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Late to the party due to these unusual times...

10940

First go: 93580

Time to throw in the towel!

631990

I'm going to have one more go tomorrow, then I'm conceding to Venger. I'm closing in, but - yikes, what a way to go! 572340 scramble26.png I had some ideas about how the game (that is Scramble, not just Tricky's conversion) could be improved for the non-coin-guzzling era: 1) Fix the number of loops ...

tricky wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:26 am

Are you enjoying the game?

Absolutely - a tremendous conversion, and props to you for being able to squeeze it on to the beeb!

MartinH wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:49 pm

Well I'm certainly not going to catch up with that!

Or am I?

466420. I hurt in places I didn't know existed!

Well I'm certainly not going to catch up with that!

I lost count of how many times I went round for this:

301090 When I close my eyes now, all I can see is Scramble!

I don't think I'll do much better than this...

223940 I was completely in the zone... and then I woke up and smashed straight into a wall!

Venger wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:08 pm

Here's my first go on the new version. Stupid mistakes killed me off so plenty of improvements to be made.

I knew I should have kept quiet

My latest effort: 165620

The fuel vanishes sooo quickly, and my bombing ain't upto RAF standard!

And a big jump this time around!

152920

Using Tricky's new BeebEm release - no more crashes on loop four!

99440

84250!

But then I encountered the crash reported by Venger - 4th loop start of the caves
I took a BeebEm save state right at the end of the 1st stage 4th loop. Would this help debug the issue?

I actually seem to be getting to grips with this!

72500

Most of the way through the second loop...

54110

Made it through a loop!

38580

The yellow maze bit before the end is, err, tricky

31090

I'm not sure which version we're supposed to be using, but seeing as I'm never in a month of Sundays going to get anywhere near Venger's score I'm sticking with the original!

A bit more progress:

24200

Congrats KarateEd - I can only assume that people in BC, Canada have far more patience than they do 'round my neck of the woods!

A truly horrible game - even for a type in - which has given me a new appreciation of how brilliant Boffin is! So there's a silver lining

Liking this a lot! Thumbs up to Tricky!

My starter for 10...

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I'm now going to have to try Rocket Raid again (after almost 35 years!) to see how this compares to my memories of Acornsoft's "homage" to Scramble.

This game is sooooooo frustrating it makes proper Boffin seem like a walk in the park! Did a bit better tonight, but it all seems to hang on which order the levels are presented... at least until I can figure out how to beat them all.

1761

1239 - some of these levels don't even seem possible!

As a big Boffin fan I really want to like this, but... well. Least said, soonest mended!

885.

Yep, holding ctrl and firing occasionally - the strategy of champions!

86900!

Like the graphics, but the gameplay is a bit.. um... limited. I got this score by holding down control and pressing fire occasionally...

Finally made a bit of progress... only I see you guys are making great strides!

Finally broken 10,000! For some reason I can't hit anything tonight!

KarateEd wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 03, 2020 10:25 pm

Wouldn't let me type my name in......

You have to do the arcade thing of up/down to select the letter then right/left to select the position. Strangely, it's pretty laggy to do seeing as the game is so fast!

Made the High Score Table!

I'll throw in my starter for 10!
This is a nice conversion of Centipede - not that I've ever been much good at the game - love how fast it is!

From what I've read it's so it can run on the Electron. It seems that Boffin 1 & 2 were released in the same "package", but where Boffin 1 can only run on a beeb, Boffin 2 can run on both.