Their cover game! I'm a mere subscriber. They should have packed and sent the copies around today, and once all the subscribers have got their mags, they will set a number of copies to be sold worldwide for non-subscribers too.
I would see it on a Plus/4, in which the usage of softsprites would eventually steal a big splice of the character set involved, but on the other side, it could result to be faster than the C64 counterpart...
Oh no no, I didn't intend to say that one logo is better than the other, love'em all. I only noticed this choice and commented it. Anyway, of course the Plus/4 have MC text mode ($FF07, bit4), as you can see in the majority of the games demos and so on, and it works exactly like on C64.
Congrats again. What intrigues me the most, is the choice of different graphic style for the title logo, along the three versions which potentially can produce almost the same charset graphics.
Il tuo storico compilatore in libreria dinamica ha funzionato davvero bene. Peccato non ci sia più spazio per la versione Plus/4, ma tant'è: è un'ottima trasposizione, ben fatto.
Copycatting here my comment already written somewhere.
If I would have got THIS game instead of THAT game, you should have to take me away WITH A BULLDOZER!
Paying with a solid color clash, and a sometimes wobbly scrolling – maybe in order to move all those softsprites – you've been able to put in all the features and the maps, incredible! Because of the former description, the game doesn't have an easy reading of the screen, but the action is super frantic and there's so much to do! Love it!
The author has erroneously saved his game without clearing the readdressing of the BASIC due to bitmap usage, occurring in the memory localisation at $4001 instead of $1001. This doesn't allow to load the game on a C16, unless one casts the specific DLOAD command.
Keep up the work, but avoid the mediocre VICE emulation. Use YAPE or plus4emu. Anyway, it the very first Plus/4 World's entry for the glorious Menedék Programozó Klub! ;)
That's weird, it should regularly work on any device, check your boot loading syntax ;) We don't support VICE as strongly as by writing docs for it, due the facts that at the moment VICE doesn't ensure a reliable emulation of the 264 series' C= machines.
Pretty nice! This is the game I would rather see running on Commodore Plus/4:
faster bitmap rendering overall;
you've already accepted some eventual colour clashes in order to use more colors for the 3D items, so a bitmap format with 2 fixed + 2 selectable colors wouldn't change that so much;
one hw sprite only, easily portable to something XORred via software.
I would pay for a Plus/4 version of this. Keep up the great work!
