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    From Jeremy Rand@no_email@invalid.invalid to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 22:04:37
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    I am happy to announce a new game for the Apple //GS. This year, the GS
    turns 35 so a classic arcade shooter seemed like a good way to celebrate.

    For more information about the game and to download it, visit this URL:

    http://www.rand-emonium.com/BuGS/

    Not sure what BuGS is? Watch the video of me playing on my real GS here:

    https://youtu.be/QcmpkEUQznM

    Some good news and bad news. The good news is that you do not need an accelerator at all for this game. It runs at 60 frames per second on a standard GS. The bad news is that it doesn’t work well under some GS emulators. Specifically Sweet16 and GSplus are not recommended for BuGS.
    Mame and KEGS work well though. Please see the readme in the distribution
    for more information about emulators.

    Apple // Forever!
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  • From awanderin@awanderin@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 23:30:45
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    Jeremy Rand <no_email@invalid.invalid> writes:

    I am happy to announce a new game for the Apple //GS. This year, the GS turns 35 so a classic arcade shooter seemed like a good way to celebrate.

    For more information about the game and to download it, visit this URL:

    http://www.rand-emonium.com/BuGS/

    Not sure what BuGS is? Watch the video of me playing on my real GS here:

    https://youtu.be/QcmpkEUQznM

    Some good news and bad news. The good news is that you do not need an accelerator at all for this game. It runs at 60 frames per second on a standard GS. The bad news is that it doesn’t work well under some GS emulators. Specifically Sweet16 and GSplus are not recommended for BuGS. Mame and KEGS work well though. Please see the readme in the distribution for more information about emulators.

    That looks amazing! Very much like the original, and one of my
    favorites back in the day!

    You've got great initials too for writing assembly code: JSR!

    --
    Jerry awanderin at gmail dot com
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  • From Oliver Schmidt@ol.sc@web.de to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 13:16:28
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    That looks amazing!

    +1


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  • From Jeremy Rand@no_email@invalid.invalid to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 15:06:13
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    awanderin <awanderin@gmail.com> wrote:
    Jeremy Rand <no_email@invalid.invalid> writes:

    I am happy to announce a new game for the Apple //GS. This year, the GS
    turns 35 so a classic arcade shooter seemed like a good way to celebrate.



    That looks amazing! Very much like the original, and one of my
    favorites back in the day!

    You've got great initials too for writing assembly code: JSR!

    --
    Jerry awanderin at gmail dot com


    Thanks! About my initials, I always thought it would be fun to get a personalized license plate which is “JSR FDED” or something similar. Don’t
    think you can put a dollar sign on a license plate though.

    --
    Jeremy Rand
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  • From Hugh Hood@hughhood@earthlink.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 10:10:19
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    Very, very nice work, and source code to boot.

    Well done, and I say that as a guy who has never paid a lot of attention
    to games, but who does remember the era when the early video games
    started squeezing out space in the coin arcades from the pinball machines.

    Thanks for all the effort you expended bringing this to fruition (and
    sharing the coding) on the Apple IIgs.




    Hugh Hood



    On 2/16/2021 4:04 PM, Jeremy Rand wrote:

    I am happy to announce a new game for the Apple //GS. This year, the GS turns 35 so a classic arcade shooter seemed like a good way to celebrate.

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  • From retrogear@larrygr510@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 15:33:57
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    Oh boy, good timing for me. I'm just getting into sound programming on my ROM01. Thanks for sharing the source
    tree. I'll be looking it over to try and learn more.

    Larry G
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  • From Brian Patrie@bpatrie@bellsouth.spamisicky.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 23:43:08
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    Jeremy Rand wrote:
    About my initials, I always thought it would be fun to get a
    personalized license plate which is “JSR FDED” or something
    similar. Don’t think you can put a dollar sign on a license
    plate though.

    That's ok; if the IIgs System Monitor disassembler can forego the $,
    so can you. :)
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  • From D Finnigan@dog_cow@macgui.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Thursday, February 18, 2021 21:18:27
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    Jeremy Rand wrote:
    I am happy to announce a new game for the Apple //GS. This year, the GS turns 35 so a classic arcade shooter seemed like a good way to celebrate.

    Nice job! I was following your progress reports on the Apple ][
    Infinitituitum slack channel this past fall. :-)

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  • From Todd Holcomb@toddholcomb6@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, February 20, 2021 19:30:05
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    Fantastic job - this is one of the best arcade ports for the IIgs and love the icon too!
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  • From Jeremy Rand@no_email@invalid.invalid to comp.sys.apple2 on Sunday, February 21, 2021 15:35:09
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    Todd Holcomb <toddholcomb6@gmail.com> wrote:
    Fantastic job - this is one of the best arcade ports for the IIgs and love the icon too!


    Thanks. I am glad you like the game. The icon comes courtesy of fatdog on
    the Apple II slack channel. He does lots of great graphics, sound and
    animation for the GS and provided the icon and some of the sounds in BuGS.

    There are other people also who contributed to the project and I have tried
    to recognize them here:

    https://github.com/jeremysrand/BuGS/blob/master/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md

    --
    Jeremy Rand
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