Hunter III - The Final Straw


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Hunter III - The Final Straw

David Rushall, 1986

Carefully pilot your helicopter down the Final Straw, the infamous underground fortress. Armed with missiles, bombs and a winch, you'll have to solve many puzzles along the way.

Just about playable, but includes nasty random deaths.

Written in BASIC, with a selection of machine code routines, this program only just fits into a 48K Spectrum, by using Sinclair BASIC tricks like the expression PI/PI to save a few bytes over the constant 1.0. It was inspired by a puzzle game I saw on a friend's ZX81 computer.

Features my own, hand-assembled, interrupt driven AY sound, but to hear it you'll need to emulate a William Stuart Systems Mk3 Synthesiser or modify the program to use the ZX Spectrum 128 sound addresses:

  1. BREAK into the program.
  2. Enter GOSUB 9000 to restore the standard character set.
Keys
1 - Up
Q - Down
8 - Left
9 - Right
0 - Menu/Select

Hunter III - The Final Straw

Download for use in your ZX Spectrum emulator.