DolphinDOS was like one of the very first on-board kernals to speed up loading times. Alongside JiffyDOS. We are talking 40 years ago here when they came out. You may be able to get them online to insert into VICE and test that way too.
Got quite a way through, how many levels in total are there? (without repeatedly hitting F5 to find out!). May end up review wise in Zzap!64 issue 32, we have an awful lot of games competing in the aftermath of Impossible Mission 3 heh
It works fine with Vice and Denise because that’s how we reviewed it for Zzap. I’m not sure any of us have TheC64 etc to try it. If we do find issues we do report them to the devs.
Oak Island is better than the first Deathflood, but still horrendously frustrating at times heh. There will be a review of it AND Sherwood in the next issue of Zzap!64
Level 13 had me going "huh?!" until I accidentally discovered there's a move you can perform that isn't listed in the manual. It's definitely the hardest of the series so far. But not unbeatable ;)
I wrote the intro so apologies for the mistakes. Given some other games in the last five years or so have taken to giving infinite levels on the easiest setting, and the lives counter wasn’t going down, I assumed the same here for this game. And weirdly I couldn’t trigger the srtifacts on the easiest setting but I did on the middle setting, leading me to believe otherwise. It seemed logically that other games also stop you getting the best ending on the easiest setting.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I got at far as level eight. Yes the waterfall level is quite tricky to figure out heh, but that’s part of the fun!
Having played through a few times for the Zzap!64 review, the bow is definitely the better weapon than the sword. Furthest reached level 15 with the bow and died mostly due to bad spawns.
Rechecked with 1.0.3, still happens, but it's a factor of the fishing screen not the navigation map area. I had 20 bait, fished once and then it says 19 with a space and a blank in the divider. Ditto as soon as I caught over 9 fish.
Intertesting game. We may cover this in the next issue of Zzap!64 magazine. Bug report - if any of your resources or the number of fish caught go into two digits, the border graphic to the right of it vanishes as a space.
