Re: Wings of Fury Engine Sounds

[Donald Lee <leed@sfsu.edu>]

Hello,

	Hey Mitchell, thanks for the hint.  The egg or trick you talked
about, I accidently did it once when I was playing Wings of Fury.  I was
kind of wondering why I had so many planes.  I don't recall what I did,
but I may have rebooted the game because I thought something was wrong!
:(  Anyway, after that time, I tried recreating the trick, but no luck.
Thanks for telling me how to do it.  

	On the other subject of sounds through the cassette port, I
remember some of the games I had played their sounds through the port.  I
believe Stargate by Atarisoft was one of them.  It was nice to actually
turn the volume up since it was impossible with the IIe speaker.  I do
recall there were other games also, but I don't remember specifically.  

	And since we are here, anyone know why the sounds were sent over
the cassette port anyway?  Was it a design feature, or it just happened to
be that way?  I know certain programs back in the old days asked
specifically if you wanted the sound through the cassette port for better
sound quality (I remember a music program from Softdisk that did that),
but the games never mentioned it and sound quality didn't get better, just
louder if you wanted to.  

-Don
	


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On 7 Oct 1996, Mitchell Spector wrote:

> In article dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail) writes...
> 
> >Edhel Iaur (drsmooth@relex.com) wrote:
> >: I was just playing Wings of Fury, and I noticed some sound coming out
> >: the cassette port.  It's kinda icky, I know, but is this sound just a
> >: side-effect, or is it supposed to be there?
> > 
> >I don't imagine it was a bug.  Looks like you found an easter egg to add
> >to my basket!
> 
>     Speaking of bugs in Wings of Fury (or perhaps it was an easter-egg?)
> long ago, I discovered you could trick the game into thinking you had
> infinite lives. All it involves is crashing your last plane onto the deck 
> of a sinking enemy ship at the right moment (that moment being just when 
> the white bar with scrolling message appears). 
> 
>     The counter will say '0' lives left and tell you "Game Over" but 
> once the plane on deck hits the water and sinks with the ship, it'll try 
> deducting yet another life. Of course you have none left, so it counts 
> negatively, thus in turn pushing your number of planes to an unlimited 
> total. It's interesting to see your carrier with nine reserved planes 
> on deck. ;) (the maximum number of lives, but you'll have more).
> 
> Mitchell Spector
> spec@vax2.concordia.ca
> 
>