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A few videos from MUG for your viewing pleasure

September 3, 2023September 3, 2023 VinceH

And one from Kevin Wells for budding programmers The Midlands User Group (MUG) held their re-branded summer event on 1st July. What used to be the Midlands Midsummer MUG Show eventually came to a close due to low attendance numbers, but in 2022 it was resurrected as an online event, and this year held again under its new ‘MUG Mega Meeting’ banner – billing it, in effect, as an extended MUG meeting, with a spread of five different speakers over its five hour running time.

Stay up above the world so high in your Tappy Plane!

March 12, 2023March 12, 2023 VinceH

And below those dodgy looking upside down sky mountains! Rebuilding on a game he released last year but had to withdraw1, Jeroen Vermeulen has now released a brand spanking new title for RISC OS called Tappy Plane!

3D Turbo Boost screeches into availability

March 12, 2023March 12, 2023 VinceH

Released at the recent Southwest Show, 3D Turbo Boost is the latest game from AMCOG Games, and it is now available to buy online via !Store.

AMCOG levels up SCUBA Hunter and 3D Pingo

January 8, 2023January 8, 2023 VinceH

And there’s 30% off for one week! If you’ve purchased either SCUBA Hunter or 3D Pingo from AMCOG Games, whether in person at a show or online from within RISC OS via !Store, there’s a bonus in store (or actually in !Store) for you right now. Both games have been updated with additional levels – five for SCUBA Hunter and three for 3D Pingo.

Plans for 2023 from AMCOG Games

December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 VinceH

Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games has outlined some of the things he is working on, and some of the things he has planned for next year. These include video tutorials, a video blog, exhibitions, and new games.

Come and stay at the Haunted Tower Hotel…

November 11, 2021 VinceH

…FOREVER! If you visited the recent London Show, you would have had a chance to play a couple of new games – both with a theme corresponding with the event taking place the day before Halloween, with one available to buy at the show. That game was The Haunted Tower Hotel, from AMCOG Games – and it is now also available to purchase via !Store, priced at £9.99.

Cavern pops its way into !Store

February 27, 2021 VinceH

I’m forever blowing bubbles orbs… A popular game from yesteryear was Bubble Bobble, which was available for a number of 8-bit home computer platforms and consoles – a platform game in which the player moved around each level, firing bubbles at the monsters in order to eliminate them. It’s also one of the games featured in the Code the Classics book from the Raspberry Pi folk – and the ‘type in listing’ from that book, written in Python, is called Cavern.

Infinite Bunner crosses the platform divide

February 14, 2021 VinceH

And the road, and the railway line, and the river… Available to download now from !Store is a newly ported game for RISC OS called Infinite Bunner. Brought to the platform by Jeroen Vermeulen, the conversion is from Python (using PyGame) to BBC BASIC (using the AMCOG Development Kit.

Zoom through the AMCOG development process

January 17, 2021 VinceH

The first meeting of 2021 for the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will take place on Monday, and the guest speaker will be Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games, talking on the subject of: The AMCOG Development Process

Get your daily exercise with two new AMCOG collections available from Elesar

May 14, 2020May 19, 2020 VinceH

The lockdown may have been eased slightly in the UK (elsewhere may vary), meaning you are permitted to venture outside for longer for your daily exercise, but that doesn’t mean you should be outside all day, every day – so what can you do at home for the rest of the day?