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We recently amended the rules to allow single loops of infinite games, with only a preference for maximizing the difficulty. Given your explanation, though, it looks like 5 rounds should be the ending point either way, so I'd say you're good to go here.
What happens after the slow level, though? Does it stay slow, or does it speed back up again?
This game reminds me of my TAS of C64 Snoopy where each level gets increasingly fast to the point of becoming unplayable, but there's a point where everything becomes extra extra slow.
A decent technical showcase that ends before it overstays its welcome, though in my opinion it could've included stage 14 as well, even if it's trivial compared to the other stages. But whatever, still good.
Oh man, I remember this is one of the games I "programmed" when I was a kid. The company didn't release this on a disk or cartridge. They sent you a book that told you how to code the game yourself. But the coding was just you meticulously typing in numbers with no idea what anything did. Then finally you were finished and ran it and this was the game you got.
Anyway, it's a great TAS candidate as well because the gameplay is insanely fast and looks to be nearly impossible for a human player. The TAS gameplay is very satisfying to watch as a result. Yes vote.
What am I missing on stage 15, by the way? It looks like the alien ships just move really slowly or something?
https://www.commodoreserver.com/PublicDiskDetails.asp?DID=EC3C999F08BE45659E138B0081F8D58B This appears to be a copy of the companion diskette for the magazine, so it should have the original unmodified game on it. To start it, LOAD"A*",8,1 SYS49152 the disk's menu system (if you use x64 -autostart) didn't seem to work for me, not sure why. You'd want to avoid it to reduce loading time anyway.
I see that a trainer screen goes by as the game starts up. Is it possible to make this run on a "clean" version of the game as published in the magazine instead?
Is it the hardest to play through?
So just beat the hardest level.
Do you have a movie?
What happens if yo just keep playing though?
Or poke the level number and go through farther levels to see how they operate?
The main timesave of that run comes from the fact that it skips the first 3 levels with a cheat code that is present in the game.
