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A 1024 byte C64 minigame (finished 2002.09.15)

Code by Robin Harbron (a.k.a. Macbeth/PSW)
Music and player by Steve Judd (a.k.a. Wyndex)
Sprites by Vanja Utne (a.k.a. Mermaid/Creators)

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To play:

LOAD"SPLATFORM",8,1

Disable any fastload/utility carts, as they will
likely prevent this game from running, due to it's
auto-load.

Please make sure you enable sound playback on
your emulator, or turn up the volume on your
C64 monitor - this 1k game has music! ;)

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Your goal is to guide a happy bouncing head through
9 levels of tricky platform action.  Use a joystick
in port #2 - left and right guide the head, the
button continues the fun after death or a completed
level.

The cryptic code that appears during rest periods
(looks like j:# p:# l:#) is your status in the game:
Jumps, Phase (L for level was already taken), Lives.

If you manage to complete the game, hold the button
down for some amazing slo-mo music and border flashing
antics.  For what it's worth, my best (lowest) "score"
is 262 jumps in NTSC mode, which is harder than PAL
mode - well, faster, anyway.

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There are two versions of the game included - the first
one is a PAL version, the second is NTSC.  Both the code
and music were intended for NTSC (60 hz), but the game
ends up being too easy and the music doesn't sound as good
when played at 50hz - so we attempted a fix of it, sort of
at the last minute.  

Bottom line - if you can, play it on a real NTSC machine.
The NTSC mode of VICE still seems somewhat immature, and
scrolling and music don't seem as smooth as they should be
there.

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Many thanks go out again to Steve Judd for not only
composing the groovy tune, but creating yet another
music player to meet the very tight memory constraints,
AND for coding XIP which helped squeeze this game under
1k - U RULE!

Also thanks to Mermaid/Creators for the sprites (sorry I
couldn't fit one of the frames in), Per Olofsson for
running the compo, Bogax for help with the random number
generator (he bettered by routine by something like 9
bytes!), and my family for again putting up with me
putting in a lot of time on the computer - but not nearly
as much time as last year on Minima! :)

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Contact:

  Robin Harbron   macbeth@psw.ca
  http://www.tbaytel.net/macbeth
        http://www.psw.ca/
