Pay attention up Commodore 64 homeowners as we have now a particular deal with for you! As trawling by means of Twitter searching for some respectable retro information, we have now simply came upon that, because of the developer @joeyvc64 letting us know, we have been instructed you possibly can play the newest port of ‘Tremendous Amok’ for the Commodore 64! A C64 port of the VIC-20 Berzerk clone of Tremendous Amok by Roger Merritt from 1983! To coincide with this information, we have a short story of the sport in addition to the gameplay video.
And here is the main points. “After doing Mars Patrol I performed round with a {hardware} sprite multiplexer after which acquired fascinated by doing it with tender sprites by way of characters. Not so easy, fairly difficult really, and after a number of makes an attempt I had one thing of a working tender sprite library. Right here I remembered the VIC-20 Amok model and the later 8k-Cartridge model Tremendous Amok. So right here is my port of Tremendous Amok to C64 by utilizing software program sprites solely. Nice respect to Roger Merrit the unique creator of this recreation who did it in simply 8K! And did a greater job than myself right here – like 42 years earlier! Completely Superb!”
“I ripped the graphics from the ROM file, so it just about seems like the unique. All of the gameplay is similar. I attempted actually onerous to make it as near the VIC-20 recreation as attainable. For the sound results I used a SFX sound driver by 4mat. And please forgive my non-existent expertise on the SID. This was a enjoyable mission certainly. And I have already got an thought to do the tender sprites half higher, let’s have a look at if there shall be one other model of Tremendous Amok, or one thing new? Hey, Lemmings could be the last word problem (big respect to Thomas Mittelmeyer, the developer again in 1994!!!)”
