| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ SPLAT! (c) AMSOFT ★ |
Popular Computing Weekly | Popular Computing Weekly 1985-02-07 |
Dead Ends! Argh! No! Look out. Splat!! Back in the days i before Spectrum software became so sophisticated that it takes between a day and a week to work out what is going on, back when your mum was still reasonably interested in the new toy rather than regarding it with sullen resentment, there were two games in particular that epitomised innocent family fun and prompted much hilarity around the TV screen. One was Imagine's Jumping Jack and the other was, of course Splat! by Incentive. It's therefore good to see it appearing on the 464 and I can recommend it as one of the few games that are truly original. This would be easy to avoid but for the feet - and toes - the catch - that the maze is moving randomly as well. You are invariably trapped into dead ends where you can only sit and contemplate your approaching doom. It's all frustrating and addictive, but if you do buy this game you will have to suspend your street wise awareness of state-of-the-art computer games because unfortunately there has been no attempt to improve upon the original graphics. In fact the 464 version is slightly worse than the Spectrum - the disadvantage of having 16K of screen Ram compared to 8K is that it takes twice as much processing work to scroll the screen and the end result in the case of Slat! is not as smooth as I would have liked. Still it's good to see Incentive writing for the 464 and perhaps with luck we will also see the excellent Ket adventure trilogy appearing as well. Tony Kendle , Popular Computing Weekly
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Page créée en 564 millisecondes et consultée 3404 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. |
