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Atari XL/XE Space Harrier Conversion Project
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15th December 2003
The past couple of months have seen me moving the game over to a cartridge format from the original disk format for Atari 130XE only. This is where most of the delay has come in, and it is still not back to where I left off with the disk version. However the good news is that some things are being improved due to the larger memory capacity of the cartridge as I go along:
- More colours on the aliens and backgrounds
- Faster draw routines to keep the speed up
- Larger backgrounds
- More speech samples
- Will run on any Atari XL/XE with 64K or more memory
Another visual change has been to make the score line more like the original. I didn't think it would work out very well, but it seems to be okay. Thanks to Bryan Edewaard for suggesting it. By the way, Bryan has just produced an excellent version of the Atari Warlords arcade game for the Atari 8-bits called Castle Crisis
