Difference between revisions of "Klax (cartridge)"

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An Almost Direct Disk to Cartridge Port.

Also a brilliant Arcade Port.

There is almost no difference between both versions gameplay wise.

Yet as a colourfull non-scroller reflexion game, the CPC/PLUS version is one of the best for 8 bit computers.

Cover

Covers from CPCmania

• Klax
• 

  Back Cover

• 

  Front Cover

Cartridge

• Klax
• 

  Back Cartridge

• 

  Front Cartridge

Manual

You can download in PDF from CPCmania ( See the links ).

Game

You can download in CPR for use in emulators and BIN from CPCmania ( See the links ).

Video

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Videos of CPC version courtesy from Ataru'75 and CholoCPC.

Implementation details and use of Plus hardware

• Mode 0 is used for display
• Plus palette is used for screen transitions (fade in and fade out) and in game (some colours are slightly different to the CPC version)
• Plus raster interrupt is not used
• Plus split screen is not used
• Plus pixel by pixel hardware scroll is not used
• Plus sprites are not used

Links

http://www.cpcmania.com/ ( on the games section : GX4000/CPC+ GAMES )