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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: SKAN on October 23, 2003, 06:16:35 PM

Title: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: SKAN on October 23, 2003, 06:16:35 PM: "Galactic" is a great game made by a great developer, Stavros Fasulas. It never went commercial, but a demo appeared as a coverdisk on AF (or CU, just don't remember!). Now, the game itself is just a file, so HD installation should be simple, but playing it on something different than a plain OCS/AGA machine is quite impossible, you need JST or WHDload. I've got a Blizzard 1260 with SCSI and 48meg and even if I disable the board the game goes guru right after decrunching. Any suggestion? Must I use WHDload/JST? I know the game has OCS/AGA detection, but it behaves like an OCS-only game. HELP!
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: R2D2 on October 23, 2003, 06:45:16 PM: Are there any screenshots of that game anywhere? I know Stavros Fasoulas is a legendary Finnish coder and the father of Mindroll (Quedex) but about that Galactic game I've never heard of.. As a games collector I'd be very interested to hear/see some more! :-o
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: Warface on October 23, 2003, 08:46:24 PM: Stavros Fasoulas is a living reincarnation of a god (along with many others like Manfred Trenz).

Delta... Sanxion... Aaaaargh...

Don't know about Galactic however... If you succeed in finding it please let us know! Screenshots would be welcome too! :-)
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: zipper on October 23, 2003, 09:00:48 PM: There was an installer for Galactic and Galactic Xmas edition in Aminet, to make them A1200-compatible. I can dig it out of my libray, if you want.
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: lempkee on October 23, 2003, 09:04:10 PM: its available for whdload, the game is great and i have both ecs and aga versions...works splendid in whdload.

cheers
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: lempkee on October 23, 2003, 09:05:45 PM: http://whdload.de/games/Galactic.html
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: lempkee on October 23, 2003, 09:08:21 PM: http://hol.abime.net/?id=2689

pictures from galactic xmas edition

whdinstaller for galactic:

http://whdload.de/games/Galactic.html

enjoy
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: Spyros on October 23, 2003, 10:24:49 PM: I played the game once. You can try a whdload installer http://www.whdload.de/games/G.html or if you don't want that, you could try some degraders like run500 or ecslaunch. JST can work as a degrader too by using the execute argument.

I didn't know that Stavros Fasoulas was finnish because this is a greek name and surname. Has he made any other games?
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: JoannaK on October 23, 2003, 10:56:56 PM: Spyros: I can't be 100% if Stavros Fasoulas was an allias, but I think it was.. Otoh, it's quite possible his parents (father) have moved to Finland.. etc..

Anyhow. People seem to mistake some others too.. Like T.Rossi, author of quite many useful utilities for C64 and Amiga.. Some people mistakely consider him Italian due his last name. :-)
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: Spyros on October 24, 2003, 08:42:02 PM: I just remembered of another programmer whom you might know. This one is Greek. His name is Kostas Panagis. He used to make games for Amstrad CPC computers if I'm not mistaken. He is the one who made Deflector (a puzzle game) and HATE (a shoot'em up). Ever heard of him?
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: R2D2 on October 24, 2003, 10:49:47 PM: Quote
Kostas Panagis.

Sounds familiar. Deflector I know, it's a great game! :-)
Title: Re: GALACTIC by Terramarque
Post by: Alestes on October 24, 2003, 11:28:44 PM: Wasn't he a programmer of "ElfMania" too?
I remember there was another game planned by him; it was a chase car game with visual from top, but I think tere were only some (really great, better than any similar game) screenshots.