But now, let's tell the story of the game...
Oh, no more SuperMasken '98
You have probably seen this kind of game before: A worm crawling around on
the screen. And the more it eats, the longer it gets. I don't know when
these games first appeared, but my brother made one on the VIC20 in 1983
(Hej Svante!). But now, lets tell the story of "Supermasken":
The story begins in 1992: I'm in school (Polhemsgymnasiet, Gothenburg). In the breaks, we went to a classroom full of 486:es. And on these we played Microsoft basic "Nibbles"... And I thougth for myself: "Hey, I can do this game, but better". So I went home and begun programming on my Amiga 500. After a while, and with some ideas from Fredrik Sörensson (Frodo) and Mats Lindblom (Gizmo), "Supermasken" was born. "Supermasken" means "The Super Worm" in swedish. And it was a hit among my friends! So we ended up playing supermasken in the breaks instead! (Yes, we had two of the pupils Amiga 500's in the computer room! (for playing Lotus 2 (or was it 3) with 4 players!!) (Great school, don't you think? :-)
And then came 1993, and I bought myself a brand new Amiga 1200 with a harddrive of 80 megabytes! And I begun to develop a new version of the game, that finaly resulted in "Oh, no more SuperMasken" (or SuperMasken II). The news were: New and better graphics, new music, more monsters, built-in track editor, more levels, hard drive installable and more...
Then something sad happened: My hard drive broke! And I had no backup of the source for "Oh, no more SuperMasken". So, there could never be a new version of the game! Really SAD!
But HEY!, Isn't THIS a new version of the game?????
Yes, it is! But HOW?
Well, it begun with that the first person who registred my program "BorayLetter" (hi Roy!) decided to send me more money, as he thougth he had payed to little last time. Well, I thougth he deserved a little bonus and decided to send him the now 5 year old game "Oh, no more SuperMasken"...
But then, I remembered that it didn't work as it should any longer... The music sounded strange, as processor speeds goes up, and DMA wait remains the same, and the workbench palette was changed when the game ended due to a bug in old hisoft basic...
So, as the game was made in modules (separate files for music, graphics etc.), it was really easy to excange the music into some DigiBooster mods I made last year. And I loaded the executable file into a TEXT EDITOR and changed the names of the music mods. And then I sent him the game...
And then... I played the game some, and thougt: "Hey! This game is quite funny!". Why don't I fresh it up a bit, and make a new release of it?
And..... so I did!
This is new:
- New 8 channel music
- New graphics
- The game is translated to ENGLISH!
- Many new tracks! (Now over 100 levels!) The standard tracks was replaced with new ones. The old has the base name "LAST", and the really old tracks (from SuperMasken 1) has the base name "OLDTRACK"
- No need to install any libs or fonts, just run the game!
- WB-palette bug fixed. When the game exits, SYS:prefs/palette is loaded and sets the palette to your defaults. (You will probably not notice).
This is still bad: The game is not multitasking friendly. It IS possible to jump to another screen, but your topaz font will look very strange, and the game will be started every time you press the left mouse button. So I advise you to, play the game, and then QUIT... You can always restart the game later.
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REQUIREMENTS:(Probably) AmigaDos 2.0+, a hard drive and a 68020 processor.Well, HAVE FUN!!!! And don't forget to take a look at my other programs, "Selector" and "BorayLetter". And my mods can be found on Aminet: mods/boray GREETINGS TO: Arkie/Steve, Frodo, Gizmo, Henrikarna, Sunbane, Midaz, Roy! and all others! |
