The Def Guide to Zzap!64

judging is currently underway for a retro remakes competition and i decided to make a magazine to stick em all in (82 entries)

iam doing it in the zzap64 style co's i love it.

if you want to check out all the entries or view the mag when its finished goto -
www.remakes.org

i entered 2 games , r-tronic (robotron remake) and lunar rescue..

there's some cool c64 remakes you might want to check out.
wizball,uridium,io - ect.

smila wrote:i entered 2 games , r-tronic (robotron remake) and lunar rescue..

well, there goes the rest of my weekend -- it's download time!

hey, smila, nice to see you're still making those remakes.

g.

cheers big fella - lets hope i win

also working on a couple more remakes... chuckie egg 2 , paradroid , paradroid fusion and anarchy - (few)

soon as the mag is finished i'll let ya's know so you can take the piss

smila wrote:soon as the mag is finished i'll let ya's know so you can take the piss

Nooooo! I *never* take the piss

Seriously, if you're sticking it online I'll put a link to it from my site. (Just tried the Antiriad remake, btw, and find it a bit CRAP. Glad it's not one of yours.)

g.

yeah - i didnt like antiriad either, the gfx look very hurried.
there's a few crap ones, some really guduns tho..

wizball is fantastic ( not finished yet tho )
and impossaball is also a fine remake

the mag is coming along nicely , iam doing all the layout and art on my own (well apart from 1 teeny bit of oli frey art ).
so fingers crossed it will go down well .

by the way - you may need a file called cncs32.dll (or something similar when you run my games....

just look in the links section (right at the bottom) on www.remakes.org

hope you enjoy em anyway.

smila wrote:wizball is fantastic... hope you enjoy em anyway.

It is: very impressive. I'm downloading R-Tronic as I write, and like the look of Lunar Rescue from the screens, but haven't been able to download it yet (for some reason the bugger's crashed on me twice).

g.

theyve been having a few problems with d/loading..

hope ya enjoy r-tronic.. its the first game ive made with multimedia fussion so i was learnig while making it.

smila wrote:by the way - you may need a file called cncs32.dll (or something similar when you run my games...

I did; and for anyone else who does, here's a handy link (I'm off to the beach now):
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-f ... ml?cncs232

g.

so come on then - what did ya think , and remember it only me 2 weeks to make....(quiver)

Gordon said:

(I'm off to the beach now):

Hey, please warn us before you get in so we can climb to our roof in time

Seriously, (really?) I don't know which beach is closest to your place, but in case you're facing the Nordsea side, WAVE! I'll be on the other side at Hoek van Holland with me kids.

Sweating it all out!

OK, back from the beach now... I love the sea.

smila wrote:so come on then - what did ya think , and remember it only me 2 weeks to make....(quiver)

Well, even if you hadn't made it in a fortnight, I would have said it was a really neatly programmed adaptation of Robotron. Everything about the remake side of it "feels" right -- speed, bullet numbers, the weight of enemies bearing down on you -- it's a really nice program.

The only minor thing I have with most of these remakes is a lack of joystick support: I would have loved to have been able to configure my sidewinder to play it; keys have always been tough for a dumbo like me. Unless you tell me it's all in the readme file, that's the only problem I have with yours. But honestly, from what I've seen of the others, you're in with a good chance: nice attract screen, good, accurate game with some nifty effects, and a cheeky paradroid sample .

Still unable to download Lunar Rescue, though.

biggestjim wrote:Hey, please warn us before you get in so we can climb to our roof in time
Seriously, (really?) I don't know which beach is closest to your place, but in case you're facing the Nordsea side, WAVE! I'll be on the other side at Hoek van Holland with me kids.
Sweating it all out!

Give that man a biscuit for the first fat gordo joke in this thread . Anyway, I gave you a wave from Studland Bay, nr Bournemouth. It bent its way round the Channel and should have reached you about 3.46pm -- and had you been looking, you might have seen it.

g.

cheers big fella -

glad ya liked it.

dont forget to use the cheat if ya wanna see the end seq . (its in the text file).

ive just tried downloading lunar rescue and it works fine for me .... you and your dodgy connections aye .

smila wrote:ive just tried downloading lunar rescue and it works fine for me .... you and your dodgy connections aye .

Yeah -- I've got a 3K modem which needs hand-cranking before it'll even consider downloading. I'll try again now.

g.

hehe - poor gordon .... i just use works connection

well the mag is now finished and iam completely shattered.

its a big file tho ----- 24 meg

soon as its on line i'll give ya's the link.