Alessandro wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:15 pm
MtM wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:11 pmMight be fun if someone did a Next conversion of it
This is the first time I see someone on this forum, or in any Spectrum-related website I know of, hoping for a conversion for the Next of a game that does not exist for the historical Spectrum(s), yet it would be perfectly feasible for it, as this
Alter Ego seems to be.
A sign of the times, maybe?
Hmm, I hadn't thought of that aspect really Alessandro, it was a bit of a throw away remark, but based on the Next's
larger memory - Alter Ego was disk only on the C64, so it would make sense for a Next version, but in truth I think
it could be converted to the the 128k Spectrum too with compression involved. It would not work as a multiload
from tape really, unless maybe you broke the game in half, each a separate load.
I think too that what motivated it was the need for good software on the Next, and Alter Ego is just that, and as
I say, it was not a lot of technical wizardry hitting the C64 h/w directly, just menus and icons and text - it doesn't even
have any sound at all in it, which may seem crackers for a C64 game, but it really doesn't need it. This is the kind of
game you play whilst listening to the soundtrack of your life. Doesn't really feel
like a game, but its power to engross is as strong as anything I have ever played. If you have never played it it really is
worth trying. I write this in the belief that whilst we are all clearly Spectrum fans here, a lot of us love other old machines
and games too, and it would be remiss to think that there are some brilliant games on the C64 that could live on in
the Spectrum as well, so in a way all fans of old machines uphold this notion with the support they show for their chosen
hardware and software.