The Fun! Factory @ http://games.hplx.net/

 

 

What's New: Complete listing (since 31/10/1999)

26/08/01
New game available for download:
New Galactic Battle competition top score! Congratulations to Sean Foger!
 
25/6/00
New game added to the Game Boy emulator list of tested games:
  • Pokemon Red
 
15/6/00
As you probably know by now, Thaddeus have (for the time being at least) cancelled the backlighting project. To add insult to injury, there's still no news on the status of the Morphy One project - if anyone does know anything, please let me know.
New game added to the Game Boy emulator list of tested games:
  • Dragonballz
 
6/6/00
Unfortunately, I've had to remove Bluebush Chess from the downloads section as the copy was found to have been cracked. If anyone knows of a legal copy of the game or its true status, please let me know.
 
22/05/00
New game available for download:
 
20/05/00
New Galactic Battle competition top score! Congratulations to J. P. Grenert!

Promptly followed by another one!

 
15/05/00
New Tetris competition top score! Congratulations to J. P. Grenert!
 
13/05/00
New games added to the Game Boy emulator list of tested games:
  • Bart vs. The Juggernauts
  • Pokémon
02/05/00
Game information updated (and also added to the downloads page):
Game information updated:
Don't forget to keep checking hplx.net for their exciting mystery news, which might actually appear sometime this year... or next!
 
30/04/00
Game information updated:
Don't forget to keep checking hplx.net for their exciting mystery news, which might actually appear sometime this year... possibly! Maybe...!
 
26/04/00
Apologies for the lack of recent updates; my excuses are firstly that there just isn't anything to report on (no new high scores have been submitted either) and secondly that I have a very busy schedule (i.e. exams, unfortunately!) to concentrate on.
Don't forget to keep checking hplx.net for their exciting mystery news, which might actually appear sometime this year... possibly!
 
28/03/00
Morphy One page updated:
Don't forget to keep checking hplx.net for their soon-to-be-announced exciting mystery news!
 
24/03/00
New games information added (thanks to Mark Johnson):
Don't forget to keep checking hplx.net for their soon-to-be-announced exciting mystery news!
 
23/03/00
New Tetlix competition top score! Congratulations to Lars Hedstroem
New Snake competition top score! Congratulations to Martin Bergvill!
Good news for all LX fans: the S.U.P.E.R. site appears to be back up and running now. Check out the latest additions for two new games (both System Manager compliant):
  • 5x5Poker
  • Lines
Unfortunately, the NO$GMB homepage seems to have closed down. As a result (and seeing as the program is freeware), I've added the NO$GMB emulator to the downloads page.
 
22/03/00
New Tetlix competition top score! Congratulations to Lars Hedstroem
New Tetlix competition high score entry - Lars Hedstroem
New Snake competition top score! Congratulations to Lars Hedstroem
New Snake competition high score entry - Martin Bergvill
 
05/03/00
New Tetris competition high score entry - Lars Hedstroem
 
03/03/00
New Tetris competition high score entry - Lars Hedstroem
 
02/03/00
Game Boy Fun! Feature updated:
  • There is now a list of games which have been tested using the Game Boy emulator on the LX - at the moment, however, it's a little on the small side! If you know of any others, please let me know so that I can add them to the list.
01/03/00
New Fun! Feature added:
  • Game Boy - A Game Boy emulator that works on the LX? Yes, it exists!
New link added to the LX-related page:
New Tetlix competition top score! Congratulations to Lars Hedstroem
New Snake competition top score! Congratulations to Lars Hedstroem
New Tetris competition high score entry - Lars Hedstroem
29/02/00
New Tetlix competition high score entry - Lars Hedstroem
New Snake competition high score entry - Lars Hedstroem
 
28/02/00
Good news for LX all users! It was recently announced on the HPLX Mailing List that The Palmtop Network (http://www.palmtop.net) is moving to a new, faster server! Hopefully, updates should restart fairly soon.
On the home front, I've recently used an HTML compression tool on all the pages on the site, which should mean slightly faster loading times. If you do notice any problems, please let me know.
 
27/02/00
New Tetlix competition high score entry - Lars Hedstroem
New Snake competition high score entry - Lars Hedstroem
New link added to the LX-related page:
Corrections made to the Games Downloads page:
 
22/02/00
New Tetlix competition high score entry - Nino
 
20/02/00
New Tetlix competition high score entry - Lars Hedstroem
 
19/02/00
Competition page updated:
  • Competition high score entries now indicate the dates on which the scores were added.
New Galactic Battle competition leader! Congratulations to Questor Jones!
New Tetris competition high score entry - Questor Jones
 
18/02/00
New Snake competition high score entry - J. P. Grenert
New Tetlix competition high score entry - Nino
New Tetris competition top score! Congratulations to J. P. Grenert!
 
16/02/00
New competition launched:
  • To complement the new Snake competition, you can now submit your scores for Tetris, another game from the unmissable Curtis Cameron collection. As with Tetlix, the game is a clone of the Russian action/strategy classic, the major differences being that Tetris' graphics are far superior and the games tend to last a little longer. (Due to its graphical requirements, Tetris will not run on a 95 LX).
New Snake competition top score! Congratulations to Questor Jones!
 
15/02/00
New competition launched:
  • Now you can submit high scores for Snake, an excellent version of the eat-'em-up classic (as featured on the latest mobile phones!) written specifically for the LX by Curtis Cameron. You can find the game, along with many other fine offerings, at Curtis Cameron's Palmtop Games page.
New Tetlix competition high score entry - Nino
New Snake competition high score entry - Alan
New Snake competition leader! Congratulations to Questor Jones!
 
13/02/00
Morphy One page updated with the latest news:
  • The original estimated release date for the Morphy One in Japan was February 2000. It has become clear, however, that the project is currently running a little behind schedule. I recently mailed their English-speaking contact, Akinobu, who said that although the prototype should be available soon, the real thing will be later because of a lack of parts. He also told me that, as of yet, no overseas company had contacted them about constructing/selling the Morphy One.

    You can read the actual mail (a 2 Kb plain text file) here.

New Tetlix competition leader! Congratulations to Matt!
 
08/02/00
Fun! Games update:

Unfortunately, due to a rather hectic schedule, I have been unable to finish work on the space strategy game for the LX, Star Commander. I have therefore made the source code available so that if any talented (or otherwise!) programmers out there would like to have a go at finishing the game, they can. It should be noted that the code, as it stands, is far from perfect - in fact, a drunk, blindfolded rhinoceros would seem graceful in comparison... Nevertheless, the code is available to download - feel free to have a look, re-write the game from scratch, steal some ideas, etc.

Download: source.zip (48 Kb)

 
30/01/00
New Fun! Feature added:
  • Competitions page, giving you the chance of glory! If you fancy your skills at Galactic Battle (a variant of Space Invaders) or Tetlix (a variant of Tetris), then visit this page!
Corrected HPLX Mailing List link on Morphy One page
 
28/01/00
New games information added:
 
19/01/00
Translation service added (courtesy of AltaVista's Babel Fish).
 
17/01/00
New games information added:
 
13/01/00
Games Info & Reviews pages re-organised for faster loading times and easier navigation
New links added:
Readme.1st updated
Morphy One feature updated
 
01/01/00
New games information added:
 
31/12/99
New games information added: (Thanks to Luigi for the following)
Game information updated:
New link added to the Other Links page:
New site search engine added (see menubar on left-hand side)
New Fun! Features section created, including the original Morphy One feature as well as the new Readme.1st page
 
27/12/99
New downloads available from the Games Downloads page:

New games information added:

New links added to Other Links page:
 
24/12/99
New site design. Please let me know what you think!
New game available to download: LX Cribbage 1.2
General overhaul of many pages
Links pages re-organised and updated
 
15/12/99
New feedback form added to the Feedback page.
New form for submitting game information added to the Submit page.
New links added to the Other links page.
Rollover effect added to site links.
 
09/12/99
New links added to the Other links page.
 
08/12/99
LX Cribbage added to Games downloads.
 
04/12/99
Morphy One feature updated.
 
14/11/99
Morphy One feature added.
New links added to the Other links page.
 
08/11/99
Books page added.
 
04/11/99
Minor fixes to in-site links.
Rick Rutt's Palmtop Cafe added to LX-related links.

Game information added: Infocom

 
31/10/99
Major site overhaul.

Game information added:

 

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