Games That Weren't 64

Falk Troeger speaks to GTW about Fears of Darkness...

"I´ve never known that someone released and "cracked" my preview version. Funny...

The whole thing started in 1992 as the 64er-mag released Manfred Trenz´s Katakis Development System. I just had turned 18 and thougth by myself: "Its time to make some "Turrican"-like game. Or so." Pure megalomania. ;-)

I started painting some level graphic and sprites and begun coding... until 1994.

I sent a preview version to a guy in Fulda. He said he would like to help me releasing the game when its finished. As I know now he obviously decided to "crack-release" it. ;-)

I worked further on the game, so there are:

* new enemies and traps: a turning stone, fireballs, arrows, disks
* doors (you needed a key to open it)
* a pushable pillar to disable the spiked turning somethings for a short time
* additional "world 1" graphics in the level
* some "world 2" graphics
* a "turbo loader" for the 1541 that worked nice while IRQs are enabled

Maybe some floppies still work. If so I can send you some shots of this material.

I ripped the music from "Last Ninja 2" and relocated it from $4000 to $1000 by changing some $4x bytes that seemed to look like pointers. Can´t believe that this have worked. ;-) In late 1994 I dicided to cancel this project..."

Falk Troeger.