Wow. I thought that this game was burried for ever and finally this is what i found that on the web. The test of this videogame i made the tracks in 1994.
This game was released on Atari Falcon.
Sorry all the press release is in french but i can resume the most important points :)
The scene takes place in year 2117. You are Damon Schumberger. You’ve been injured in a crazy accident and you cannot walk anymore. There’s a kinda big universale race on Mars… This is the brief :).
Let’s check some technical aspects of the game. (Be careful you’ve never seen that before).
- Resolution : 320 / 200 px in True color.
- A 36 Mhz acceleration speed card is recommended.
- The game is on 5 hd floppy disks (7Mo wow).
- Stereo sounds and 44Khz replay (i made 10 or 12 tracks).
- There are 3d objects and even some shadows under the objects
- You can play with keyboard of Joystick
- You can race on 30 different tracks.
- Unbeleivable animation, smooth.
The Price between 350 and 400 F (old French currency). Now it could be between 50 and 60 euros.
It sounds very funny now and really oldschool but beleive me… This game was one of the most powerful at this moment.
Someone even posted a Video on Youtube. Have fun :)
If you still own a Falcon you can get the full game here :
http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-moongames_23386.html
or there
http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-moonspeeder_s17124.html
It’s quite fun to notice that this game had 2 different names. Dunno why
Hi.
Man, 16 years since this game. I actually have both “versions”. MoonSpeeder and MoonGames. Now I just need a working Falcon. :S
My dear old Falcon has a dying (if not already dead) DSP (so no fancy games like this or Willie’s Adventure) and iffy memory. Luckily, those working on Hatari are getting somewhere with DSP emulation. Can get Willie’s Adventure, Apex, and Towers 2 running, though a bit slow and choppy sound.
Anyways, I actually came here to ask, if either you could tell me how the music is encoded (what tracker was used and what packer) or maybe “convert” to one of the many standards (Protracker, Fast tracker, Scream tracker, Impulse tracker) and put them up somewhere. One of my favourite tracks is actually the menu music in MoonSpeeder (not MoonGames). The drum and bass tune, with a bit of blip. ;)
/Edward
Hi Edward.
Quite interesting to see that this game left some good rememberings to few ;)
The musics were made using protracker on Atari ste.
If you have the original disks you may find the tunes on a disk but you are right. They were packed In one file using a Homemade program.
BUT ! I still have them in protracker and mp3 format.
Feel free to ask dude ;) leave me your Email and i may have a solution ;)
regards