Space Fortress - unexpanded VIC, converted to disk
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 1:33 pm
I had a bunch of Romik games BITD, but never this one.
Most Romik games were for the unexpanded VIC, and were pretty simplistic, with blocky character-cell graphics, and this one looks to be no exception. Of their library only Moons of Jupiter seems to have any wow factor, but I still like Space Attack and Martian Raider which were two of my very first purchases back in 1982 or 1983.
I was surprised by how well protected this game was, with a number of tricks used to thwart would-be pirates.
Still, here it is, converted to disk including the somewhat impressive intro. I replaced the original waits in the loader so you just need to press any key to move on. Waiting for 20 seconds for the next screen of instructions was cumbersome. If you want to skip the intro entirely just load the BOOTLOADER program and run that directly.
Graham
Most Romik games were for the unexpanded VIC, and were pretty simplistic, with blocky character-cell graphics, and this one looks to be no exception. Of their library only Moons of Jupiter seems to have any wow factor, but I still like Space Attack and Martian Raider which were two of my very first purchases back in 1982 or 1983.
I was surprised by how well protected this game was, with a number of tricks used to thwart would-be pirates.
Still, here it is, converted to disk including the somewhat impressive intro. I replaced the original waits in the loader so you just need to press any key to move on. Waiting for 20 seconds for the next screen of instructions was cumbersome. If you want to skip the intro entirely just load the BOOTLOADER program and run that directly.
Graham