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Re: Anyone have a complete Aquatron (full disk, original or .nib)?
On Saturday, September 22, 2012 8:13:07 AM UTC-4, Hot Rod wrote:
> On Saturday, September 22, 2012 12:03:02 AM UTC-5, Steve Nickolas wrote:
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> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Hot Rod wrote:
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> > > While checking out the various keypress compares in Aquatron, I find
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> > > some that seem to want to connect to code that is no longer present (at
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> > > least not present in the file-based cracks). I'm curious if an original
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> > > disk (or full disk image) would shed some light on it. All I can find
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> > I'd like to find a copy of the game without a garbled title screen.
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> The 'uncredited' crack in the file-based section of Asimov has a clean title screen.
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> Here are the list of keys if someone wants to play with it.
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> W goes to an RTS now (looks like it might have had code?)
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> Esc pauses
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> Ctrl-S toggles sounds
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> Ctrl-R resets/restarts
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> Ctrl-T toggles joystick/keyboard
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> Ctrl-Y toggles something
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> Ctrl-X toggles something
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> Ctrl-I redefine keyboard input
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> Ctrl-@ increases level
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> Ctrl-C restarts (jumps to same address as Ctrl-R)
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> If you mess with the Ctrl-X and Ctrl-Y enough, it seems to hang (and looks like the code has wandered off).
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> There are the regular game play inputs too (not listed here).
That was one I uploaded...
I've been after the one shown in this screenshot from Jason Scott for some time:
http://artscene.textfiles.com/intros/APPLEII/aquatronc.gif
At my request, he generously sent me his entire archive of disk images but that particular crack of Aquatron doesn't seem to be among them.