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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