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    From RobertB@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 10 04:36:20 2026
    ----------- Forwarded message ---------
    From: Richard Goedeken

    Hey Commodore fans,

    I will also be at [the meeting of] SCCAN (Southern California Commodore &
    Amiga Network) this weekend with a nearly-complete build of my
    revolutionary Commodore 128 game, Busted Boulders. I've been working on
    this all year and you won't want to miss the big reveal! I'm planning to
    make it available for purchase on itch.io in December, and this will be
    the first public showing since an early prototype won the wild class in
    the demo competition at CLASS (Commodore Los Angeles Super Show) in April.

    Richard

    ------------ End message ----------

    To refresh everybody's memories, at CLASS 2026 Richard presented
    Busted Boulders, a new C128 game he programmed which used ?the high
    resolution video port to display 640?480 in 16 colors, VGA
    resolution!?
    His presentation of this beta version of the game can be seen at

    https://youtu.be/b52qgeBsCRE

    For the download of the beta version of the game, go to

    https://demozoo.org/productions/390765/

    or

    https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106123

    Truly,
    Robert Bernardo
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
    http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

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  • From RobertB@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 10 04:53:02 2026
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    From: Richard Goedeken

    (snip)

    I've been working on this game all year and will demo'ing a nearly finished build this Saturday at 2pm at the SCCAN meeting at the Panera in Northridge, CA (19662 Nordhoff Street). I currently have 26 levels (aiming for 32 in the commercial release) and support for the 1351 mouse in addition to paddles. We got 7 power-ups, 3 difficulty levels, SID music and SFX, a huge text scroller, ASCII art, and super fast gameplay. It's been a heck of a lot of fun to develop
    and test this game and think people will be impressed when they see what the C128 can do.

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  • From Daniel@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 10 19:00:02 2026
    RobertB <user4717@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

    ----------- Forwarded message ---------
    From: Richard Goedeken

    Hey Commodore fans,

    I will also be at [the meeting of] SCCAN (Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network) this weekend with a nearly-complete build of my
    revolutionary Commodore 128 game, Busted Boulders. I've been working on
    this all year and you won't want to miss the big reveal! I'm planning to
    make it available for purchase on itch.io in December, and this will be
    the first public showing since an early prototype won the wild class in
    the demo competition at CLASS (Commodore Los Angeles Super Show) in April.

    Richard

    ------------ End message ----------

    To refresh everybody's memories, at CLASS 2026 Richard presented
    Busted Boulders, a new C128 game he programmed which used ?the high resolution video port to display 640?480 in 16 colors, VGA
    resolution!?
    His presentation of this beta version of the game can be seen at

    https://youtu.be/b52qgeBsCRE

    For the download of the beta version of the game, go to

    https://demozoo.org/productions/390765/

    or

    https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=106123

    Truly,
    Robert Bernardo
    Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
    http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

    I'm delighted to see 128 games being created today. All the love has
    been on the 40 column c64 and I've been waiting for some 80 column love, especially with Commodore back in business making hardware.

    Maybe they'll bless us with a C128 remake so some of us could enjoy a
    growing library.

    --
    Daniel
    sysop | air & wave bbs
    finger | info@bbs.airandwave.net

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
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