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Star Castle and “ASS” for OSX too.

April 26, 2011 By Sokurah

Yay, two more games ported for Mac OSX.

This time the arcade classic (and Retro Gamer Magazine ‘Remake of the Month‘) Star Castle and my remake of an old ZX Spectrum game called Orion – called ASS here (very simple and silly little game).

That makes the number of my Mac games 7 which is almost half the number of my games for Windows. I’ll probably do more but it won’t be anytime soon as I should really concentrate on some of my unfinished WIP’s now. 🙂

Have fun…and send me an email of you enojy any of them. 😉

The links for downloading the games are on their respective pages.

Now available for Mac OSX too.

Filed Under: Remakes, Updates Tagged With: OSX

More Omega Race 2009…lots more.

April 8, 2011 By Sokurah

It’s taken me a while, but I’ve not only (finally) managed to get to grips with my Mac but also solved a problem I had with the glowing vectors on Mac computers, so I’ve now successfully ported Omega Race 2009 to OSX. Yay!

At the same time I’ve also updated the Windows version to v1.3, so the version numbers match.

The only real bug I’ve fixed in v1.3 is the mouse control. I’d put it into v1.2 but made a mistake so it could only be selected if there was a joystick/pad connected. D’oh! Now you can select it always. I’ve also made some changes to the scoring-screen, so it now shows a little more scores and it now also sends date and version number to the server so you can see when as score was achieved and if it’s from a Windows or Mac computer. Minor stuff really, but I hope you’ll upgrade the game to the latest version if you’ve downloaded it before.

I’m also nearly done with a complete re-write of it to the iPad, so hopefully it will be available there soon, too. 🙂

Now available for Mac OSX too.

…and in case you were wondering: YouTube never got back to me – even after I wrote them 4 nice letters…they simply refuse to comment. Clearly they know they’ve handled thing wrong and can’t bring themselves to admit it.
Silly monkeys. 🙂

Filed Under: Remakes, Updates Tagged With: Omega Race 2009, OSX

YouTube injustice.

March 24, 2011 By Sokurah

I can’t believe it – my YouTube account has been suspended. And why, I hear you ask?

Because I marked some spam as spam (I guess, YouTube isn’t answering my mails).

See, I like this singer – Lenka, and she has this new video out. I made a comment on how cute the video was and how much better this version of the song is – compared to the first version that was released. Pretty harmless stuff…but that’s me – harmless.

A day or so later I had a mail because someone has commented on my post, so I went back to see the comment. That was this joker – TheDoodypants. He seems to be unstable – on a good day – and seems to be nothing but an abusive spammer and the kind of person you’d prefer never to have to deal with. Look at the picture below for some of his replies to the music video. I can’t believe the things he called me – and because I was annoyed I marked about 10 of his replies as spam, but unfortunately my post is now gone because my account is suspended because of it.

I’ve tried writing to YouTube but they don’t answer. All they have to do is take a look at my commenting history and see that I’m not a spammer, I don’t call people names or abuse them, so how can it be that the spamming clown is still there, but my account has been closed…just because I marked some spam? …I mean, I’ve read their Terms of Service several times and as far as I can see I haven’t done a thing wrong – I should theoretically be allowed to mark as much spam as I want – as long as it IS spam.

If this is not the reason they’ve closed my account they could at least tell my why. But not a word. Despite several inquries. This makes YouTube hypocrites. I believe they’ve closed my account unjustified and now they won’t answer me…probably because they know I’m right but won’t acknowledge it.

So, now what? Sure, I can just make a new account, but why should I? I want my uploads back – about 12 videos of my own games, and the biggest loss is probably my favourites (probably not more than 20 so I could find them again), but I don’t like terrorism and this – it’s abuse of power – and I would prefer to have them acknowledge they’ve made a mistake…or at least have the balls to talk to me so we can get past it.

Please Tweet this, post it whereever you can, and help me get a reply from YouTube…and if possible – have my account re-opened. I’m not leaving this be. It’s a matter of principle.

TheDoodypants is the real spammer here - not me.

Filed Under: Misc, Rant Tagged With: Hypocrites, YouTube

3 Updates and 3 Mac ports.

March 8, 2011 By Sokurah

This must be the biggest update I’ve ever done, so let’s get started.

I’ve taken my 3 games from 2008, Zektor, Space Fury & Dingo and updated the Windows versions. The two primary reasons for updating them was to remove the competition splashscreen and to fix the problematic sound on certain systems, where the sound would be delayed by a second or so. But I’ve also made other changes: They will now check for updates when the score is synced, and inform you if there’s any newer versions available. I’ve also replaced the odd sound here and there. All in all – lots of changes.

However, the even bigger news is that I’ve finally ported something to Mac OSX, and these 3 games are now available for OSX too. I’d like to port Omega Race 2009 and Star Castle too (and perhaps more of my games), but it probably depends on the numbers of downloads and what feedback I get from this.

The links for downloading the games are on their respective pages.