Gems
1 / 4- Genre
- Arcade - Boulder Dash
- Year
- —
- Language
- [unknown]
- Publisher
- [no publisher]
- Controls
- Joystick
- Distributor
- -
- Players
- 1
- Developer
- [n/a]
- Resolution
- Low
- Licensed from
- -
- Programmer(s)
- Brownlow, Martin
- Country
- Graphic Artist(s)
- Brownlow, Martin
- Software
- English
- Game design
- Brownlow, Martin / Hunt, Simon
- Box/Instructions
- English
- Musician(s)
- Brownlow, Martin
- License
- PD / Freeware / Shareware
- Sound FX
- Brownlow, Martin
- Serial
- —
- Cover Artist(s)
- —
- ST Type
- ST, STe / 0.5MB
- MIDI
- —
- Version
- —
- Dump
- Download
- Number of Disks
- 1 / Single Sided
- Dump format
- MSA
- Protection
- —
INSTRUCTIONS
This program has been released into the public domain by Martin Brownlow. You are free to distribute this program so long as all the files listed below are kept with it, and no charge is made other than a small fee to cover costs (max 3 UK pounds). GEMS.PRG GEMS.DOC WARNING: Do not run this program on a machine running faster than 8Mhz. The screen update routine used was written for speed, and any machine going too fast would make the screen update faster than 50Hz and therefore render the game unplayable. GEMS by Martin Brownlow Introduction GEMS is an unauthorised conversion of Diamonds, a game for the atari 8-bit, which was written by Simon Hunt. The aim of the game is to clear each screen of all the gems it contains, while avoiding the bad guys. When you collect a cluster of gems, the number of gems is added to the HOLD value at the top of the screen, and also to your score. If you go to the top of the screen holding some gems then the screen will flash and you will get double points for those gems. There are 3 bad guys per screen; BRIAN the BLOB and THE DEMON are always present, and the remaining is one of PHILP the FILLER, THE FIREFLIES, THE EYES or SIMON the SNAKE. You must complete each screen 4 times, once with each bad guy, to progress to the next. CONTROLS left move left right move right up climb up down climb down
TRIVIA (1)
Conversion - Atari 8-bit
ST version is an unofficial conversion.