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| Protovision Update 09.12.2003 |
The new ONLINE SHOP has been launched on the 1st December. It enables customers to purchase state-of-the-art C64 products in an easy and comfortable way. HOCKEY MANIA is a new multiplayer sports game, making use of our 4 PLAYER INTERFACE once again. Two or four players can play simultaneously. We are welcoming orders for HOCKEY MANIA since the 1st of December. An official demo version is available! Find more information about the game at HOCKEY MANIA SECTION. There is a christmas special - HOCKEY MANIA & TEAM PATROL in the form of these 2 MULTIPLAYER BUNDLES: - Hockey Mania & Team Patrol for 15 Euro - Hockey Mania, Team Patrol & 4 Player Interface for 30 Euro This special offer is only valid until the 24th of December. The prices for single games are: HOCKEY MANIA - 10 Euro; TEAM PATROL - 10 Euro; 4 PLAYER INTERFACE - 15 Euro. THUNDER.BIRD is currently developping a fine build-in StereoSID cartridge called "StereoINsid". StereoINsid plugs into the SID socket of your C64. Please your ears with 6 voices of stereo SID music! Furthermore, atleast 2 stereo digi voices are possible! For those who stick to standard SID tunes, there is the "pseudo stereo mode": Both SIDs will play the same data, turning the mono output to stereo. Check details on the hardware and listen to example musics (mp3) - www.athomebymalte.de.vu . If you got visions and ideas on how a new StereoSID cartridge should be like, you may want to join the StereoSID mailing list. It is going to be established for developpers and first customers soon. Visit the homepage for details. There is no need to build the cartridge on your own, as PROTOVISION is going to distribute STEREOINSID in the near future. You will receive a finished board, no soldering will be necessary. To avoid confusion: NO, Thunder.Bird aka Malte Schulze is a DIFFERENT person than ThunderBlade aka Malte Mundt :-) At VISION 2003, ThunderBlade took a bunch of photos. They are online here by now. If you can read German, you should check out Big User's Protovision Site. There are updates on Courage's new game project TANKS 3000 aswell as on Big User's WOR WIZARDS. The pricelist was updated once again. It now features prices for the American magazine LOADSTAR. |
| VISION 2003 party reports & new games info 12.11.2003 |
A video report from VISION 2003, the C64 party organized by PROTOVISION, has been released. It was professionally produced by VIRTUAL DIMENSION. See newest C64 hard- and software, party atmosphere and interviews with the wrights - all that and even more awaits you in a more-than-20-minute-long video. The report is available in English and German, currently in 2 sizes each. Get it at the Virtual Dimension homepage (German users click here). A trailer for the report is available there as well. Please give feedback, e. g. at CSDb or pouet.net. The latest issue of the German diskmag DIGITAL TALK features live statements from the VISION 2003. Get it from the Digital Talk homepage. For the new Protovision games HOCKEY MANIA and ADVANCED SPACE BATTLE, banners are now available in the "About"-Section. Please help supporting new C64 games by putting any of them on your own homepage. Thanks a lot! If you can read German, you should check out Big User's Protovision Site - Courage's new game TANKS 3000 got an own section there now. |
| Protovision Update 02.11.2003 |
News about the homepage: The hardware section has been updated. Information about RR-Net for Retro Replay, PC-Link-cable for IDE64 and Rampage Gold for the 4 Player Interface were added. The descriptions for the Retro Replay and the IDE64 were slightly improved. The Metal Warrior 4 section was created. News regarding the Heavy Duty Power Supply: The 145W version is no longer available because the basic PC power supply is no longer beeing manufactured. But that ain´t that bad after all: Most people will need the 200W version anyway, which is still available. Contact us for any questions and supply your configuration details! Protovision will be distributing the US based disk magazine LOADSTAR. It is available as email or snail mail subscription. When ordering the email version, you can choose between .d64 or .d81 version. Our pricelist has been updated aswell, the new items and changes mentioned above have been included. The Metal Dust Banner campaign has ended on 10th October 2003, means no further participants can join in. Protovision will sponsor the Ultimate Meeting 2oo3 with some games, including the new title "Hockey Mania". tUM*03 will take place from 27th to 29th December 2003 in Hemsbach (near Mannheim/Heidelberg), Germany. tUM*o3 is a multi-platform (PC/C64/Console) demo-scene party. For more information visit their homepage. Latest news on current projects aswell as an interview with MacGyver can be found in Vandalism News #40. Download here: ftp://c64.rulez.org/pub/c64/Magazines/Vandalism_News/vandalismnews40.zip A new online shop is currently being prepared. Stay tuned! |
| Forum relaunched & new items available 28.09.2003 |
Protovision´s C64 Discussion Forum has recently been relaunched. Everyone is welcome to discuss Protovision's projects, their own developments, general C64 related topics or whatever else comes to mind! Check it out by clicking [C64 Discussion Forum]. If you managed to get a highscore in one of our games, feel free to post it to the Highscores Forum. While English is the main Forum language, German as accepted aswell. Covert BitOps have released their game Metal Warrior 4 earlier this month. It is the final part of the Metal Warrior series. Ian, the protagonist of the first game thought he had wielded a gun for the last time, but after an otherworldly encounter he is compelled to become an agent to hunt for the hidden truth... You can download this game for free here. Incase you are not able to transfer it to C64 disk yourself, you can order the game from Protovision on 1541, 1581 or FD-2000 disk. Thanks to individual Computers, the Retro Replay cartridge is available again! Additionally, some cases for the Retro Replay cartridge have been manufactured and are available in transparent, blue and black. Even better, the networking card RR-Net is now available! This card plugs into the expansion port of the Retro Replay, and allows the C64 to connect to an intranet. Metal Warrior 4 (2 Euro), the Retro Replay cartridge (55 Euro), RR cases (transparent & black: 5 Euro each, blue: 6 Euro) and RR-Net (50 Euro) can be ordered from Protovision now. A great offer is the RR-Net Bundle (consisting of Retro Replay, RR-Net with Contiki & a transparent case) for only 100 Euro! All prices include shipping within Europe. More information about Metal Warrior 4 and RR-Net will be available here soon. |
| New address and pricelist 06.07.2003 |
Protovision is MOVING!!! Do not send orders to the old Protovision-address that served us so well for a long time! From now on, place your orders to: Oliver Foerster Koenigsberger Strasse 12 35576 Wetzlar Germany ...or email to: order@protovision-online.de Support is granted through: contact@protovision-online.de The bank account details, however, have not changed. Jakob Voos (Jak T Rip) has also released a new pricelist. There are some interesting news and items (like the PS/2 Keyboard-Adaptor). Just click here to read more. |
| VISION stuff available 12.06.2003 |
The stuff from VISION 2003 is now available for download here. It contains all entries from the compos, plus Primary Star 2003 invitation intro / Role & Anubis, plus Rock'n Role #29 / Role, plus party-note. The winner demo "Ya lo se" is a VIC20 demo. Use the VIC20 version of VICE to check it out. Mention you need to turn memory expansion off (Settings -> VIC settings -> no expansion memory). There are also many pictures online, just visit the homepages from gALAKTUS Markus Siebold Mr. Museum Virtual Dimension Soon Courage will present more pictures and screenshots on the VISION homepage. |
| REMINDER: VISION 2003 Compos 28.05.2003 |
There´s only around one week left until VISION 2003, the C64 party organized by PROTOVISION, opens it´s doors and quite a few people have already announced that they will be attending. Even if you can´t be present at the party in person, you´re still welcome to deliver competition entries for the various compos, those being Demo, Game, Graphic, Music and "Most-Useless-Tool". Simply contact Courage! Great prizes are waiting for you! Oceanic diskdrive, Action Replay, Competition Pro joysticks, books, CDs (among other things signed by Welle:Erdball and Markus Siebold), games (among other things signed by Manfred Trenz) and much more! Read all about VISION 2003 here. |
| New Welle:Erdball CD 24.05.2003 |
On Monday 19th May, the new Welle:Erdball CD "Nur Tote Frauen Sind Schön" ("Only Dead Women Are Beautiful") was released. For the price of a single you get -9- audiotracks, including the brand new track "Metal Dust - Die Begegnung" ("Metal Dust - The Encounter") which will also be in the 3rd level of the game of the same name! An mp3 snippet can be downloaded here: http://www.i-p-v.de/welle/mp3/Welle_Erdball_-_Metal_Dust_(Die_Begegnung).mp3. Also included is the new W:E film for the track "1000 Weiße Lilien" ("1000 White Lilies") as well as a collection of current C64 software. Further information at http://www.welle-e.de. |
| Team Patrol v1.2 patch + demo available 04.05.2003 |
Stefan "Big User" Gutsch, coder from the great decathlon style game "Team Patrol" has released a new patch. You can download the disc image, wich also includes a demo based on the new v1.2 patch, from the Team Patrol page (German users click here). |
| Come to VISION 23.04.2003 |
THE C64-PARTY: 06.06.2003 - 09.06.2003 http://www.vision64.de.vu Vision-Invitation VISION is a computer party exclusively devoted to the Commodore 64. Every C64 user is welcome, no matter if beginner or full pro. This event is being organized by PROTOVISION, probably today's largest and most active group when it comes to development & distribition of C64 soft- and hardware. Since it first took place in 2001, VISION is open for every C64 fan - artists and masters in the area of C64 games have been invited as well. Thus, on this event, next to the usual competitions, you can join special presentations and shows where you can see current developments on the C64. Furthermore you will meet C64 personages at VISION with whom you can discuss about past, present and your dreams for the future of the C64. VISION can be viewed as a meeting place for some of the developers of the C64's future, which is being laid out in their software projects - games, demos, tools. By this, you as a vistor get the chance to talk shop with like-minded people, meet true legends in person and be very close to the pulse of the C64 world. So, if you feel like hanging around with other C64 users, reliving old times but also getting a chance to check out the latest products in the soft- and also hardware, we would be happy to welcome you at VISION! You can find information about PROTOVISION at www.protovision-online.de and www.protovision-previews.de. What awaits you at VISION? Get to know to C64 legends like Markus Siebold (Turrican II - musician), Hoild/ENC (Newcomer creator) or Honey/Welle:Erdball, as well as the whole Protovision team and many others - or meet them again ;-) METAL DUST - more than just a myth! Experience the current state of development live on the bigscreen, including the new levels - and have a chat with the creators of this mammoth project right afterwards Be there when the dancefloor opens and the SID disco starts - with the best the C64 music world has to offer Laugh & and take part when it's time for the fun compos! Details will be released later. Look over the masters' shoulders how they work on current projects or play with hardware. Take part at the 4 player simultaneous tournaments in Team Patrol or Bomb Mania Protovision shows even more: e.g. the current state of Pac It or the beginning of the ambitious ENFORCER II project! Take part in the competitions, code, pixel, compose and let all visitors of the party gaze upon your work. WiNGS - what's the current state of this unbelievable operating system for the C64 with SuperCPU? ... and maybe a surprise or two! ;) When, where, and what else? Start: Friday, 6th June 2003 - ca. 16.00 h End: Monday (Whit Monday), 9th June 2003 - ca. 15.00 h Entrance fee: 20 Euro Location: Uetersen, near Hamburg, address: Stadtwerkehaus, Parkstr. 1, 25436 Uetersen, Germany (more under PLACE) easy to reach by train or by car big screen with video projector separate sleepingroom breakfast buffet for free drinks, chips as well as sweets can be bought directly at the partyplace for reasonable prices shops near by Compo prizes Here are some prizes which can be won at the competitions: 3 x the book "Hackertales" (German). Signed by the authors 1 x Oceanic disk drive 1 x the CD "Virus" from Markus Siebold. Signed by himself 1 x the game "Defender of the Crown" - in Original package 2 x the game "Turrican II" with sign by Manfred Trenz 1 x the game "Turrican" with sign by Manfred Trenz 2 x free entrance to "BIT Live Germany" 1 x Action Replay MK VI (with package, disks and manual) 2 x the book "Wir waren Space Invaders" (German). Signed by the author 2 x Joystick Competition Pro Mini 1 x the game "Oil Imperium" 1 x the game "The Last Ninja III" 1 x the game "Pirates" 1 x mouse for the C64 many Disks DVD's from the (German) movie "23" Games from PROTOVISION Shoppingcredits for the PROTOVISION-Shop CD(s) from Welle:Erdball |
| Pricelist released 19.03.2003 |
Jakob Voos has released the new Protovision pricelist (03/2003) today. Commodore Scene has drastically reduced prices now. |
| Protovision Update 12.03.2003 |
MEMBERS Mermaid and TMT were kicked from Protovision for inactivity. They are invited to return to the group once they become active for Protovision again. JSL left Samar and Civitas, so he's currently in Protovision only. He is still open for painting graphics for these groups though. JSL would like to join a high-quality-demo-group. Email offers to jsl270374@hotmail.com. TEAM PATROL If you enjoyed Moon Patrol and Decathlon, you'll love Team Patrol! This engrossing racing game can support up to four simultaneous players using Protovision's recently improved 4 Player Interface and, along with Bomb Mania, is an excellent party game which comes highly recommended. Team Patrol supports 1541, 1581, 1571, CMD FD-2000/4000, CMD HD and CMD Ramlink and, if you own a SuperCPU with SuperRAM, you will be able to enjoy the game as a single load! The game is being shipped on 1541 or FD disc along with a printed manual as well as a colour printed disc label. If you would like to know more about Team Patrol and other Protovision products, you should check the following URLs: www.protovision-online.de www.protovision-previews.de PAC IT World 1 of PAC IT, the ultimate Pacman for up to 4 players, is 90% complete (18 out of 20 levels are designed) and looks awesome. New screenshots are available at Big User's Homepage: www.protovision-previews.de (in German language only). METAL DUST There was a lot of progress concerning the last two levels. Status: Level 3: 100% Level 4: 90% If you want to support the fist game for the SuperCPU and own a homepage at the same time, install the Metal Dust button (88x31 Pixel) on your website. The button should link to www.protovision-previews.de and this is also where you can pick it up. This campaign will end a few weeks before the release of the game. If you want to take part, send an email to biguser@gmx.de - then your full name and your website address will be published in the endsequence in the list of supporters. REEL FISHING DreamLoad has been installed in the game. JSL got a big task for doing graphics. Some parts from the fishing-part have been recoded. HORIZONTAL SHOOT’EM UP (NAME TO BE ANNOUNCED) - SPRITE- & CHARACTERSET GRAPHICIANS WANTED Protovision is looking for graphical support for their shoot'em up project coded by Andre Zschiegner. Mostly needed are all kind of smaller enemies aswell as big bosses with animation phases not larger than 5 sprites in width. If you are interested, mail some examples of your work to biguser@gmx.de. If 10 people would contribute 5 small enemies each, there would be enough sprites for the whole game. The graphics should be similar to the Trenz style. Ofcourse everyone whose stuff gets used will be credited in the game. One graphician has been found already. Follow the example of PAUL FINCH: he will support the project with his graphics. VISION PARTY It's official: Vision 2003 will take place from 6th to 9th June 2003 so it's taking place over four days including Whit Monday! The location has changed again, it's square shaped this time (so no full corners like last year) and several metres larger! How many C64-parties have expanded like this? ;-) When? Where? How? Start: Friday, 6th June 2003 - ca. 16.00 h End: Monday (Whit Monday), 9th June 2003 - ca. 14.00 h Entrance fee: 20 Euro (includes breakfast buffet) Place: Parish Hall (Gemeindehaus) Uetersen, near Hamburg Misc stuff: - meet Protovision in person - see exclusive previews of new C64 games - breakfast buffet for free - free beer (Carlsberg Ice) while stocks last (we have at least 2 palettes) - bigscreen with video projector - easy to reach by car via highway (A23) (see map on the Vision homepage) - shuttle service from Pinneberg station or Tornesch station by appointment only - room for about 40-50 people - separate sleeping room - currenty there is a negotiation running about using the showers of the gymnasium near by - drinks (Cola, Fanta, MezzoMix, apple juice and Selters) and chips as well as sweets can be bought for reasonable prices (if you have a special request, simply email Courage!) - dinner is going to be ordered from various suppliers (Pizza, Croque, Fast food etc.) - a Burger King is just a 10 minute car ride away - shops, snack bars etc. all near by Competitions and rules: - Demo (executable with "RUN", no further restrictions*) - Game (executable with "RUN", no further restrictions*) - Graphic (executable with "RUN", no further restrictions*) - Music (executable with "RUN", no further restrictions*) - "Most-Useless-Tool-Compo" (fun-compo, the more useless the program the better**) * - Why are there no restrictions? The visitors of the Vision Party have enough knowledge to differentiate between a demo on the stock C64 from one made on C64 with SuperCPU and to estimate the effort required to complete each project so everybody should do what he can do best. No matter if it's digi, Quattro-SID, Koala graphics or IFLI, BASIC or Assembler, everything is allowed - the aim is for everybody to have fun! ATTENTION! The following hardware will be available at the party (any other hardware has to be supplied by you): C64 (new and old SID), SuperCPU, CMD-HD, CMD-FD2000, CMD-RamLink, Action Replay, Final Cartridge. Other hardware such as Flash8, C128, C65, Retro Replay and so forth by appointment only. ** - If you can't be present at the party in person in order to demonstrate how useless your tool is, please include a short description what it can or can't do! :) DEADLINE: Visitors can hand in their contributions directly before the competitions. Via snailmail the disk has to arrive by Saturday, 7th June 2003. D64 files can be emailed and should arrive by midnight on the same Saturday. Competition prizes: At the moment we can't tell you about the prizes but Courage is talking to various sponsors hoping for some good prizes. It will be worth it for sure! Timetable: The timetable is not completed yet, but the following events are planned: - PROTOVISION-show (presentation of the latest PROTOVISION software and projects) - a large competition show - various fun compos - SID-Disco - an auction, with proceeds going to charity - and lots more! Don't forget to bring: - a good mood! - enough money for entrance, food, drinks, equipment etc. - a sleeping bag, isolating mat, water bed or anything else you'd like! :-) The partyplace is located about 15 km in the north west of Hamburg; From highway A23, exit Tornesch it is less than 5 km straight on. Turn twice and 50 more metres and you have arrived. You see, it's very simple! Of course a detailed map will be available online in time and if you still don't find your way, simply contact Courage, okay? For the latest information visit the VISION homepage ! Registration? Questions? Suggestions? Criticism? Send an email to Courage/Protovision - courage@protovision-online.de Latest news: - Courage is currently coding an invitation file on C64. - Some nice prices have been arranged! - Berit (Courage's girlfriend) took the handle MYSTERY and is now a member of the Vision organizing team. HOMEPAGE The homepage move is completed! PTV was changing servers. You may have had problems with the email adresses or the homepage. Not anymore! Now you can even find PTV at two locations in the net: www.protovision-online.de www.protovision-online.com The "About"-Section was updated, also it's now available in English and German language. MISC COMMODORE SCENE has reduced their prices due to a knew production method. The magazine is now printed home-based. For information about Commodore Scene, contact Allan Bairstow at Allan.Bairstow@btinternet.com. LOTEK64 #05 is in the making. For information about Lotek64, contact Lord Lotek at commodore@aon.at. XEP1541 adaptors are now available at Protovision for 15 EUR. The XEP1541 adaptor serves as a pair of an XE1541 extended cable and an XP1541 or XP1571 parallel cable, allowing you to reuse your already existing Commodore serial cable and Commodore parallel cable. It's compatible with PS/2, EPP and ECP parallel ports and with Commodore 1541, 1570 and 1571 drives. The PROTOVISION PRICELIST NOTEFILE has been updated and can be downloaded from Protovision. Protovision has decided to contribute to the prizes to STEPPE & YODELKING’S RIP COMPO, to make the tiring work of ripping all those hard nuts even more enjoyable! So here's the deal: Protovision will pay 20 Eurocents for every point you'll aquire in the compo. For every ripper, not only the first one or the best three. In addition the winner of the compo will receive 5 Euros on top of that! Of course the money is meant as a token for the Protovision onlineshop, so every cent you earn with your rips has to be spent on Protovision articles. For more information visit www.demodungeon.com/ripcompo. |
| New pricelist 10.03.2003 |
JTR has released a new pricelist. A new item was added to the list: XEP interface. A XE1541 cable is one way of transferring data between C64 and PC, but a slow one. XEP is faster but requires a 1541 with parallel cable. |
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