At the main page of our website you can see a first screenshot of Thunder in the Deep, by Deviant group. This is the image of part of one game level. Authors have tried to create a more interesting game than Boulder Dash for example. Possibility to use weapon, the meeting with different enemies and bonuses. All actions of the main hero has nice animation and sound effects. Only some of new features will be present in the demo version, which include one simple level. Quantity of levels in the game is unknown today.
The game uses the Accelerator and Sprinter's Audio System (mode of Covox with buffer). The game needs BIOS 3.00.

Also the game uses hardware scrolling of screen, which was made specially for arcade games. Game include file with special version of firmware (which define hardware features) for loading to the Altera PLD. All changes of firmware will be temporary. Previous firmware will be restored after game finishing. Usage of special version of firmware do possibility more fluent movement of the game screen, pixel by pixel, for example.
So, this new drive is cause of delay of demo version publishing. But we hope, the demo version will be finished this week. Demo version will be free, certainly. And several new screenshots of different levels will be published for our visitors who haven't Sprinter today.


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Why don't you use this special firmware? It couldn't temporary because fluent movments could be useful for others applications and games

This version of firmware was created specially for a new game, Thunder in the Deep. This is the first Sprinter game which necessarily needs fluent movements by hardware. But any your new program will has possibility to use it. We will publish this version of firmware (separated file with documentation, certainly) after release of Thunder in the Deep.

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Some news about the game.
The game has a scenario. Thunder search... something.
The hero will be traveling in several worlds.
Some levels will include a puzzle.
Each group of levels can has a boss.
Diamonds (or rubies? ) serves for opening a door, certainly. But level can has more one solution...

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Some news from authors of Thunder in the Deep.
Code of the game was optimized. Now the game has screen in one frame.
Next step - audio effects.

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Demo version of the game will be published 15 of November as ZIP file (0,5Mb).
Demo version works on the real Sprinter computer only. All visitors will see several most interesting screenshots.


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Demo version of the game is available now. Authors (Deviants) wait your opinions and suggestions.
This game is the first experience of usage a parts of traditional gamemakers technology on the Sprinter. But nice gameplay is a main target of the work, certainly.

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good job!!

Graphic is very nice, I remeber the Amiga...
Tthe frame of the hero is cool !
I don't have ear the music :(
I hope is present in the next release.
The redefine key option dosen't work.

Compliment at the Deviants for this good game!

davide

I'm having problems loading it. My BIOS is v3.00.253, and Estex v1.55.

The problem is:

o- I boot to Estex, then FN starts,
o- I quit FN, and change directory to C:\GAMES\THUNDER (where I unzipped it),
o- I start the EXE. Screens for PetersPlus and Deviants appear (VERY NICE screens, I must say),
o- After the screens fade out, I have the main "intro" screen (superb!), some disk activity, and... NOTHING ELSE. Disk activity stops and keyboard dead, no mouse. Only way out is RESET.

Any suggestions? Am I doing anything the wrong way? Should I place the game in the root folder or something? Some software titles have those "odd" requirements...

I'm downloading it again, just in case. Will let all you know.

Thanks for the help!

Marcelo.
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Speccy rules, its staff is Sprinter.

May be, bad quality of the game copy is cause of your trouble. Flex Navigator has poor control of disk errors. Try to copy already extracted game from PC HDD to Sprinter HDD.
We know, Sprinter needs support of PC Link... We should finish this work.

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