Scorch News for Atari 8-bit Computers
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Graphical improvements, new fonts and sound effects are among the new features in "Scorch," a war game for Atari 8-bit computers.
AsWe reported months ago in Atariteca, Tomasz "Pecus" Pecko and Pawel "Pirx" Kalinowski (Poland) have resumed their project to port the PC game «Scorched Earth» after a hiatus of almost two years.
The latest revision of the game has added sound effects created by renowned musician Michal "Miker" Szpilowski, as well as a new text font designed by Adam Wachowski.
Scorch now offers a "Seppuku" option, allowing tanks embarrassed by their performance to turn the weapon on themselves. Riot Charge, Riot Blast, and Liquid Dirt weapons have also been added.
Meanwhile, non-existent weapons are no longer offered in the game menu, there are background lines simulating a gradient, and the game memorizes player names for subsequent matches.
Finally, various bugs were fixed and the memory map was optimized to free up more than 9KiB of RAM.
Scorch update for Atari 8-bit computers
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To correctly display the names of acquired weapons, Altirra users must configure the emulator withView > Overscan Mode > Extended.
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