[Mark Jones]

Originally Posted by Stewart Gilray

Actually here's something that will scare Mark rigid...

We used an app on the ST to make the maps for all the games, Cybernoid 1/2, Stormlord, Rubicon, and perhaps some others, it was called "blox" and was by a guy called Garry Knight...

Anyway, we used the app to do maps for ST and Amiga (Amiga versions of games usually used dual playfield mode, so it meant that each layer had to have 8 colours so it was easy for us to use and ST to do the maps...

Anyway, here are some shots I just took of Rubison level 1 ST, I couldn't find the Amiga map files...

You can see the "trigger" blocks in the first shot.

Each map had "banks" of blocks, up to four for each map. We always had two versions of bank 2, one with the trigger blocks visible, the other with a non obvious trigger block, but as far as the game was concerned the block number was the trigger block.

Well, going on 10 years too late I'm finally going to add that to the Rubicon page at the "Eyrie"...After I stop the BLOX induced panic attack....

Mark
www.mjonesgraphics.com (The Dragon's Eyrie)