Cavern Racer
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Cavern Racer by Jools Henn
Licence
TBC
Introduction
Similar to 1983's Bally Midway classic Spy Hunter, Cavern Racer is a modern MODE 4 software scrolling vertical racing game for the BBC Micro.
Cavern Racer was originally conceived during a discussion at The Videolympics event hosted at the Lass O'Gowrie pub in Manchester on the 4-5th August 2012, after some of the attendees reminisced about a very simple BASIC game from the Usborne book Computer Spacegames, where the object is to escape the forces of the evil Dissectitrons by flying your single-seater Speed Dart along the jagged, bottomless ravine known as Death Valley.
Platforms
BBC Microcomputer
Original by Jools Henn
Downloads
Cavern Racer v0.1 Tech Demo disc version (.ssd)
A quick tech demo for the BBC Micro. Full Mode 4 software scrolling - running at a pretty much rock-solid 50 frames per second. It's interactive, too - you can change the speed with the Z and X keys. You start to get some graphical glitches if you really increase it to breakneck speeds, that's just because the Beeb is having trouble "racing the beam" down the screen when drawing it :)
Usborne Computer Space Games - Death Valley disc version (.ssd)
Before you start, the computer will ask you for the width of the valley - start at 15 and work your way down. 8 is considered quite difficult according to the book. Steer with Q to go left and P to go right.
Screenshots
Cavern Racer v0.1 Tech Demo
Posted: 09:38, 07 Aug 2012