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We've added the card of Krom - El Guerrero Invencible (The Invencible Warrior). It includes: Spectrum and MSX versions, inlay, review and screenshots.

We've replaced iLogicAll file, fixing a bug wich reset the Spectrum when error happened or BREAK is pressed during game loading.

Also, as the bug is fixed, we've added the source code inside the game .zip file.

Today it's time for an Amstrad CPC update (+ one Amstrad PCW inlay).

4 new game cards:
-Amsilvania Castle
(inlay, scanned & typed manual, review & screenshots)
-Cray 5
(inlay, scanned & typed manual, review & screenshots)
-Guillem de Berguedà
(inlay, review & screenshots)
-III Guerra Mundial (World War III)
(typed manual, review & screenshots)

And other 15 inlays added to the database:
Astro Marine Corps (A.M.C.), La Aventura Original, Casanova, Chicago 30's, Corsarios y Defcom 1, Freddy Hardest (esp), Freddy Hardest (eng), Game Over II (Summit), La Guerra de las Vajillas, Guardian Angel, The Last Mission (CPC & PCW), Livingstone Supongo y Livingstone I Presume
 

New update, with four cards for text adventures wich we have already on our page.

• Castillo Maldito: Text adventure coded in BASIC, and published by  MicroHobby cassette.
• La Caverna del Dragón de Bronce: Daniel Querol's game, distributed by A Través del Espejo fanzine.
• Caverna Infernal: Cave adventure, coded in BASIC.
• Cimmerjan: 3PSoft's adventure. We've included the 128k version inside the .zip file
  

We've added today a little update, with two text adventures cards  wich we have already on the page, but without their card.

- Akbarr: Andrés Viedma's interactive fiction, with both PC and Spectrum versions.
- Araña: Text adventure for Spectrum, developed by Year Zero Software, in 1.990

Enjoy it!

Spectrum update today. One game:
-Stroper

And three manuals:
-Dea Tenebrarum (scannead and typed)
-Delfox (typed)
-Evaristo el Punky (typed)

Hemos añadido los siguientes mapas:
Hundra, The Last Mission, El Poder Oscuro, Mambo, Rock'n Roller, Senda Salvaje, Survivor, Wells & Fargo

Y manuales:
Atrog (scanned & typed), Enchanted (scanned & typed), La Espada Sagrada (scanned & typed), Hundra (Mastertronic)  (typed), Zampabolas (scanned & typed)

Two new game cards and some other updated. All of them cards of games published for Spectrum and MSX.

New:
-Arquímedes XXI
(Spectrum -box- & MSX inlays, MicroHobby review, scanned and typed manual, walkthrough, CEZ review and screenshots)
-Nuclear Bowls
(Spectrum inlays, MicroHobby review, pdf and typed manual, map, CEZ review and screenshots))

Updated:
-Bloody (Sygran inlay)
-Duck Out (map)
-Post Mortem (typed manual)
-Rocky (box inlay)

We continue completing our archives with a new buch of inlays. Today, they are from games converted to Spectrum, Amstrad, C64, MSX and, in some cases, PC.

-Basket Master (Amstrad)
-Camelot Warriors (Spectrum -two versions-, Amstrad & MSX)
-Camelot Warriors UK (Spectrum/Amstrad, C64)
-Fernando Martín Basket Master (Amstrad cassette & disk, C64)
-Game Over (Spectrum -naranja- & Amstrad)
-Meganova (Amstrad)
-Meganova - The Weapon (Amstrad, C64)
-Metropolis (Amstrad, MSX)
-Mike Gunner (Spectrum cassette & Amstrad disk)
-Phantomas 2 (Spectrum -3 diferentes- & Amstrad)
-Turbo Girl (Spectrum cassette, Amstrad)
-Vampire (Amstrad, C64)
 

Thanks to the work of Zemman, our collaborator, we've added five new typed reviews from the famous Spanish magazine Micro Hobby. They are, obviously, in Spanish, so please use a web translator if you want to read them.

-Defcom 1
-Don Quijote
-Dustin
-Fernando Martín Basket Master
-Freddy Hardest

Finally, the moment of RanaRemake release has come. The awaited remake of Ranarama, the classic created by Steve Turner and published by Hewson, is the first Pagantipaco's game published by our videogames label.

A multiplatform remake, with great deal of care in each detail, and wich will set people talking a lot.

Where to get it? In its card on the CEZ GS page... Where else?

Test it, play it, and don't doubt to comment your impressions on our forum.

While we are waiting for the most expected release of the moment,  Ranarama Remake (tomorrow!), we've added two games and three game cards to our database. Don't hesitate in order to comment the games in their cards (registration it's not required).

-Eagle (inlay, scanned and typed manual, two reviews and screenshots)
-Indoor Race (Spectrum version, inlay, typed manual, two reviews and screenshots)
-Ormuz (Amstrad version, inlay, scanned and typed manual, review and screenshots)

We continue uploading inlays. With these ones there are 557... And we have a bunch of them yet...

-Capitán Trueno (Spectrum -IBSA-)
-Desperado 2 (Amstrad CPC)
-Emilio Sánchez Vicario Grand Slam (Spectrum)
-Gonzzalezz (Amstrad CPC)
-Guillermo Tell (Spectrum and Amstrad CPC cassette)
-Michel Futbol Master (Spectrum and Amstrad)
-Mithos (Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Amstrad PCW)
-Mutan Zone (Amstrad CPC and Amstrad PCW)
-Perico Delgado Maillot Amarillo (Amstrad CPC)
-Poli Diaz Boxing (Spectrum cassette and Amstrad CPC disk)
-Poogaboo (Amstrad CPC)
-Rock 'n' Roller (Amstrad CPC)
-Simulador Profesional de Tenis (Spectrum IBSA)
-Sito Pons 500 c.c. Grand Prix (Spectrum -Erbe Especial 8 bits-)
-Solo (Amstrad CPC)
-Soviet (Spectrum and Amstrad CPC disk)
-Stardust (Spectrum -Serie Leyenda- and Amstrad CPC)
-Trigger (Spectrum and Amstrad CPC cassette)
-Ulises (Amstrad CPC)

We continue adding coverscans to the database. We have to mention two more sites: Amstrad ESP and CPC Zone. They provided some of the covers we've uploaded today. Enjoy them.

Abu Simbel Profanation (Spectrum, Amstrad -box and normal- and MSX), Afteroids (Amstrad), Arkos (Amstrad), Bestial Warrior (Spectrum and Amstrad), Blackbeard (Amstrad), Capitán Sevilla (Spectrum and Amstrad), Cobra's Arc (Spectrum and Amstrad), Comando Quatro (Spectrum and Amstrad cassette), Colosseum (Amstrad), Cosmic Sheriff (Amstrad), Curro Jiménez (Amstrad), Desperado (Amstrad and MSX), Dustin (Amstrad and MSX), Comando Tracer (Spectrum cassette, Amstrad), Cosa Nostra (Amstrad), Hundra (Amstrad), Nonamed (Spectrum naranja), El Poder Oscuro (Amstrad and MSX), Rescate Atlántida (Spectrum cassette and Amstrad), Score 3020 (Amstrad), Senda Salvaje (Portugal), Sir Fred (Spectrum cassette and Amstrad), Spirits (Amstrad), Survivor (Amstrad), Triple Comando (Spectrum), Tuareg (Amstrad), Wells & Fargo (Amstrad) and West Bank (Spectrum box and Amstrad).

We've finished uploading all the previous available coverscans.
Now it's the moment for uploading all of them we have and we couldn't upload yet, due to technical reasons. A lot of them will be available thanks to WOS and SPA2 (Spectrum), MSX Archive (MSX), Lemon 64 (C64) and a lot of personal providers.
While we're waiting for the RanaRemake release, we updated the site wiht those ones:

-Army Moves (spanish version) -> 3 Spectrum (box, box -MicroHobby edition, normal and orange), 1 Amstrad (normal), 1 MSX (normal)
-Army Moves (european version) -> 2 Spectrum (Imagine french and italian, Summit), 2 C64 (disk, Summit)
-Astro Marine Corps (spanish version) -> 1 Spectrum (+3)
-Aspar GP Master (spanish version) -> 1 Spectrum (IBSA)
-Aventura Original, La -> 1 Spectrum (IBSA)
-Aventura Espacial, La -> 1 Spectrum (IBSA)
-Megaphoenix -> Front
-Mot -> Back, 1 Spectrum (Portugal)
-Narco Police -> Back, 2 Spectrum (IBSA, GBH)
-Navy Moves (spanish version) -> 1 Spectrum (orange)
-Navy Moves (versión UK) -> 1 Spectrum (The Hit Squad)
-Satan (spanish version) -> 1 Spectrum (IBSA)
-Satan (versión UK) -> 2 Amiga (budget, front and back)
-Viaje al Centro de La Tierra -> 1 Spectrum (Portugal)

After nearly 3 years of development soon we'll be able to enjoy a "remake" highly anticipated by CEZ regular visitors.

It all dates back to 1987, when Hewson Consultants published "RanaRama" a game produced by Graftgold Ltd. and programmed by Steve Turner on the platforms Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Perhaps it went unnoticed by many because it had a somehow confusing gameplay, incorporating elements of Gauntlet and a bit of RPG in terms of the evolution and improvement of the main character.

The remake resembles the original in terms of basic gameplay but reinterprets not only graphics and sound, but also other elements to enhance it. In general there are many changes and some surprises.

On the technical side we must mention the importance of checking the requirements of the computer. This is a game programmed in Java, therefore needs the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) preinstalled. This, although it might be a problem for some, results in the advantage of the program being multiplatform without changes, and therefore will work on Windows PCs, Linux and Mac in their 32-bit versions (64-bit OSes aren't supported). In advance to the installation of the game, we invite you to go check and prepare the environment with the procedure shown at the end of the article.

We won't tell more details at the moment and until the day of publication, enjoy the pictures, the original game in any of its versions and we also invite you to participate in our forum.

REFERENCES:
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World of Spectrum
Wikipedia


SET-UP:
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+ Check that JVM is installed:
    - Open a commandline tool.
    - Write the command "java - version" without quotation marks and followed by ENTER.
    - Check the response:
      - Program not found or so: you need to install Java.
      - A response like this:

            java version "1.6.0_05"
            Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_05-b13)
            Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode, sharing)

       Check that version 1.5.11 or newer.
       Check that the client brand is "Java HotSpot", others are not supported.

+ Getting JRE (Java Runtime Environment):
   - Open an internet navigator and access this link.
   - Choose the option "Java Runtime Environment (JRE)" and the button labeled "Download".
   - In the next page, choose platform and language, check the checkbox "I agree..." and click "Continue".
   - In the next page, choose the way to download and install.

+ Updating Java (only if you have a version lower than 1.5.11):
   - Normally JRE updates automatically, if it doesn't you need to get and install a new JRE as above.

From now you can make comments on the game cards. We've added a new tab in which you can leave your views on the games, without having to register (as opposed to the forums).
Time has come to say if you are in agreement with our views, if we have committed any mistake or if you have some material not yet available on the card in question.

You can read the last comments at the games stats page. We are waiting for you.

Today is time for a Spectrum update:

-Krypton Raiders (manual transcrito)
-Evaristo el Punky (mapa)
-Manollo el Cavernícola (2 mapas)
-Yenght (mapa y solución)

Here is our today update:

-Banda Salvaje, La (The Wild Bunch)
(coverscan, screenshots, review)
-Basun
(coverscan, advert, screenshots, review)
-Hammer-Head
(game, coverscan, typed and scanned manual, screenshots, review by NeilParsons)
-Stroper
(game, coverscan, typed and scanned manual, screenshots, review)
-Turbo Bike
(game, coverscan)

We've added the following material:

-Livingstone Supongo II
(manual and advert)
-Lorna
(advert)
-Oberon 69
(manual)
-París-Dakar
(manual)
-Viaje al Centro de La Tierra
(adverts)