Re: "Thexder"

["Roger Johnstone" <bhmhome@es.co.nz>]

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In article <Pine.HPP.3.96.991103154405.14218C-100000@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us>,
"Donald C. Lee" <dlee17@ccsf.cc.ca.us> wrote:


>Hi guys,
>
>    A few years ago when the Asimov site kicked in, I was surprised to see
>and hear that Thexder from Sierra had been released for the 8 bit Apple
>II's!  
>
>    I was a pretty avid A2 gamer back in those days and never heard of
>Thexder released for the 8 bit II's.  Anyone have any info or heck even
>the original game?  I'm just curious of the background since I don't
>recall seeing any news about it.
>
>Don
>
>Donald Lee
>http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/bay/6073
>"Finally, brethen, whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, of
>good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise,
>let your mind dwell on these things"  Philippians 4:8 NASB
>

I played the 8 bit version a couple of years ago on a IIe and remember being
very impressed with it. It would use either hi-res or double hi-res if you
had it. The speed on a stock 1MHz IIe was quite impressive for a double
hi-res game, I always got the impression from other computer games that to
do that sort of animation you needed a much faster computer. Obviously the
programmers were good at their job.

Roger Johnstone.