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About the StoryIn the 21st century, all electrical power in the United States is generated by a single huge nuclear fusion reactor, the Powerstar, placed in orbit safely away from living things and saboteurs. The power is then transmitted to local communities by means of a vast array of microwave transmitters. Game Details
Language: English (en)
Current Version: Unknown License: Commercial (Out of Print) Development System: Machine language IFID: Unknown TUID: q5en9u6io960kj6 |
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Technically speaking, Powerstar is one of the most innovative Adventures to come along in a long time. Pandora Software have managed to cram the whole Adventure into a 16k cartridge! The biggest advantages of this are that it is simple to use (no need to muck about with backups of copy protected disks), it boots instantly and there are no lengthy pauses for disk access during the game. The biggest disadvantages are that the graphics are terrible and the vocabulary is too limited to allow for an enjoyable game.
Powerstar uses a split screen format with graphics at the top and text at the bottom. The graphics data for the various rooms has been compressed (to save memory) by defining individual elements such as tables, chairs, beds, windows, gratings, robots, etc. In this way, a room can be drawn by (say) starting with an empty room and adding a table, two chairs and a window at pre-defined positions. Each room is made to look unique by using different combinations of the individual elements and using different colours.
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