Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome
Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome
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BACK at the start of this year when<br />
the guys at Random Access saw<br />
Battle Squadron being hailed as a<br />
better shoorem-up than Xenon 2,<br />
they vowed to write an even better<br />
one. It was to be the sequel to<br />
Silkworm and would be called<br />
Silkworm IV, -<br />
because<br />
times as good."<br />
i tAt 'that l l time nobody took into<br />
consideration that Silkworm was<br />
b e<br />
an arcade license, which meant<br />
fthat oif Random u Access wanted to<br />
ruse<br />
the name Silkworm, it would<br />
cost them, despite the fact that<br />
Silkworm IV would have been a<br />
totally original game, not a coin-op<br />
conversion.<br />
I'm telling you all this so you<br />
understand where the name SWIV<br />
came from. SilkWorm IV - AVIV.<br />
Got it? Good.<br />
Out on the Storm label in<br />
November, by the way.<br />
This SWIV demo has been specially<br />
programmed for you. It's not<br />
the first level, or anything like that.<br />
What you've got are the opening<br />
CRIBBAGE is an old English card<br />
game, said to have been invented<br />
in the 16th century by Sir John<br />
Suckling. It is a refinement of an<br />
earlier card game called Noddy.<br />
To start the game, double click<br />
on its icon. When the main layout<br />
appears you will see a scoreboard<br />
at top-left. Computer is blue, you<br />
are red.<br />
There is a grey box at top-right<br />
showing how many games have<br />
been won by each player and an<br />
orange box at top-centre showing<br />
the total value of the cards which<br />
have been played.<br />
The green box on the left holds<br />
the cards in the crib. This also<br />
indicates (at the top of the box)<br />
who has the crib. The crib alter-<br />
IF Mil 11 IN<br />
MAW DEMO<br />
background graphics re-mapped to<br />
show off some of the features from<br />
later in the game.<br />
swnt doesn't have levels - it's<br />
one continuous vertically scrolling<br />
landscape with 12 intermediate<br />
enemy installations where the<br />
scrolling stops until you've zapped<br />
everything in sight. After each<br />
installation has been wiped out,<br />
the landscape changes. In the full<br />
Source code<br />
THE source code for Cribbage is<br />
on the cover disk in the<br />
Cribbage drawer in a crunched<br />
format. It can be examined by<br />
double clicking the<br />
Cribbage.BAS icon. Select the<br />
Print gadget when viewing to<br />
get a hardcopy.<br />
Should you wish tp play with<br />
or customise the listing, you<br />
will have to decrtmch it first.<br />
The program for doing this,<br />
Decnmch• is in the C: directory<br />
of the cover disk.<br />
nates after each hand. The large<br />
box to the right of the crib holds<br />
the cards during play. The white<br />
box on the right holds the com-<br />
game there will( be a jungle landscape,<br />
an icy wasteland, a space<br />
graveyard, a science fiction landscape<br />
. I don't want to spoil it for<br />
you, so I'll stop giving the game<br />
away.<br />
The demo is single player: the<br />
game itself will be one or two<br />
player.<br />
You'll start off with one player<br />
in the helicopter and the other in<br />
Cethage<br />
puter's cards, the blue area below<br />
the crib box and the play box will<br />
hold your cards.<br />
There is a gadget marked<br />
REVEAL OFF underneath the box<br />
which holds the computer's cards.<br />
Use this if you want to cheat during<br />
play.<br />
Prompts and messages are displayed<br />
in the box at the foot of the<br />
screen.<br />
The game starts with a question:<br />
Do you want muggins rules? If you<br />
choose “Y" you will have to add<br />
up and declare the score in your<br />
•••.;.„<br />
the jeep, but at some time during<br />
the game you'll be able to change<br />
vehicles so that you can have a<br />
two-chopper or two-jeep game if<br />
you like.<br />
There's very little thinking<br />
involved in playing SWIV. The<br />
idea is simply to blast your way<br />
from one end of the game to the<br />
other, leaving behind a trail of<br />
destruction.<br />
There will be several power-ups<br />
to collect, and it will be important<br />
in certain places which power-up<br />
you take on board.<br />
An expert player will take 40 to<br />
50 minutes to finish the whole<br />
game, depending on how long it<br />
takes to finish off the intermediate<br />
installations, so it'll be no mean<br />
feat if you get to the big end of<br />
game sequence, which is really<br />
something special and a trademark<br />
of the Random Access development<br />
team.<br />
You don't need any instructions<br />
to play this SWIV demo: Just plug<br />
in a joystick.<br />
own hand yourself.<br />
With muggins rules switched on<br />
you must input your score using<br />
the up and down arrow keys, then<br />
hit Return. Your opponent (the<br />
computer, in this case) will decide<br />
what it thinks your score is. If you<br />
have omitted to score something,<br />
the computer will draw your attention<br />
to it and score those points for<br />
itself,<br />
hi a game between two humans<br />
this action is accompanied by a<br />
AMIGA COMPUTING November 1990 59
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