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Article #697737Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:20
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:20
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:07:21 -0400, Mike S. <Mik...@nowhere.com> wrote: >On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:29:33 -0400, Tim O <n...@thanks.com> wrote: > >>This is for the C64, but how I remember the Atari computer version. >>Movement was excrucuating. Actual gameplay starts just past the 2:00 >>mark. >>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihneu571t0k&t > >That does look slow and that is not the version of the game I played. >Here is the one I played when I was a kid. Go to about the 4:50 minute >mark to see the character moving. I am not sure if it is faster. --> > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02VHNTARjWI That screen is from a remake. The original Atari 8-bit version was a port (from Apple and TRS80 I think) that came out about 4-5 years prior, and not a particularly exciting one. I had it on cassette tape rather than cartridge, I think it might have come on both. Loading a game from cassette is an experience anyone who takes disk drives for granted should have! I think it took like 10-15 minutes just to load the game into memory. The Atari 8 bit version was written in interpreted BASIC and you could break execution and list the source code. I think I spent more time surfing the source code than I did in the actual game. I think all the subsequent Apshai games were ported to more suitable compiled languages.
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