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From: "Peter Armstrong" <hanno@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: New Demo
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:33:25 +0100
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Trashman

I played this a lot on the Speccy, I couldn't remember the name till I saw
it on your site. I had a play on an emulator earlier today, took me three
attempts to complete the first level. :-/

I look for to trying your version,

Peter

"Nigel Critten" <Nigel@gameware.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9k1508$4cc4@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> Thanks Matt,
>
> I thought it was about time I brought back the dying art of Scrolly
messages
> in games, its got a really stupid reason for being in there, I've always
> wanted a bouncing scrolly since I saw Auf Wiedersehen Monty on the C64,
but
> could never find the spare CPU power to do one, or the brain power :)
>
> The game is actually going to be based on Trashman from the Spectrum, not
> that you would know it from the graphics, the tiles are from an Amiga game
I
> was working on that got cancelled, the logo is again from the Amiga when I
> was working in AMOS/68000 and the font is the same font I use for
> everything.
>
> I've now added a couple of extras to the pause mode and you can change
move
> the display around the TV because on mine it has a black border down the
> left side, I want to save the info to the mem card but the docs say this
is
> a no no...
>
> Leave it running and it freezes after a while, must sort that out.
>
> The scrolling routines in the game itself is a cross between the Trashman
> flip screen and the smooth scrolling method which I thought worked quite
> well.
>
> It should play very much like the Spectrum version but I do want to add
some
> extra bits.
>
> Nigel
>
>