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Something slightly different now for GTW.... a rather different version of John Lowe's Darts by Gremlin, a much earlier version before any of the endorsements were put into effect.
Back in the early 80's, Mike Partington was wanting to create an accurate darts simulation and started to build a computerized simulation on the C64 from around 1986 time. This he did, and he had a rather impressive simulation coming together.
First the game was called "Darts Practice", and then later changed to "Game On". CDS took a particular interest to the game and offered Mike a contract for the game in 1987. CDS would have put music and speech into the game, and the game would have come out in 1988 had the offer been accepted. However, Gremlin did get the game and got the title endorsed later by John Lowe. After many delays, the game eventually became released in 1989.
We learn that Ben Daglish almost composed the C64 tune, but even though a song was written in sheet form... a C64 version was probably never started.
Stadium 64 first had contact from Mike who was after someone to port his work disks with the earlier versions. GTW offered to do this, and Mike has kindly allowed GTW to put out the earlier versions for preservation purposes. They are a very interesting insight into the early stages of the game's life.
Some key differences between some of the versions we offer today are graphics, titles and text. The actual game itself is pretty much as it was originally.
And now you can also check out the source code, which comes as part of the download!
So go check it out... nothing more to be found, so case closed before it begins!
Frank.
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source credits - Stadium 64 and Mike Partington) |
