february 1998
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26/2/98
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Christopher Joseph recently mentioned the existance of a brand new Worms-type game called Skirmish in comp.sys.acorn.games - having seen a preview of this game, I can honestly say that it is graphically the most impressive game of its kind I have seen, so let's hope the final game lives up to its promise!
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25/2/98
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TBA have announced that their full commercial verion of Quake entitled, TBA-Quake, will be available to buy at the forthcoming Wakefield Show. A player-only release, current plans are to charge £14.99 to receive a copy by email or £19.99 on floppy disc. You will need to buy the original PC Quake separately in order to get the level files. See below
| A classic 16-bit era game will be available "soon" in a superb, pixel-perfect Acorn port which is playable on all Acorn machines
| Aleph One are progressing well on their implementation of VESA 2.0 and DirectDraw
for Acorn PC cards, which when complete will allow newer PC games to run - and much
faster than earlier games, too
| Artex have announced that they have completed a large (3.5Mb!) demo version of Exodus
| Psygnosis's WipeOut could be on the way from R-Comp Interactive - R-Comp have neither confirmed nor denied this story [also see story dated 4/3/98 superceding this]
| Acorn MAME is now on release 0.30.1, with a beta
0.30.2 also available
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