Pssst! Don't tell anyone... but we heard a rumour that Full Circle: Rocketeer is now in the hands of the manufacturers... keep any eye on www.rgcd.co.uk, it's only a few weeks away now! Once it goes live there, we'll announce the details of the competition and a few clues to the huge amount of prizes we have up for grabs!
As for cartridges... that should only be a matter of time now...
Our friends at Checkpoint have a Jaguar and skunkboard at their disposal (don't ask who is responsible, just note the image above!) Here's what one month of stroking the big pussy resulted in thanks to lsl:
Download the intro and fire it at your Jaguar for some oldskool rotozoomer action!
Despite being something we're all quite fond of, we've never looked into making games for the Atari Lynx. Some people think our games would be perfectly suited to the machine - we agree, but it's not likely to happen. But it doesn't stop our friends dropping hints. Luchsenstein 3D is a Wolfenstein 3D engine demo by Obschan and 108stars. So why are we mentioning it here? Well, because there's a very nice little surprise waiting inside the game when you meet the end of demo boss, here's a few screen shots brought together from the cut scene:
There you have it - as the graphic above explains - IT'S ALL REBOOT'S FAULT!!11one
We recently bought almost all of the English versions of ReVival Magazine. The past 6 issues all had something or other Reboot inside, so here are a few photos for the IN PRINT section.
Here's something new! Our good friend and long-time Jagware independent FrediFredo has been a very busy man. He's long dreamed of taking Brett Hull Hockey for the Jaguar and updating it with current or more modern teams and players. Over some time he's amassed quite an understanding of the game ROM: where assets are stored, player names, stats, etc. After some direct hacking action, he enlisted the help of GGN, supplied him with a list of offsets and what he knew to reside in them and work was started on a tool that would allow easier and more extensive BHH ROM hacking (you may have noticed the tool slipped into the Projects area a little while ago unannounced!).
Well, FF has now completed his work and is very proud to present the result of his and GGN's combined efforts: JHL13. Try it out, enjoy and offer Fredi some feedback at AA, Yaro, Jagware or any other forum you can find him ;-)
Lots has been happening, including atari.org going down. This has impacted in several ways... a glaring lack of updates here pre- and post-AC2013... the high scores are currently down as the atari.org setup is slightly different and they're a little bit broken... we've got a little bit of a backlog of news, but hopefully you've been keeping up to date on the facebook page.
High res Atari Females?
Atari Jaguar Hip Hop Video ROM?
Visit AA Tripper thread for the ROM download or see the qUaKe page for the Atari Girlz slideshow software.
Lots of tools news to update you with so let's crack on!
If you've been playing with qUaKe, Reboot's 640x480 high colour slideshow ROM creation tool, you might have noticed that it came bundled with the then-current versions of rmac and rln assembler and linker. These tools are the versions of mac/aln that we use to produce our games etc. Shamus397 is the driving force behind the development of the tools, but Linkovitch, SCPCD, GGN and others have contributed - you are free to do the same :-) Visit the rmac/rln page for details on how to get hold of them.
Meanwhile, the hyperactive GGN is back once again with another GFA32 masterpiece for some Jaguar fun times! His latest effort, in cooperation with FrediFredo, is a ROM editor for Brett Hull NHL Hockey. It lets you do all kinds of fun stuff to the game including changing team name, player names, stats and graphics! The BHHEdit page is ready when you are.
Compo results time!
The winner of the KM:F High Score Competition is.... Masematte!
The winner of the KM:F Random Draw is... racerx!
Both will be contacted via forum PM so we can send off your prizes - thanks to everyone for participating, more compos and more games soon!
The KM:F compo is over and the high score table sits at 64 entries - AWESOME!
So who won? Masematte, obviously! Nice one, Arne, it was never in doubt! What about the other prize, the random one? Come back tomorrow and find out, we're busy bringing Jaguar fans yet another Reboot release tonight!
There's a new article in the FEATURES section where we attempt to explain what happens when you buy our games (where does the money go?). You should find it details pretty much what we've done with any money we've made so far and how it has been and how it will continue to be put to good use in the near future.
The article also details how it's possible to put games out in physical form and also give them away for download at the same time, without any harm to potential sales. Four different sales models are covered using our own experiences: budget release, higher quality release, digital download and professional production.
There might also be a hint or two regarding our plans for the immediate future, so check it out!
Kobayashi maru sales continue to do well - it's now our most purchased game! Thanks once more to RGCD for making this release go so smoothly, the flash cart purchasing fund is looking very healthy now and should soon see another boost with our first release of 2013... but what will that be? A bit of something old and a bit of something new...
But before that, or possibly simultaneously, we're contributing to another project - a collaboration between multiple devs who are planning to use the new Jagtopus carts to release games with, all coming together to say thanks to SCPCD for his hard work designing it and the 4-cart programmer. This project is another RGCD managed CD release and will see all profits go to SCPCD as he continues to develop more exciting Jaguar hardware! Hopefully we'll all be able to help towards patching over that huge hole he burned in his pockets over the past 2 or 3 years :-)
A new year and a new news page. Old news here.
