Your welcome - I remember some of the games particularly. 25 fps scrolling - lots of sprites, colour etc. Impossiball was tougher when I tried it on an emulator a few years ago. Both good games. Once I realised to make the anti-grav. and sideways control power ups permanent I got a lot of fun out of playing Wizball, even though I never completed it.
Your welcome - I remember some of the games particularly. 25 fps scrolling - lots of sprites, colour etc. Impossiball was tougher when I tried it on an emulator a few years ago. Both good games. Once I realised to make the anti-grav. and sideways control power ups permanent I got a lot of fun out of playing Wizball, even though I never completed it.
Ive completed it! =D is hooking as heroine.. And not so ruthless as the C64 original.. which I find it extremely hard.
the quality of the scrolling and speed is capital to the success of this conversion.
Nice graphics too, although it took the "power ups" to get into it, it was kind enough to give a free run at collecting them before the action got going.
Astroclone I liked best of those three Steve Turner, adventure-movies. Its strange in the earlier days I thought the speccy had magical powers. Ok not quite, but I had high expectations from marketing blurb. Not programmers fault, but its amazing what a twelve year old kid thinks a humble speccy can do :-)
Dragontorc and Avalon definitely were quality games, I replayed one or other some time ago on this site I think, and remember thinking how they were like an "adventure movie" after all, if I had not set my expectations so high. They were top notch games, if one liked the themes and puzzle solving - I didn't expect to have to solve puzzles while I was being chased though! :-D
I have only seen the Dragontorc screen in this thread, as I have not been on the site a lot for a while. Astroclone had a loading screen (with a slight 2001 feel, it seemed to me) unlike the two earlier fantasy adventure games. These games had quite a bit of code (programming) packed in.
Hi everyone. These are the new versions of "Dragontorc": http://www.sendspace.com/file/uzug7w (tap) and http://www.sendspace.com/file/g9nhph (tzx).
Both seem to work in my emulator, but I do not really understand what needs to be done in these games, so cannot check these versions thoroughly.
Just tell me if something seems amiss.
Sendspace links don't work anymore... Is it possible to get again these files, as well as "Avalon" ones?
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Ive completed it! =D is hooking as heroine.. And not so ruthless as the C64 original.. which I find it extremely hard.
the quality of the scrolling and speed is capital to the success of this conversion.
Astroclone I liked best of those three Steve Turner, adventure-movies. Its strange in the earlier days I thought the speccy had magical powers. Ok not quite, but I had high expectations from marketing blurb. Not programmers fault, but its amazing what a twelve year old kid thinks a humble speccy can do :-)
Dragontorc and Avalon definitely were quality games, I replayed one or other some time ago on this site I think, and remember thinking how they were like an "adventure movie" after all, if I had not set my expectations so high. They were top notch games, if one liked the themes and puzzle solving - I didn't expect to have to solve puzzles while I was being chased though! :-D
I have only seen the Dragontorc screen in this thread, as I have not been on the site a lot for a while. Astroclone had a loading screen (with a slight 2001 feel, it seemed to me) unlike the two earlier fantasy adventure games. These games had quite a bit of code (programming) packed in.
Sendspace links don't work anymore... Is it possible to get again these files, as well as "Avalon" ones?