General Description

Platinum Edition is an advanced shoot-em-up game for the TI-92 Plus / Voyage 200 This game has very smooth gameplay (synchronized at 31 frames per second) with many objects onscreen. It's features include grayscale, parallax scrolling backgrounds, many different types of enemies, many different levels, the ability to buy additional items, nine possible weapons for your ship, a high score table, multiple difficulty levels, and multiple ships the player can purchase. It is supplied with full source code. The program may be copied or modified without any restrictions.

The actual gameplay is much smoother than the animated GIF above shows, since the image was made by sampling the screen only a few times per second. Also, many features such as extra weapons aren't shown in it.

Download

Download the full archive here. The archive includes the full source code (both versions are built from the same source) and documentation in addition to the executable. This release should work with all ROM and hardware versions except that for the TI-92 Plus only, there are also problems with the very old AMS 1.00 due to its incomplete assembly support. Platinum Edition requires at least AMS 1.01 .

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• Archive size: 93033 bytes
• Size on calculator: 22121 bytes (when compressed; requires about 30K of free RAM to run)

Complete (mostly) feature list

Here is a list of the major features of this game. It is by no means complete, but covers many of the most important ones.

• Smooth gampelay, sychronized at 31 frames per second
• Scrolling backgrounds
• 4-color grayscale
• 9 weapons available for the player
• 3 different ships for the player
• 2 additional special weapons with the advanced ships
• Numerous different types of enemies
• Numerous levels
• High score table keeping top 8 scores
• Numerous upgrades available for purchase
• 3 skill levels
• Ability to save the game at any point, even if the game is archived
• The ti92p version uses only 22121bytes of memory (in compressed form; about 30K of free RAM is needed to run)
• Full source code included
• No shell or kernel is required (though it should work if you have one)
• Compatible with all AMS and HW versions (except AMS 1.00 on TI-92 Plus only)
• Two ships for the player to choose from
• Entire program can be copied and modified without restrictions

Known bugs

There are no known bugs (at the time of release).

Cheat codes

There is one cheat. You have to read the source code to figure out what it is.