Sunday, June 7, 2009

News: NetSurf 2.1 released

The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the immediate availability of NetSurf 2.1. This release contains many bug fixes and improvements. It is available for download from http://www.netsurf-browser.org/.

Here is a change log detailing the important changes in this release:

Core / All
  • Fix detection of active link areas (avoids entire page being treated as a link in certain cases). 
  • Support height on TR. 
  • Fix numbering of floated list items. 
  • Make borders/margins/padding on form elements match other browsers. 
  • Updated Italian translation. 
  • German welcome page. 
  • Fix handling of percentage height on HTML and BODY. 
  • Partially handle percentage heights on TABLE
RISC OS-specific
  • Set bit 4 of extended window flags byte. 
Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and documentation enhancements. Thanks to everybody who has contributed to this release!

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Friday, June 5, 2009

Review Shorts: A touch of everything...

David Bradforth takes short looks at Notes, the Oxford Reading Tree clipart collection and the ProArtisan 2 CD-ROM

I do feel nostalgic every now and then, so it's always nice to look back at things from the past. Admittedly some of what I've chosen for our first Review Shorts column isn't all that old: indeed some of it is also considerably older than I'd like to admit. It's all good stuff, though, and still very much available within the RISC OS marketplace.

Information to contact companies with is provided in italics underneath the product heading and price. This simplifies the construction of an article such as this, but also makes sure you have the right details for the right companies. Please confirm all prices with the company before ordering - they are correct at the time of going to press, but subject to change at any time.

Notes (£7.50)

The Really Good Software Company, Tel: 01582 761395, Email: sales.rgsc@argonet.co.uk

As I look around my office, I find it lacking a lot of what it used to have. There's no longer quite so much software on the shelves for RISC OS computers (given that APDL and R-Comp handle that for me now). What I do have, though, is an enormous quantity of magazine material, which it's often very difficult to plough through to find a particular item when I need it.

Enter the post-it note. Stick it onto a piece of paper, or CD-ROM, leave it sticking out on the shelf and place an identifying mark onto it. Hey presto - you can now find the disappearing CD-ROM within your deadline and get work in on time.

But what if it's more to do with files? Wouldn't it be handy if, for example, whenever you opened your Work directory you received a post it style reminder of your deadlines / file locations for that following week? With Notes you can attach a message to any file/folder on any operating system. Perhaps it's a floppy disc, perhaps it's a hard disc directory - maybe even a zip drive. If it's got an Acorn operating system window, you can attach Notes to it.

That's pretty much what Notes does. It's an incredibly useful post-it note generator. Worth just over seven pounds? I would say so. There are a number of programs in the public domain that fulfil a similar task, but none have yet met with the standards set by Ben Summers in 1994. Recommended.

Oxford Reading Tree Clipart (£25)

Sherston Software Limited, Tel: 01666 843200, Email: sales@sherston.co.uk

Within Primary schools (where Sherston's main market lies), the Oxford Reading Tree series of books (published by Oxford University Press) has long been a well followed, and supported, scheme of reading. Based on a number of characters (who remain the same across the stories, but do grow up as appropriate) it places the characters into exciting new situations, battling daring do and all that.

Sherston Software created computer versions of the said books; adding activities to them where appropriate.

This did, of course, mean they had the computer versions of all the characters. Back in 1997, they released a set of four floppy discs containing the clipart for either Acorn, PC or Macintosh. Given that the vast majority of current computer users rely on CD-ROMs rather than floppy discs, they made the decision last year to re-launch the product on a triple-format CD-ROM.

The clipart browser, shown in it‘s Acorn version, but pretty much the same across all platforms, is a simple enough affair. If you wish to delve into something, click on it. If you‘d rather leave it, don‘t. The presentation is identical, so if for instance you wish to run the CD-ROM across a Matrix network, or even a triple-format Mac/PC/Acorn one, you'll have no trouble getting users to understand the program being used. One set of training will cater for three computer platforms. Not something you can usually say.

Needless to say, at £25 for a triple-format CD-ROM including a site licence we really can‘t fault this disc at all. If you‘ve yet to get a useful collection of clipart, ideal for language-based project work, get this.

Sherston Software have recently announced that following the release of their next triple format CD-ROM it's unlikely they'll release any further titles. This will effectively end their support for RISC OS, until such a time as a Macromedia Director player is finally written. At RISC World, we can see a great deal of benefit in this technology - indeed Leo Smiers prepared a Flash player for the internet, and as such it shouldn't be too difficult to prepare similar for Director.

If you're upto the challenge, do please get in touch. We'd like very much to see any ideas you have, sent specially to our shorts@riscworld.co.uk address. This will ensure the email is redirected to the right person.

ProArtisan 2 CD-ROM (call)

Cumana, tel: 01279 730900, email: sales@cumana.co.uk

Okay, so the inclusion of ProArtisan 2 is a little strange: basically it's here as Cumana have, at the last few Acorn shows, had a number of copies available on their stand at a superb price. But what is ProArtisan 2?

Essentially it's a bitmap graphics editing package. This means you're able to take a scanned image, make changes to it, and save it back to file or print it via any sort of printer. It can load directly sprite and JPEG files, as well as squashed sprite files; a feature which upon first release of ProArtisan was somewhat under valued.

The interface is simple enough to follow through, making the manipulation of imagery somewhat easier than you'd imagine. Basic help is available through the RISC OS help system (even with RISC OS 4), but the program does not include help for the iconbar menu. Not that it's particularly needed, but you know what I mean?

A number of people have sung the virtues of ProArtisan 2 - Walter Briggs, Jack Kreindler to name but two. The later version, ProArtisan 24, adds 24 bit colour handling to the feature base of ProArtisan 2, and then moves the whole package forward in the most logical way. For further information on ProArtisan 24, please contact Clares Micro Supplies via email to sales@claresmicro.com.

If you see ProArtisan 2 on CD-ROM at a show, buy it. It's a bargain at around £15, and if bitmap graphics be your thing you'll not be disappointed.

David Bradforth

Note: these are 'Nostalgia' reviews.. as such, some may not be available anymore.

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Thursday, June 4, 2009

News: Cyber-crooks use Twitter to infect users

  • Criminals have created accounts in Twitter and published thousands of comments in them under the topic “PhishTube Broadcast” to push them into the ranking of most popular topics
  • These comments contain links to a spoof Web page used to propagate the PrivacyCenter fake antivirus
  • This new attack on one of the most popular Web 2.0 networks is similar to previous ones against similar sites such as Digg.com, YouTube, etc.

PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware detection and analysis laboratory, has located a new attack on Twitter users. In this case, cyber-criminals have created hundreds of Twitter accounts and published thousands of comments in them under the topic “PhishTube Broadcast”, in relation to the US rock band Phish. This way, they ensure the topic appears in the Trending Topic list. The result is greater visibility and more user traffic to their comments.

The Trending Topics list appears in the interface of all Twitter users, listing the subjects most talked about by the network’s users. Clicking any of these topics returns a series of results displaying comments related to these issues and the users that have published the comments.

In this case, if Twitter users click on the “PhishTube Broadcast” Trending Topic link, they will see the malicious comments published in the accounts created by the cyber-crooks. These include links pointing to a spoof pornographic Web page. Users that click on any of the items on this page will end up infecting their computers with a copy of the PrivacyCenter fake antivirus.

A fake antivirus is a type of adware designed to run a spoof scan of the system, as if it were a legitimate antivirus. It falsely informs users that their computers are infected with malware. The aim is to make users believe their systems are infected, and then offer them the chance to eliminate this supposed malware by buying a ‘Premium’ version of the fake antivirus. The overall objective is to profit from these sales.

“We have recently been warning of an increase in BlackHat SEO attacks (malicious techniques to improve search engine rankings), particularly those aimed at selling fake antivirus products. In this case, instead of a search engine, the Twitter ranking mechanism is the target of the attack, forcing topics to appear in the list of the most popular. Anyone interested in this topic will most likely end up on one of the thousands of malicious comments posted, although we have also seen a few legitimate comments”, explains Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs. “With millions of users, this network is extremely attractive to cyber-criminals, and it is likely we will see it targeted more often in the future”.

This targeting of Twitter is very similar to attacks on other Web 2.0 networks such as Digg.com (http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/media/press-releases/viewnews?noticia=9556) or YouTube (http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive/YouTube-riddled-with-comments-leading-to-Malware.aspx), already reported by PandaLabs.

You can find more information in the PandaLabs blog http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive/Rogueware-Campaigns-now-blending-into-Twitter-Trends.aspx

And the relevance for RISC OS users? Many of us are now using hybrid machines - PCs or Macs with RISC OS running on top. Security issues are hence vital to us all, not just PC users.

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Monday, June 1, 2009

Review: Groundhog Day

Katie Hammond wakes up to get ready for the day, only to be certain that she's done the same thing just moments before ... and to find an identical copy of herself outside the door... spooky ...

My first impression was that the package as a whole would present me with a rather well-polished but 'back to the norm' adventure come puzzly situation. Being the sort of person who is, how should I phrase it, an "innocent till proven guilty" theorist I just had to know more - and how wrong can the one person be? To tell you the truth, by big, and extremely obscene amounts because not only has this game got a great original touch to it, it's also frustratingly addictive, and very playable indeed.

GroundHog (a little furry ball with beaver characteristics), has been trapped in a timewarp of 48 levels and your job is to guide him to flashing doorways of freedom. Each maze like level contains a series of passages leading to doorways which carry a symbol. There's just one small problem (which I found to be quite a large one) in that in order to unlock a door a "switch-pad" has to be stood on which bears the symbol corresponding to that on the door you want to open. Considering that, from level one, there are three or more of these you need to be in two places at once. Hence, placing your beavery ball of fluff on the first switch-pad; then allowing the clock timing you to run out and create a clone which will then follow the passage as followed by your previous ball of fluff. But please don't assume that this isn't a problem - you will be mistaken!

The other sneaky factors which you have no choice but to consider are these horrible bug like drone robots. Varying numbers of them are placed around each level, meaning you either skilfully dodge them or on a far more satisfying level destroy them with a mighty punch. The thing is as GroundHog produces lots of replicas of himself, over a period of time so do the little nasties, and it does - I assure you - get extremely easy by the end of the time you're free. One more twist to think about is that of bumping into an earlier self - not only is this a frighteningly truthful view of what you really look like but it also means you're a goner!

After every six levels a bonus round appears giving you the chance to gain letters creating a cheat mode activated by pausing the game and then pressing space, which then skips levels. For those of us who like playing against somebody else, there is a two player option which allows for competitive playing across just 20 levels. Personally, I feel this adds a new dimension to the game, allowing you to share it with your friends!

Conclusions

Overall, GroundHog is a fascinating game which delves a lot deeper than you first realise, therefore allowing for good gameplay. Simplistic controls mean that you can get straight into the puzzling aspects early on, and that's just when the frustration settles in. Maybe something I would comment upon is the initial presentation of the package (a black and white inlay in a plastic bag) does not truly entice you to pick the game off of the shelf and buy it - let alone put the disc into your computer. That said, the appealing picture of a big-toothed beaver ... erm ... GroundHog would make the youngsters of our generation tug at Mum & Dad's sleeves for a closer look.

Product details

Product:
GroundHog Day
Supplier:
APDL (The Fourth Dimensi0n)
Price:
£tbc
WWW:
www.apdl.co.uk
E-mail:
4d@apdl.co.uk

Katie Hammond

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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Review: Starfighter 3000 Other Worlds

Not wishing to depend on the trains for transport any longer, David Bradforth zooms off to Mars in his spaceship...then ends up in a tank on the ground...then running from an Enemy Viper to land back in the middle of Yorkshire's spacial regions. Confused? Read on!

Just over a year ago, iSV Products released their first Games CD-ROM: StrongGames. Despite the fact the concept wasn't exactly new (100-odd public domain games, on a CD-ROM, at a ridiculously low price) it did reasonably well. Well enough to allow iSV Products to consider releasing a commercial games compilation: that would be the product featuring in this review anyway!

This first Other Worlds CD-ROM compilation takes space as its theme, and - with the new release of StarFighter 3000 heading up the odds - actually does offer a lot along that theme.

StarFighter 3000

The main item of interest is, as I've just mentioned, the new StarFighter 3000.

Featuring improved graphics (the game runs with greater detail, which doesn't result in anything becoming invisible when in the distance), improved artificial intelligence for both yours and the enemies missiles, StrongARM and RISC OS 4 compatibility (useful in this day and age) and at last the ability to reconfigure the keyboard controls while playing.

Other improvements have been made, but this particular writer kind of dies before he has the chance to dig into them properly. He does last long enough, though, to state beyond a shadow of a doubt that StarFighter 3000 is perhaps the most compulsive game of its type available for RISC OS computers today. The original game was good; the PC version was very good; the new souped-up RISC OS version is the bees knees (in terms of innovations anyway). Good game, and a very good lead for the CD-ROM.

Elite

Widely acknowledged as the leading space game of all time, Elite (now actually in the public domain) features also on this disc. This version does however come with an on-line manual in the usual iSV house style, as do all the games on this compilation.

You're in control of the viper (I believe) and set out to space aiming to improve your rating from mostly harmless to the almighty elite. My first big aim for the day was to destroy the horrid thing we fly out of in the first place...shame we can't do that anyway.

I'd have to admit that I'm not an Elite fan. What many may call the best game of all time, I'd actually say is about as interesting as watching paint dry. For no reason other than I had to think about it, you see: if you're into the thinking and planning aspects of gaming, Elite is for you.

Sunburst

Giving yourself a Northern accent, you go off to fight an amiable sort of space battle, all at your RISC OS computer keyboard. Sunburst is one of those games I didn't really understand: it's sort of a 2D variant of Elite, but with clear elements of its own strategy. Rather than digging further into a game I failed to understand, we'll republish the review Mark Moxon wrote for Archimedes World on the next disc. His conclusion was something about a retro band...but it seemed to be very positive.

Air Supremacy

The year is 2150, and wars are being waged over the barren desert lands of the Antarctic (the icecaps melted long ago) for control of the earth's dwindling energy resources. You are at Remote Combat Terminal J19 as part of a multi-national coalition that is attempting to restore the balance of power in the world. The terminal consists of two isolated airfields, with control towers and radars, entirely surrounded by enemy territory. Although heavily outnumbered, your equipment provides superior performance (as far as is known), but only the best pilots, the Aces, are entrusted to use it. You carry out your training in the Combat Simulator, with scenarios based on three 20th Century Wars. To complete a level you must destroy all enemy surface units and aircraft, including any reinforcements.

Only when you have graduated as an Ace will you be access to the few remaining craft at the terminal and be allowed to enter the Combat Arena in the great battle for Air Supremacy and overall victory.

In play, Air Supremacy occasionally becomes hectic with enemy fighters all ganging up onto your single 'movable' object. You do have the ability to blast them from the sky/ground, but you will on occasion run out of ammo making things really rather difficult for yourself...at these times, the game will certainly gain appeal.

It's a sweet little thing, which has the potential (with updating) to become perhaps the next Other Worlds leader!

Summing up

All the games come with on-line manuals and can all be run directly from the CD if required. With the Other Worlds CD-ROM, iSV Products have set out to introduce the current Acorn games market to some of the best games of yester year, suitably updated to work on the latest machines. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, this is an aim which they've achieved easily - no effort required at all! Given the price of just £16.50 (inc postage) we have no other conclusion other than you should go out and buy this disc now, if not sooner.

Product details


Product:
Star Fighter Other Worlds
Supplier:
APDL
Price:
£16.50 (add £2 for overseas postage)
WWW:
www.apdl.co.uk
E-mail:
info@apdl.co.uk

David Bradforth

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Feature: Questions and Answers

David Bradforth answers more of your problems

Welcome back to the Questions & Answers column. We've yet to receive any questions, so this time it's another selection of queries from the Internet and past queries that have been put towards members of the team. If you do have any problems, please direct them towards RISC World in the usual fashion, and we'll do everything we can to help. We don't particularly mind what it is: if the problem is causing you trouble, do let us know and we'll do everything we can to help.

I do need to start off with a little apology. I wrote the first Q&A column using Microsoft Word on an Apple Macintosh - in my opinion the best way to use the program. The problem is the text that ended up in RISC World had smart quotes, something which has a tendency to disagree with the Fresco web browser - the result was a lot of strange looking characters where there should have been quote marks.

This month's column has been written using Impression Publisher, so the problem should not arise: it does raise an interesting point, though. Has anybody written a utility to automate the conversion of smart quotes into unsmart quotes? All offers to the usual address, please: if it's a RISC World original we may even pay for it!

Anyway, enough apologising. On with the show - don't forget direct all of your questions towards david.bradforth@alligatagroup.com for a reasonably quick answer. All emails sent to this address will be published, but you will also receive a quick answer to your problems.

AUTOMATIC BOOTING OF CD-ROMS

I am fortunate enough to have an Acorn, a Mac and a PC all available for instant use. I have noticed that, on some CD-ROMs for the Mac and PC once the disc has been inserted into the drive the software starts automatically, allowing me to use it straight away. True most of the PC stuff requires installation first, but after it's done once the disc will allow me to use the software straight away.

I was wondering how easy it would be to do a similar sort of thing under RISC OS. I've recently written a suite of applications which I hope to release soon, and some education software. To be able to start the software automatically - even if it requires a click on the CD-ROM drive icon first - would be most useful. Can you help?

Tim Jarvis

It's incredibly easy to automatically start a program on both disc and CD-ROM. What you need to bear in mind is that whenever you open a directory, the first thing RISC OS does is to run the !boot files contained within each application. So if your main education program - which launches the others - is called !Menu, whatever is contained within !Menu.!Boot will be run immediately when the directory containing !Menu is opened. So, if your !Boot file contains...

    | !Boot file for !Menu
IconSprites .!Sprites

modify it to become...

    | !Boot file for !Menu
IconSprites .!Sprites
Filer_Run .!Run

You should now find that whenever the directory window is opened your program launches automatically. (Can anyone spot the potential problem with Davids solution - ED)

GAMES RECOMMENDATION

I Wouldn't call myself a die-hard games fanatic, but I do like to play the occasional game which is likely to tax my mind. I do, however, have very real difficulty finding games for RISC OS, and I'm not particularly keen on paying a lot of money for what is essentially a ten year old title. Do you have any recommendations on sources of cheap older titles, or more modern newer titles?

Anna Banana

There are now very few companies providing games to the RISC OS market - this is essentially the main reason why the games column ended last month. There are a few still making occasional offerings - Paradise, R-Comp Interactive, iSV Products and APDL (Oh the same company then - ED) have all made recent offerings; and rumour has it a new version of Repton 3 is due for release shortly.

Our recommendation would have to be try R-Comp Interactive for the latest, conversion from other platform, selections - the Krisalis CD is reviewed in this issue, and Descent II will be featured next time - and keep an eye out on the newsgroups for announcements of other releases. A good selection of PD games are available from APDL, or through many web sites.

RISC WORLD INTRODUCTION PROBLEMS

I recently received Volume 2 Issue 1 of RISC World. Having passed through the usual introductory screen, I started reading Aaron's editorial; but found half-way through it that the text suddenly stopped and the rest of it seemed to be a hyper link. I don't use Acorns for internet access, so I couldn't even click on the link to progress further.

Any idea of what I can do, as I want to know the rest of what Aaron had to say - his rant of the month makes me laugh often when I think just how familiar it sounds!

Len Smith

A small number of the previous issue CDs went out as described above. To sort the problem, you need a little understanding of HTML. 

The web browser of choice will use the 'A' tags to reference the start and end of the links, but will use the quote marks to see what the actual link address is. The problem with the previous issue of RISC World was, where Aaron referred to the 3QD website the final quote mark was left out. If you wish to fix this, you'll first need to copy the entire RISC World text to your hard disc. To do this, open a directory window on your hard disc and, from the RISC World disc, copy the HTML folder to the hard disc directory window.

Next, open the HTML folder, then EDITOR folder on your hard disc. Double-click on INDEX.HTM with the SHIFT key held down. The file will open into your favourite text editor. Using the search functionality, locate 3QD.CO.UK. You should notice that the final set of quote marks has been left out - replace these by typing them in, then save the HTML file back to your hard disc.

You should now be able to read Aaron's full and unadulterated text, simply by double-clicking on the file.

(Ok, I'm sorry I missed out a closing quote - but I did find out, but only after a batch of CDs had already been duplicated and mailed - ED)

IMPLICATIONS OF THE PACE-SEGA HYBRID STB

I've noticed a lot of talk recently about the agreement between Sega and Pace Micro Technology to allow the next generation of set top box to take advantage of the Dreamcast gaming technology. There's a lot of question as to whether it will have any impact on Acorn desktop gaming itself - can you provide an answer?

Dafyd McFlanders

Whilst I'd like to put it differently, the Sega-Pace deal is unlikely to have any implications for the gaming aspects of the RISC OS desktop machines. The next generation of Pace set top box will most likely include special hardware to handle those aspects of the set top box service. The Dreamcast used as its operating system a variant of Windows CE, and given the unlikelihood of that getting ported to the 26bit RISC OS operating system, I suspect it's nothing more than a pipedream. Sorry.

RANDOM NUMBERS - INDEPENDENT RANDOM NUMBERS

I'm experimenting with BASIC, trying to produce a simple program to generate lottery numbers. However I do occasionally find that my random number generation (in the form of A=RND(49)) tends to generate six numbers with occasional repetition. Do you have any idea as to how I can avoid this?

Lottie Bottie

Back in 1997, I wrote a program for the BBC to do just that, and reached a similar problem. My solution wasn't particularly novel...

a=RND(49):PRINT a;
REPEAT:b=RND(49):UNTIL b<>a:PRINT b;
REPEAT:c=RND(49):UNTIL c<>b AND c<>a:PRINT c;
REPEAT:d=RND(49):UNTIL d<>c AND d<>b AND d<>a:PRINT d;
REPEAT:e=RND(49):UNTIL e<>d AND e<>c AND e<>b AND e<>a:PRINT e;
REPEAT:f=RND(49):UNTIL f<>e AND f<>d AND f<>c AND f<>b AND f<>a:PRINT f

What this essentially does is to generate your first number - using a. Each subsequent number is generated, then checked against every previous number to ensure that it's original. If it's not original, another number is generated until you have a set of six independent numbers. There are other ways to do it, but this is the most straight forward and easy to follow. More for curiosities sake than anything else, the full program is included within the SOFTWARE directory of this disc.

(Mr Bradforth would like all readers to know that he did not make up any of these questions himself, indeed this would be a gross slander on a man of impeccable credentials - ED)

David Bradforth

This was first published in RISC World volume 2. You can buy the CD collection from www.apdl.co.uk.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Review: Bubble Impact

David Bradforth reviews a game that may appear familiar to Playstation owners

They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery, so it‘s good to see a version of Bust a Move - although obviously not identical to Bust a Move - on the Risc PC. Bubble Impact is, in fact, shareware which now has a UK distributor for the full registered version and as such I feel that a budget review is justified. (To be quite honest, since I first wrote this review I have bought Bust-A-Move 4 for the PC, and it's utterly dire. Bubble Impact is considerably better - in every way!)

Before the mayhem begins ...
For those unaware, Bubble Impact is - essentially - a variant on Tetris turned upside down. The difference between Bubble Impact and Tetris being that you have to get four bubbles together which are the same colour, instead of having to fill a line across the screen. In Bubble Impact, there are also special bubbles - such as the bomb which, when launched/hit, destroys a selection of bubbles from around it, making entry a lot easier to certain coloured bubbles.

If you hit a row of coloured bubbles, they are all destroyed and anything depending upon them is also destroyed. For example, one level contains a blackcurrant - but if you hit the green stem with a green bubble all of the purple bubbles fall to the ground and the level‘s over!

Whilst Bubble Impact isn‘t the most technically impressive game coded for the Risc PC, it is VERY addictive. In the process of writing reviews, we normally have very tight deadlines and hence have very little time to play games to destruction in. Bubble Impact is actually the cause of this review arriving to Dafyd (McFlanders - games editor of Archimedes World) late - I must have spent about ten hours playing it so far, and have the intention of playing it for many more.

Yes, I really did make it to level 25 - without cheating!
I suspect that this is mainly due to the adrenalin rush you can get by completing a level. If you wait a few seconds before launching a bubble, you are told to Hurry Up‘ and then, without expectation, the bubble is automatically launched - perhaps into a good place, perhaps into the one place you didnt want it!

Needless to say, I think that Bubble Impact is an essential purchase. The gameplay will keep you engrossed for hour after hour - so if you have got an assignment due, don‘t start playing until the work is done! As it‘s shareware, get the cut down version (from the Acorn Arcade web site - www.acornarcade.com) and then register to receive the full 100 levels. It‘ll be the best fiver you‘ve ever spent on a game!
This review was first published in Archimedes World.

OwlArt Unlimited

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