Games That Weren't 64

Mike Partington speaks about work on Game On!...

"I managed to fix the GAME ON disk. The problem was because it was the tape version stored on disk. A quick fix to the internal loading routine at $3940 and the job was done. The routine at $3940 then did a jump to $5000 hence the sys 20480 wouldn't work because part 2 wasn't in memory. Easy as pie.

I've enclosed the original for you to have a look at. The scroller message was naff and out of date by at least one year. It says I programmed this over a one year period from April 1986. This version was April 1988 hence it was two years. I just hadn't changed the scrolling message for at least a year ! Don't use this version of the game.....

I've enclosed a modified version which is exactly the same game but I've changed the scrolling message to something a little more professional. You can use this game on your gtw website if you like. This game never came out under the name 'GAME ON'. It nearly did though since CDS did offer me a contract in 1987. They also offered to put Music and Speech into the game. If I 'd have taken the CDS contract then this game would have come out in early 1988 on the CDS label instead of waiting around for another one and a half years at Gremlin for the Amiga and Atari versions to be made.

There you go... a little piece of gaming history ;-)"

Mike Partington.

To read more about Mike's game - check out the excellent write up on Stadium 64... http://s64.emuunlim.com/gameinfos/johnlowesultimatedarts/mikepartingtonultimatedartsnotes.htm