you can copy the D64 files back over to a C16/Plus4 disk you can also play Winter Events
on the real machines.
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MESS
For users of MESS running C16/Plus4 emulation
head on over to Ati's C16/Plus4 retro page
for some first class info on running Winter Events with Mess.
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