CD-i, on Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:06 PM, said:
Great article! (even in Engrish - ie: Google translate
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ejagfest 2011 - The Report
Author: Heiko Poppen
10th anniversary of the Atari Jaguar Europe Festival, short ejagfest! Anniversary events were in and out as junk prices at discount stores around the corner is not it, but a lot of new and annual proof that Jaguar is still very much alive.
Bound by tradition that takes place in 2011 ejagfest again in the rustic bishop, Kaarst. The staff and clientele there is even older than most Atari fans, which should increase the feel-good atmosphere of mostly over 30 years old visitors again.
The heart of the event was once again last Atari home console and its games. But like every year, every retro-friend is welcome, so that was also an Atari 7800 XM (Expansion Module), and several dozens Lynx Atari 800, Atari ST and Atari to see Falcons. Since the event is a very liberal ejagfest, could also be on hand 3DO, Nuon, Neo Geo and other retro classics are placed.
But we stretch the reader does not love to torture and tell what it is to see something new and to purchase existed. First sold in UK as its Gaztee Box announced for the Jaguar prototype "Barkley Shut Up and Jam". Thanks to this software Gaztee cucumber now gets at least an attractive place on the shelf, the collectors happy. In addition, offered the British nor the beta version of Total Carnage for sale, also in a great self-made box with instructions and inlay. Also presented was industrious and reboot "Kobayashi Maru", very similar to a shooter Asteroids and rotary controller offers support.
The title was also developed with the reboot of "Raptor Engine" developed, what Jaguar interested developers a set of tools at hand to develop at lightning speed and without code-2D experiments Tiel. In addition, they organized a high score contest, in which the winner a one-of-a-kind received copy of the game. Unfortunately I had only to 16 clock this high score list ... You can buy the game was also available. At cost of € 8 limp the title for the Jaguar CD was purchased at. For the first time you could also buy Downfall as a physical disk - also for 8 €.
Hoping you have on the sale of X pulses by Matthias Domin. Unfortunately, the game was not ready in time so that one could only allude to the title. But at least the final box of the module version was ever made to see and want more. There was also the first time to see the Atari 7800XM (Expansion Modules) for which one side expansion port eg A built-in keyboards and Pokey chip Saveram offers. Atari 7800 players are also supplied with audi visually better titles in the future. Could first title anzocken you already, which pounce visually and acoustically a lot.
Besides the already mentioned in Competition "Kobayashi Maru" in 2011, visitors could participate again at the traditional tournament for the Checkered Flag Lynx. For Atari's big cat, there was an Atari Karts tournament this year, the winners were able to enjoy exquisite prizes from Ubisoft. Pink DS were pockets of BigBen it for free.
If you think you need to visit for a network session, a dark-Lanparty PC, is mistaken. Kilo-way ST hardware and monitor, saw later in the evening for a brief but hearty MidiMaze session, a network-shooter for STs, which are joined together via midi cable to a network. Great fun (at least for the winner).
The last and most impressive guest was Roland, last name "MT-32". The midi synthesizer in conjunction with some Sierra adventures, which support the device, provided for visitors marvel at the extent ignorant (me). They could not and would hardly believe that you sat in front of an Atari ST, when they heard the sound quality. Who wants to get an idea of how the instrument sounds can here the intro from the Sierra classic "Space Quest III listen." The ST version with sounds identical to MT-32.
After the last hard-core visitors the evening with a round end Plumbers do not wear ties, had joined the gates of the tenth ejagfestes Kaarst. Until next year!
Google Translate makes me wish i had continued with my German language after coming to Australia!
But i think its quite easy to understand the whole gist of the article, and i for one enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to do a piece on the Jag-Fest!
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