Thursday,26th,July,2001
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D64.TXT Listing From 201-300
Once again a very big thanks to James Crook for taking the time to make a full listing of the
D64 images uploaded last week. Big Respects!
The funky Blue BG is back :-)
I'm lost without it so it's back for good. I dono yet but I might axe the name C16/Plus4 ClassiX
and call everything Commodore Plus/4 World. I was thinking about bringing all the ClassiX stuff back
to the index page as some new comers are baffled in the mess of link apon link. Ok's, loads of links
cant be helped, but lets make it a little easyer.
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Wednesday,25th,July,2001
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C16 Homepage Updated!!
The Team have been working on a new design for their GAMES sections and things are looking very smart indeed!
They have also added a TAP image of ACE2, Thorsten told me they had trouble making a tap image of this game
and now it's here they are most happy :-) As with Ace 1 both are 1/2 wav Tap images. Cascade's Turbo Loader had
to be the worst turbo ever made. I suspect copy protection was the order of the day. How many hours did we waste
trying to get the original tapes to load in? I for one ended up loading side B (1/2 hour loading time) of Ace
so I could play it.
One neat project the team were working on was the PC joystick adapter to plug in your C16/C64 style joysticks. I
did find this very hard to follow because of the German text, but I read on Thorsten's email the Joystick adaptors
are now ready for sale!! They plan to send me picture so I can make a page in english and we can all see this cool
project :-) Great stuff guys!! Head on over to the homepage now...
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Monday,23rd,July,2001
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Yape Has Moved Home!!
Keep It Retro is one the coolest news sites
around committed to bring the latest news on many platforms covering Speccy, Commodore, Atari right up
to Sega and Nintendo. As we say here in England RETRO RULEZ :-)
Ati author of Yape (Commodore Plus/4
emu) has jumped in with the fun of classic gaming and moved his number 1 site to Keep It Retro. He has
already updated his site with some news so hit the link below and check out his new Castle!
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Saturday,21st,July,2001
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Important Please Read!!!
Please note there is some nasty virus doing the rounds at the moment! The email will have
differnt subject titles and come with 2 differntly named file attachments. The second file
is normally a .TXT. So far I have been sent about 20, 2 came from Mike Dailly. Of course he
has'nt sent these to anyone!!!
Also the english text of each emial has been the same:
- Hi! How are you?
I
send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks
Again this email has come in Spanish:
- Hola como estas ?
Te mando esta
archivo que me de tu punto de vista
Nos vemos pronto, gracias.
It could come in the form of any language so be on the look out. I tell you now about it so we
can try and put a stop to it in the plussy scene. If you need help or more info please check out
this page below. Cheers guys and take care what ever your doing.....
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Saturday,21st,July,2001
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Lamo Banners are back!!!
Yeah pages will not show and even crash IE here. So for the next couple of days I'll keep an eye on things.
For now I've deleted the banner code from this index page and the D64 recall page so you guys can at least
grab somit for now :-(. Regards, Lando
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Friday,20th,July,2001
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More & More D64's Images Online!!
197 disks have been added to the D64 Recall page. So grab a beer and
get ready to download around 30meg (unzipped) of Commodore Plus/4 Software! (Slurp). This batch is 201-300.
If you missed the news over at PLUS4.ORG last Sunday
then your be please to know that James Crook sent in .TXT listings of all disk content from 001-200.
Find the listings along with the D64 uploads on the page below.
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Tuesday,10th,July,2001
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Xe03 Level 1 Music Available!!
Luca/FIRE has now uploaded a neat preview of his SID music that
will accompany Xe03 (The Ultimate Plus/4 Shoot'Em'Up) and remember guy's this has all been composed on a Plus/4!
What's more Luca's has been giving SID a good run for it's money by adding some cool touches to the FX and Jingles
which are also part of this SID file. This you have to hear!! Hit the homepage for the full story:
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Monday,9th,July,2001
Tuesday,3rd,July,2001
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Tom Thumb, The best C16 game of all time hits PC!!!
Ok's.... before we all start jumping up and down with excitement (well you can if you want because I have been all day)
this project is in need of your talent! Currently working on the Tom Thumb remake is the dude
Stuart Wilson. So far Stuart has programmed a neat game engine which is a replica working
environment of Udo's on the C16! At this very early stage and already visible the game feels very close to the original.
As Stuart has said "You wont be disapointed". One of the last games you'd ever hope to see grace a remake would be Tom
Thumb. The game it's self is a challenge let along making it from scratch. Wow, this really is a dream coming
true not only for me, but for all you Tom fans out there. Lets hope we get the Thumb's up from Sturat for an entirely
new level to be added on top. Yes, the cigar box is open!!!! Anyways it's request time.....
Stuart is looking for anyone that can help with the graphics. The real priorty at the moment is for actual game characters
to be designed (Including Tom himself). If anyone is willing to help please could you draw each individual frame of
movement for each character and save them as BMP files so that all the frames are shown (no animated gifs) and email them
to Stuart Wilson. He will guarantee that any help (no matter how big or small) will result in there
names being added to the credits. Yes, you will go down as one of the kings that brought the magic of Udo Gertz to life on PC!
Eventually Stuart will get a webpage up and running for the game, but for now this is on hold as he is head deep
working on this very game! A demo will shorty be available hopefully in the next few weeks which will be awesome to see. I
think we owe big respects not only to Stuart but to all that can help before the game even gets released!!! In the mean time
lets all get GFX busy and start hummimg the music :-) Please contact Stuart for any questions related to the GFX work
you may have. Cheers!
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New mtap V0.33 released!
Minstrel's mtap is the MS-DOS tool for recording real C64, VIC-20 and C16 tapes onto PC. If you want to make
C16/Plus4 tapes images then this tool is the best option available out there! Here's what Markus had to say
about his new release:
"The new release fixes a pretty bad bug in the calculation of 'long pulses', which lead to pauses being only
half as long as they should of been. It also fixes a bug which prevented the -v option from working (record
Version 0 TAPs).
It also introduces halfwave recording, which currently only works with datasette adaptor (either C64S interface
or X1531 interface as specified on my pages). Halfwave recording is still pretty experimantal, and only makes
sence for C16 tapes, so don't use it on C64 tapes!
Please give me some feedback, especially about the X/XE1541 recording with Tapserv."
You can grab the latest version from the link below:
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