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Monday, April 03, 2017

Jinks

This looks sucky!

Jinks appears as a horizontally scrolling 'Breakout' but is technically one of the worst Atari ST games. A shameful port by Rainbow Arts with incredibly jerky scrolling that is enough to make your eyes bleed after only a few minutes of horrendous play. Honestly, it's that bad and I pity whoever spent their cash on this!

Thankfully, Peter Putnik has begun work on a version making use of the Blitter for far better results (see in the video above). Sadly, all current copies of Jinks contain bad data so Peter is looking for somebody to supply an image of the original floppies. Then he can repair this piece of hiSTory for this enhanced version.

Please get in touch if you can help.

This new Blitter-powered version is downloadable from Atarimania (Atari STe / TT / Falcon)
If you want to torture your eyeballs then the original game can be found via Old Games Finder.
Trusteft has a humorous recording of the original jerky game...

Sunday, April 02, 2017

Collaboration Two

Oh no, not another disk?

Following on from last year's success, Collaboration #2 has been released. The STatariART gang have been busy and created more funky pixel art - by many different people who kindly submitted their Degas dabbles. You will even see a few images from yours truly. Brace yourself for that horror; don't get your hopes up :o)

A lot of hard work went into this production and it's always fantastic to see so many people coming together like this. People, like us, aren't often associated with the "scene" so let's hope we see many more disks. Any ideas? Contributions? Get in touch. Until then, Clickety-Click and download Collaboration #2 via Demozoo.

Credits
AtariSTaffroom - Graphics
Atarian1982 - Graphics
Bionic Nerd - Code, Graphics
Dj Sergant - Music (We hope you don't mind ;))
Forgotten Grove - Graphics, Other (Started the whole idea)
Loggins - Graphics
Scarlettkitten - Graphics
Stefan Lindberg - Graphics
karim - Graphics