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Indie Retro Information: Moon Patrol 500


I’ve lately discovered from Saberman, that the Arcade to Amiga conversion of Irem’s basic 1982 scrolling shooter of ‘Moon Patrol’ by each JOTD and no9(music), has now been up to date with a brand new AGA enhanced, ECS and OCS construct so that you can strive! Mainly for these of you who had been complaining about video games created with simply AGA in thoughts, now you can strive decrease finish builds of the sport all created as a transcode of Moon Patrol arcade utilizing assembler. 

As we mentioned earlier than in our earlier article, for these of you who do not bear in mind this basic that’s extensively credited for the introduction of parallax scrolling in side-scrolling video video games. You drove a buggy throughout a panorama, leaping over ditches and rocks whereas additionally capturing at enemies each above and in entrance made this such an amazing recreation to play!

Credit:

  • – jotd: Z80 to 68000 conversion, amiga graphics conversion, amiga sound results
  • – no9: amiga music
  • – ross: assist with AGA model and {hardware} scrolling. Large Kudos!!
  • – http://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/MoonPatrol/ assist with reverse-engineering
  •   (merged their feedback & variable names after having began my RE)
  • – PascalDe73: icon
  • – mrv2k: boxart
  • – DamienD: floppy menu

Amiga model (OCS):

  • – runs on 512K chip/512k quick OCS 68000 Amiga, 25 fps (some slowdowns to count on at instances)
  • – tailored “low element” graphics, no blue mountain background
  • – low sound high quality
  • – no whdload (no want, as it’s designed to run on a 1MB OCS machine)

Amiga model (ECS):

  • – runs on 1MB ECS 68000 Amiga, 25 fps (some slowdowns to count on at instances)
  • – Makes use of AGA quick DMA mode if discovered and runs at 50fps on AGA+fastmem
  • – tailored “low element” graphics, however will show additional background layer if run on a 68020+
  • – larger sound high quality

Amiga model (AGA):

  • – runs on vanilla A1200 at 50 fps, with easy scrolling layers
  • – authentic colours & graphics
  • – highest sound high quality

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