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Stratosphere

Submitted by Quazar on Sun, 2006-06-04 21:25. Game


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Colin Piggot


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Wireframe 3D game along the lines of Battlezone or Spectre. Spanning four disks, Stratosphere also features extra music for the Quazar Surround, and supports installation onto any B-DOS compatible mass storage (Atom/Atom Lite/Trinity)


SAM Revival issue 1 - Stratosphere Tips and Tactics article



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Stratosphere - Superb!!

Submitted by Warren Lee on Thu, 2010-12-09 14:22.

Just had to comment… I finally had the chance to enjoy playing via my Trinity Ethernet Interface (Courtesy of Quazar! Go get one now!!!!).

Stratosphere really is a great game. Fast paced 3D graphics, straight forward controls, a variety of enemies, exciting action mixed with a deceptively clear search-and-collect goal for each level, all make it easily one of the best games for the SAM ever made.

For starters, just having a 3D game on the SAM is an impressive pleasure not to be missed, but on top of that, it is actually a great game, and with a highly addictive difficulty curve. Now we just need a Stratosphere 2! :-D

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Re: Stratosphere - Superb!!

Submitted by Quazar on Sun, 2010-12-12 09:16.

Glad you are enjoying the game after your recent purchase of it :D

> Now we just need a Stratosphere 2! :-D

There was a lot more planned. I’ll be writing more about what was planned as part of an article in the forthcoming special issue of SAM Revival, but as a sneak taster I was experimenting with a slight update for the original (should still have bits of this on my development disks), and a full sequel which was to have been called ‘Aurora’ (only notes jotted down while writing the original, and after Stratosphere was released I went on to explore other sorts of 3D on the SAM which resulted in the initial work carried out on ‘Chrome’). Back in 2004 I spent a day mocking up some test graphics for another genre of game but set in the Stratosphere world.

Also, for reasons I’m not yet going to explain(!) back in 2005/6 I was jot down some preliminary ideas on paper for a new Stratosphere game. Again, more to be revealed in the special SR!

Colin
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Re:Re: Stratosphere

Submitted by Warren Lee on Mon, 2010-12-13 09:29.

Looking forward to reading, in SR! ;-) I suppose another interesting aspect, is that Thomas Harte’s 3D engine might be able to open the door to a small host of new ideas in the future as well!

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Re:Re: Stratosphere

Submitted by Quazar on Wed, 2010-12-15 23:13.

Definitely - Thomas’ work on his 3D engine is amazing! I’m looking forward to see what is made using it - I wish I had the time at the moment to have a bit of a tinker with it.

The 3D stuff I did with Stratosphere is way back in the stone age by comparison - that was written purely for one task and with as many shortcuts and optimisations as possible.

Colin
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Quazar : Hardware, Software, Magazines and more for the SAM Coupe
1995-2010 - Celebrating 16 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe
Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/QuazarSamCoupe

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