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Classic Trash has closed down, or rather been replaced by Ping! Games. Many reviews have vanished in the process, causing changes on several pages, but I guess it would be pointless to list them all here. But it also caused me to reorganise the Abandonware page a bit, putting the news on top and the Legal Abandons on a seperate page.
I have added a page about OCS/ECS Games and AGA Games, the two video modes (OK, I'm simplifying here) on the Amiga. The first has a complete chronological list of all the games on this site where an Amiga-ECS version exists, regardless whether original or port, while the second has currently only general information, since the only game with AGA support I have a page about is The Settlers.
Then there are a few minor updates on various gamepages:
Today I added only a single gamepage, Emmanuelle. So now there are at least pages for all the seven French games in the list.
Two new gamepages today, Strip-Mac! and Slime Forest. The latter is a console RPG designed to help you learn Japanese, and highly recommended if that's what you want to do.
There are a few updates on the Ultima II page, since I found out a bit more about the Macintosh/Atari ST version.
Today there are three new gamepages for games that have already been in my lists for quite a while:
These are all newer games, 1999 or later, and while none of them is in any way a favorite of mine, there are reviews for all of them, not just a few links.
Besides, I have added a table to the IBM PS/2 50 page with all the games that I played or tried to play on that machine.
Today's updates are all about one topic: Strip Poker. I have created a list for that genre (if you want to call it a genre), I have completely reworked the Artworx Strip Poker page, since I found a couple of versions I had not known about before, and I added pages for Poker Party and Mick's Strip Poker. There are now pages for all the strip poker games in the list, except RealGirls Strip Poker, which is still linked to the developers' homepage.
And my Macintosh Collection has grown again today, by an AppleVision 1710 Display, manufactured October 1996.
I have this thing for downloadable games lately. Today's addition is Beast, an ASCII puzzle game from 1984. BTW, I have never given file sizes for these downloads; but don't worry, they are all below 100kB, most are far below that.
I said yesterday you'd be reading more about Geoffrey Silverton here soon; there's now a page about him, and one about his other game, Popgames (with download), which is actually a collection of four memory resident games, as far as I know, something absolutely unique.
I did something I had never really planned to do: I updated the two oldest changelogs, July 2002 and August 2002. The reason is that the structure of the site has in part changed since then, and I wanted to avoid too many broken links.
Then there are two new gamepages again, one for Half-Life and one for Tunneler (with download). Tunneler is the better known of the two game by Geoffrey Silverton, about whom you will read more here soon. Stay tuned.
I went over the IBM PS/2 section, checked the links and added a page with all my Adapter Cards.
In the games section, there is a new page for the Resident Evil series (mainly a few links) and one for programmer Todd Replogle, who programmed the old Duke Nukem games and a good part of Duke Nukem 3D.
In the past I had often had the problem of hitting my ceiling (this account is limited to 10MB), so I went through my webspace folder by folder and found lots of dead weight, files I had simply forgotten to delete, or files this site can well do without. That purge left me with about 1MB free webspace, so future updates should be secured for a while ;-)
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No update today to announce incredible news today: There has been an update of Joe Average! Yes, really! Go to Online Comics to check it out!
No new gamepages today, but I have reorganized the Timeline: From 1990 on, there is now a seperate page for each year. Every time a year appears in another listing, it is linked to its page. I hope this improves navigation.
Rather a big update today. First, two corrections: I fixed the release history of Neuromancer. It was not, as I had stated, an Amiga game later ported to the PC; it came out on the Commodore 64 first, and was then ported to the PC, the Apple ][GS, and the Amiga. I found screenshots of all four versions showing the same room. They make an interesting comparison.—And Transport Tycoon is not, as I stated, a US game; it was published by a US company (Microprose) but Chris Sawyer, the designer, is quite definitely British.
Then there are several new gamepages:
Some are just a few links, some are longer reviews, some have a screenshot. The reason that I am posting so many new gamepages, sometimes rather sketchy ones, is that I finally want to fill the gaps. There are still more than forty games in my gamelists that are not linked to anything, and nearly half as many that are linked to outside pages. I want that fixed by the end of the month.
Three new gamepages:
Sometimes I find pages on my harddrive that I wrote some time ago, but for some reason never linked and uploaded. One such page is the one about Interphase, which I have uploaded now. Interphase, an Amiga game ported to DOS, was a kind of forerunner of the first-person shooters.
Two new game pages, one for AckAck, a paratrooper-like shareware game, and one for Alternate Reality: The City, an RPG originally developed for the Atari 800 (that page is new, too) and later ported to most of the platforms of the day. It was never really popular on the PC and became a kind of underground classic, known by few, but rated highly by those that do.
There is a new game page for Sexy Droids; a page for the Apple ][ as a game platform, including a list of those
games on this website that were released on the Apple ][ first;
and I have added a similar list to the Amiga page.
I played Dragon Court once again and noticed that a new version is coming up. I posted a short list of the planned changes.
Let me start with the smaller updates this time. I found Mac reviews for both Warcraft and Warcraft II; not only did I add links to these reviews, but I am finally able to give exact system requirements and in general more details about the Mac versions of these games.
Then there are two new game pages, Oxyd and Marble Madness. I had found Oxyd long ago on the hard drive of my Performa 630 and thought I'd make a page about it now. Little did I imagine I'd spend hours researching this game on the web, and that this would become one of my bigger game pages. I have listed Oxyd as a Macintosh game, but it is available for other platforms as well.
There are two new game pages, Lemmings and Th!nk Cross. The
latter is an interesting, if not overly exciting puzzle game
by Austrian developer Max Design from 1991.
There are two new gamelists, Real Time Strategies and Puzzle Games. And I put the UK Games on seperate pages, both in alphabetical and chronological order.
As for smaller details, I've added a screenshot to the Final Fantasy VII page (it's a JPEG, something which I usually detest for screenshots, but in this case it was the only way to keep its size reasonable) and put the Wizardry Console Games on a seperate page.
There are two new game pages: Alone in the Dark and Super Noah's Ark 3D, a very scurrilous Wolfenstein 3D-clone on the SNES.
I have added a list of the RPGs on this website, and I have edited the list of Adventure Games to contain only those games about which there is actually a page.
I have added a list of the FPS games on this website, a game page (just a few links) for Quake and one for the Build Engine. And there is now a seperate page for the SNES version of Wolfenstein 3D.
I have added a list of Linux Games: all the games on this website for which a Linux version exists.
A new game page for Times of Lore, the first game that used that strange diagonal top-down view that became quite popular with Origin for two or three years.
There are some small updates on the Abandonware page: added a link, removed a few stale ones.
Four new gamepages:
And I finally fixed the navigation in the Timeline.
Furthermore, I added a new text to the USA Library, the Mississippi resolutions from November 1860.
Though obviously nobody reads them, I have added a few texts to the USA section and given them a seperate index page, the USA Library.
Besides, there is a new game page for Paratrooper, with some changes on the related pages for Night Raid and Ganja Farmer.
Three new game pages:
I browsed through the games section today, found a lot to add, a lot to change. These pages are new:
Some of them have just a few links. Few of the changes I made are worth mentioning, most notably I added a large similar games section to Fallout and a small image to Emperor.
Good news for all Daggerfall fans: Interkarma's Workshop is up!
