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Crystal X Software If you take a look at page 56, you'll find a storming review of the excellent Stellar Outpost, a game from Angela Swinbourne of Crystal X Software. This is a home brewery that, for the year or so that it's been around, has specialised in strategy games. Anyway, we thought we'd have a flick through Crystal X's catalogue. PZP Intergalactic tug-of-war, anyone? This is a great game in which the screen is split into two halves. You sit in a ship at the bottom of your half of the screen, while your opponent (human, computer, dog, Martian, Malaysian Spider Plant or anyone else you can convince) sits at the bottom of their half. Running along the top of the entire screen is a bar which stretches across both halves. On it there is a banner, which at the start of each game is precisely in the middle of the bar. When the whistle blows both players start shooting at multicoloured targets at the top of their screens. Every time you hit the bar, you pull the banner further over to your side; the aim is to pull the banner right the way to your end of the bar. There is a catch; every time a bullet hits one of the multicoloured targets, this causes an alien space craft to appear in the opposite half of the screen. Not only do these guys get in the way, preventing you from getting a clear shot at the targets, but they also drop bombs which freeze you for 10 seconds if one of them explodes on you head. So, you have to decide; do you waste bullets blasting the aliens or try to fire between them and hit the targets? Ah, decision, decisions... Rating : *** AA
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Page créée en 376 millisecondes et consultée 155 fois L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
