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RetroMadrid 2013 – Free Sqrxz and Sqrxz 2 Amiga OCS floppies!

Retroguru — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:48:06 +0000

With pleasure we teamed up with Dreamcast.es and can offer free floppy disks with Sqrxz and Sqrxz 2 at RetroMadrid (limited supply, so be fast!). RetroMadrid is hold this weekend and will be the first chance for Spanish Amiga-Fans to get a physical version – the game is free, certainly we will not mind if you donate a bit so we can cover our production costs. ~~The game is available at the Dreamcast.es-Booth.~~

~~This might sound odd, but Indiket, who is part of Dreamcast.es as well, ported all Sqrxz parts to Dreamcast, so this seemed the best solution having a real team member giving away Sqrxz.~~

Update:

Get the game at the Commodore 4 Ever booth now!

Update 2:

Thanks to Jesus / Commodore4ever for the picture and the distribution @ RetroMadrid 2013

Sqrxz 3 DC .iso updated!

Retroguru — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:18:26 +0000

Thanks to DCEric, the Sqrxz 3 Dreamcast .iso file is now up to date!

Sqrxz 3 v1.05 for Amiga OS4 & MorphOS

Retroguru — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:04:19 +0000

Frank Wille has been so kind and updated Sqrxz 3 for Amiga OS4 and MorphOS. Enjoy!

Sqrxz 3 Updates (20-02-2013)

Retroguru — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:45:21 +0000

We had a major problem with Sqrxz 3. For some reason a wrong packaged data file got shared and causes troubles at the end of level four, making it impossible to succeed and getting further. We suppose that this happened at the last major update and would advise everyone to upgrade to the most recent version.

Fresh updated ports (including the correct maps already):

* Dreamcast – CDI Image (Thanks Xavier)
* Symbian OS S60 & Symbian OS UIQ3 (Thanks Lars)

Repacked ports:

* AROS
* Caanoo
* OpenDingux (Dingoo A320)
* GP2x
* Linux
* Mac OS X
* Motomagx
* NetBSD 5 / x86
* NetBSD 6 / PPC
* Playstation Portable (PSP)
* Windows
* Wiz

Ports not updated an therefore still buggy:

* Amiga OS 4
* Dreamcast – ISO Image
* Pandora
* MorphOS

We are sorry for any inconvenience caused :( For the downloads, please go here.

Amiga Games Award 2012 – Results

Retroguru — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:03:44 +0000

Sqrxz 1 Amiga OCS won the first place, and Sqrxz 2 Amiga OCS the second place in the Amiga68k category at the Amiga Games Award 2012. Thanks to everyone! We will make sure to recode Sqrxz 3 for Amiga OCS …

Sqrxz 3 v1.05 for AROS

Retroguru — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:38:15 +0000

Yannick Erb updated the AROS port of Sqrxz 3! It’s now in sync with the latest codebase! Thanks Yannick!

Sqrxz 2 Amiga OCS Longplay

Retroguru — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:59:17 +0000

Hipoonios gave Sqrxz 2 on Amiga Classic a go and here is his Longplay-Video. The game plays like butter, doesn’t it? :)

Sqrxz 3 v1.05 for Windows, Ubuntu (32/64), Wiz and PSP

Retroguru — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:47:23 +0000

Another bunch of free minutes and the last month announced Sqrxz 3 v1.05 is tested, verified and packed for public release. Thanks Thor!

Changes:

changes for devices with a screen equal or larger than 640 x 480:
* scaling options changes now take effect on the fly and do not require a restart (Thanks Yannick!)
* new scale options: bilinear antialias and scanlines (Thanks Yannick!)

Visit the Sqrxz 3 downloads for the release file!

Sqrxz 2 Amiga OCS v1.0 is now out!

Retroguru — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:50:47 +0000

Yesterday Sqrxz 2 Amiga OCS (click for download-section) by Retroguru had it’s premiere release at the fourth Viennese Retro-Market (4. Wiener Retro-Börse).

Sqrxz 2 Amiga OCS is served in three different versions: Floppy Disk Image, HD-Install, CD Image (for CDTV and CD32)!

Amiga Team:
* Rodolphe Boixel (Main Code)
* Frank Wille (Assembler recoding)
* Simon Butler (Graphics)
* Alexander Wiklund (Music)
* Jane Mumford (Additional Graphics)
* Virgile Metier (Graphics adjustment to meet the Amiga limitations)
* Shahzad Sahaib (Project Management & Leveldesign)

We divided 50 floppy disks of Sqrxz 2 amongst the visitors and 17 floppy disks of Sqrxz 1, which makes a total of 67 floppy disks. Our Retroguru table with an Amiga 500 (provided by Mark!) allowed everyone to test the game live. Most people failed within the first three screens, but this was to be expected. Interestingly a very young girl managed to play past the half of the first level, which was hardly achieved by any other player.

Next possibility to catch a real floppy disk with the game is tUM 2012.

Feedback and donations are welcome anytime :) Please kindly understand that it’s not possible for us to send out the game on floppy disk via snail mail. It just eats too much money and time.

Sqrxz 1 Amiga OCS v1.2 is out!

Retroguru — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 05:44:22 +0000

We are happy to announce Sqrxz Amiga OCS v1.2 – please go ahead and find it in our download section!

As many people mentioned the wish to play with a gamepad, Frank Wille spend a lot of efforts to make this possible. Furthermore we now offer a CDTV/CD32 image of the game.

Look forward for the release of Sqrxz 2 Amiga OCS v1.0 next week!