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The experimental rocket Wireware 1 has crash-landed on the surface of a hostile satellite. The eight spacemen survived, but seven were captured. The eighth spaceman, after setting the emergency teleport unit up, must rescue his partners before the time of the teleport battery and the energy of their own spacesuits run out.
This game was made during ten desperate days, by recycling code and graphics from past projects (hence the peculiar “cameos” of the pumpkin from “Frogalot” and the green slime from “Hirehare”, for example) and even abandoned ones: “Wireware” was going to be my game for CPC Retrodev 2019, but it couldn't be. I also had to give up on multiple ideas during the development: for example the hostage spacemen were intended to land, walk and take off, but they finally limited themselves to flying because the rhythm of the game, already slow on its own because of the need to guide them patiently, grew even slower if they wanted to walk on land. The final result is cut down on lots of places: the fourth-layer scroll is useless with so few things on screen, no enemies need more than one shot to die, etc. At least the homage to “Rainbow Islands” stayed: the seven electromagnetic cards play the role of the rainbow diamonds. Other sources of inspiration were "Jetpac" (1983 Ultimate / A.C.G.), "Antiriad" (1986 Palace) and "Sol Negro" (1988 Opera Soft): thanks to them this game is here.
★ UPDATES:
20211112: first public release. Fixed the bug that made enemies chase you from behind when rescuing the last hostage, made the player's horizontal platform test and the hostage's vertical motion more congruent and tweaked title screen colours.
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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.
