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After 23 years (!!!) of development, a physical release of the Atari 8-bit Scorch game is finally available. Tigerduck bought it, and it has a great box and artwork and looks excellent on real hardware.
And the best thing for me is that my quote made it to the cover and is listed in a row with "ChatGPT 3.5" and "Bard from Google AI". This is so great - thanks for this real honor Pirx!
If you don't know the game at all, then here's a video about the "Father unknown of all games".
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I've put together a slideshow of photos taken at Revision 2013, where I had the pleasure of meeting the M.E.G.A team. We built a canvas there and projected some of my demos from a beamer during the party. This felt great! Thanks to DEFT for providing the photos - not more than 10 years late. But hey, what's 10 years at our age - this way, they are even retro now :-) The demos in the video are:
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Every time I'm with Insane at Fujiama, I learn new things. This year, I've learned that I can use "minge64-gcc-..." under Cygwin to create self-contained binaries under Cygwin on Windows. And I've learned there is an excellent shoot-em-up I had never heard of called "Tyrian". Originally an MS-DOS-based game written in Pascal and x86 assembly, it has been made open source and is available for many platforms today as OpenTyrian. Ross's Game Dungeon: Tyrian is an excellent and entertaining review of the game.
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The Fujiama 2023 started at midnight from Wednesday, the 30th of August, to the 1st of September 2023. It ended sometime after breakfast on Sunday, the 3rd of September, 2023. We had many new faces at the party this year, which was great. For example, we've had Błażej Biernat (aka "panico") and Krzysztof A. Ziembik (aka "kaz") from the Polish Society for the Protection of Technical Heritage (PDODT). They brought lots of new hardware, for example, a new Midi interface. Be clever and save the date for Fujiama 2024 already: 23. to 28.07.2024.
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While "The!Cart Studio" is written in Java and runs where Java is available, having a native program version simplifies the usage for regular users. When macOS and Windows stopped supporting 32-bit applications some years ago, the existing native wrappers stopped working. I started working on a toolset that enabled me to create all native versions from a single Java source without copying and adapting countless files. I am happy to release the native 64-bit versions of "The!Cart" for Windows, macOS (Intel and ARM), and Linux based on my new toolset today.
I've also reworked all English and German text documentation and program texts again for correctness and readability using Grammarly. This includes over 600 adaptations.
As requested by several users, I've changed the handling of the cursor keys to require "CONTROL".Hence, you can now enter "+-=*" as characters in the search field.
The new version is available here for you to test.