Atari ST - Melbourne House - 1989
Aaargh!
1 / 13- Genre
- Adventure / Arcade - 2-D
- Year
- 1989
- Language
- Machine Language
- Publisher
- Melbourne House
- Controls
- Joystick
- Distributor
- -
- Players
- 1 / 1 vs. 2 / Demo
- Developer
- Binary Design
- Resolution
- Low
- Licensed from
- Arcadia Systems
- Programmer(s)
- Leitch, Dave
- Country
- Graphic Artist(s)
- Speakman, Nick
- Software
- English
- Game design
- Sculptured Software
- Box/Instructions
- —
- Musician(s)
- Vincent, Nick
- License
- Commercial
- Sound FX
- [unknown]
- Serial
- —
- Cover Artist(s)
- —
- ST Type
- ST, STe / 0.5MB
- MIDI
- —
- Version
- —
- Dump
- Download
- Number of Disks
- 2 / Single Sided
- Dump format
- Pasti
- Protection
- —
OTHER VERSIONS WITH THE SAME TITLE (1)
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Distributed in Italy by Leader.
See P. Putnik's site for adapted versions for hardware like HxC Floppy Emulator, Atari harddisk, TT, Falcon030 and more: The Atari ST Game Archive
See Klaz' Hideaway for another adaption for Atari hard disk, TT, Falcon and more: Spiced up games
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Disk 1
INSTRUCTIONS (18)
TRIVIA (5)
Origins
Game based on Arcadia System 1987 coin-op.
Development
Piece of source code found from the disk
string2,a0 OK message
jsr printf
rts
failme move.l #string3,a0 FAIL message
jsr printf
rts
printf move.l a0,-(a7) write string pointed to by
move.w #9,-(a7) address reg A0
trap #1 to the screen
addq.l #6,a7 string must be terminated
rts with a zero
wait move.w #1,-(a7) wait for console input
trap #1
addq.l #2,a7
rts
;
DATA
jsr printf
rts
failme move.l #string3,a0 FAIL message
jsr printf
rts
printf move.l a0,-(a7) write string pointed to by
move.w #9,-(a7) address reg A0
trap #1 to the screen
addq.l #6,a7 string must be terminated
rts with a zero
wait move.w #1,-(a7) wait for console input
trap #1
addq.l #2,a7
rts
;
DATA
buffer ds.b 12000
;
END
;
END
Sound
Features digitized title soundtrack at 9.6KHz
Features digitized sound fx at 4.8KHz
Features digitized sound fx at 4.8KHz
Original graphics by Joe Hutchens.
Releases
First 8-bit releases reviewed in UK multiformat magazines for ZX Spectrum (9/1989), Commodore 64 (9/1989)
First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Amiga (6/1988), Atari ST (9/1989)
First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Amiga (6/1988), Atari ST (9/1989)
According to ACE 08/1988 there was no originally plans to convert this game for the Atari ST.
BOOK / MAGAZINE REVIEWS (2)
The Games Machine · October, 1989Rating: 77%
Computer + Video Games (C+VG) · September, 1989Rating: 71%