Black Tiger
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A brilliant Arcade Game turned into one of the most infamous Speccy Port, often cited in CPCwiki as a prime exemple of all that is worst with such productions.
This one particulary shows the dilemma : How can a monochromatic game still display 6 colours in Mode 1, yet being monochromatic...
Well... It can and it does, yet there is no point doing it.
| Title: | Black Tiger |
| Company: | US Gold |
| Type: | Platformer |
| Year: | 1989 |
| No of Players: | 1 |
| Language: | English |
Speccy Port
Black Tiger is quite infamous for being one of the laziest speccy port.
And even more infamous because the speccy's original version is not even that good to begin with.
- Graphics : the Amstrad version use unmodified Graphical Datas. the Sprites and tiles are stored in RAM in 1bit per pixel, sprites are also masked in 1 bit per pixel. the 1bpp datas are then turned into Mode1 2bit per pixel when they are to be displayed into the Video RAM area. Which is somewhat CPU intensive.
- Also some Raster interrupt are used in order to get more than 4 colours displayed on the screen.
But the main problem is that it is quite useless as the Game's window is still monocolour.
Download
Black Tiger DSK image download
Links
- Black Tiger at CPC-Power
- Black Tiger at the English-language Wikipedia
