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18th June, 2022
Not many know that I once was editor for an online magazine called
Zzap!Raine that reviewed arcade games emulated through
RAINE (short for
RAinbow IslaNds Emulator) and drew inspiration from the top-selling UK and
Italian magazine, Zzap!64
(in Italy, Zzap!).
During its short life, 13 issues were published, all in English. Each issue had
custom-made cover, reviews of arcade games, special articles and sections,
and a dedicated forum. A few issues also featured reviews of games for C64,
Amiga, Spectrum and other 8 and 16-bit home computers.
The staff was mostly made of game enthusiasts, plus a handful of actual
Zzap!64 editors.
Over the past 18+ months, I have been working hardly to convert that old,
aged website into a real paper book, with all the colours of the rainbow.
Every cover, review and article is featured: fully translated in Italian and
each review and section having its very own layout. Also, the book features
an unique interview to the author of RAINE, a bunch of behind-the-scenes
and introductions, and the preface by Paolo Besser, chief editor of the
Italian Zzap! magazine. Everything is approved and endorsed by the current
published of Zzap!64.
Book features:
* 170 pages, high quality paper
* A4 format
* glossy hardcover
* more than 100 reviews and mini-reviews of arcade, 8 and 16 bit games
* 10 special articles, mostly related to classic Taito games and Zzap!
* interview with the author of RAINE
* preface by the chief editor of Zzap!
* price EUR 36,00 incl. registered shipping to Italy (contact me for shipping
overseas / rest of Europe)
The book is now available for PRE-ORDER. Given the high cost of
printing, I will only print enough copies to satisfy all pre-orders. This
means that if you want your copy of the book, you should pre-order it as
soon as possible. (No re-prints are scheduled)
*** Pre-orders close on 15 July 2022 ***
Useful links:
9th May, 2022
First post this year. And there are so many good reasons to be
extremely excited at this update!
A new piece of hardware has just been released for our beloved
CreatiVision, as a result of months of hard work by the tireless Thomas
Gutmeier and Kym Greenshields. And this could well be *the* ultimate piece of
hardware you will ever want to buy for your favourite console.
The CreatiVision MegaSDCart lets you enjoy all known
games, utilities and demos saved on an SD card. Additionally,
the included firmware contains easy-to-use routines such as audio player,
compressor, extended BASIC and hex editor. If you are a developer, you will
make good use of the the included 32 KB RAM expansion. And if you like playing
around with the BASIC interpreter, you will be able to save to/load from the
SD card!
The core of the cartridge is an Arduino board and a specially
designed BIOS that make this all possible. And the complete package comes
encased in a black or orange box, and has a free SD card packed with all
known software.
If you want to see it in action, watch the teaser video on Youtube.
And of course, if you wish to order your copy, use the online
form at the MegaSDCart
page that I have created to support this project. The price is 95 euro
plus shipping.
Note this is *not* a CreatiVEmu Team project and the money
raised goes directly to the authors of this project.
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