NEW YEARS DISC 2018
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Hello to everyone who is reading here.

The new year arrived, so it's time for the next NYD. When I first called for
entries for a new years disc at Christmas eve back in 2006, I wanted to inspire
the ATARI scene to sit down and do something with the ATARI 'inbetween the
years', to have fun for their own when creating and for all of us, when
watching the release. I had so much fun, that my 'cry for something' was heared
and the NYD was born. Since then we've seen 11 NYD and this is the 12th edition.
Some times it happened that the crowd asked, if theere will be another nyd,
before I opened another 'calling thread'.
For me this is absolute fantastic, as this is what I intended to reach - people
love to end the old year creating something and even love tho see what's beeing
created.
You all - 'creators' and 'watchers' - have fun with the ATARI - my mission is
completed :)
NO PANIC! I'm not done with it... Just want to say THANKS to you all!

Now we'd better come to the discs content...

NYD2018 Disc 01 - multidisc
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NYD 2018 Info                                         by PPs
    - some texts by the authors of all the projects
    - plus a picture quickly created using graph2font
    - you can scroll with joystick or SELECT and OPTION
    - quickly created to have some infos native on ATARI
    - source will come later
Amitari                                               by mk
    - one screener
NYD 2018                                              by Mario130XE
    - picture
The magnify demo                                      by Senor Rossie
    - 'demo took me only 23 years to finish...'
Kendallsoft Kaverns                                   by therealbountybob
    - new levels for Boulderdash
    - "Kendallsoft Kaverns"  - It goes with the Pro© magazine article: 
      "Boulderdash - Turn your screens into a game" . They are probably
      fairly challenging levels!
2018                                                  by PPs
    - one screener
    - created using graph2font, mads, Superpacker, RMT, ATARI Fontmaker and some
      Win tools
    - music by mk
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NYD2018 Disc 02 - multidisc
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Ring the Bells                                        by CharlieChaplin
    - animation (128k)
2018 fireworx                                         by miker
    - animation (128k)
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NYD2018 Disc 03 - HDM2
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His Dark Majesty: Quest II                            by therealbountybob

Twas thought His Dark Majesty was finally defeated in the Castle of Awe but it
seems there was some deception, perhaps some mystical force was at work, for he
has once again started to conquer lands and wreak havoc upon men. Rumour has it
his subjects have built a new stronghold somewhere in the high cliffs. Hearing
this, the King has began to get word out and amass an army of strongmen from the
local towns - he set off some weeks ago but there has been no word. You, his
loyal subject answer the call and with a hunting party from your village set off
to join him...
>
Shamus+ - New Mazes for Shamus
V 1.0
slx, 2017

Shamus+ is a patch of Shamus
allowing to play the extra mazes from the
C64 version. It includes a "Tournament"
mode playing all mazes in succession
and a pause function. A rare bug affecting
advanced players only is rectified.


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Instructions: 

Use [OPTION] to select the starting Maze. "Tournament" will play through all
mazes in sequence (except the "Original C64" which is almost identical to the
original Atari maze).

When you die in tournament mode the next game will start at the beginning of the
maze you died in. The maze selection will still read "Tournament". In order to
start a tournament from scratch, use [OPTION] to rotate through all the mazes
until you are in "Tournament" again. Use [SPACE] to pause and the fire button
to end the pause.

A documentation about the genesis of this patch is available at
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/271026-shamus-new-mazes-for-shamus-
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Shamus was originally written by William Mataga and published by Synapse
Software in 1982. Copyright is assumed to be with Cathryn Mataga at the time of
this patch. The C64 levels are believed to have been developed by Jack L.
Thornton who is named on the C64 version title page. I have been unable to
contact either of them and hope that they approve of this patch. Copyright of
the patch and conversion software is with the author Permission to use, copy,
modify, and distribute this software for any purpose without fee is hereby
granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice
appear in all copies. Should any of this interfere with any copyright of the
original author(s), their copyright shall have precedence.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 
WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Happy New Year 2018                                   by Wrathchild
    - Programming & Graphics : Wrathchild
    - Additional Graphics : PseudoGrafx
    - Music : "Snow Blind" - Miker (based on original mod by Dr. Awesome)
    - Inspired by : SSX3 loading screen (with a nod to the Coolboarders 3 intro)
Freestyle                                             by mk
    - one screener
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NYD2018 Disc 08 - Tornado Pinball
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Tornado Pinball                                       by Rockford
    - created with Pinball Construction Set
    - when booted to DOS type 'L' for load and enter 'TORNADO' as filename
----------------------------------------------------------0616/0720 sectors used

NYD2018 Disc 09 - multidisc
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Happy New Year Girl                                   by Animkomials
    - animation (320k)
DYCP 2018                                             by Cosine
    - DYCP 2018 is a small demo with a couple of DYCPs to show off a triple
      speed cover of the Uridium 2 loading music.
    - code by T.M.R/Cosine
    - music by aNdy/Cosine
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NYD2018 Disc 10 - multidisc
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Animated XMAS card                                    by CharlieChaplin
    - animation (128k)
Historic Trucks                                       by PPs
    - picture show
    - pictures taken at IAA Nutzfahrzeuge 2014 by me and rendered to the A8
      using rastaconverter
    - other ATARI related tools used: WUDSN, Superpacker, MADS
    - music by mk
----------------------------------------------------------1023/1040 sectors used

As you can see, there's a lot to discover for us this year. I'm sure you'll love
some of the things. Thanks again to all the people who made NYD a success!

NYD 2018 total count-------------------------------------7236/8000 sectores used
--------------------------------90.45% used disc space--------------------------
----10 discs-----26 entries---------------------------------endless fun creating
--------------------------unknown amount bugs to find and keep------------------

Happy New Year 2018!
                            ... and STAY ATARI! ...
-----------------------------------------------------------------01.01.2018 PPs
PS: I really hope that I didn't forget something.