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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Jan 30, 2005 14:08:39 GMT -5
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Post by Ivar on Feb 12, 2005 17:15:43 GMT -5
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 12, 2005 17:27:48 GMT -5
That's my older namesake.
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 13, 2005 0:38:41 GMT -5
The only thing I did on the Amstrad CPC was the loading screen for 'Magmax' which, looking at it now, isn't too bad for my first foray into colour graphics.
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Post by Ivar on Feb 13, 2005 6:00:57 GMT -5
Mag Max received a Mastergame from Amstrad Action  tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/filedetail.php?recid=546So who did most on the CPC of the inhouse people? Was it quick and dirty Spectrum-ports most of the times? Many believes that softwarehouses spent months on the Spectrum-games and ported to the CPC in day(s).. But there were some good ones too - the ones I liked are Hunchback, Donkey Kong, Gilligans Gold, Mag Max, Renegade, Gryzor, Green Beret, Arkanoid 1 and 2 and probably others I forgot to mention.. Who around at the forum knows about what happened with the Amstrad GX4000/plus games? Robocop 2, Pang and Navy Seals was good and I assume Toki would have been too if it had been finished. I think Toki was beeing devoped by Ocean France. |
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 13, 2005 9:50:26 GMT -5
IIRC the Spectrum and Amstrad versions of 'magmax' were done out of house. The C64 was produced in house by Paul Hughes and Simon Butler. I did the loading screens on the Spectrum and Amstrad versions and had to redesign the graphics of the main character in the Spectrum version becsause the ones done out of house were so poor.
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Post by Paulie on Feb 13, 2005 10:58:31 GMT -5
A lot of the CPC conversions tended to be farmed out - and to be honest it really showed.
All the decent stuff came from in house - John Brandwood, James Higgins and Jon O'Brien on coding, and Jones Senior, Ivan Horn, Martin Macdonald on art.
Again, I must apologise for Mag Max 64. Everyone has to have a turd in their catalogue and MM was a big long rancid coil.
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 13, 2005 13:26:21 GMT -5
Have you seen 'Wizball' on the Amstrad? Ick!
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Post by Paulie on Feb 13, 2005 13:42:45 GMT -5
No...but, I got myself a 33,000 spectrum game DVD t'other day and cranked up Wizball on the spectrum...
Blimey o'reilly - I remember it being bad, but not quite that bad (nowt wrong with the graphics of course ;D )
Hell's teeth - old catweasel excelled himself!
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Post by LeeT on Feb 13, 2005 13:48:53 GMT -5
33,000 Speccy games? - I take it there must be multiple versions of the same games. I got the World Of Spectrum archive a couple of years ago, and I'm sure there wasn't even 20,000 games on that.
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Post by Paulie on Feb 13, 2005 14:02:10 GMT -5
Yeah there's dupes (there's about 8 different data formats) - but there's definitely more than the WOS archive (only because they have removed some images at the behest of the publishers - Ultimate being one of them)
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