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The Icon Bar: News and features: Defender clone ported to RISC OS
 

Defender clone ported to RISC OS

Posted by Richard Goodwin on 13:49, 1/10/2001 | ,
 
One of my top five fave Acorn Electron games of all time was Guardian, a Defender clone with enjoyably slick keyboard handling allowing the player to slide around the landscape pulling off cool shoot and catch manoeuvres. Now Michael Foot (no, not the ex-MP or the SOE historian) has ported it to RISC OS, which should lead to many a lost work hour in Acorn Arcade Towers. Michael's previous work includes ports of Dare Devil Denis, Chuckie Egg and Dungeon, and long may he continue to bring these retro classics to a new audience.

Download your own copy from Mike's website.

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  Defender clone ported to RISC OS
  (13:53 1/10/2001)
  Michael Foot (00:43 2/10/2001)
    Jeffrey Lee (16:18 2/10/2001)
      Jeffrey Lee (16:25 2/10/2001)
        Jeffrey Lee (13:51 3/10/2001)
 
Rich Goodwin Message #86850, posted at 13:53, 1/10/2001
Unregistered user How about Elite A next? :)
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Michael Foot Message #86851, posted at 00:43, 2/10/2001, in reply to message #86850
Unregistered user You don't know how many times I've been asked to port Elite-A! I think a port of Elite: The New Kind would be somewhat easier.
The Guardian port was done to accompany an article in the last issue of the RISC OS Foundation newsletter/CD-ROM. One of the reasons I chose it was because I loved the game on the BBC.
As you say, the look and feel are the same as the original, however the sound is not. It's not easy converting a BBC style ENVELOPE to RISC OS without using a sound sample.
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Jeffrey Lee Message #86852, posted at 16:18, 2/10/2001, in reply to message #86851
Unregistered user IIRC the BBC emulator's sound module could emulate ENVELOPE commands; you may be able make use of that.

Alternatively I've been working on a sound player that could easily have an ENVELOPE emulator added to it, if I ever get round to fixing the bugs that a new feature has caused.
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Jeffrey Lee Message #86853, posted at 16:25, 2/10/2001, in reply to message #86852
Unregistered user IIRC the BBC emulator's sound module could emulate ENVELOPE commands; you may be able make use of that.

Alternatively I've been working on a sound player that could easily have an ENVELOPE emulator added to it, if I ever get round to fixing the bugs that a new feature has caused.
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Jeffrey Lee Message #86854, posted at 13:51, 3/10/2001, in reply to message #86853
Unregistered user I'm sure I checked that I hadn't posted already after I'd got disconnected mid-post...

*Kicks AOL*
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