Indie Retro News: Moon Patrol 500

I’ve not too long ago came upon from Saberman, that the Arcade to Amiga conversion of Irem’s basic 1982 scrolling shooter of ‘Moon Patrol’ by each JOTD and no9(music), has now been up to date with a brand new AGA enhanced, ECS and OCS construct so that you can strive! Principally for these of you who have been complaining about video games created with simply AGA in thoughts, now you can strive decrease finish builds of the sport all created as a transcode of Moon Patrol arcade utilizing assembler.

As we mentioned earlier than in our earlier article, for these of you who do not bear in mind this basic 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 taking pictures at enemies each above and in entrance made this such an amazing recreation to play!

Credit:

– jotd: Z80 to 68000 conversion, amiga graphics conversion, amiga sound results
– no9: amiga music
– ross: assist with AGA model and {hardware} scrolling. Large 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 count on at occasions)
– 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 count on at occasions)
– Makes use of AGA quick DMA mode if discovered and runs at 50fps on AGA+fastmem
– tailored “low element” graphics, however will show additional background layer if run on a 68020+
– increased sound high quality

Amiga model (AGA):