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Vectoroids 1.1.2 source available - January 31, 2025
midzer's Emscripten port of Vectoroids had been updated to work with SDL2, and I've incorporated those changes and released 1.1.2.

Vectoroids 1.1.1 source avaialble - January 24, 2025
I dusted Vectoroids off, put the code up on GitHub, made a few minor improvements, and added on-screen ship controls to make the game usable on touch screens.

Vectoroids playable in a browser - January 24, 2025
Thanks to midzer, you can now play Vectoroids right in a browser! (Webassembly port, via Emscripten)

Firefighter 0.1-beta10 release - January 20, 2025
A new beta version of our twin-stick firefighting game for the Atari 8-bit has been released. It has higher resolution graphics, fancy fire effect, and some gameplay and speed improvements.

Tux Paint 0.9.34 released - October 31, 2024
Tons of new effects and some great new brushes (thanks, Krita!) in the latest Tux Paint. Out now for Windows, macOS, Linux, and OpenBSD. Coming soon for Android and Haiku.

Circus Linux! playable in a browser - September 15, 2024
Thanks to ICTylor, you can now play Circus Linux! right in a browser! (Webassembly port, via Emscripten)

FujiNet ISS Tracker 2024-04-07 - April 7, 2024
My Atari 8-bit version of the FujiNet International Space Station Tracker (and How Many People Are In Space Right Now? app) has been updated. Frank Rachel updated it to use a new FujiNet Library, and I improved the performance of large text blitting and added support for some UTF-8 Latin-1 characters (using the Atari's own International ATASCII character set when possible!) (In other news, ISS Tracker has been recreated for a bunch more platforms!)

Tux Paint 0.9.32 released - January 31, 2024
New year, new Tux Paint. This version adds numerous tools for sketching 3D projections (1-/2-/3-point perspective, isometric, dimetric, trimetric, and oblique) and 'Spirograph'-style centered trochoids... among other updates. Tux Paint 0.9.32 announcement.

FujiNet Astronomy Photo of the Day viewer for Atari 8-bit - December 29, 2023
We failed to ever mention our APOD viewer for the Atari 8-bit, first released in May 2021, in our news items! A minor update of it is now available. Happy new year!

Defendgun 0.0.13 for Haiku - November 21, 2023
The new release of Defendguin is now also available for Haiku, thanks to our long-time friend Begasus.

Videos! - October 13, 2023
I've recorded videos of numerous NBS games and posted them to YouTube. Check each game's "Screenshots" page where you'll find them. -bill!

Firefighter with FujiNet support - September 26, 2023
Numerous new beta versions of Firefighter have been released in the past month; thanks to those who tried it! The latest 0.1-BETA8 include variations that support FujiNet features; shared high score table via TNFS in the disk (ATR) version, and a stand-alone XEX that can store settings and a single high score locally to your FujiNet.

Firefighter beta release - August 22, 2023
A beta release of our new twin-stick firefighting game for the Atari 8-bit has been released!

GalaXa 0.2 - August 6, 2023
25 years after the first two beta releases, we dusted off GalaXa (written for X-Window on Solaris) and got it building and running on Ubuntu 22.04. We may even begin overhauling it some day!

Defendgun 0.0.13 for macOS - July 22, 2023
The recently-released update to Defendguin is now also available for macOS, thanks to Mac Source Ports. Enjoy!

Tux Paint 0.9.31 released - July 22, 2023
Another new Tux Paint! It adds a few more Magic tools, a setting to adjust the UI font, and the ability to make new templates from existing drawings. Tux Paint 0.9.31 announcement.

Defendguin 0.0.13 released - June 28, 2023
After almost 14 years, a new version of Defendguin is here. Larger window, more joystick controls, and lots of sound effects, music, and graphics replaced. Available for Windows, RPM-based Linux, and as source code. Enjoy!

Tux Paint 0.9.30 released - May 21, 2023
Another new version of Tux Paint already is available. Around 50 of the Magic tools have gained a new size-setting feature. Enjoy! Tux Paint 0.9.30 announcement.

Tux Paint 0.9.29 released - April 2, 2023
A new version of Tux Paint is available, with many enhancements and a lot of new Magic tools (effects)! See the Tux Paint 0.9.29 announcement to learn more.

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