The best Defender version on Amiga?
Paul Tang
Can anyone recommend the best Defender clone on the Amiga? As far as
I know, I don't know any version that can beat Planetoid on the
BBC Micro. I just loved that game, and the BBC version was perfect.
The next best was Jeff Minter's Defender II on the Atari ST. Thankfully
I have a pretty good Asteroids version (Super Stardust) - I'd love a
Defender game...
TIA
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Robert Robson
In a message dated Sun 2 Feb 97 16:38, Paul Tang <pa...@asfafa.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
PT> Can anyone recommend the best Defender clone on the Amiga? As far as
PT> I know, I don't know any version that can beat Planetoid on the
PT> BBC Micro. I just loved that game, and the BBC version was perfect.
PT> The next best was Jeff Minter's Defender II on the Atari ST.
PT> Thankfully
PT> I have a pretty good Asteroids version (Super Stardust) - I'd love a
PT> Defender game...
PT> TIA
PT> pt
The BEST Defender Clone I've found is OBLIVION by Mark Sibly(of Gloom
Fame!)
it's not on aminet but it is out there.(somewhere) Well worth the hunt
Robert Robson Vancouver Canada
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George Noel
In article <970202013...@asfafa.demon.co.uk>,
Paul Tang <pa...@asfafa.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I have a pretty good Asteroids version (Super Stardust) - I'd love a
Well actually this was more along the lines of Blasteroids moreso then
Asteroids. Super Stardust or even Stardust should have been what the
version of Blasteroids on the Amiga was.. which shall I say is crap
compared to the arcade version. It should have been easy to convert it to
the Amiga.
>TIA
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Mr G Watts
: In a message dated Sun 2 Feb 97 16:38, Paul Tang <pa...@asfafa.demon.co.uk>
: wrote:
: PT> Can anyone recommend the best Defender clone on the Amiga? As far as
: PT> I know, I don't know any version that can beat Planetoid on the
: PT> BBC Micro. I just loved that game, and the BBC version was perfect.
: PT> The next best was Jeff Minter's Defender II on the Atari ST.
: PT> Thankfully
If you can find it I'd recommend datastorm, which is VERY old indeed (a friend
got it when he bought his first a500, at least 6 years ago)
Doesn't work on a1200 though, anyone know of a patch for it?
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misc...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
In article <970202013...@asfafa.demon.co.uk>, Paul Tang <pa...@asfafa.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Can anyone recommend the best Defender clone on the Amiga? As far as
> I have a pretty good Asteroids version (Super Stardust) - I'd love a
Personally I'd recommend "Star Defender", by Matthias Bock. A damn-nice
Defender/StarGate clone. It looks and sounds great, and multitasks
flawlessly, (like all his titles.) :-)
It's a shareware title, so you can get the demo from Aminet, at
game/shoot/stardefender10.lha
If you want an -exact- defender game get "defender" from the same
directory on Aminet... (I -think- that's where I got my one from.)
It's an almost-perfect clone of the arcade game.
Nathan.
(n.w...@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Robert Robson
In a message dated Wed 5 Feb 97 08:17, Misc...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
wrote:
M> (Robert Robson) writes:
> In a message dated Sun 2 Feb 97 16:38, Paul Tang
<pa...@asfafa.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
> PT> Can anyone recommend the best Defender clone on the Amiga?
M> [snip]
>
> The BEST Defender Clone I've found is OBLIVION by Mark Sibly(of Gloom
> Fame!)
> it's not on aminet but it is out there.(somewhere) Well worth the hunt
M> If it's not on Aminet, is it commercial then?
M> And if not, why -hasn't- anyone uploaded it to Aminet yet?
M> Huh?
M> All great (distributable) software should be put there.
M> Nathan.
M> (n.w...@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
I wrote the author with that question and got no responce from him
I would have upped it but thought it was the authors choice not mine
I could always just put it in a uuencoded message here ;) (NO! I won't)
misc...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
In article <19970202.4...@tvinet.com>, Robert...@tvinet.com (Robert Robson) writes:
> In a message dated Sun 2 Feb 97 16:38, Paul Tang <pa...@asfafa.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
> PT> Can anyone recommend the best Defender clone on the Amiga?
[snip]
>
> The BEST Defender Clone I've found is OBLIVION by Mark Sibly(of Gloom
> Fame!)
> it's not on aminet but it is out there.(somewhere) Well worth the hunt
If it's not on Aminet, is it commercial then?
And if not, why -hasn't- anyone uploaded it to Aminet yet?
Huh?
All great (distributable) software should be put there.
Nathan.
(n.w...@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Kyzer
misc...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote in comp.sys.amiga.games:
: In article <19970202.4...@tvinet.com>, Robert...@tvinet.com (Robert Robson) writes:
: > In a message dated Sun 2 Feb 97 16:38, Paul Tang <pa...@asfafa.demon.co.uk>
: > wrote:
: > PT> Can anyone recommend the best Defender clone on the Amiga?
: [snip]
: >
: > The BEST Defender Clone I've found is OBLIVION by Mark Sibly(of Gloom
: > Fame!)
: > it's not on aminet but it is out there.(somewhere) Well worth the hunt
: If it's not on Aminet, is it commercial then?
AFAIR, "Overkill" was the commerercial spanky-AGA-gleaming defender clone,
it was also in Gloom as a hidden extra called "underkill".
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Mark Edmonds
Although not strictly an out and out Defender clone, but pretty damn
close is one of my all time faves: "Star Ray". It was quite an early
Amiga game so might be difficult to get hold of now but featured great
parallax scrolling, full PAL screen graphics, excellent mouse control
and crunching sound effects. The playability was brilliant but I haven`t
been able to get past the last couple of levels because it gets pretty
damn difficult.
A word of warning with this game: the original came on 2 disks. It was
reissued some years later on one disk. This inevitably involved cutting
down on the sound and other areas so if you see this game, get the 2
disk version only!
As for Kickstart compatability, I run it OK on a WB2.04 A2000.
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Mark Edmonds
Neil Massey
The PD (shareware) Defender / Stargate clone Oblivion by Mark Sibly is
pretty good as well.
Regards, Neil
Robert Robson
In a message dated Wed 12 Feb 97 06:28, Neil Massey <n.r.m...@ncl.ac.uk>
wrote:
NM> The PD (shareware) Defender / Stargate clone Oblivion by Mark Sibly
NM> is
NM> pretty good as well.
NM> Regards, Neil
Hey, I said that about 2 weeks ago and OBLIVION is the BEST pd/shareware
version of stargate/defender. I even liked it better than Overkill the
commercial defender clone Mark Sibly worked on