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GEM-Rec96 is a two track hard disk recorder, programmed by Craig Drummond.
There are plenty of hard disk recording applications for the Atari Falcon but GEM-Rec96 is delightfully easy to operate - it's almost impossible to go wrong! It is a pity the internal editor has been removed but development is proceeding in a sensible direction, let's hope Craig gets enough encouragement to continue development.
BAD MOODby Martin Milner
IntroductionIf like me, you own a Falcon, you may have heard about something about a Doom-type game engine being developed. ,br> Some months ago, a colleague sent me a copy of an early version of something called Bad Mood which turned out to be that game engine. Actually, there is more than one doom-type program available for the Falcon, but The Bad Mood project is the one being most comprehensively worked on.About Bad MoodBad Mood is a program being written as the basis for a 3D (Doom-type) game engine for the Atari Falcon and compatibles. It is being written more as a generic game engine rather than a specific game to encourage the devlopment of other generically similar games on the Falcon. Bad Mood itself will eventually be developed into a fully playable game in order to demonstrate it's power.It supports 16-bit truecolour graphics, variable viewport size up to 320x240 (smaller is faster), Doom, Doom II and Heretic I/PWAD files, perspective mapped (and textured) walls, floors and ceilings, wraparound sky features and scaled player movement. It supports many CPU accelerators (not that it needs them as it uses the DSP for speed) and is FastRAM compatible. The sources are also available from various FTP sites. Parameters can be supplied to the program via the command line, such as the I/PWAD filename(s) and which episode/mission to warp to. Once the program has loaded all it's data and done it's initial calculations, you can just press space to start wandering round the game levels. Movement is controlled either by mouse or keyboard cursor keys, and there are keys which can be used to rise and drop, to change the size of the viewport, etc. There's also a map which can be switched on and off, which gradually builds up as you explore the level. It's quite absorbing actually, just seeing where all the corriders and doors go! It'll be great when it's eventually released as a full game. Bad Mood ToolsTo help the members of the Bad Mood team develop the program, a number of useful Tools are being developed:-
The FutureAlthough some of the tools are a little unstable, they are still under development, and it is actually possible even now to design your own levels, objects, incorperate your own graphics, etc. It's also intended I believe to eventually produce a Bad Mood specific IWAD file format, so that it will have absolutely no problem with copyright, etc. (The IWAD files are commercial). I, for one shall watch progress with great interest...(If you're on the Internet, point you web browser at http://rand.thn.htu.se/cgi-bin/buildpage?bad_mood for more information).
Going back some years the amount a ST could hold on a 720Kb floppy disk seemed huge.
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After a zillion beta releases, Ben Hall's System Exclusive dump manager Dump-It!,
has finally been released. 
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