Alcon 2020 released

[zhulien]

i have made a video which i am temporarily uploading to youtube - says about 10 mins remaining for it's processing at the youtube end.

[zhulien]

Yes, for sure - if i can find one

[zhulien]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWN8_XNwL8

Jerky on the TV comes out wobbly in the recording

[TotO]

I have never seen that. Very nice effect for a watter demo!

[zhulien]

the randomness is the oddity, like a register isn't being setup sometimes (if it is a software issue) - but I will try find another scart CRT tv to try on

[zhulien]

I was just playing Tiger Heli after so many years - and I thought having played Alcon recently they seem to look almost identical.  Anyway, I checked who developed both and bingo, both developed by Toaplan - and just like Psikyo makes Gunbird, strikers Series and a host of other shooters using the same engine, it looks like Toaplan did the same with Tiger Heli and Alcon.

@abalore Any chance you'd want to make a CPC version of Tiger Heli with the fantastic quality of your Alcon 2020 game?  The game mechanics are very similar (not exact), the graphics of course totally different as are the level layouts - but Tiger Heli is also an awesome game from the same era but for some reason absent from the CPC library.

[TotO]

You may try Twin Cobra so!

[abalore]

I was just playing Tiger Heli after so many years - and I thought having played Alcon recently they seem to look almost identical.  Anyway, I checked who developed both and bingo, both developed by Toaplan - and just like Psikyo makes Gunbird, strikers Series and a host of other shooters using the same engine, it looks like Toaplan did the same with Tiger Heli and Alcon.

@abalore Any chance you'd want to make a CPC version of Tiger Heli with the fantastic quality of your Alcon 2020 game?  The game mechanics are very similar (not exact), the graphics of course totally different as are the level layouts - but Tiger Heli is also an awesome game from the same era but for some reason absent from the CPC library.

Yes, it's basically the same game with other skin. With a small adition of very few air to air enemies. I don't plan to make it by now but I hope when I release AbaloreOS anyone will be able to do it by himself. It has all the Alcon engine features.

[Duke]

but Tiger Heli is also an awesome game from the same era but for some reason absent from the CPC library.

I agree, it is a great game - some years ago I planned to do this for CPC as this is kind of the perfect game for CPC, just like ALCON.
- I only got around to arranging some borrowed graphics and set it with tile mapping etc and did a PC player.
You can download the PC player here for fun, it might inspire someone to do this game for CPC aswell.
https://www.spinpoint.org/test.zip (windoze)
Unzip the directory and run tiger.exe, then you can control the heli with arrow keys and pause/unpause with space (no fire and no enemies). The side scroll might be challenge on CPC.

Sorry for OT.

[TotO]

Yes, it's basically the same game with other skin. With a small adition of very few air to air enemies. I don't plan to make it by now but I hope when I release AbaloreOS anyone will be able to do it by himself. It has all the Alcon engine features.

I agree, it is a nice "tutorial" project for programmers using the Alcon engine.

[Anthony Flack]

Oh yes! Tiger Heli would be brilliant on the Alcon engine. Its feature set is largely identical, almost a reskin as Abalore says. There's no horizontal scrolling.

Twin Cobra is another matter, that's probably exceeding the CPC's ability to do it proper justice. But Tiger Heli would be great! If this can be done with AbaloreOS then I expect we will see many more interesting shmup projects on the CPC.