Indie Retro Information: Moon Patrol 500

We have not too long ago discovered by way of the EAB boards, that the beforehand introduced Arcade to Amiga conversion of Irem’s traditional 1982 scrolling shooter of ‘Moon Patrol’ by each JOTD and no9(music), has now been up to date with an AGA enhanced, ECS and OCS beta construct so that you can strive! Mainly for these of you who had been complaining about simply AGA, can now strive decrease finish builds of the sport all created as a transcode of Moon Patrol arcade utilizing assembler. To coincide with this information, there is a new screenshot from the sport in addition to a video coming any min now.

As we mentioned earlier than in our earlier article, for these of you who do not bear in mind this traditional that’s broadly 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 important sport to play! As for when the total model shall be launched nonetheless, going by the posts on the EAB boards, it may well’t be far off. We won’t wait!

Credit:

• – jotd: Z80 to 68000 conversion, amiga graphics conversion, amiga sound results
• – no9: amiga music
• – ross: assist with AGA model and {hardware} scrolling. Massive 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 anticipate 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 anticipate 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 further background layer
•   if run on a 68020+
• – greater sound high quality

Amiga model (AGA):

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

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