Re: Looking for ANCIENT Apple game

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Roger Johnstone writes ...
> 
> In article <FnI47.7687$23.875275@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
> "supportUSA.com" <incoming@supportUSA.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks, I hope some of you are are "old-time" Apple
> > users like myself.  I started using them back in 1979...and been hooked on
> > computers ever since...
> >
> > Anyhoo, like the title implies, I'm looking for help locating the title of
> > an ANCIENT game for the Apple II...
> >
> > I though the game was called something like ROGUE TROOPER or STAR WARRIOR,
> > or something like that.  It was kind of like Crush Crumble & Chomp, except
> > your a space guy, on a planet, running around shooting lasers at things,
> > like hover cars, etc.
> >
> > I thought the release date was around 1980, and I though the publishing
> > company was EPYX, becuase Crush Crumble & Chomp was from EPYX, but I looked
> > up recorfds of epyx titles, and cant find anything about it...
> >
 ....

> 
> Back in school, it must have been about 1984, I was watching over someone's
> shoulder as they loaded a game on an Apple IIe. The game was called Rogue
> Trooper. It was slow to load and all I got to see was a couple of text
> screens explaining some of the story behind the game, before I had to go to
> my next class. I remember the name Rogue Trooper because there was a Rogue
> Trooper series in the comic 2000AD. I was waiting to see if it had anything
> to do with the comic (I don't think it did) when the school bell rang. I'm
> still annoyed about that, but it's amazing the unimportant things you can
> remember after 17 years :)
> 
 ....

     For sure!

     Have not found Rogue Trooper for the Apple II. (Maybe someone will upload it
to Asimov.)

     There is an Amstrad CPC version Eric could download from ClassicGaming.com
and play on PC using a CPC emu. At http://www.classicgaming.com/ search for
"Rogue Trooper" and do the download and unzip to get the CPC disk image.

     A good CPC emu for Windows is Winape32 v1.8 (Winape18.zip). It's at 
http://private.addcom.de/l/leitenberger/cpc/emulator.html . It works something
like AppleWin but is not quite as user-friendly. The KB mapping and controls are
described in Help screens.



Rubywand