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| − | Again, the major flaw was the too heavy use of the Hardwired sprites for the characters sprites (player or creeps) : those are DATA-heavy and slow to "animate" properly, as the 16 slots are too few for a proper animation with numerous frames. | + | Again, the major flaw was the too heavy use of the Hardwired sprites for the characters sprites (player or creeps) : those are DATA-heavy and slow to "animate" properly, as the 16 slots are too few for a proper animation with numerous frames or simply to feature enough enemies on the screen (the same probelm with [[Robocop 2 ( Cartridge )|Robocop 2]] yet this one turn to be more a platformer than a shooting-punks-game). |
Yet the scrolling is quite decent, fluid and smooth. | Yet the scrolling is quite decent, fluid and smooth. | ||
Revision as of 09:10, 1 March 2010
Dick Tracy is an adaptation of a movie (with Warren Betty and Madonna sexy as hell) based on an famous american Comic book franchise.
Information
| Title: | Dick Tracy ( Cartridge ) |
| Company: | Titus Software |
| Type: | Arcade |
| Year: | 1990 |
Cover
Covers from CPCmania
- Dick Tracy
Back Cover
Front Cover
Cartridge
- Dick Tracy
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 ).
This game exists on CPC version and GX4000/PLUS cartridge.
The 2 versions are quite different (better graphics for the Cartridge) yet none are really good.
Too bad as this could have been a decent Robocop-like game.
Concerning the Cartridge version :
Again, the major flaw was the too heavy use of the Hardwired sprites for the characters sprites (player or creeps) : those are DATA-heavy and slow to "animate" properly, as the 16 slots are too few for a proper animation with numerous frames or simply to feature enough enemies on the screen (the same probelm with Robocop 2 yet this one turn to be more a platformer than a shooting-punks-game).
Yet the scrolling is quite decent, fluid and smooth.
And graphics are colourfull, the hard-sprites being in pseudo Mode1 with 15 colours.
Comparison
CPC and Cartridge versions.
Video
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Longplay courtesy from Xyphoe.
Links
http://www.cpcmania.com/ ( on the games section : GX4000/CPC+ GAMES )
