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According to this thread and this picture. The logo from atari as well as the internet adress is inside the latest beta of lite-c. So whats the deal? Sold conitec something to atari? Did Atari sponsor lite-c? I dont know. Maybe the whole thing is just a hoax, but if not this could be very good news! Tell me if you can confirm this picture please, i cant download it at the moment.

Update: Doug posted this official link more will be available there soon!

According to this (german) Amazon Link A7 will be available at the end of may, on the 31.May 2007 - at least the extra version for a price of 15,95 € .

From Conitec there is no official statement on the release date, so you have to take the date from Amazon with caution. I also think, that the price is pretty low for my mind. The only thing you can take for granted is that the release is probably not far away anymore - as the prerelease version for users who bought A6 recently is already available, without the Tools WED and MED.

Right, a prerelease of A7 has been released by Conitec. You can download it if you ordered or upgraded your 3DGS Version in the last 2 month..

It contains the new ABT Engine as well as Lite-C and is compatible to A6.50. The whole thing is probably thaught as pretest at your own risk. Have fun testing things out, i would bet now its not long till the official Release of A7 is announced…

There are a lot of new things at the Conitec 3DGS Homepage. New pictures where added to the Screenshot Gallery such as Stromberg a new techdemo and Kabus 22.

In addition Lite C seems to have reached a final status? This is what you can see at the english site. At the german the link still contains the word beta. For those of you unfamiliar with litec here a short quote:

The purpose of this lightweight language is the quick and easy creation of multimedia or graphics applications, or 2D and 3D computer games. It’s syntax is similar to C. So the source code of a lite-C program can theoretically also be compiled with any other C/C++ compiler. However, due to its native support of multimedia objects like sounds, images, movies, GUI panels, game levels, 2D and 3D models you can achieve results with a few lines in lite-C that would require hundreds of source code lines with other C/C++ compilers.

But lets come back to Kabus22. Today was the very first day, that i heard something from this project. It seems to be some kind of horror game for matures. A Video can be found at the Conitec Downloadsite.
All in all it looks pretty good! The best is that it has athmosphear and the style seems to be perfect for that setting. If i would have seen the shots and video anywhere else i wouldnt have guessed that it has been made with A7. Only few teams have done that bevore… But be warned under the video is stated “Warning: this game is not for the faint at heart!”

Maybe all these new content is a sign that the A7 release is not so far away anymore…? Who knows.