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An incomplete game from the 80's from Mark Incley was found...

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https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... abado.html
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Great news. The arcade game is very funny.
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Is there a download?
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Ralf wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 8:30 pm Is there a download?
Yes :)

www.inkland.org.uk/inkspector/tb.zip
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Sorry, now link on the post, my fault. ..
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Thanks for the download. Now I could play it.

The good thing about is that it is very smooth.

The bad thing are crazy, eye hurting colour schemes on later levels. It also seems to have some crazy difficulty.
You may not notice it as the download works in immunity mode but in real gameplay I wouldn't survive 10 seconds I guess.

The sprites seems also unfinished in some cases, a shapes without details.

But I'm always happy to see old games recovered from the void.

Is anybody going to work on it now and add some finishing touches?
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"From the 80's"? The author himself said he started work on it 'about 10 years ago'.
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djnzx48 wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:01 pm "From the 80's"? The author himself said he started work on it 'about 10 years ago'.
Yep, it is from 2009 :)
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Ivanzx wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:28 pm
djnzx48 wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:01 pm "From the 80's"? The author himself said he started work on it 'about 10 years ago'.
Yep, it is from 2009 :)
But the listing file says: "Started on July 6th 2010".
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Yep, fixed it. Thanks, just noticed the date later :)
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djnzx48 wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:46 am
Ivanzx wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:28 pm Yep, it is from 2009 :)
But the listing file says: "Started on July 6th 2010".
Haha he stated that he started it 10 years ago so I assumed that it was 2009, but it was a bit later
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Hi. Yes I started it a while ago but it was shelved along with two other games while I worked on other things (mainly InkSpector2), but I do intend to finish it :)
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Inky wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:08 pm Hi. Yes I started it a while ago but it was shelved along with two other games while I worked on other things (mainly InkSpector2), but I do intend to finish it :)
The game looks promising in its current state, so I think it would be a pity not to finish it :)
It caused quite interest in the Spanish Spectrum scene ;)

Please keep us posted about the updates!
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