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Was completely obsessed with this game on the school computers. Had an Amiga at home but never knew it had a port till like 10 years later.

scrumper 2y ago
Same here, we loved it at school. Also a liquid simulator called "Aliquid" has just popped into my memory. Hours of fun. Despite playing hours and hours of Elite on the school BBCs before we got a room full of Archimedes machines, I've only just today noticed that Lander was also made by David Braben.
- WWWWH 2y ago
  I also wasted a lot of my youth playing Elite, so much fun. Check out the page--it also has annotated source code for Elite (a few different versions up there).
  - flir 2y ago
    ...E-Type... (who's up next?)
    - mattkevan 2y ago
      Oh man, that brings back memories. I had a four pack of games from The Fourth Dimension - Cataclysm, Apocalypse, Chocks Away and E-Type. They were pretty much the only games we actually bought, rather than just demos from cover disks, so I played the absolute heck out of them. Even after many hours of flying time, I could never stick the landings in Chocks Away.
    - Lio 2y ago
      Chocks Away anyone?
      - mattbee 2y ago
        I genuinely think that is the best Archimedes-only game, just pure arcade fun with split screen dogfights. Such an amazing technical grounding. In 1990!
      - dave-f 2y ago
        Great game, I seem to remember you could play two player using a serial cable, and my friend brought his Archimedes around, we spent literally all night playing it
      - louthy 2y ago
        Loved Chocks Away! + Nevryon (rip off of R-Type)
- whywhywhywhy 2y ago
  > Same here, we loved it at school. Also a liquid simulator called "Aliquid" We had that too, think our copy was just called ‘Water’. Spent a lot of my teenage coding experimenting trying to recreate that, but none of the engines I had access to were suitable for the task as they didn’t have direct pixel access. Wasn’t till I learnt Processing way later that I managed to replicate it. Wish I’d shared my replication around more because this was a good 8 or so years before the “falling sand game” genre got memetic.

scrumper 2y ago

Same here, we loved it at school. Also a liquid simulator called "Aliquid" has just popped into my memory. Hours of fun. Despite playing hours and hours of Elite on the school BBCs before we got a room full of Archimedes machines, I've only just today noticed that Lander was also made by David Braben.

WWWWH 2y ago
I also wasted a lot of my youth playing Elite, so much fun. Check out the page--it also has annotated source code for Elite (a few different versions up there).
- flir 2y ago
  ...E-Type... (who's up next?)
  - mattkevan 2y ago
    Oh man, that brings back memories. I had a four pack of games from The Fourth Dimension - Cataclysm, Apocalypse, Chocks Away and E-Type. They were pretty much the only games we actually bought, rather than just demos from cover disks, so I played the absolute heck out of them. Even after many hours of flying time, I could never stick the landings in Chocks Away.
  - Lio 2y ago
    Chocks Away anyone?
    - mattbee 2y ago
      I genuinely think that is the best Archimedes-only game, just pure arcade fun with split screen dogfights. Such an amazing technical grounding. In 1990!
    - dave-f 2y ago
      Great game, I seem to remember you could play two player using a serial cable, and my friend brought his Archimedes around, we spent literally all night playing it
    - louthy 2y ago
      Loved Chocks Away! + Nevryon (rip off of R-Type)
whywhywhywhy 2y ago
> Same here, we loved it at school. Also a liquid simulator called "Aliquid" We had that too, think our copy was just called ‘Water’. Spent a lot of my teenage coding experimenting trying to recreate that, but none of the engines I had access to were suitable for the task as they didn’t have direct pixel access. Wasn’t till I learnt Processing way later that I managed to replicate it. Wish I’d shared my replication around more because this was a good 8 or so years before the “falling sand game” genre got memetic.