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SCALLYWAG PRESENTS BATTLEMENTS: TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HUNCHBACK.
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Hello and welcome to Battlements, an awesomely brilliant example of
average gameplay and shit graphics. This game was written in AMOS (more of
which later.) I certainly hope that you will enjoy this game and it's one of
them free PD jobs because no-one would ever pay for it, mister. Battlements
is the product of three weeks of intensive programming and debugging, and it
has been play-tested by everybody from Queen Elizabeth II to Hitler and the
lead singer of Depeche Mode. It is obviously based on Hunchback, that old
Commodore 64 and Spectrum game that became a hit way back when bread was
only 3 and 6, a pint of lager was a shilling, and Adam and the Ants were
screaming up the charts with a pseudo-indian war anthem. I liked them you
know; all that war-paint and fancy clothes. It takes me back to my own
childhood when I used to dress up in my sisters clothes and leap off of high
buildings. Well enough of that, here's a list of the problems I had with the
brilliant AMOS language:-
* You can only use the collision detection commands in low-res mode.
* I could'nt get the sprites the right colour and they kept flickering
off all the time, despite the 600,000 combinations of programming
techniques I used. I did everything in bobs in the end. Lots easier.
* The strange use of the 'If' command in AMAL. It is, as I see it, only
used to jump to different labels, and not to conduct arguments.
* The fill patterns seem to have strange effects on the colours used.
* When I came in from the Horseshoe at 11.30, pissed out of my brains, I
perchanced to slip on the glossy AMOS disk and crushed my alarm clock.
* I could only save one Noisetracker module per bank. (NT 1.2)
* There were lots of other minor gripes but as the lager sets in I've
forgotten them.
Now don't get me wrong, AMOS is without a doubt the best high-level
programming language to ever grace a computer, I reckon, and all the
above problems could no doubt be sorted by some top bloke who's not thick.
It's just me, I suppose.
Anyway, many millions of Quasimodo fans may well be wondering what's
happened to the loverly ropes which featured in the original Hunchback. Well
I could'nt be bothered to do them and put in some easier-to-program extra's
to compensate. There you go. Honesty is just one of my many failures but I
don't suppose anybody will mind. I tell you, I was amazingly bad at maths at
school and still have little clue how to program smooth circular movement
patterns. But perhaps one day I may well learn what 'Cos' and 'Tan' mean and
on that happy day I shall jump for joy and kiss my neighbour and gabble on
insessently about toasters, carrots, and lions. Toaster. Carrot. Lion. See?
This game is an indirect tribute to all those programmers who made
Turrican and Turrican II, the best games in existence. These games are so
wholly playable and 'fair' that the first time I saw them I forgot to eat,
work and sleep. And I can do 'em. Oh yes. Don't talk to Shaun.E.Boy about
monsters on level 68 made up of decapitated hands and eye-balls. He knows
them all. On T2, there's a short-cut on the first purple level which skips
out loads of shite, including the dragon. Yeah. Other games to start me
quivering include James Pond II, Mario 3 on the NES and anything where you
shoot things, like LLamatron.
I reckon PD is one of the best ideas in the world, and the amount of good
games, utilities and music disks just start me quivering even more. The
amount of rave disks coming out now which contain music equalling and
sometimes surpassing the stuff in the charts is commendable. It's cheap,
sexy and if you play it through your LOUD hi-fi, will actually shake a pint
glass off of a nearby worktop and make it smash on the floor! Oh yes.
Anybody who finishes Battlements may well notice the ending- it's crap.
Sorry 'bout that but I was getting a bit bored with programming it by that
time and it was nearly opening time.
Those of you who have actually read this shite and feel compelled to
write may reach me at this address:-
Shaun Holley
106 Wellingborough Road
Earls Barton
Northants
NN6 OJS
That's all folks, and remember, Quasimodo IS a nice man...