North-Sea Action

[geirhovland]

Hello all,

attached is the game North-Sea Action which I wrote in July 1988. I was 18 years old at the time, and this was my first and only game written with the Dream Assembler. The game was advertised and sold by Orange Software for 2 pound, I never earned a penny with it .

The game is now released to the public domain. I will make the assembly code available later.

regards,
Geir Hovland

[samplefiend]

Wow!!!

Thanks for uploading your game Geir - i read the review of it in the dragon user pdf last week and was wondering where to find it. Looking forward to playing it later tonight.

Thanks again for your generosity,

Craig xxx

[rolfmichelsen]

Great stuff! It's been some 20 years since I last played this game. The gameplay actually works pretty well even today.

-- Rolf

[sixxie]

Well, I got to level 2, but the line at the bottom proved too hard.

I've tested this on a real Dragon 64, and the hang you mention in the README occurs there too, in the same way: seems to start playing a note and never stop.

[geirhovland]

Sixxie - Thanks for testing the file on a real Dragon 64. A corrected CAS file and a new README.txt have been uploaded in my initial message.

It is possible to play through all 9 screens, but it requires a bit of patience to wait for the right moment to go for the oil spots at the bottom of the screens.

[sixxie]

Cool, was it just the loading method?

Edit: got to level 3

[geirhovland]

The first time I did not upload the final version of the game. The current version is the one which was sold by Orange Software.