Bostjan Grandovec - News

Improved Acorn BBC Micro emulator allows you to play some of the best Beeb games. 44 games were added to BBC Micro game library: Ballistix, DeathStar, Hellforce, Indoor Sports, Karate Combat, Network, Palace of Magic, Tempest, Zenon, and one of the best games of all times - Elite.

20.03.2013

This release has fifty new titles in the game library, mostly homebrew games for Atari 7800 and Lynx, and several Acorn Atom games, made by the enthusiasts: Arkanoid, Apple Snaffle, Beef Drop, FailSafe, Moon Cresta, Knight Moves, Super Circus, Traffic Jam, Tubes, and more.

20.02.2013

MSX was great platform for video games, and many great games was developed for MSX computers. New Pantheon includes emulator of MSX computers and dozens of games: American Truck, Bosconian, Hole in One, Knightmare I/II, Mopiranger, Spelunker, The Goonies, Zanac...

20.01.2013

Pantheon's ColecoVision emulator has been improved and 40 games have been added to ColecoVision game library: BC's Quest for Tires, Omega Race, Video Hustler... I would also like to thank you all for your support and I wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

23.12.2012

Pantheon 0.884 has gained Acorn Atom emulator and 50 games. The Atom was not designed as a games machine, but has dozens of games worth playing: Adventure, Quest, Hyperfire, AstroBirds, Space Zap, Dodgems, Robots, Snapper, Swarm, Trap, Warlords, CarMaze...

06.12.2012

I've made several improvements in emulator of Atari 8-bit computers, and added almost fifty games to the game library: Atlantis, Boulder Dash, Captain Beeble, Eliminator, Heavy Metal, Ixion, Laser Blaster, Little 15, Nibbly, Ocean Detox, Qb, Sinistar, Unicorn Horn, Yoomp...

14.11.2012

Few minor improvements have been made in Atari 2600 emulator, and now you can enjoy dozens of new Atari 2600 titles in Pantheon game library: Acid Drop, AStar, Coconuts, Elevator Action, Fire Fly, Infiltrate, Mines of Minos, Reindeer Rescue, Steeplechase, Yahtzee, and more.

15.10.2012

New version of Pantheon features improved Atari Lynx emulator and more than thirty Lynx games: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Blue Lightning, Desert Strike, Electrocop, Lexis, Marble Madness, Paperboy, Rygar, Super Off-Road, Toki, Super Skweek, and Switchblade II.

11.09.2012

Although I own an Android tablet for quite sometime, I just recently installed Andorid SDK and started to learn the basics. Magic Machine is "Mandelbrot set" viewer, that I made more than ten years ago. You can now enjoy Magic Machine for both, Windows and Android.

10.09.2012

After several months of coding, the ColecoVision emulator is complete. This is the first emulator of device with the Zilog Z80 processor, in the Pantheon. New Pantheon brings you 38 ColecoVision games: Antarctic Adventure, Boulder Dash, H.E.R.O., Pepper, Spy Hunter, Tutankham...

14.08.2012

It has been exactly two years since the Pantheon project was started. For this special release, I've made some improvements in Atari 7800 and Acorn BBC micro emulator, and added 60 games to the Pantheon game library: Ballblazer, Galaforce, Krakout, Motor Psycho, Sentinel...

12.07.2012

Atari 5200 and Atari 8-bit compu- ters emulators have been improved and more than fifty games have been added to the game library: Bounty Bob Strikes Back, Gateway to Apshai, Tower Toppler, Typo Attack... Several download links for Atari Lynx games have been fixed.

04.06.2012

The Pantheon is now capable of emulating the Acorn BBC Micro computer, and this month you can enjoy some of the greatest games from eighties: Alien 8, Cybertron Mission, Exile, Knight Lore, Imogen, License to Kill, Qwak, Red Moon, XOR and more.

08.05.2012

Acorn BBC Micro emulator is almost complete, but Beeb games will be available in next release. Until then, you can enjoy 46 new games in Pantheon game library: 28 for Atari 2600 and 18 for Atari 7800. Double Dragon, Road Runner, Kung-Fu Master, Pole Position I/II...

10.04.2012

Pantheon's Atari Lynx emulator has been improved and a lot of new titles have been added to the Atari Lynx game library. My favorite games in this release: Fat Bobby, Batman Returns, Checkered Flag, Lemmings, Ninja Gaiden, Raiden, Shanghai, Warbirds, Xybots.

18.03.2012

Atari Lynx was an excellent piece of hardware with lots of great games. The new Pantheon is now capable of emulating this portable device, and twelve games have been added to the Atari Lynx game library. Among them is Dracula the Undead - one of the best adventure games.

19.02.2012

New Pantheon has improved version of Atari 8-bit computers emulator, that now also emulates XL models. 30 games have been added to the Atari 8-bit computers game library: 180!, Commando, Dark Chambers, Head over Heels, Kult, Red Moon, Stack Up, Tactic, Zybex...

20.01.2012

I was informed that Pantheon does not work on 64-bit Windows. This has been fixed in this new version and 26 games for Atari 2600 and 24 games for Atari 5200 have been added to the game library, mostly prototypes, unreleased games and homebrew games.

15.12.2011

Atari 7800 console was powerful machine at the time of release, but unfortunately not very popular by game developers. The Pantheon now features Atari 7800 emulator and 32 of its greatest games are available in the game library. Expect more games next month.

18.11.2011

Emulator of Atari 8-bit computers has been upgraded in this release and can now load cassette and executable image files. More than forty games, that were released on cassette tapes, have also been added to Atari 8-bit computer game library.

20.10.2011

In this release, emulator of Atari 8-bit computers was integrated into Pantheon. Current version supports only game cartridges. Emulators of Atari 2600 and 5200 have been improved and 76 new games for all three platforms have been added to the game library.

18.09.2011

It has been one year since the start of the project, and it is time for a new release of Pantheon. New version features improved user interface, control settings dialog, anti-aliasing mode and 32 new games in Atari 2600 and 24 new games in Atari 5200 game library.

27.07.2011

Atari 5200 emulator is available in this release and 16 games have been included into Atari 5200 game collection. I've also made few minor corrections in Atari 2600 emulator and added to the collection 18 games from the list of top hundered games for this console.

30.05.2011

New release of the Pantheon is available for download. 32 games for Atari 2600 have been added to the collection, emulator and user interface have been improved. The Atari 5200 emulator is still in development, hopefully it will be finished at the end of the month.

10.04.2011

After six months of hard work, first release of Pantheon is available for download. Almost 50 games for Atari 2600 video console are waiting for you to be played. Now that core of the application is complete, you can expect more games in just few months.

18.02.2011

Last two months I spent developing emulator of Atari 2600 console. Before I started, I had to figured out how this piece of hardware works, later I've developed a debugger, which dissasembles the program and allows me to step through the assembly code.

16.10.2010

Pantheon is my latest project, started in July 2010. Pantheon is a Windows desktop application that will allow you to explore the history of video games and play the games from different game consoles and home computers from the past.

14.08.2010

Snake's Adventure

After four months of development, the game is complete and available to play on this and many other web sites (Kongregate, 9p.com, Flash game vault, YY2K...). In the meantime I also finished the last - 26th chapter of "Flex game development" tutorial.

20.05.2010

Snake's Adventure

Snake's Adventure is almost complete, the demo is already available - take some time and try it. If you have any comments, please drop me an e-mail. "Flex game development" tutorial is also almost finished, I plan to write only one or two chapters.

27.04.2010

Snake's Adventure

I am still working on the Snake's Adventure and "Flex game development" tutorial. Now that I finally got MIDI cable for my synth, I can start making music for the game. In the tutorial I've explained the basics of 2D graphics, sound and controls.

16.03.2010

Snake's Adventure

Recently I launched two projects: the game Snake's Adventure and the tutorial about Flex game development on my blog. Projects are very much connected: I plan to write the tutorial and release the source code, after it is implemented in the game.

20.01.2010

The application is now complete and available for download. User interface, now made with WPF, allows you to easiliy customize the animations. With complete redesign of pixel shader, I managed to improved graphics performance by 50%.

19.12.2009

Gazer is my latest project. This desktop application is unorthodox image viewer, which allows you to display your favorite images with many different effects enabled and even create animations with them. You can download and try demo version.

12.12.2009

Platonic Solids

Last month I was working on polyhedron folding and unfolding algorithm. In the meantime I also made a simple desktop application, that lets you explore basic platonic solids. This is the first time I have managed to embedded XNA into a desktop application.

15.11.2009

I recently finished fog shader and added procedural clouds to the environment, which look and behave almost as the real clouds. I also remade some parts of the old content and managed to reduce the performance to almost 20 frames per second.

11.10.2009

I've been working on the new terrain engine for last thirty days and I finally managed to achive a decent performance. The terrain looks very realistic and consumes relatively small amount of computer memory, considering how huge terrain in the game is.

19.09.2009

The new - improved version of RGB is now available to play. Playfield has been enlarged to 480x480, computer AI has been improved and gameplay is now much more smooth. Game is also available on various flash game portals, like Kongregate, SmileyGamer...

18.08.2009

Development of the game is complete and game is ready for beta testing. Now I have to compose a song or two and embed them into the game. You are invited to try the demo and if you experience any problems while playing the game, please e-mail me

05.08.2009

It has been eighteen months since I started this project and now it is perfect time to release the demo version. The tutorial and training mission should keep you busy for at least an hour. Download the installation package and enjoy the game.

11.07.2009

Inspired by success of my first Flex game Fitter (more than 5000 plays in the first week), I started development of new one - the puzzle game called RGB, which will also be developed in Flex and published on the many flash game web portals, when finished.

01.06.2009

The game is finished and all bugs are, hopefully, eliminated. Eighteen different puzzles and three levels of difficulty should keep you busy for a long time. The game is already available on various flash game portals: Kongregate, Newsground, SmileyGamer...

09.05.2009

Lately I'va been working on the training mission, check the newest screenshot from the game. I've also made some improvements in the game engine and the enemy AI. BTW, development of the Fitter is very close to an end, final version will be available soon.

26.04.2009

Recently I discovered Flex SDK from Adobe Inc. and soon become familiar with it. I never made any game with flash, because it did not like it, but Flex is quite the opposite. I've already started my first Flex project: puzzle game named Fitter.

17.03.2009

At the moment I'm reading great book about shaders: The complete HLSL reference. Of course, all shaders in the game have been improved. I've also made a huge changes in the gameplay and improved various development and testing procedures.

20.02.2009

I plan to continue development of the Rebellion in this year, although two very positive reviews of Shockball made me thinking about making a sequel. Because of complete redesign of the game engine, demo release date has been postponed.

18.01.2009

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