Whirlybird

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 18:38 — SpindleyQ

Game File:

I'm mostly uploading this to try and suss out the horrible crashy site bug that happens when you upload a game, but here! Have a game from my distant past!

Made in 1998 at the age of 16, Whirlybird is a remake of a Commodore 64 game by the same name. (It's not a popular or particularly good C64 game, by any stretch; it was on a shovelware disk that a friend of mine had.) Shoot down helicopters before they fly off the screen! Hit the mouse button to detonate a nuclear bomb which destroys everything on screen! And that's about it!

Run it in DOSBox, I couldn't be bothered to port it to Windows.

Alright fingers crossed that I get the error message

Author:

Jeremy Penner

Made For:

An event

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Fri, 09/28/2012 - 19:20 — SpindleyQ

YESSS finally tracked down

YESSS finally tracked down the error and I think I fixed it

NO MORE HORRIBLE CRASHES WHEN UPLOADING GAMES EVERYBODY YAAAAY

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Sat, 09/29/2012 - 01:56 — Noyb

I misread the instructions

I misread the instructions and thought that the only way to shoot down helicopters was to detonate a nuclear bomb. Which would have been radical.

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Sat, 09/29/2012 - 06:17 — SpindleyQ

The C64 version animates

The C64 version animates constantly-firing bullets so that its more obvious that you don't have to touch the button to fire. For whatever reason I thought this detail was unimportant.