|  Into The Eagle's Nest Deluxe | | Title: | Into The Eagle's Nest Deluxe | | Original version: | Into The Eagle's Nest | | Category: | Game/Gauntlet | | Release Date: | 2023-12-05 | | Language: | English | | Size: | 64K | | Machine: | PAL & NTSC | | Code Type: | Machine code | | Distribution: | Freeware | | Game ending type: | Has an end, game ends | | |  | | Released by: | Legion Of Doom (LOD) | | Created by: | Csabo | | Notes: | Complete 4 missions in an enemy castle, rescuing prisoners and blowing it up. An improved conversion of the original with many extras. |
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| | Sounds/Music | | Link | Filesize | Description |
| [ Download ] | 1.9MB | A HQ mix of the original. (by Csabo) |
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| | Image Gallery |  Tribute to the Elders  Intro  Title screen  Documentation  In-game title  Cheat menu  Fighting in the basement  The bitter end |
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| | Description | Below is a partial list of changes and improvements.
Compared to the Plus/4 version
- Bugfix: prisoner following the player. This was broken only in the Plus/4 version.
- All colors fixed throughout.
- Removed all C64 sprite code. Instead of writing to non-existent registers and then converting those, the sprite handling was completely rewritten with native code.
- Updated code and charset to make room for 16 extra chars for the player's sprite. This allowed new custom graphics for player, including re-implemented shooting muzzle flash, all of which was done with sprites in the C64 version.
- New (native) custom music (the old one did not play the melody correctly, it had an "octave jump" problem).
- New (native) custom sounds. Instead of attempting to convert the in-game sounds, they have been lovingly recreated.
- A new castle recreated for the side panel (using mostly existing characters). The original used sprites.
- Explosion flashing color feature added back.
- Fixed random number generator; yellow crates will (randomly) now have loot.
Compared to the C64 version
- Bugfix: fixed garbled chars on first floor map.
- Bugfix: firing the bullet to the right never stopped (causing random odd bugs).
- Bugfix: picking up jewels sometimes drew the empty crate in the wrong place.
- NTSC compatibility added, on NTSC, the playing area is narrower. The C64 version was PAL only, although a separate NTSC-only release exists.
- Added item pickup sound for jewels. Since this had separate code handling, the sound missing in the original was probably an oversight.
- Side panel fixed (all hires colors)
- Intro auto-detects which joy port is used
- Added keyboard controls (press space from intro) - cursor keys + space.
- Typos fixed, space from before "!" removed
- Improved digits 1,4,7 in the 2x2 font (proper center alignment)
- Color improvements: extra shades of yellow and green added throughout the map, basement has darker walls.
- Vase redrawn, the original was a weird mix of multi/hires
- Several minor fixes to the map (odd corners, unreachable crates)
- Redrawn gun for enemy facing left (it had inconsistent color)
- Table next to officers fixed (red color added)
- Screen transition out synced to frame (instead of using delay) to avoid tearing
- "Gemstones" renamed to jewels (for consistency)
- Apostrophe added to 2x2 font (and into scroll text), special apostrophe (custom chars) for highscores screen
- Removed flashes and other small glitches from intro screen
- "Right" allows intro screens to be quickly toggled
- During explosion, color change is synced to bottom of screen
- Added red warning color for "hits" getting dangerous, ammo getting low
- Massive code optimization and reorganization, moved all variables to zp, etc.
Extras
New cheat menu:
- enemies die from one bullet
- enemy respawn can be disabled
- enemy speed (they can also be made faster!)
- invulnerability
- unlimited ammo
- player speed (player can also be made slower!)
- all doors are open
- lifts open
- safe explosives
- lift hotkey (L)
- nuke hotkey (N)
- ghost mode hotkey (G)
Original title screen and documentation added.
Note: you can press space during the startup, the screen will immediately go blank and everything will be skipped - go straight to the game.
Big thanks to KiCHY (for graphics help and graphics related ideas) and to Luca and MMS for testing. |
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