Merry Christmas
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Sunday 27th December 2009 | No Comments
Merry Christmas everyone from Ovine towers!
Hope Santa brought you everything you wanted.
Ovine Forum back online http://forum.ovine.net
Posted by StuC in Stu on Tuesday 22nd December 2009 | No Comments
As the title says, http://forum.ovine.net is back and open for business
Jet Set Willy 3.1 Beta Released
Posted by StuC in Stu on Monday 21st December 2009 | 8 Comments
Ive released Jet Set Willy 3.1 BETA to the testers.
Lack of time and effort means I will have to rely on the testers to get this out the door. I’ll report back their comment and findings in due course. Although saying that its alomst Christmas so im not expecting much yet
Merry Christmas
Mini Update For Driller
Posted by StuC in Stu on Thursday 17th December 2009 | No Comments
Ive just uploaded a recompile of Driller using the latest build of Blitz3D and an updated version of our packing utility.
This should get rid of a few false positives that have been reported. I’ll do the same with CHOLO as there have been some reports of that slowing down on modern machines.
I...
JSWOL 3.1 Testing
Posted by StuC in Stu on Wednesday 2nd December 2009 | No Comments
Im going to hand over the testing in the next couple of days to the beta testers (thanks for those who responded to my plee for testers )
Due to lack of time and other projects my time is limited for testing so all the help i can get is great. It does mean that JSWOL 3.1 will finally see the light...
Super Secret
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Wednesday 18th November 2009 | 3 Comments
About time I posted something about what I’m up to. Testing something super secret at the moment, very exciting, can’t say anything more about it … yet (so much for posting what I’m up to then ). Also been drawing some cartoon style doodles while playing around with neat...
Ooooo Looks Whats Coming
Posted by StuC in Stu on Thursday 12th November 2009 | No Comments
JSWOL 3.1 In test
To help me thru the Armalyte Testing (which is going really well BTW) Im resurrecting JSWOL 3.1 !!!
I tried to get AndyH to have a look at it but he seemed less than enthusiastic so Ive taken the reigns back.
A lot of the bug fixes and new features are already in there but I’ve...
Armalyte Nearing Completion
Posted by StuC in Stu on Monday 9th November 2009 | No Comments
http://www.psytronik.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78:armalyte-pc&catid=40:news&Itemid=18
Almost there – been 10 months of alot of work but Armalyte is almost done. Im finally getting better at the game too – YEY.
Xbox / Mame Cab in the works
Posted by StuC in Stu on Saturday 3rd October 2009 | 3 Comments
Finally got around to starting myxbox/mame cab.
Heres where I am so far :-
How much fun can you have with MDF ?
Armalyte Update
Posted by StuC in Stu on Friday 2nd October 2009 | No Comments
Smila has finished all 8 level graphics and enemy placements/paths.
So back to level 2 and tweak time. This is the fun part now. The bosses are in need of loving.
On level 1 we added a nice lazer to the enhance the play. Just have to think of other such “tweaks” for other levels.
Simple question, complex answer…
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Tuesday 8th September 2009 | No Comments
Our tumble dryer packed in recently and we had to buy a new one. A nice shiney new model arrived the other day and reading the instructions there is no mention of a feature that all the websites and reviews have been saying it has. So I send a question off to the well known company (name witheld...
Whack-A-Monty-Mole
Posted by StuC in Stu on Monday 7th September 2009 | No Comments
Courtesy of Barrie Ellis over at One Switch, he brought to our attention that Whak-a-Monty-Mole has been used at an ablegames event that was recently held.
For those of you that are unaware of what the event is about
” Our event is the first annual AbleGames, an opportunity for children with...
Retro Goodies for Sale
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Monday 31st August 2009 | 2 Comments
I’ve some old Retro Gamer magazines for sale on eBay if anyone is interested. They’re all early volume 1 issues from 3 to 9 (but not 8 for some reason). These duplicate copies have been lying around for ages I thought I’d better get rid of them…no point in having two lots.
If...
Norton is dead, Long live ESET
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Thursday 13th August 2009 | 5 Comments
Norton Antivirus finally gave up today after my subscription expired. If you’ve been following our blogs recently, you’d have read that I had some comical Norton customer support that went no where. Well today it looks like the actual product is no better.
No sooner as it told me I...
Teserae Amiga game dug up
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Sunday 9th August 2009 | 2 Comments
I recently found an old Amiga game I made back in 1992 called Teserae and put it on the downloads list. The game was a remake of Teserae on the Atari ST which in turn was a remake of Tetris. You’ll need an Amiga or Amiga Emulator to play it. I’ve not created a disk image yet, so you’ll...
JAVA version of Echo the Mouse
I made a game with Multimedia Fusion 2’s (MMF) new JAVA export around this time last year using my Echo The Mouse character. The game was to be used in a special JAVA version for BluRay players which had pretty low hardware specifications. As such the game had to be fairly simple. That...
Cholo Ambiant Music
Heres a little quick app / screensaver.
Ive had a few emails recently asking about the ingame music in Cholo. The ingame tune was entirely a random mix of some riffs I did to set a bit of atmosphere.
So Ive created a little app/screensaver that recreates the Cholo ambiance
Click for Standalone version...
Spriter animation tool
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Sunday 14th June 2009 | No Comments
I’ve picked spriter up again after a long rest. I started Spriter (i think) in 2004 when it looked more like DPaint. I decided to change it a few months later to look more Windows-ey which was a good idea as I could make use of the standard controls and windows. I kind of got side tracked...
More Armalyte
Posted by StuC in Stu on Thursday 11th June 2009 | No Comments
Still awaiting any more feedback from the guys on the last Armalyte Level 1 build. All the bugs have been squashed and indeed Smila has mapped level 2 and is starting the attack patterns.
Level1 Demo will be released and we’ll guage the reaction and take feedback on board (as we always do).
Having...
Armalyte Level 1 – Almost There
Posted by StuC in Stu on Friday 5th June 2009 | No Comments
Were just in the process of testing Armalyte Level 1, soon to be released as a demo to gauge the interest in the full release and also to mass test on lots of hardware
Ive not gone mad on the minimum spec for the machine, OpenGL 1.1 is a minimum, Ive got it running on a crappy old laptop which...
My wife is doing the “race for life”
Posted by StuC in Stu on Monday 25th May 2009 | No Comments
Race For Life
Mary (my wife) is doing this years “Race for Life” in aid of cancer research
If you could see your way to sponsoring her, I would appreciate it
http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/marycollier
Shes taking it quite serious and is actually training for it too. For someone who...
Microsites working
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Sunday 10th May 2009 | 2 Comments
All the Ovine microsites (see the links in the footer of this page) should be working ok now, including the download links. Let us know if you have any problems with either the high score uploads or the pages.
C/C++ section added
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Saturday 9th May 2009 | No Comments
Just found a nice article on Cymon’s Games website about setting up a nice free C/C++ IDE, compiler and a selection of essential libraries so have added some information and further links under the Development menu. Thanks Cymon, pay him a visit if you are interested in learning more …...
Im back
Posted by StuC in Stu on Tuesday 28th April 2009 | No Comments
Ive had a little spell in hospital (first time for me), its took 40 years.
Ive got a “stone” in my saliva gland that needs removal. So this little episode has knocked me back a week as I was unable to actually code. I wondered why I was so tired at night recently, when the side of my...
Forums open for business
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Monday 20th April 2009 | 2 Comments
The Ovine forums are now open for business. Go to http://forum.ovinebydesign.com/ if you want to join up.
Armalyte PC
Posted by StuC in Stu on Monday 20th April 2009 | 8 Comments
Wondered what we have been upto recently ?
Armalyte Advert
Read more here
Jet Set Willy is back online
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Friday 17th April 2009 | No Comments
The Jet Set Willy website and portal functionality is back online.
You can now play and register your games with the website. To see who’s currently online, visiti http://jsw.ovine.net/
Norton problems!
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Wednesday 15th April 2009 | 3 Comments
Not a great week for computery software reliability here in Ovine towers. Over the weekend I found a copy of Sega Rally Championship in a charity shop for a pound which said was XP compatible. Having many fond memories playing the original four seat arcade version many years ago I thought I’d...
Flash problems
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Thursday 9th April 2009 | No Comments
Yuk – sometimes you can waste an hour of your life trying to kick your computer into shape. Today I started up my lappy to only find You-Tube and our Tag Cloud not working. Both are using Flash. The videos on this site are fine, but not when viewing directly on You Tube. Uninstalling and...
And now for something completely different
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Tuesday 7th April 2009 | No Comments
Some content added now, more coding done (not much left to do now!), but while you wait why not study Ovine Aviation from the classic MPFC on YouTube …
Welcome Back
Posted by StuC in Stu on Saturday 4th April 2009 | 2 Comments
Our website move happened a bit before time, so it might take us a while to catch up with the update.
I have to say AndyH has done a sterling job, he went through a few designs before settling on this one. Its alot more professional looking than before you would have to admit.
Ive added the webcam...
Welcome, please mind your step!
Posted by Andy H in Andy on Wednesday 11th March 2009 | 4 Comments
Hi everyone … if you’re looking for ovine.net please bear with us. We are currently giving the place a lick of paint and will have all pages, links and downloads working again soon.
You can get to the downloads page here for the time being.
Ultimate Bruce Lee
Posted by StuC in Arcade / Action, Featured Games, Platform on Friday 2nd January 2009 | 25 Comments
An opulent, mysterious, and perilous fortress is the setting as Bruce Lee seeks to claim infinite wealth and the secret of immortality from the wizard who dwells within.
You begin your search for the wizard at the entrance to his fortress. This chamber, and each chamber here, is sealed off from the...
Whack-a-Mole
Keep an eye out for those pesky moles. As soon as they pop their heads up use your mallet to make them go back into the ground.
Watch out for those RED moles, they will make you loose a life!
ARCADE
Race against the clock to hit as many moles as you can.
RED moles will reduce your time where as hitting...
Armalyte Released
** ARMALYTE OUT NOW! **
£4.99 download version
FULL PC-CD BOX version! (£16.99)
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