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Posted by , 07 January 2006 · 26 views

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Ok, that's the name of the game I am trying to develop now. :)It still a very long way to go. Attached you find a first (still slightly buggy) demo, which shows the kernel and the horizontal scrolling over one deck ("Repairs").Next planned steps are debugging and improving the kernel (especially getting rid of the annoying stripes in space) and allow vertical scrolling too (this one is going to become pretty tricky). Since I am pretty busy with my daily job again, progress might become very slow.

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Wow, Manuel was right - that certainly does put my efforts into perspective :| This will be awesome if you manage to pull it off.

Chris
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Looks very nice! Paradroid was probably my favorite game on the C64, out of thousands played.

At first I thought you were trying to implement this on the standard 2600 :| , until I saw the supercharger load screen. :|

It might still be possible without the supercharger, if you made the game like the Amiga version. That version only scrolled vertically. But the supercharger is probably the way to go, given the complexity of the game.
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TROGDOR, on Sat Jan 7, 2006 7:00 AM, said:

It might still be possible without the supercharger, if you made the game like the Amiga version.  That version only scrolled vertically.  But the supercharger is probably the way to go, given the complexity of the game.

Yeah, and given a certain contest that is currently running :|

-JD

PS- never played the old game, but this demo looks good.
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MayDay, on Sat Jan 7, 2006 8:27 AM, said:

PS-  never played the old game, but this demo looks good.

Me neither, but Thomas' demo look great. Especially if you look at the screenshots of the original. This looks to be quite an ambitious game!
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