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In <C1Iow4.Fz4@math.uwaterloo.ca> mwtilden@math.uwaterloo.ca writes:

> 
> I've always wanted to get the old arcade game TEMPEST for my ST.  It 
> was an old vector-monitor game popular in the 80s where you went 
> through a variety of shapes blowing away baddies that came up at you.  
> Very stylish.  You can still see them around some of the arcades.  Don't 
> know if the atari can handle the speed or not but it's be great to 
> see.  Could be handled entirely by the mouse.  Something I'd definitely 
> pay shareware costs for, maybe others would too.
> 
> Is all.
> 
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I wrote an Amiga version of it for the June 1992 issue of Compute! 
(AmigaResource)

If you can program in assembly, it should be easy to move it over to the
Atari.

It doesn't use any Amiga specific libraries and the only thing you would have
to do is make atari display 3 384*384 bitplanes (can be converted to 640*400
by changing 2 constants), rewrite the code that uses the blitter to
draw lines, rewrite the lines that start the sound playbacks, remove
the code for the title/demo screen since it uses the copper to display more
than 8 colors, replace any entry and exit codes, and the lines that
read the mouse port.

Unfortunetly, the only Ataries I see are on TV (Some "business school"
shows some lady learning wordprocessing on a ST) so I can't do it myself.

p.s.  The code belongs to Compute!, you should get their permission before
changing it.

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