Welcome & Credits — WOOT! 2019
Helloooo! Welcome to the WOOT 2019 Tape Magazine. First credit to FZX for fonts, and ZX7 for compression (no offence Minidict). Unfortunately, writing these scrollers is the last job I do before release, so they tend to be exhausted ramblings. So here goes that:
Since last year's WOOT we've had a mostly excellent year. December '18 saw the release of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Never before have so many retro references been seen by so many, and recognised by so few. Hackers also scrambled to decipher its easter egg, and gasman's game "NOHZDYVE" (lucky bast!)...
High quality games continue to be released for the Speccy, many of the best were incentivised by competitions. Early 2019 saw the finale of the ZX-Dev comp, and recently we saw 19 games of terrifying quality emerge from Russia and E-Europe for the Yandex Retrogames comp. How do they do it?!
The Bytemaniacos BASIC competition is seeing BASIC games that are actually fun (Aznar we're looking at you). A most unusual publisher also appeared with 20 games in quick succession - this was Bearsden Primary School, who used AGD to make 20 games! Dougie mcg must be the coolest teacher ever. The weens are probably even allowed to call him "Dougie".
ZXDB continues to develop, and is being updated regularly, despite the pain & sorrow that SQL involves.
It hasn't all been good though, there has been apparent purchasing and strongarm policing of Speccy IP, which got very messy for all parties involved. It's bizarre that these lessons need to be learned, but hopefully IP owners will realise the importance of working with "the scene".
2019 is the first year since 1996 WITHOUT A CRAP GAMES COMPETITION. The "winner", Monkzy was supposed to host and disappeared, and the previous host couldn't be contacted and no-one else wanted to put their cock in the vice. Shame.
A massive thankyou to all the contributors. Now crack on and enjoy the magazine...
That's the end of the magazine. Now check out the rest of the bundle! HAPPY ZXMAS EVERYONE.
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