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It was Ocean Software who then told Peter the game had to be ready for the home VHS tape release of the film, so Peter had to port the ST version over.

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With Peter, you need to appreciate it was Ocean Software, not Peter himself who promised the Amiga version of Robocop, would take full advantage of the Amiga hardware. You only have to look at conversion houses like Tiertex, who paid Amiga coders the same to port ST code over and get started on the next project as they did coders who wrote from the ground up, for the Amiga hardware. Having spoken with him briefly back in the day, regarding his work on both the ST and Amiga, I personally found him to be very open and honest when it came to admitting the Amiga versions were often little more than ST Ports, think Amiga Robocop at best had 2 extra speech samples, not present in the ST version.

Seems that his main part of the contract was to get it done ASAP. I suppose a lot depends on how quickly the port is wanted out in the shops, a guy named Peter Johnston used to port pretty much everything from ST to Amiga and he never used an ounce of the Amiga hardware to make it better. That's exactly what I was going to type, if the logic is sound then use it, the problem is whether the programmer makes better use of the actual hardware it's on now. I'm not familiar with the Vic-20 hardware, so not sure how easy it would of been to reuse existing code, but the practice fits in well with what i have heard about Atarisoft at the time. Great bit of info and really helps explain why the XE version was far from all it might of been. (Thanks a lot!!!!)Ĭonverted from the VIC-20 version?!?! This may be a first!īTW here's the file itself. Keyed in from VIC-20 paper listing by Kirt Grubbs. Atari 800 version by Ken Rose for SofTalent are difficult to read - that's the way I got 'em! Therefore I refuse to take any credit for the comments that ORIGINAL SOURCE CODE USED WHERE POSSIBLE Battlezone for the Atari 400/800/XL/XE 32K RAM minimum Peaking at the code there are some VERY interesting comments in it: Among those emails were some from Curt Vendel who had sent me the some of the source code for the Atari XE version of Battlezone. I managed to recover some old emails that I had lost years ago the other day.

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