News

A Newcomer tribute of a different kind is presented to us by Vincenzo with “Newcomer (Symphonic Rework)”. The Hungarian musician created an epic remix of the SID track from the Newcomer intro – originally composed by Zoltán Gonda aka Bassman aka Zoli.
This mp3 competed within the Remix Competition on the Arok Party 2011, where the votes of the event visitors catapulted it to the second place.
Recently, the title can be downloaded in high quality at remix.kwed.org for free.

Pawel returns with news on Pieces II: He has started coding the level editor as a cross-platform tool.
To see a screenshot, click “LEVEL EDITOR” in the Pieces II section.

The scene gives us two diskmags released on the same day:

In Scene World #17 the chapter “Game News” features some facts on Protovision’s game projects. However, due to the issue being massively delayed, the chapter’s content is around one year old. Anyway, welcome back, Scene World!

Vandalism News #57 again offers a “Mini-Market”, an actually quite big chapter about new developments on C64 games and hardware. In there, Hoild explains some reasons about the delay of Ultimate Newcomer, and reveals some details about the massive amount of work that went into it.
In the Opinion Poll chapters you can read people’s thoughts about the “Gaming Renaissance” on C64.
Last but not least, some Protovision titles are in the Game Charts.

Blues Muz’ released a small music demo with all Jim Slim tunes by 6R6 crammed into one file.
It is available at CSDb.

An adapted version of the classic game M.U.L.E. supporting our 4 Player Interface has been released by Peiselulli.
To emulate the 4 Player Interface in VICE, activate it via “Settings” -> “Userport joystick settings” and select “CGA userport joy adapter”.

Yet another Newcomer themed fan artwork by Leon:
Beautiful Oz Prisoner
This is how you meet Sheila in the game, only now she has less clothes than in the game
The picture competed within the Mixed Graphics Competition at Arok 2011 and scored 2nd.

The following magazines contain reviews of our game Jim Slim:

A fresh Newcomer inspired image called “Green, Pink, Red, Die…” has been created by Leon.
It is available at CSDb.

For the next issue of Vandalism News, the diskmag by Onslaught and Wrath Designs, Macx would like to know your view on new games for the C64:

http://allt.jonatanforsberg.net/krams/c64/vn57vs.txt

Deadline is at the end of July, so better hurry up!