Friday, July 15, 2016

Apple II Game Vindicator by HAL Labs

I remember this game Vindicator primarily because it had a unique feature: it had a built-in sprite editor.

I tried to figure out how to get back into the editor after all of these years, furiously typing CTRL+everything but finally I found the answer: When you are in the level and joystick selection screen, type ESC.


The only feature that would've been really neat would be to save to disk because all of your edits are lost upon reboot.




Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.







Type ESC at the "Hit space to start" screen to get to the editor.



Sprites #0 and #1 are your man.



Sprite #31 is the chopper. Get to da choppa!




And trying to take a screen shot of gameplay with Alt+printscreen activates the smartbomb (disruptor) and everything blows up.









By the way, if you type ENTER at the level/joystick selection screen, it will cycle through keyboard/joystick and gizmo. What was a gizmo?

edit: The gizmo was an atari joystick to apple adapter.



Sprite #3 is a blue 500



If we shift it to the right it becomes orange




If we set the high bit (using the line of colons on the right of the image) it turns green



and shifting it one over it turns purple

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