Disabled the Cumana drives on my A500 and fired up Gradius again and it worked. It was great on the A1200 but after reading some comments and the games intro screen I was expecting some major 'Barbarian plus' level of slow down but was in fact pleasantly suprised!
The game ran totally smoothly and slowed down to an exceptable level when full lasers were equipped and tons of bullets and enemies swarmed around me. There nothing here that Gradius III wasnt doing on the snes; minus the flicker.
If I had this on the ol 500 back in the day I would of been pleased as punch and right now, for me, its contender for best horizontal scrolling shooter on the Amiga. Only Turrican 2s flying stage beats it for me but I wont count that as its a sub game.
Amazing job!
p.s.... please do Rastan next
