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Disk Detective Update

August 17, 2004 by X3periMENTaL

News illustration image The Atari St Disk Detective v1.1
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The Disk Detective is an offline search engine which allows you to track down which menu disk your favourite game is on Smiley

- Changes -

<- version 1.1 ->

* improved search engine with the addition of advanced search routines.
* you can now generate a search by pressing the return key.
* you can copy your results to the clipboard.
* you can save your results to *.txt or *.doc file.

So what are you waiting for Sherlock!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.atari-forum.com/ftopic4405.html


Last lot of BSW GCD

August 17, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image So here comes finally the last games compilations released by Blue SoftWare in 2004. The collection spread around the Web (firstly spread on TCE Games CD-Rom) is nearly complete now. Just a few first versions still miss. As always all work has been made by The Byte, and the artwork has been designed by Pixelbrother. Good job!

BSW GCD GCD 16v2 contains:
- Hollywood Poker
- Rocket Racer
- Stunt Car Racer

BSW GCD GCD 17v2 contains:
- International Karate
- International Karate +
- Karate Kid 2
- Ninja Mission

BSW GCD GCD 38v2 contains:
- Starglider 2
- Crack'ed
- Bounce Out

Download [url=../newsattach/GCD_16v2.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 16v2[/url], [url=../newsattach/GCD_17v2.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 17v2[/url] and [url=../newsattach/GCD_38v2.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 38v2[/url].

BBC goes to open source

August 16, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image The source of the famous Apathetic Games by Bad Brew Crew are just coming to be published. Cyrano Jones (aka The Law of BBC) put them freely on the official D-Bug website.

Download the source on D-Bug Extra page.

Second lot of BSW GCD

August 16, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image Here is another batch of Blue SoftWare Games CD. They are still provided by The Byte (thanks).

BSW GCD GCD 25v2 contains:
- Speedball
- Speedball 2
- The Sentinel
- docs of Speedball 2

BSW GCD GCD 33v2 contains:
- Bug Bash (single level demo)
- Crafton & Xunk
- Custodian
- Skull digery
- Eden Blues
- Rick Dangerous
- Stone Breaker
- Tetris
- Joust

BSW GCD GCD 37v2 contains:
- Chase
- Veteran
- Klax
- Lucky Luke Nitroglycerine
- Plutos
- Savage (3 games)
- Star Wars

BSW GCD GCD 43 contains:
- Thunderstrike
- Fred Feuerstein
- Dragonlord

Download [url=../newsattach/GCD_25v2.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 25v2[/url], [url=../newsattach/GCD_33v2.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 33v2[/url], [url=../newsattach/GCD_37v2.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 37v2[/url] and [url=../newsattach/GCD_43.ZIP]BSW GCD GCD 43[/url].

Longscreen demo by X-Troll

August 16, 2004 by Brume

News illustration image An old demo (and very rare) has been recently published. It was coded by Sunnyboy in 1988-89 and it features many scrolled screens, that are loaded while the next one are displayed. Nexus 6 from X-Troll has imaged the disk while Cyclone added the necessary program disk and reworked the sources a bit.

- Download the [url=../newsattach/LONGSCR.ZIP]Longscreen demo[/url] (two disks inside).
- Go the X-Troll website for more details how to run the demo perfeclty with Steem or SainT.

Roger 2K in the works

August 11, 2004 by Silver Surfer

News illustration image Roger fans everywhere will be happy to know that a sequel of the briliant platformer Roger released in January this year on Atari Forum is currently being worked on by the author Tobe. 2 early tech previews have been released on Atari Forum so far, the excitment and anticipation in the Roger Fanclub camp is hard to describe. It is a safe bet that celebrations throughout the world will take place once this game is released!

Discuss Roger 2K on the forum

Visit Tobes Atari ST website, http://atari.freemind-tobe.com/

Screenshot of Beyond the Ice Palace
Random review

This is a pre "Turrican" platformer! A really good game for its time. But I can't stress it enough...It's one of the most frustrating, nerve wrecking experiences I ever had on my ST. So keep your stress ball at hand! :-)

March 31, 2002 by ST Graveyard

Read the review of Beyond the Ice Palace

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