silkworm

[cpc4eva]

does anyone know if the missile in silkworm can be destroyed ?

attached is a picture of it.

also the white jets that hoard the playing field are almost impossible to destroy any one have any hints or tips on silkworm ??

love the game especially how you can control both jeep and heli with 1 joystick.....

how about that ending screen are you serious hahaha

[tastefulmrship]

Wow! Someone still using WinAPE2A17...

[cpc4eva]

Wow! Someone still using WinAPE2A17...

loaded from cpc games cd.........

i take it i have an old version of the cpc games cd ?

[EgoTrip]

Silkworm is best played with a second player controlling the jeep.

[AMSDOS]

I've completed the game a few times without cheating, though I don't recall ever destroying those large lightning rod like missiles, occasionally they fly through while you're destroying the other alien ships too, though it seems to be a timed thing which occurs during a certain part of the game. With the End-of-Level Helicopter I think that too is timed or you have to attack the Helicopter from a position where it cannot fire it's Large Missile. But I kind of cheat by having the Jeep and the Helicopter working together on Joystick 0 and just keep firing even when there's nothing to fire at in participation for whatever is going to rear it's ugly head, usually handy for those White Ships too, usually I've got extra fire power for when those Ships appear too so can destroy them fairly easily.

[cpc4eva]

ive tried and tried and i dont think they can be destroyed the best option is to avoid them damn it i would love to blow one of those large lightning rod like missiles..... im pretty sure they are called silkworm missiles -

[MacDeath]

Silkworm is one of the best exemple of asymetric multiplayer gameplay (in Co-op) on the CPC.


To bad SWIV (the sequel) was a... you guess it ?




=Mode1 in 256x192
check
=1bpp monocolour graphics
check
=not quite fast as it could be so the longplay have to be in emulation speed set to 200%
wait a minute...


it an awfull speccy port of death... dammit !!!
even scramble spirit seems better ported...

I hate it when the first opus of a game is done right for CPC and great and when the second opus is one of the laziest lamiest speccy port of the worst kind.

[Gryzor]

Silkworm is best played with a second player controlling the jeep.

You're taking half the fun away. Of course multiplayer games are always nice, but it was also awesome that they managed to make the game playable when controlling both vehicles!


[EDIT] Hahaha I love how the vid was done at twice the speed

[MacDeath]

yeah, how to pass crappy speccyports under the radar...