RoadHog 1990/91.Finished on 6th May 1991 by Nigel Cawthorne.

     G'day Amosites,
                    Thank you for taking a look at my game. I have only
      had my beloved Amiga fo 15 months, AMOS for 3 months. I realised
      that programming, despite the relative simplicity of AMOS, was
      going to be a fairly time consuming task (heaps of sleepless nights
      peering at the monitor;sound familiar??). To make things easier
      I decided to programme a very simple game using only 2 sprites and
      screen offset. I did many experiments with the commands associated
      with screens and sprites and eventually began to combine them all.
                    Then I took all my simple routines and combined them
      all with some amal strings defined inside AMOS-BASIC (not an amal
      memory bank) and RoadHog began to take shape!!
                    This first version was very slow and jumpy.I was
      pretty disgusted with it.So I learnt to use the Amal Editor, and
      whaddyknow?? It gave me much more impressive results.
                    Then,just when I thought it was finished,I decided
      to figure out a way to get 8-way joystick control(I had only ever
      had 4-way).Then I was lucky enough to have my wonderful mother
      buy me a Golden-Image-Optical-Mouse.I redid all the PLAY patterns
      and I kid you not fellow Amosites, it improved the visual quality
      of the game greatly.This may a point for others to consider.
                     Although RoadHog is boring and simple, I feel that
      the programming of it is fairly well done.Please take the time to
      have a peek at the Amal memory bank and send any improvements
      which you could suggest for music,graphics, or programming.Also
      anyone requiring Soundtracker modules to consider for their own
      games can send a disk ( NO I WON'T RIP YOU OFF A DOLLAR BY NOT
      RETURNING YOUR DISK ) and I'll send you a demo immediately.(They'll
      probably be in the library soon anyway.) If you decided to use
      any of my music I wouldn't expect any payment, just a small
      credit somewhere in the title screen etc.
                       I am currently halfway through a major,3 level
      adventure and a large demo containg about 8 different Soundtracker
      modules.Both will be available soon.The game uses screen offset,
      bobs and a dual playfield.It is starting to shape up very well
      and is much more fun to play then RoadHog (but then again what isn't?)
                     See Ya,
                            Happy Amosing,
                                         Nigel Cawthorne

                                 (Amos,Noisetracker and lead guitar freak.)

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