D-Bug News Page

02/07/2008

We've been a while, but here is Epic (ST/STe/MSTe/TT/F030/HD) Some notes for this for Falcon users - the game will randomly lock up if you use the mouse or the joystick, so please use the keyboard. Sorry for this, but after many hours in the code, I decided to boot it out the door 'as is' and maybe return to it later. All other Atari owners, just play as usual with your input device of choice. (CJ recommends a PeST with a Microsoft Optical Mouse)

P.S. After 2 years of meddling and over 15mb of data in the Epic folder, seems I uploaded the wrong version of the loader. Here's the correct one, sorry - CJ

23/03/2008

Toi Acid un-earthed and released. Who says we always do the hard ones?! As a bonus you get a funky new Dubmood track in the intro tho :)

Shw

16/03/2008

I've added all the brilliant fixes done by Klapauzius to the Patch page :)

Shw

11/03/2008

Shw said 'oh hell, the competition released some hot gemdos french stuff....' and none of us cared, so we dug this out that we did over 4 months ago. Enjoy

D-Bug

28/02/2008

Dubmood on M6

Dubmood featured on French TV channel M6. Not that very creative since the idea of the reportage was that all of the audience of M6 should understand what its about. And then cut down to 1minute. But hey it's the mainstream media! (that explains the super mario tune they forced me to put there). Still fun! “avec ton propre sound tu est unique!” hell yeah! I bet gwEm is glad maxymizer passed on TV too. Primetime and all that. hop hop! click click

Shw

26/02/2008

D-Bug - Automation Website v2.0

January / February 2008, a quiet month for D-Bug, release wise that is. We say release wise as we've been beavering away in the background giving the web-site a much needed overhaul. To be honest the site has not changed much since conception in April 1999. The site is now totally database driven, this allows easy updating of D-Bug / Automation news, dynamic web pages and a much needed search feature. This is only the start, expect more new features over the coming months. Automation anyone?

D-Bug

01/12/2007

D-Bug

30/10/2007

The releases keep on coming. Shw had a spare 10 minutes so decided to mega-train the PD game "Spherical". Of course the game is now Falcon and TT compatible and can run at 16mhz. The intro features our current views on Atari-Legend and more (long scroller!). Grab it here.

D-Bug

29/10/2007

... and just a few minutes after that release: To support STOT, and because Rodlands totally ROCKS, here is a re-release of D-Bug 18 (Now fixed for Falcons, Megas and HDs). Please note its 2mb. Copy the menu to your hard disks for ever faster loader fun!

26/10/2007

Automation are back! Total Anarchy: Protection so nice, nobody else filed it... Now Vapour's amazing crack of this title is revisited for HD and F030 by The Law.

Shw

05/10/2007

To support STOT project GGN has patched up the old classic, Rainbow Islands, for your enjoyment. So Enjoy!

GGN

03/09/2007

Melcus has once again excelled himself. This time with a fully filed / hd installable / mega-trained and Falcon fixed version of Ninja Warriors. The game was originally on Automation 319, cracked by Hot-Knife. The game features a dynamic loading which is very hard to file, but with the help of Ray's LZ77 packer Melcus succeeded.

Shw

22/08/2007

The Automation/D-Bug/BBC DVD is nearing completion. However, there are a few old BBC menus we still require :) So if you have any of these menus please get in touch :- 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 24 & 31. Thanks!

Shw

21/08/2007

It is with considerable regret that we have to make the following announcement.

As some of you may, or may not, know, the Moderators of Atari-Forum have banned our entire group and have also been editing posts from people who have posted about this. We have apparently been banned for suggesting that some of their recent releases have games which are "not very good". Now, people regularly point out that our current and past releases are "not very good" (as is their right) but we never, ever, see any moderator action against these posts. How is it ok to slag us without reprimand, but when we fight back we get shit? Moderators should moderate, not dictate.

Recently we've been having tongue in cheek old-school flame-parties with our good buddies the Pompey Pirates. I'm sure Juggler didn't take any offence with our banter and neither did we with his comments. Even the co-founder of Automation stated that the 'English humour' was often mis-understood. However this was the other main contributing factor in us been banned.

With this in mind, please read the following link for more information. The hypocritical nature of the bannings, and the editing of posts by other users has driven us to make this public instead of settling it in a quiet discreet way like we originally intended.

AF/AL: As per your last email. Can you please carry out our requests.

D-Bug

20/08/2007

Another rare occurence. Automation menu 308 is re-released with a fully working version of Tower of Babel. Grab it here.

Shw

04/08/2007

D-Bug menu 188 has finally being released for a third time! The reason for the re-issue is that Tito gave us a 100% working copy of Journey to the Centre of the Earth. As an added bonus Shw has made the game compatible with the Falcon and TT.

Shw

03/07/2007

You were expecting a fixpack maybe? Well, we have it right here. Read the announcement too…

GGN

31/05/2007

End of month.... So that means we have to spoil you again, right? We suppose we can't deny a game junkie his/her dose, so go and get it!

GGN

15/05/2007

D-Bug unleashes onto the internet: Menu 197! While a version was released at Outline 2007 to the assembled folks, this is the final build of the menu, complete and ready to be written to floppies everywhere. What’s on it? Well, it’s a long time favourite and classic game, that surprisingly was never put on a menu (obviously because it doesn’t fit on one disk without missing bits out.... *cough* no names *cough*)

Yes, it’s Gauntlet II! And as usual, you will find it ST/STe/MegaST/MegaSTE/Falcon Hard Disk compatible/8-16Mhz and also this time, trained with extra health for those of you not brave enough to fight the dragon!

This disk also features two new and exclusive tunes composed for us by new D-Bugger, Dubmood. Expect a lot more fantastic YM noises from us in future releases.

D-Bug wishes everyone who attended Outline 07, and everyone who couldn’t make it, a very Merry May. Welcome Red Wizard! CJ/SHW/GGN/ECG/DUBMOOD.

29/04/2007

Here we are with 2 sizzling news items for you all. First of all, will you give a warm welcome to our new member, Dubmood! After lots and lots of exclusive tracks he offered to D-BUG, he finally agreed to join our posse! Secondly, since it's the end of the month, we have another fixpack for you all. So, see you all at Outline 07, and don't forget to bring your joysticks with you!

GGN

10/04/2007

250,000 visitors! Shw started the D-Bug site way back in 1998, since then we've managed to reinvigorate the interest of old legends and seek out new fresh members! Still going strong, here's to 500,000 hits.

Shw

31/03/2007

Minutes before the month ends, we bring you the March fixpack containing some sizzling games!

GGN

27/02/2007

What?!! A New interview in the Automation section?! Come on Dack, spill the beans.

Shw

25/02/2007

We might be spoiling you, but in any case, here's the February's fix pack. Download, enjoy, and discuss!

GGN

23/02/2007

D-Bug would like to announce the release of their brand new forum.

Many thanks to Silver Surfer and Brume for allowing us to lurk on their hosted forum for many years. However we think the time is now right to go it alone, ploughing a long lonely furrow in the ever diminishing scene world of the Atari ST.
We don't see our forum as a rival to the DHS forum, AF or AtariAge. It's simply a platform to talk all things D-Bug and Automation.

We’ll try to be nice, if that’s at all possible. Ask us anything to do with D-Bug or Automation and we’ll endeavour to help you out.

Automation / D-Bug active still since 1988

P.S. note that we have a RSS feed running as well, can't say we try to keep with the times ;)

GGN

04/02/2007

Well, we messed up in the fixpack, but we're not afraid to admit it. So, here's a fixed version of Ghosts'n'Goblins (doesn't crash when you get a hiscore at game over anymore)

GGN

28/01/2007

It's the end of the month... Fixpack time!!! What's that? Well, click here to find out…

GGN

18/01/2007

The oldest, most active, consistently friendly Atari ST crew return in 2007 with a brand new server and domain name. Twenty years..... still going strong. Also, along with the server came new e-mail addresses. You can now contact us here for anything general. Or you can contact each one of us personally: Showaddwaddy, Cyrano Jones and GGN (remove the obvious spam traps in caps).

24/12/2006

T'Was the night before Christmas, When all through the house
Not a disk drive was purring, and no atari mouse.
The sceners were older, hung out with no hair
In hope that ST D-Bug could be bothered to care.

The files were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of the 80s danced in their heads.
And CJ and Shw and GGN from the hall
said have another gift, Merry Xmas one and all.

D-Bug proudly present menu 196 a/b.

GGN

23/12/2006

You see the down arrow key on your keyboard? Keep pressing it until you get to the bottom of our news page, there you will see an entry from 1st April 2001! mentioning our 'long awaited' Auotmation/ D-Bug CD, well if it was long awaited in 2001 what is it now?!! Anyway Shw has been beavering away behind the scenes along with some of Santa's little helpers. The up shot of this all is the CD is nearly done... however, believe it or not! there are still some menus missing!!! The menus we require are all V1 menus, in other words menus which have subsequently been re-released due to one or another factor (STe fix etc). So if you have any of the following Automation menus please get in touch!!

134 with auto\Menu prg size NOT 14,018
135 with auto\Menu prg size NOT 22,734 or 50,191
141 with auto\Menu prg size NOT 19,156
267 with auto\Menu prg size NOT 5,856
509 with auto\Menu prg size NOT 6,912 (original released by Voodoo)
510 with auto\Menu prg size NOT 21,070 (original released by Voodoo)

D-Bug

22/12/2006

Falcon / (m)ST(e) area updated with Confusion (Falcon Only).

GGN

27/11/2006

We recently found out that D-Bug 87 (Captain Planet) had not been imaged correctly, resulting in the game failing to load. Quite how this has slipped under the radar for so many years is a mystery. Anyway, w've re-msa'd it. So check out the download page.

Shw

31/10/2006

Hey.. it's Halloween... Well, we had the final 5 menus all tapped out ready to roll us up to 200. Then something special happened. Encounter! A game so good we changed our menu plans to bring it to you. As you've come to expect, its 16mhz accelerated as well as fixed for hard disk installs making it resemble the Atari 8-bit version even more! So hop on over to the download page, and grab possibly the best ST release in over 15 years. We even took the opportunity to boost it for Falcons and MSTEs. Also filling the disk are Indigo and Znax!

GGN

14/10/2006

We've decided to create a new Falcon / mSTe download page. So now you've got an easy one stop shop for all your download needs.

Shw

27/07/2006

Automation 500a .... Does it really only exist in the disk boxes of Vapour, The Law, and Grazey? Who knows.

Shw

17/07/2006

We've been gone a while, but now we're back. The disk images speak for themselves. D-Bug, 2006 - Rocking Your World. Blood Money and Arctic Moves featured here are only a taste of what's to come in the future from D-BUG. Our goal is to cater for all ST users, which is why we've raised the bar again and added support for the Falcon 030 and Mega STe. We said it a few disks back... Nobody does it better. Click the LINK to download.

D-Bug

05/06/2006

Arrived back from the Ouitline party in the Netherlands. We met some great guys.... big hi's to Havoc, Paranoid, gwEm, 505, Cyclone, Lotek, Earx and the rest of the crazy people.

D-Bug

03/06/2006

After a long day of blood, sweat and tears (not neccesarily in that order), we are more than proud to present you Menu #192c and d. Melcus really excelled himself this time: Not only did he agree to join D-BUG, but he also brought some goodies with him. So we are really proud to present you Dragon Flight English. Oh, and just because we had some spare room left on (d), we thought we'd throw in Saint Dragon SE! Again by Melcus, count the extra features: Falcon fixed, hard drive installable, Ramdisked, Trained!!! GGN. Oh and from now on all our menus are Falcon compatible.

Shw

23/05/2006

Two thirds of D-Bug will be attending the Outline party in Zevenaar (NL) from 2nd to 5th of June. So say hi if you see either Showaddywaddy or GGN. Oh an we're still proud of Blasteroids.

Shw

23/03/2006

D-Bug are really proud of our 17 year OLD crack of Blasteroids (Cracked by Ozzwald). Our version is trained (press * on the numeric keypad on the crack screen), our version is also the only one which lets you save hi-scores., oh... and the only version which is hard-drive installable (under TOS 1.00 and TOS 1.62). Finally it's the smallest version too(although, if required we could repack it just to make it smaller again), LSD packer rules!

D-Bug,Automation way ahead in the 80's!

Shw

09/03/2006

What do you call 5 Mega-Demos all at once? A Multi-Ultra-Mega-Demo-Bonanza, that's what! D-Bug present to you, 5 fully cracked and HD installable Mega-Demos from Ye Olde Age of Classic Style screens, All ready to rock and roll straight from the folder of your choice, brought to you by CJ.
Mindbomb Demo by The Lost Boys,
Cuddly Demos by The Carebears,
Syntax Terror by Delta Force,
Dark Side of the Spoon by Unlimited Matricks,
Decade Demo by Inner Circle.

Presented to you on D-Bug 193 a,b,c,d & e! Cyrano Jones. Note: The only issue with these menus is that Dark Side of the Spoon's overscan doesn't work with MegaSTE's, but the original was like this as well :)

06/02/2006

The onsluaught continues. We're very proud to present the first ever crack of Dragon Flight. Way back in more active times most of the top crackers had this game, but none of them succeeded in cracking it.....until now that is. Melcus has certainly excelled himself with a cracked, packed, ram-disked, HD installable and not to mention Falcon fix for this cool RPG. Also on the disk is Paradize's addictive puzzle game Pooz (note: this is the new fixed version), plus there's Cyclone's Pooz save game editor and Grazey's SNDH-Ed 1.10 Can it get any better? Download all these goodies on D-Bug 192 a/b.

Shw

01/02/2006

I feel a Carly Simon song coming on. Menu 191 is in the wild. Quite posibly our best compact disk ever! Lethal Xcess (4mb HD) and Monster Business (2mb ULS HD) versions, all on a single disk. Don't forget to snag a copy of Automation 504 for the Monster Business files required by the ULS installer. The custom menu was coded by CXT (of LXS fame!) and all the ripped music on the menu was provided by our good friend Grazey. The loader code for LXS was written by CJ, as was the MB ULS installer.... Sometimes I wish someone would

29/01/2006

It's Sunday, so another D-Bug menu ? Not quite. Here we bring you another fixed Automation menu. This time Automation 157 v3! Yes, not even a v2. The history of this menu is as follows.....157 was originally released with Strider and Tanglewood (both cracks by Vapour) , then it was re-issued (v2) with the menu fixed for the STe shifter. Now we bring you v3, it's been re-re-released :) because Tanglewood crashed when you tried to make one of your robots dive in the lake. Thanks to our good friend Grazey for providing the original. Also thanks to Karadoc for spotting the original bug and for play testing the game.There's also now room for another exclusive release on this disk, notably Monolator, a Monochrome Emulator coded by Cyrano Jones (this was coded along time ago but never released). To use the emulator simply put it in the auto-folder. Grab the disk here.

Shw

22/01/2006

"Full Steam Ahead Captain". Menu 190 a/b hits the streets. This menu is a little experiment, with the game Cannon Fodder a 4mb only game. 4mb only ? What the f***! We've thought long and hard, but making the game 4mb allows the game to be HD Installable and has no loading (After the initial load). Our version of Cannon Fodder is the only version to feature :- Full Game (intro not cut off) , Hard-Drive installable, and the ability to save games. (Superior, strange to remove this rather important feature from your version!). Thanks to the following people who helped with this menu - Slasher Bog of SFX (who supplied the original of Cannon Fodder back in 1993!) , Activ8 for play testing and finally to Dubmood who provided two excellent exclusive tracks which are used on the menus of 190 a/b. Feedback with regards the four-megging of this game would be appreciated. On 190 (b) you'll find the official D-Bug CD list 1-190.

Shw

08/01/2006

Happy New Year. The menus keep on coming. First a quite rare game - Orbiter by Spectrum Holobyte, rare in the fact that I'd never seen a crack of this ancient game. However, I understand good old New Mode/Delta Force (in his shadier days!) cracked it, but I've never seen the disk. So here it is, cracked by our occasional collaborator GGN/KÜA (yeah .. he coded the fab menu on 178!). Other goodies include a nice Horizontal arcade game - "Well 'ard" (now fully unlocked thanks to the author), "The Adventures of Alice who went through the Looking Glass and came back, though not much changed", keen fans would have seen that on 188 v1 ;) and another text adventure "In the Year 2093". Grab menu 189 here.

Shw

24/12/2005

No!! Not red noses but red faces! I omitted a number of files on menu 188. This means the second level of Journey to the Centre of the Eath was completely corrupted. Anyway I've fixed it now, but the downside is that Alice no longer fits on the disk, it will therefore appear on the next menu. The good news is that I've included a little cheat which allows you to skip the puzzle screen and go straight to the arcade adventure. Thanks for GGN for spotting the bugs and for Activ8 for the original play testing.

Shw

02/12/2005

D-Bug present menu 188. Containing Journey to the Centre of the Earth (another rare Spanish title), TLB's Life's a Bitch demo (now hard disk installable) and an ancient text adventure called "The Adventures of Alice who went through the Looking Glass and came back, though not much changed" phew long title! Grab it here.

Shw

07/11/2005

Another week, another menu. D-Bug 187 contains :- Swiv (Hard drive installable) by our new friends and affiliates ECG (East Cracking Group) plus a nice little intro with zak by gwEm. Mega Phoenix, a rare Spanish shoot em up filed by Showaddywaddy. The menu also contains a really nice intro by Andy The Arfling / BBC featuring a superb 3 bit plane bit bending scroller! (the first on the ST ?) The screen was part of the un-released BBC megademo. Enjoy the disk.

Shw

03/11/2005

Thanks to those nice guys at atarizone.com we now have all menus back online.

Shw

31/10/2005

Seems like an eternity... 364 days to be exact. But finally D-Bug makes a new release. A departure from the normal menus in that there are no hacked games on the disk! That's because we're very proud to introduce D-Bug U.L.S. (Universal Loading System). Yes 6 months in the making and going some way to explain D-Bug's hibernation. In a nut shell ULS allows you to run practically any D-Bug / Automation / BBC game crack on your hard drive. So you benefit from faster loading, hi-scores saved to your hard disk and for MegaSTe owners, the ability to play many games in 16mhz and therefore super speed (try Harlequin for example!). On menu 186 we bring you HD installers for :-

Leaving Teramis (Automation 262)
Harlequin (D-Bug 39)
James Pond 2 - Codename Robocod (D-Bug 15a)
Moonshine Racers (BBC 47 a/b)
Resolution 101 (Automation 293)
Robocop 2 (BBC 32)
Speedball 2 (BBC 36)
Streetfighter 2 (D-Bug 100 a/b/c/d/e)
The Untouchables (Automation 223)
Wizkid (D-Bug 80)

Of course even D-Bug can't fit 11 games on one disk. That's why we've included an installer program (with new gfx/sound by C-Rem and gwEm respectively), the installer will copy all the files from the original menu onto your hard-drive and install the new loader. Full source code and ULS documentation is included on the disk. Expect more ULS titles soon... and if you're nice we might even take requests.

11/10/2005

U.L.S. coming soon...............

Shw

01/11/2004

Aah the long dark nights.... lets get cracking N packing...... 185 released.

Shw

16/08/2004

Yeah, we're still alive, surviving the wet Summer. No new menus yet, although some are in the pipeline (albeit from Siberia). Anyway to keep you all happy Cyrano Jones has released all the source code to the Apathetic Games, check out the extras section.

Shw

25/05/2004

The links to all our menus are finally restored, thanks Darren. Remember to click on the second disk icon. Oh and CJ has released all his menu source into the public domain... so click on the new 'Extras' section!

Shw

16/05/2004

An Automation founder... from the dawn of ST Compact Disks gives us his thoughts on those golden years... yes a new interview is online from Ozzwald / LSD / Automation. You know where to go.

Shw

27/04/2004

CD 184 a/b is released. Again a previously un-cracked game is fodder for Shw. Note it is possible to download this CD from the site, but the others are still down. This is my last menu for quite a while....... see you soon.

Shw

18/04/2004

The FTP site is currently down, however it should be restored by the 1st of May,

Shw

18/03/2004

Cyrano Jones makes a re-appearance with a cool new menu featuring a 24bit picture zoomer! Apart from that nothing really special on here. Realms of Reality is a Dungeon Master clone (I've now fixed it for TOS 2.06) and Osmosis is a nice puzzle game in the mould of Match It. This game now saves high scores to a file in Drive A. Oh....and look out for a new interview very soon. Get 183 here.

Shw

25/02/2004

Ok, not something that happens that often. In fact the last Automation v2 must date back to the early 90's. Well quite an historic event then, strange times indeed... Medway cracks, Automation menu's , next I'll be asking you all to contact me at the Stretford sorting office. CD 155 v2 contains Bangkok Nights (crack/pack by Ozzwald) and Phantasie III (crack by rb, pack by Ozzwald). Yeah Phantasie III was never cracked 100%, read more info in the menu scroller. Grab it here.

Shw

10/02/2004

We're back with a new menu D-Bug 182. Two games from 1986!! BUT both never cracked before. Firstly Universe II from Omnitrend Software cracked by me. Secondly something really special.. the game Breakers, special in that it sees the re-emergence of one of the ST's most famous crackers - Zippy of The Medway Boys, aka The Mighty Clog aka Absu aka The Milky Bar Kid of Cynix. His first ST crack in over 12 years! He might do the odd guest crack in the future... but no promises. Grab it here.

Shw

28/01/2004

Another double release... with 180 and 181. Special thanks to Evil from DHS for coding a nice menu on 180 and C-Rem for his endless supply of quality GFX.

Shw

15/01/2004

9 month gap ... but finally we churn out another menu. Hopefully releases will become more frequent now. Highlights from this menu is a cracked version of Realm of the Trolls, a previously uncracked game! Oh and a big thank you to our 'little helpers' - C-Rem and Hari Seldon. Get menu 179 here.

Shw

02/10/2003

Menus 84 and 141 were imaged incorrectly causing menu 84 not to boot at all and 3rd Reich to fail on menu 141 A. Anyway I've re-imaged them from my original disks so work 100% now.

Shw

19/08/2003

Ok, still no new menus. None since April, yikes! Fear not some are still in the pipeline but I'm concentrating all my efforts on releasing some music hack disks. In the mean time another Automation member - Stainless Steel Rat aka Igniter spills the beans in the interview section.

Shw

24/07/2003

It came to our attention that two games were not 100% cracked, namely Grandad 2 (Menu 161) and The Glass Buttock of Tharg (Menu 151 C), both featured a protection matrix which didn't appear until well into the games. Anyway enough waffling, a kind chap named rb has made 100% versions, hence a re-release of the related menus, cheers rb.

Shw

17/06/2003

Another ex Automation member surfaces and divulges more thoughts from ST scene history, see the interview section.

Shw

27/04/2003

D-Bug 178 released, special thanks to Hari Seldon for coding the magnificent menu!.

Shw

02/04/2003

D-Bug #21 has been re-released! Warzone didn't work due a bug in Hot-Knife's depacker. Anyway now it's fixed. Thanks to Russ Hayward & Kimmo Hakala for spotting this. NOTE: Warzone requires 1mb.

Shw

23/03/2003

The FTP should be back up now. Cheers to Darren Birks for sorting it out.

Shw

16/03/2003

Check out the interviews page were we chat with Andy The Arfling from the BBC (Bad Brew Crew) ex Automation. I'm in the process of revamping the whole site and this will involve the addition of Automation's history and interviews. Thanks Andy for the speedy completion! Enjoy.

Shw

28/02/2003

Whooa! A new forum , to discuss all things D-Bug. See the new link on the menu! Thanks to Brume & Silver Surfer for this.

Shw

17/02/2003

Not one, not two, but three D-Bug menus at once... No congestion charges here!!! Menus 176, 177 a/b are released. I've also added another download link for menus 171-177 (the yellow disk), thanks to Brume for the web space.

Shw

01/02/2003

175 is released. Note, "download1" is down at the moment so always use "download2" - the pink disk.

Shw

26/10/2002

A couple of news items. Firstly the link to menu 164 has been removed for the time being. We've had an email from the person who still holds the copyright and more importantly is still selling it! As soon as the game becomes PD or Shareware we'll re-instate the link. Secondly we've got a number of games in German, most have never made it onto CD's, we need help translating them into English, so if you're up for it email D-Bug!

Shw

21/10/2002

What's going on ?!!! Two news items in a day , who wet the bed !!! The production line rolls on... 174 is out!

Shw

20/10/2002

Ooooops! Lamers oh yes we are. Chaos didn't run on 1 meg machines. All fixed now :)

Shw

19/10/2002

Yes we do believe in miracles, a second menu within a week! This time a collaboration between D-Bug and our good friend Mug UK, who finally gets to write scroller! This is the first menu to feature a fab new intro by DHS (thanks Evil!) go here!.

Shw

13/10/2002

Another menu hits the streets. Yep 172 is out.

Shw

02/09/2002

Another shock... the first new menu since 1994 has been compiled!! D-Bug 171 is available for download now.

Shw

30/08/2002

Shock!... Horror!.... menus 1-170 are all back online!!! thanks to Darren Birks for the web-space !!! Two ftp sites are now available. So click on the Blue disk for Mirror 1 or the Red disk for Mirror 2. The FTP is limited to 5 simultaneous connections so please be patient if you can't connect straight away.

Shw

03/08/2002

At last an update! Not a major one though :( Just to tell you that menus 158-170 are back on line thanks to Brume at http://pacigame.atari.org, cheers mate.

Shw

04/02/2002

The file server is currently down. This is totally beyond our control so please no more emails saying "i can't download such and such a game". We'll update you when the server is back up.

Shw

23/12/2001

Season Greetings to all our followers. Just couple of small updates. Firstly the search screen finally works! Secondly we've included some ascii lists of all D-Bug menus, plus as a bonus a list of games appearing on Automation and Pompey menus (go to the FAQ page). Look out for new menus appearing in early January.

Shw

19/11/2001

Well the updates are coming thick and fast!! Finally some *new* menus, the first in over 7 years! Admittedly D-Bug 166 won't set your world on fire but look out for games that never made it in to the Automation/D-Bug series. The highlight for these menus must be Hot-Knife's dongle'less crack of Dynablasters. More menus shortly.

Shw

14/11/2001

Another new design! Plus the FAQ is now online. Shw.

Shw

05/11/2001

Finally after what seems an age our menus are back online. Once again thanks to Richard Davey from LGD for providing the web space. Many many people write in asking about menus 158-165 and why they're not available for download. Well the reason is that around menu 157 Hot-Knife and Showaddywaddy lost touch and during this time both members were releasing menus themselves. Different numbered menus contained the same game, basically it was a right mess! Anyway I'm in the process of renumbering the offending menus. Hopefully menu 158 should be released early next week. Watch this space!! We have also re-designed the site, hope you like it! STOP PRESS: Menus 158-165 are back online.

Shw

01/04/2001

We are currently hacking and packing some new games for inclusion on our long awaited official Automation / D-Bug CD. We are in desparate need for PD / Shareware games to act as 'disk fillers'. Can you help out ? If so mail the usual address.

Shw