ZarchMan

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JBR (Posted 2006) [#1]

Hello, i was playing with lights and it kind of evolved into this. Download here! There are 8 levels - (4 easy/ 4 harder). Marg

agent4125 (Posted 2006) [#2]

I really like the look of this, but it's VERY hard to control. Also, the ZarchMan title banner doesn't appear on my machine. I only see the blue wavy thing.

Paul Murray (Posted 2006) [#3]

Darwinia :) I'll try it later. Looks funky

Red Ocktober (Posted 2006) [#4]

yeah... really looks nice M... --Mike

Geehawk (Posted 2006) [#5]

I too only get the blue wavy thing. Horrendously slow on my machine, which does at least make the contol system easier as you have time to think and react LOL

t3K|Mac (Posted 2006) [#6]

it looks like virus on the amiga.

Stevie G (Posted 2006) [#7]

Nice work James! Very tricky to collect the dots etc.. but lighting and colour are very vivid. I like the graphical style too. Runs flawlessly on my setup ... p4 3ghs , gfx440mx. As with others though ... the blue waves thing ( menu ) has no texture on it? Stevie

Grey Alien (Posted 2006) [#8]

it looks like virus on the amiga. wasn't zarch first on the Archimedes?

Steve Elliott (Posted 2006) [#9]

Yes it was. :-) Very nice! And anyone that says Zarch is too hard to control should have Gfk's voodoo treatment. ;)

JBR (Posted 2006) [#10]

Hello, I've hopefully fixed the problem...can someone try please? (All I was doing was copying an image to a texture) Thanks Marg P.S. I forgot to say that the game looks better played in the dark.

JBR (Posted 2006) [#11]

Thanks for your comments. I'll admit it is pretty dificult even using Space & Cursors. It was realy just to get used to lights. The lights are not blitz lights but my own. Every triangle is lit by 3 lights ... all done in software. In fact the main B3D commands i use are addvertex & addtriangle & clearsurface. It is these commands which slow down the computer. The menu problem ... i've changed the drawimage to a texture with a copyrect from image to texture. I'd appreciate it if someone could retest. Thanks Marg

Stevie G (Posted 2006) [#12]

The Zarchman logo works fine here James. I tried it with lights out and the lighting effects are very cool. Strangely enough .. I recently updated my z-virus game for some guys on YakYak ... nothing as fancy as that though. Stevie

JBR (Posted 2006) [#13]

Thanks Stevie (what's YakYak ?)

Stevie G (Posted 2006) [#14]

Some forum .. yakyak.org ... a few on here dwell there too.

Zenith (Posted 2006) [#15]

Plays great, I actually got the hang of pilotting that thing. Once you get the hang of it, it's just like any Thrust game. :)

smilertoo (Posted 2006) [#16]

The amiga Virus game was a port of the archimedes game Zarch.