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September 3rd, 2015, 22:02 Posted By: wraggster
Over 1,500 Blizzard related video games items are to find a new home in American museum The Strong in Rochester, New York.
The collection has been donated by former Blizzard Entertainment COO Paul Sams and spans items from franchises such as Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo that have been collected over a 20 year period.
Included are some very early games such as The Lost Vikings and RPM Racing, which were published when the company was called Silicon & Synapse. There’s also plenty of merchandise, as well as lots of Asia-specific blurb.
“During my 20-year career at Blizzard, I accumulated the single largest and most diverse personal global collection of Blizzard Entertainment’s games and franchise related merchandise that anyone has ever seen,” Sams said.
“This collection holds a very dear place in my heart and I wanted to ensure that the materials would be properly preserved for many decades to come. The dedicated and talented team at The Strong were the obvious choice to care for the collection. Most importantly, I wanted to ensure that broadest audience of gamers and fans of entertainment and play would be able to share in this extensive collection of gaming history.”
The director of The Strong’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games Jon-Paul Dyson added: “The Blizzard collection enhances the museum’s extensive collection of other materials related to video game history and complements acquisitions of materials from other key gaming companies such as Atari, Broderbund Software, Microsoft, and Sierra Online.”
Most of the items will go on general display on October 1st.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/forme...museum/0155390
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September 2nd, 2015, 21:23 Posted By: wraggster
The never-ending saga of the Atari 2600 E.T. cartridgesthat were famously buried (and later unearthed) in Alamogordo, New Mexico continues to benefit the small town. Last November, a selection of games (including E.T., Asteroidsand Missile Command) that were recovered in the excavation were put up for sale on eBay, and now we know just how much cash they generated. According to the Alamogordo News, the game sales totaled $107,930.15, with more than $65,000 going directly to the town. In addition, the Tularosa Basin Historical Society received over $16,000 while more than $26,000 was spent on shipping and other expenses. A total of 881 cartridges covering 60 different titles were sold overall; a copy of E.T. was the highest single sale at $1,535.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/31/b...-ET-ebay-sale/
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September 2nd, 2015, 21:23 Posted By: wraggster
 Now that we know how the graphics worked on the Nintendo Entertainment System and Commodore 64, The iBookGuy wants to tell us all about how theApple II and Atari 2600 got their groove on. In the he says that the Apple II actually used two different techniques for producing visuals depending on whether you had a monochrome or color monitor unit. And the reason white text on a black background appears almost rainbow-like in nature on color machines has to do with pixel placement. For example, blue and green being next to each other on screen requires perfect alignment lest you want white mages to have spots of the former bleeding into them.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/31/a...ics-explainer/
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August 27th, 2015, 22:00 Posted By: wraggster
the Contiki team announced the release of Contiki 3.0, the latest version of the open source IoT operating system. The 3.0 release is a huge step up from the 2.x branch and brings support for new and exciting hardware, a set of new network protocols, a bunch of improvements in the low-power mesh networking protocols, along with a large number of general stability improvements. And, yes, the system still runs on the Commodore 64/128, Apple II, Atari.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/08...r-apple-ii-c64
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August 27th, 2015, 20:20 Posted By: Metareview
?FLY by sh3-rg is a 50/60fps endless “runner” where the aim is to survive as long as possible, and more importantly score as much as possible, before the inevitable boy-meets-wall certainty of your demise.
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August 23rd, 2015, 21:01 Posted By: DCemumaniac
news from emurussia
3DO emulator for Windows/Linux has been updated. Changes:
- added support for isos with exotic sector sizes (2353, 2368, 2448, 2449 etc);
- added original signature checking for iso integrity control;
- released a x64 build;
- added CD-ROM caching (fixes sound stuttering in Sailor Moon);
- added fullscreen hotkeys functionality;
- fixed pixel process (palette in Crash'n'Burn);
- minor changes and fixes.
File: Download
News source: http://www.arts-union.ru/node/23
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August 23rd, 2015, 19:58 Posted By: wraggster
The following Translations have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
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August 22nd, 2015, 17:37 Posted By: wraggster
Ever wondered how early 1980s video game engineers were able to get so much out of so little horsepower? Wonder no more.
The iBookGuy's video, below, on oldschool graphics is an easy-to-understand explanation for how developers of games on the likes of the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Commodore 64 created vibrant visuals despite having next to no computer memory to work with.
We see how developers used workarounds to get more out of the systems they were working with, some of which had just 16k of RAM. There's some pretty interesting stuff in there about pixels, colours, and sprites.
Did you know Mario was made up for multiple sprites? I didn't.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...raphics-worked
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August 20th, 2015, 21:14 Posted By: wraggster
Resident Evil 2 is the latest game to ride the wave of ‘90s nostalgia that has swept into the market.
The iconic 1998 horror game is being remade, publisher Capcom has announced. The news comes just two months after Square Enix revealed that its own 1990s epic – Final Fantasy VII – is being recreated for release in 2017.
Other ‘90s revivals include the recent Chart-Track No.1 Rare Replay, a new game in the long-dormant Shenmue series and the upcoming Super Mario Maker, a game that delves into Mario’s back catalogue of 2D platformers.
“Nostalgia is a powerful thing,” said Capcom brand manager Brian Ayers.
“As we get further away from the ‘90s, the rose-tinted glasses start to come out, and a fondness forthe period starts to creep back-in. It runs through everything from fashion to music to film, and games are now an established enough culture that they’re affected, too.”
Gavin Price, studio head at Playtonic Games, which is developing Yooka-Laylee – a game inspired by 1990s 3D platformers – added: “The longer time passes with such experiences missing-in-action, the more and more the pressure builds to do something reminiscent. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, I would say.
“A plainer explanation would also be that there has never been a better environment and set of circumstances to allow creators the freedom to do what their hearts desire.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/back-...siness/0154668
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August 19th, 2015, 22:02 Posted By: Metareview
Reverse Engineer updated his Atari 7800 game Time Salvo, which is an update on the classic computer game Crossfire.
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Shoot the enemies, and avoid being shot. After some time passes in the level, humanoids will begin appearing. Your enemies will kill the humanoids if they touch them, but if you run into the humanoids they will follow you. Keep them safe until the end of the level. Periodically you will need to refuel on ammunition. An alarm will sound, and you’ll see the ammunition on the playfield. Run across the ammunition to pick it up. Every 2 rounds you will reach the challenging stage, where 4 waves of enemies will race across the screen in patterns. If you shoot all 44 enemies you will earn an extra life.
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August 19th, 2015, 21:58 Posted By: Metareview
News from EmuCR
 GameEx v14.35 is released. GameEx is a graphical DirectX based front-end for MAME, Zinc, Daphne, PC Games, and all command line based game emulators, along with being a good Home Theatre PC solution. It also makes a good CarPC and touchscreen frontend. The original goal was for it to be used on Windows XP Media Center and Arcade Cabinets although it will run on any version of Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. For just $17 (USD) you can too unlock the full potential of the front end. ...More
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August 19th, 2015, 21:58 Posted By: Metareview
News from EmuCR
 Altirra 2.7 Test 21 is released. Altirra is an Atari 8 bit Emulator on the Windows/DOS platform. Altirra emulates several models of the 8-bit Atari computers. This includes the the 800, 800XL, and 130XE versions. It has a lot of options, and compatibility is decent especially given the emulator's early stages. It also supports some copy protected games properly in emulation....More
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August 19th, 2015, 20:16 Posted By: wraggster
We take powerful computer graphics for granted nowadays, to the point where we complain when 4K games won't play at 60fps. But YouTube's showed how tough designers had it back in the 80s just to make color graphics work, period, on 16K machines of the day. They had to use a variety of workarounds just to get 16 colors on a 320 x 200 screen, as that would normally eat up your entire 16K of RAM right there. Developers for machines like the NES and Commodore 64 resorted to dividing the screen into "cells" that could each hold only two colors, a trick that used up just 9K of memory.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/19/8...raphics-video/
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August 13th, 2015, 21:36 Posted By: wraggster
An anti-piracy group acting on behalf of Columbia Pictures has hit video hosting site Vimeo with a slew of copyright takedowns to prevent piracy of its Adam Sandler summer film, Pixels.
Entura International sent the video hosting site a number of DCMA take-down notices on videos using the below criteria:
"Pixels", "Pantone Pixels", "Pixels", "Pixels - HD Trailer", "Detuned Pixels - Choco", "Pixels - Life Buoy", "Pixels: Redeye @ Kettering", "Pixels Festival 2015", "Love Pixels- VJLoops", "Pixels Official Trailer (2015) - Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage"
This resulted in a number of indie projects being taken down including .
Ironically, this took down the film’s trailer, as well as the award-winning short film on which Pixels is based.
Speaking to Kotaku, Vimeo says that it is looking into this, and that they are going to restore everything in the nextfew days.
“The videos were takedown in accordance with Vimeo’s DMCA policy,” a spokesperson told Kotaku. “However, Vimeo’s Trust & Safety team are further evaluating the claims made and will have an update in the coming days.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/pixel...videos/0154042
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