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As my PC PSU's has all but died, I've fished out one of my spare old PCs, which just has on-board graphics and isn't up to much. It runs this emulator at less than 10fps so I guess I won't be improving on my score any further.

It must be ancient if it cant cope with this - i've been playing c64 emulators at around full speed since i've had an early pentium (I ran arcade games full speed on a 486 with the thing before SPARCADE - and Speccy stuff since the amiga days)

Try going full screen or stopping other things from running



I'll ping him , you can ignore it for now and i'll manually tally them up at the end of today

Ah, a graphics driver update helped.. getting 50fps now.
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I've played this before. In fact, it's one of my favourite Amiga games! On the Amiga, I know it as Bally 3 by Oliver Wagner. (On an Amiga Action 32 in one PD compilation disk.) Bally 3 is a hell of a lot easier because it's easily half as fast. And the inside dots didn't scream when they entered the initial margin.

I wanted to play it on the real C64, but I don't have the tape, I couldn't get it working with the magic tape, couldn't copy the magic tape to real-tape and I haven't yet got Craig's cable to work with any of my computers.

There's some serious weapons-grade flukey bullshit going on in Zolyx. Getting hit while in the blue by outside dots. Inside dots hitting the tail of the line. What are the chances of all that? I want to take whoever thought up inside dots and feed them ball bearings.

I never liked that you die by attempting to retreat over your own line. In Volfied you can do it, but in Qix you can't.

I demand this score is disqualified on the basis the poster once bought ('Michael Jackson' - Ed).

The image i included is the disk one - i've attached the tape here in case you'd like to try it on the real machine again

This is a '.tap' so when you actually load it up it takes as long as the tape would take (unless you use warp speed) so probably your best bet to get it onto your magic tape I would think

It had a demo of Putty Squad! And the astonishingly abysmal Vital Light!

Thanks, Zaphod, but I think that's the one I tried already. I've got Zolyx in lots of file formats but I think the tape motor stops when the Searching prompt comes up and the magic tape can't detect that to stop the playback. I need to find myself a good cassette recorder in order to make a proper tape copy.

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Well on one go on level 1 i managed to fluke this



and since it was only level 1 i split it in 1/2 quite easily then used up the rest of my lives trying to get it smaller (and failing)

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Most of my games end in the 70's but every so often things go my way and i get that 1 screen further which gets me to the 90's , and on this one i got one further but only <108611>



Not above MrD but a fraction(*) above Chinny :-)

(*)166 points but how many goes will it take you to get that

It's them bloody inside dots. Gotta draw your first line sharpish otherwise they'll getcha. Even if they don't getcha, you're always one BELELELELELELELELE from being splattered.

TENSE.

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I'm probably going to have one more go at this, if I get the chance this evening

Malc

Gah, just got over 100,000 but not enough yet to get into contention...

Finally got that cable to work! Woo! I just got 100799 and that was using a knackered joystick. I guess I cannot rest until I have defeated the NEFARIOUS RUBEN though.

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Actually did that last night and wasn't going to bother posting it as it was such a small increase but suddenly it bests Zaphod so thought it wise!

Even saw the lights of the goodyear blimp and it said Ian Fairies is a pimp!

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New tactic: Don't take any risks. Ever. Gradually eat up the space as getting a big chunk doesn't seem to net you anymore points than snipping away. Feckin dots in the blue space though!

Damn , I played for ages until i hit over the 100 again but short of what i needed

Then a better one , but not good enough yet - and with 40 minutes left i probably wont beat this

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I cannot improve on what I've done

Malc

I just matched my earlier score but am now out of time.

Congrats to Mr Fairies , and from basic simplicity on both sound and graphics we move to the arcade conversion of Ghosts'n'Goblins which for the time had some impressive graphics and some amazing tunes

A quick go and by **** the jumping and collision detection in the ice caves is a joke , going my arcade route the final moving platform either isnt there , or when i jump on it i fall right through - i'll do a route map at some point tomorrow night but here is a score to start with

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Didn't we play this before?

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I think we played it on the cpc before?

seems different this time (a biut harder?)

Malc

No, we played the C64 version. I complained the game was shit then and just having played it again it's still shit now.

Your right - we played it as part of one of the first 8 bit challenges (we've also played the arcade one as part of a MAME challenge)

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Sorry we have a repeat in here :-(

I wasn't part of that tournament so I'm ok with a repeat.

Ooh, I won that round!

go me!

Can I use that score again?

Malc

Ooh, I won that round!

go me!

Can I use that score again?

Malc

No , not even if you ask again :-)

Fecking hell! The difficulty just ramped up significantly didn't it. I couldn't get off the first level! Cheating bastard game keeps raising zombo's directly underneath me with a split second to move.

I can't see me repeating any beginner success from round 1.

I got 6400 but forgot to get a picture 'cause I was so disgusted how hard it was. I remember having it for the C64 an' all but don't think I ever made it past the second level...

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That dragon thing is fucking hard, I've not been able to kill it without having the armour, and I always lose it.

Malc

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Scores at the end of Thursday :

Ghosts n Goblins
Malc: 34,900
zaphod79: 20,500

I've been playing this for what feels like days straight.

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You people used to play games like this for FUN?!

Yip , and we bought it on cassette , and waited for it to load up every time - its an arcade game , and its in your house , and you dont need to put 10p's in every few minutes - it truly was the future ! (back in 1986)

WHY DOES IT ALWAYS GIVE ME THE FUCKING TORCH!

*ahem*

Anyway, I'm happy with this score and I managed to get to level 5 which I've never seen before.

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Cause it likes to mess with your head - in all the games i've played I've had the knife *once* and i got it as I died on my last life so didnt even get the chance to use it.

Bloody hell, the C64 version is brutal.. I can't do it at all.

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I've been playing this on and off today and have now done the dragon twice , the first time it killed me with its final shot (so annoying - the key drops but i'm dead) to give me this score



However later I did it again and then found thats the end of the game !



It does loop back round to the start so ended up with

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Can't see me playing this any more today.

Yeah, I hope these games get a bit easier after this. The entrance level for the C64 challenge seems sky high! Hell, even Chinny appears to have given up already!

And this was after me rejecting some for them being too hard (Kikstart , last V8 etc)

Next weeks IK+ should be a bit easier for the pick up and play , and then Boulder Dash

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Bloody hell that's very hard!

And on to IK+



You can view the controls here

http://www.h2nob.de/games/atari/st/ikplus/

Just remember for all these recent fighting games you've a joystick and normally a number of buttons to use , IK+ uses a single 8 way joystick and one button so every direction is one thing , and holding fire + that direction is another move

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First go on a keyboard (played this on the amiga and psone in the past)



Malc

I might give this a go if I feel up to it. I have it on a floppy disk to play on the real thing with a Competition Pro joystick.

I used to play the Amiga version, though. Without spoiling too much, I'll just say there is a fun little surprise for anyone who can get far enough into the game... If I'm still good enough (or someone else is) it will automatically be revealed during the week, I suppose.

The surprises I remember are mainly from the Amiga but are :