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- Plus/4: A Short Introduction -

Plus/4 never got a real game market, 'cause its c64 incompatibility early discouraged both users and software houses. How many dedicated programs d'you remember for the Plus/4? Maybe some games from Anco, "Ace" and "Ace 2" from Cascade Game, "Mercenary" from Novagen...and very few others.

In this sight, users (many from Eastern Europe, especially Hungary) were forced to sustain their beloved 8bit system with selfproduced software; and this choral initiative tooks to create a Plus/4 'scene', surely smaller compared to the C64 one but with higher density of real coders.

Years passed and technology evolved (mmm...sure?). C64 still lives thank to a solid bunch of faithful guys, though you feel the presence of C64 in the net most of all 'cause lots of nostalgics and computers' collectors. In few words: a lot of retrocomputing but few retrocoders! Talking about Plus/4, this proportion decreases the actual amount of coders to almost ZERO!

- XeO3 / Xenon Trioxide -

Err..not zero but ONE: sincerely, I don't know why, but I can't stop coding, drawing, composing on my Plus/4. Years ago, I promised that nothing and nobody will take me away from my 8bit black box, nor if I'll remain really alone in the scene.

Mike Dailly, (co-)author of many games running on several machines (from "Blood Money" on C64 to "F1 2000" on PSX) had to code something nice for his homepage; he understood that there weren't Plus/4 emulators in the large emulation field on the net, and started to code "Minus4", nowadays one of the nicest Plus/4 emulators available. And the best way to show it surely is to code a cool action game that runs on perfectly.

In order to accomplish it, Mike and me have spent and will spend work time stealing it from family, job (Mike), study, job, university final work, girlfriends (Luca): Mike has to improve the emulator, write code and waves editor, maybe sprite editor too; I have to draw all graphics, compose musics and fx, draw levels, animate sprites.

- Will We Finish It? -

Follow the making of XeO3! Keep an eye on this homepage and you'll know if we will be able to create the ultimate shoot'em'up game for the mythic Commodore Plus/4! And if you think you can do anything helping us, from real participation to writing a friendly supporting email, DO IT!