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On 18 Jun 2002 23:19:56 +0200, David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de> wrote:

>"gaffo" <gaffo@usenet.net> writes:
>
>> "David Kastrup" <David.Kastrup@t-online.de> wrote in message
>> news:x5ptyoy413.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz...
>> > real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rowland McDonnell) writes:
>> 
>> > Later I programmed a graphics arcade game with graphics (Tutanchamun).
>> 
>> 
>> Hi David, Could you list the games you wrote and the platforms they ran on.
>> I'm a big "retro" arcade fan, and have collected 1000's of Roms from Dave's
>> Classic Gamiing and other similar sites. Even form Apple's FTP - (now gone,
>> but two years ago they had 1000's of old Apple-2 games.
>
>Well, Tutanchamun was ported and marketed on Sharp MZ-800 as well
>(but since I did not do the port and have not owned such a beast, I
>don't have the code for this available).  Apart from that, everything
>I wrote ran on a Nasom ][.  Apart from the Tutanchamun (that used the
>384x256x3 AVC graphics card), everything else ran on the 48x16 ASCII
>display.  There were of course a bunch of various Basic games, the
>infamous car race, various system software and various odds and
>ends.  There was also various software not written by myself.  Most
>of it, if at all, is on MC tapes.
>
>> Apple-2 games are still the funest. exp. Alien Rain and Rescue on Fractilus
>> ;-)
>
>Rescue on Fractalus is an original Lucasfilm Games on Atari 800, and
>it is written to use its video hardware.  Absolutely addictive is
>"Ball Blazer", another Lucasfilm on Atari 800.  Most emulators will
>probably have performance problems: this one utilized Atari hardware
>absolutely to its max...  I know that it was impossible not to torture
>the joystick until it almost broke and your hands hurt, even though
>ratio told you the joystick was digital, just on and off.

Ballblaster.o yeah, 3d graphics at its finest.