Navy Seals (cartridge)
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A game From OCEAN using well the Plus features.
Often considered amongst the best the GX4000/Plus can offer, it's a platform shooter game with an infiltration theme.
Contents
Cover
Covers from CPCmania
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 is particulary difficult and well done, looking quite like the 16-bit computers versions.
video
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Longplays courtesy from Xyphoes.
Implementation details and use of Plus hardware
- Mode 0 is used for display
- Plus palette is used
- Plus raster interrupt is used
- Plus sprites are used for man and enemies
- Plus split screen is used (for panel at the bottom)
- Plus pixel by pixel hardware scroll is used
- Plus DMA is used (channel 0 is used for sound effects. Each sound effect is defined only by a list of DMA commands. e.g. no CPU driver is used to play them).
- bullets are done with soft sprites
Links
http://www.cpcmania.com/ ( on the games section : GX4000/CPC+ GAMES )