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Finally made it out of the 3rd level.
Turns out there are only 3 levels then it loops back to the 1st again.
This time there are flying skulls but no other differences.
Got to level2 (2nd time around).

Small increase in previous score.
I find that playing it first thing in the morning works best for me

So close to catching you Fourthstone!

I always rather lied this game but not sure why.
Its probably nothing special technically and the collision detection is not the best but anyway... Just to get my name on the scoreboard for now.

Well, thank heavens I get another life every 10000 points. That'll come in handy I'm sure!

Had one of my best ever goes at this this morning and got what I thought was a fantastic score until I saw the rest of them
Must try harder still!

Its taken me ages to complete Cave 19.
Cave 20 looks easy but I just cannot get past the spider quick enough to stop it killing me.
Think this will be my last attempt (unless I get bored at work later )

Can't even remember what cave I was on, but its a real bugger.
Dont think I'm going to get further than this.

I thought cave 15 was impossible and then cave 16 came along and zapped my remaining lives in the wink of an eye!

Grrr! Thought I'd made it to the top of the score chart at last.
That cave 13 is a real killer for me.

Cave 8 is a bugger. Lost lots of lives at the start of that one then lost the rest on cave 10.
Getting further each time though.

This is a great game, can't believe I missed it BITD.

Never played this before.
Seems like fun and I can get on the High Score chart this time (failed miserably with Arcadians)

Hi,

I really liked this game BITD.
Choosing the right keys was always by biggest problem too.

Must have another go at it.
Cheers!

Kind of resurrecting an old thread, but would a port of Oids (Atari ST) be out of the question?

Welcome to the forums Tony. Thats a lovely looking Electron and cassette player there. No yellowing of the cases at all by the looks of it. Hope it all works ok (Mine has a dodgy keyboard at the moment) Welcome, what a great looking Elk and I've never seen the data recorder, but now I think I might ...

Had an amazingly good run (by my standards) and then lost all my lives(about 3) on the same level!

Starting to get the hang of this (sometimes) although I still keep making stupid mistakes

My latest attempts...

Well my first attempts were too embarrassing to post but i've managed a crap score now so...

Here are my nominations:

Felix in the Factory
Helter Skelter
Spooks and Spiders

If any of those are not acceptable then my alternatives are these:
Firebug
Sorcery
Trapper

Cheers!

It really does scroll beautifully doesn't it. With regards to the colours, am I right in thinking that things like the Ghosts, Fruit and Power pills will be made of foreground colours? (like the player sprite) Are the fire hydrants foreground also? If so, then they will lend a little more colour to ...

Its odd then. I've just slowed B-Em down as slow as it will go (about 10%) so I can see each frame being scrolled and it moves 2 Mode2 pixels each time it moves. The previous faster version does the same but scrolls/updates the screen twice as often. I'm using B-Em 2.1 [Massive edit post!] Ok, scrap...

Just had a look at this latest demo. It's odd, but this one works fine in Beebem... I thought looking at it that it scrolled fine for a walking speed Pacland, not dead smooth, but its really not that bad either (particularly if you compare it to something like Fantasy Zone on the MSX!), but then I t...

I hate this game

I've been trying my demo on a few machine/CRT combos and an not sure that this will work! I was hoping by making the screen the equivalent of 384 MODE 1 pixels wide that the edges would be hidden and that I wouldn't need to blank and draw half bytes on the edges of the screen like I have to for Ral...

[SNIP] PS The scroll is at running speed and as I just chopped my Scramble code about, it has the Scramble loading screen! PPS the display needs r3 support, so no LCDs and no beebem unless it is too smooth as it is :lol: I just get a mess on the screen with Beebem (it doesn't scroll) With B-Em I ge...

Also, I know its not a shooter but have you considered do a port of Pac-Land? There's a fascinating thread about colourising the spectrum version on the WOS forum (started some years ago) that makes me wonder if its possible on the Beeb. https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/46130/pac-la...

Good to hear you're still working on it. Did you use Mode 5 or 2? Do you have any videos or demos available? It's mode 2 with background graphics by the very talented John Blythe. I've attached the latest stable version (no enemies but all the levels). Apart from the obvious things that are missing...

I did Scramble to prove that horizontal scrolling 1 MODE 1 pixel per frame is possible, but you can see the compromise with the landscape that was required to achieve this. Games that require 1 MODE 1 pixel per frame but can't use the Scramble technique (some are massive too): Fantasy Zone Nemesis ...