ing: LD Ash (Using SEUCK)
Graphics: LD Ash
Music: Richard Bayliss

Controls: Joystick in either port

AquaVile is an ocean-themed game in which the players control futuristic mini-submarine-like vessels and venture into a high-tech complex to destroy nefarious and hostile biological and technological abominations. It's a typical scrolling arcade shooter, slow-scrolling with plenty of enemies to shoot and fast-scrolling navigating around solid obstacles, moving in 8 directions and firing missiles at various opponents such as fish, crabs, octopi, urchins, starfish, little clams and big clams, robotic vessels, armed troopers and mines, as well as some bosses like a huge crab, a submarine and a giant ugly robot toward the end of the game.

We have also included the full diary about the making of this game, on this issue's E-cover tape as well. Links from the author about this game:

* www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpF6fEqiVI4

* www.violationentertainment.com/temp/AquaVile'2012_ss_130421.jpg

* www.violationentertainment.com/temp/AquaVile2012.zip

If you like AquaVile, please check out our other projects on our website and feel welcome in our forum:-

* www.violationentertainment.com

* www.violationentertainment.com/forum/

Credit also goes to LDAsh for the full instructions and information about this game.

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Now on to some festive treats

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN 2 (TURBO EDITION)

(C)2006 Polygon Software

Programming: Joe Dixon
Graphics: Joe Dixon
Music: Joe Dixon

Controls: Joystick in either port

Who remembers "Frosty the Snowman" on the first ever Commodore Power cover tape?. Joe Dixon has come up with a nice tribute game sequel called "Frosty the Snowman 2". Christmas is around the corner and Santa and his elves have hit the bottle. They are too drunk to go into the cave and pick up Christmas presents. So it is up to Frosty to pick them up and return them to the cave.

Unfortunately, there is a problem for the poor dude. He has to run a long distance and jump over various hazards in which roam around each scene. Can Frosty or a friend, return presents to drunken old Santa before Christmas Day launches?

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SNOW 'EM DOWN

(C)1987 Reptillia Design Team (Public
Domain)

Programming: MIC
Graphics: MIC
Music: Demon

Controls: Joystick in Port 2

This is a festive PD game in which you have to control an airborne sleigh in the sky. You must pick up snowballs during your quest. You can shoot snow balls at the enemies using the snowball cannon, but the enemies can also fire back as well. As soon as you pick up your snowball from the ground. You must fly your sleigh over to a rough patch. To build a snowman. Keep repeating this phase until a full Snowman has been built. You will then move on to the next stage. Good luck!

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SNOWBALL SUNDAY

(C)1988 Ash + Dave (Public Domain)

Programming: Ashley Routledge
Graphics: David Saunders
Music: Hagar

Controls: Joystick in Port 2

This is a real classic festive demo by Ash + Dave. It is a Christmas Card in which you can throw snowballs at other people. The demo features some really nice tunes in the C64 Christmas Card by Hagar. Pull down on the joystick in port 2, to pick up a snow ball, then chuck it at someone. Enjoy.

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CENTUARI CHRISTMAS DEMO 1988

(C)1988 Centauri (Public Domain)

Programming: CMG / Centauri
Graphics: Wolf / Centauri
Music: JB / Centauri

This is a classic demo written back in 1988. It doesn't really have any special effects but it is quite festive. JB has done a funky Christmas mix, and the effect of Santa jumping on the Centauri logo is pretty clever too.

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IT'S SNOWING

(C)1993 Slash Design (Public Domain)

Programming: Axe / Slash Design
Graphics: Axe and Axodry / Slash Design
Music: Hithouse / TRC, Drax

Controls: Spacebar

To end the festive cover tape, we have an old style demo from Slash Design called "Its Snowing". This demo is split into 3 parts. The next part of the demo can be activated using the space bar. The demo features some colourful logos, a space effect, a snow effect and of course plenty of music and scroll text to enjoy.

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WARNING

Some of the demos on this issue's E-Cover tape consist of swear words, mainly on the scroll texts. Please avoid loading those programs in if you are offended with the use of swearing.

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THE E-COVER TAPE MAY BE C64 ONLY, BUT LETS COVER OTHER FORMATS AS WELL

As you may have discovered. Commodore Free's E-Cover tapes have been
Commodore 64 only

However, Commodore Free welcomes non-c64 users to submit their own stuff. So if you have anything for the VIC20, CBM 16 (Plus 4) or C128 as well as Commodore 64. Then please email Nigel, and he'll send the files over to me.

One more thing. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.


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GENERAL NEWS
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PETSCII GRAPHICS EDITOR
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Marq released a new program to make PETSCII pictures on your PC, The program
is available for Windows, Linux and Mac and has the following features:
Select colour and char, conversion to Plus/4 colours, flood fill, grid, horizontal and vertical flip, rotate, undo, invert, horizontal and vertical shift, export file as asm data, BASIC viewer, PRG or PNG image.

www.kameli.net/~marq/kode/petscii.zip


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XLOGICAL - AROS
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Xlogical is a game for AROS ;based on the Amiga game Logical! by Rainbow
Arts. Use the mouse to turn the spinners and move the balls around. You must fill the spinners with balls. If the spinners are full they will stop
glowing, when all spinners stop glowing you can go to the next level.

archives.aros-exec.org/?function=showfile&file=game/puzzle/xlogical.i386-aros .zip


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HINTS & TIPS FOR VIDEOGAME PIONEERS
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/robhwson/hints-and-tips-for-videogame-pioneers

£13,814 pledged of £12,000 goal

The book is by Andrew Hewson & Rob Hewson

Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers is a new book by Andrew Hewson, founder of Hewson Consultants, 21st Century Entertainment and the founding Chairman of UK videogames trade body ELSPA (now UKIE). After Hewson shut its doors, company founder Andrew Hewson went on to setup 21st Century Entertainment which revitalised a whole gaming genre - the Pinball simulator.

Andrew Hewson was also the founding chairman of ELSPA, the original industry trade body in the UK. ELSPA responded to concerns about violent videogames by establishing a movie-style age ratings system for games and continues to represent the UK games industry today under its new identity as UKIE.

BOOK CONTRIBUTORS LIST SO FAR INCLUDES:

* Steve Turner (Graftgold)

* Mike Male (Night Flight 1 & 2, Heathrow Air Traffic Controller, Southern
Belle)

* Nick Jones (Co-developer of Exolon & Cybernoid)

* Raffaele Cecco (Cybernoid, Exolon, Stormlord)

* Dominic Robinson (Zynaps, Uridium Spectrum conversion)

* Andreas Axelsson (Co-founder of DICE)

* Fredrik Liliegren (Co-founder of DICE)

* Olof Gustafsson (Co-founder of DICE)

* Barry Simpson (Software Manager at 21st CE)

* Stewart Gilray (Assistant Producer at 21st CE, now CEO of Just Add Water)

* Paul Chamberlain (Software & Operations Manager at Hewson, now Executive
Producer at Sumo Digital)

* Oliver Frey (Illustrator for Zzap 64 and CRASH)

* Roger Kean (Zzap 64 and CRASH)

* Ben Daglish (Composer - Firelord)

* Jeroen Tell (Composer - Eliminator, Cybernoid 2, Stormlord)

* Gari Biasillo (Creator of Slayer, Steel & Future Basketball)

* Jonathan Dunn (Music composer for Subterranea)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/robhwson/hints-

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