AMAZE
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Angus Muir. 1988.
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Just an old game I wrote way back years ago.
Find your way out of the 3D maze using the mouse.
Control panel looks like this...
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* MOVE FORWARD *
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* TURN LEFT * * TURN RIGHT *
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* TRANSPORT (IF POSSIBLE) *
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Sorry about the title screen music, I know that it's bloody awful!!!
But as you'll see from Counter atak, I hate using the internal sound
chip for music and F/X.
Amaze was written back in the days when sound samples were luxury
items only found in commerical games. Again Sorry about the sound!!!
THE GROAN SECTION.
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I've been an Atari ST owner since August 1987, in all that time I've
only once seen the ST market in the mess it's in now, and that was
when I first bought my Atari.
The reasons I bought my ST was that, at the time it was the BIG thing,
the Amiga had just made an appearance into the ring but cost œ399 or
more, whereas the ST cost me œ279 and had a head start over the Amiga.
Games on the Amiga were just straight port-overs from ST games and the
Amiga ones usually cost a fiver more. Atari were reported to care
about the users of their machines and Commodore didn't. Having had a
Commodore 64, I agreed with the press. BUT I DON'T NOW!!!
DUNGEON MASTER, I was totally hooked on this game for about six months
--------------- or more. No Amiga owner had it and every Amiga owner
wanted it. When it did make it onto the Amiga it was
so funny to see the faces of Amiga owners change, they now had the
game everyone wanted, the fun really came when they heard they needed
1 meg of memory to run the same game ST owners were running in half
meg machines. I laughed and laughed... until Eye of the Beholder came
out on the Amiga only... sob... sob... sob... What a brill game, the
worm had turned, Amiga only games were coming out. Maybe the
programmers were Amiga owners who wanted Dungeon Master. I also own a
LYNX, Eye of the Beholder should have come out on it, but I've not
seen it yet!!!
Getting hold of new ST games from shops is a nightmare, just like it
was in 1987. One glimmer of hope is a new system out in the shops now,
EDOS (Software On Demand), a system of displaying games on all formats
with just one box per game. Each box has details of which computer the
game is for, if you want the game, take the box to the counter and you
can have it copied there and then, on demand. Shops who support this
system have plenty of ST,Spectrum,C64,PC,Amstrad,Amiga(who hasn't ?)
games in stock, plus a few for the MSX and MAC computers too. Now that
is a good idea, all they need now is some new games!!!
I love my ST, I'm not scared to tell people of the fact...
I L O V E M Y A T A R I S T F M 1 M E G .
Seven years of trouble free computing I've have out of it.
MEGADRIVE, what a load of CRAP!!! I own one, two years I've have it
and one year I've been trying to sell the bloody thing, if I sell it
for any less I may aswel give it away. The games cost a bomb and keep
my interest for about 6 days if I'm lucky. This is why I no longer buy
games for it. Sonic 1, had it, sold it, Sonic 2, had it, almost the
same as Sonic 1, sold it, Sonic 3, seen it, don't want it, it's the
same as 1 and 2, CRAP!!!
Jaguar, love to have one but the games cost the same as megadrive and
SNES games... TOO MUCH!!!
Buy PD, get a game cheap, play the game and enjoy it without thinking
about the amount it has cost you. Play it twice and blank the disk if
you like, it didn't cost you much anyway.
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Anyone out there reading this into MOUNTAIN BIKING ?
If not, why not ?
It's great!!!
Get a mountain bike and enjoy getting fit, unless you come off like I
do, Quite a lot!!!
Yes, two months my knee has been hurting, I'm now sat here waiting for
Quantum Leap to start at 9pm, having not been on my bike for 3 weeks,
due to the fact I have to rest my knee from any strain cycling would
put on it, after this week I'm allowed out again.
Anyone into bikes maybe interested in the bikes I have...
GT Pysclone, custom built bike, it has all the stuff on it and weights
in at 23lbs 1ozs, including suspension forks (Pace Rc 35s) and
computer etc.
I'm a proper Mountain Biker, none of this SPD stuff, toe straps and
clips for me lad. Try and get out of SPd's on the kind of terrain we
ride and get a broken leg mate!!! Only the roughest stuff for us.
About a month back on a downhill laiden with rocks from 1 inch to
about 50 inchs I reach a speed of 37.2 mph !!!
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE... Surport the ST as much as you can, or the
market WILL die once and for all...
If you have read all of this doc file, Thank You...
Angus Muir.
165 Didsbury Road,
Stockport,
Cheshire. SK4 2AE.
England.
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P.S.
Counter Atak II Four Ways Attack, is on it's way....
It's has lots of digi graphics (Thanks POWER SCANNER) and digi Music,
it's for the 1mb STE only.
I don't know when it will be finished, because I'm very busy indeed!!!
Updated Doc file for FLOPPYSHOP. April 6 1995.