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Tag: games
News nybble: Wi-Fi Sheep AMCOG Games special – now on YouTube
Sunday evenings usually sees a Wi-Fi Sheep ‘8 ’till Late’ program broadcast on Twitch, and the 5th May program was an AMCOG Games special. The broadcast featured some two hours of game play, demonstrating many of AMCOG’s games. The program can now be watched on YouTube – and if you haven’t yet purchased any of […]
News nybble: AMCOG Development Kit version 1.08 now available
The AMCOG Development Kit, designed to make it much easier to write games for RISC OS computers in BBC BASIC, has been updated. The new version is available to download from !Store by existing customers. Version 1.08 brings with it an extended library, including procedures from AMCOG’s Island of the Undead and Stunt Drivers games, […]
AMCOG Games to visit users in the Midlands this Saturday
The Midlands User Group (MUG) will next meet on Saturday, 17th November, and their guest speaker will be Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games. Tony only became a RISC OS user a few years ago, released his first game for the platform in 2015. Since then he has built up quite a catalogue of titles, covering […]
Zombie apocalypse unleashed by AMCOG Games
They’re coming to get you Barbara <um… insert name here>! “You have been unable to contact air-traffic control, and after running out of fuel crash landed on an abandoned military base. Strange beings that reek of dead and rotting flesh attacked you and you became separated from your plane.” Well, that can’t be good, but […]
Undead to invade Wakefield on June 6th
Luckily, though, only in the form of a video game! AMCOG Games‘ Tony Bartram will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, which takes place on Wednesday, 6th June, at 7:45pm. Tony will be talking about games development on RISC OS, along with creating audio-visual effects. Under […]
News bit: Patrick M’s games now all webbed up
Patrick M, who has written a variety of simple but fun games for RISC OS, has now put together a web page to host all the games in one place, hosted on his personal server. The games are also now available from !Store
AMCOG Flash Collection now available from Elesar
Flash! Aah-aah… I’ve played every one of them! At the recent Southwest Show, there was a new product available from AMCOG Games – a USB Flash drive containing the complete set of the company’s RISC OS games and related titles to date. For those people unable to get to the show, it is now possible […]
Mop Tops top speed topped up
And some other game updates from AMCOG, too. A number of titles from AMCOG Games – specifically, those that run in 16 million colour screen modes – have been updated with improved compatibility with the latest ROM updates for ARMSX ARMX6 and Titanium machines. At the same time, the company has seen fit to add […]
News nybble: Quake updated
You receive 25 health! Following R-Comp‘s release of a new version of Quake just before this year’s Southwest Show, further work has been carried out on the source code, and there is now a new version available from !Store. The updated version benefits from hardware-accelerated floating point capabilities of modern CPUs, which provides a significant […]