Date   : Tue, 05 Feb 2002 09:59:07 -0000
From   : Daniel Luton <DLuton@...>
Subject: Re: Firetrack

Ahhh, I remember a game on the Electron that was published by
Superior...that was a vertical scrolling shooter that was *very* fast and
*very* smooth...was that Firetrack?  I'm sure it was called something
different though.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard_Talbot-Watkins@...
[mailto:Richard_Talbot-Watkins@...]
Sent: 05 February 2002 09:21
Cc: BBC Micro Mailing List
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Firetrack



Firetrack is to my knowledge the only commercial title for the BBC which
exploited a very cunning hardware hack in order to achieve pixel-by-pixel
vertical hardware scrolling at 50Hz, i.e. very pretty effect at virtually
no cost.  It was a kind of vertically scrolling shooter in the same vein as
Xenon on other machines.  I've admittedly never seen it running on a real
Beeb myself.

(Still haven't had a chance to finish writing up the explanation of how it
works... give us a bit of time...)

--
Rich Talbot-Watkins,
SCEE Cambridge.
Richard_Talbot-Watkins@...     
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                    Daniel Luton

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I've not seen Firetrack, is it available anywhere as a disk image (with the
intention of transferring it to a real Beeb) anywhere, to satisfy my
curiosity?

What exactly does the program do?

:))




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