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                  Program..........: Ecliptic Demo 20250425
                  Published by.....: Bwldrbst © 2025
                  Type.............: RPG
                  Language.........: English
                  Number of files..: 1
                  Supplier.........: X FACTiON
                  Release date.....: 25-APR-2025

 



                         Ecliptic demo 20250425                
                                                                    
                             © 2025 Bwldrbst
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                                    




  Centuries ago, humanity escaped the Solar System and colonized the stars. 
      We encountered a similarly expansionist race and total war ensued. 
      Victory came at the cost of billions of lives and many worlds were 
      destroyed or found themselves cut off from the rest of the galaxy.


   Our colony survived but lost the means to travel or communicate beyond 
                            our star system.

    Now, more than eighty years after it was thought destroyed in battle, 
     an enormous star ship is drifting through our system, within reach:


                                ECLIPTIC

     Despite being badly damaged and infested with alien monsters, if it 
       can be recovered, the technology contained on board will mean a 
               fresh start and bright future for our world.

          Your team of three robots has been sent to the Ecliptic. 
       Guide them as they make repairs, clear out aliens and overcome 
          the onboard security systems. They must reach the bridge, 
                   take control of the ship and bring it home. 

           Ecliptic is a mixture of turn based tactical combat and 
         role playing for the Commodore Amiga. Some of its influences 
            are Space Crusade, UFO: Enemy Unknown and the Gold Box 
                          Dungeons & Dragons games.

        Visually, it is intended to evoke the retro-futuristic science 
               fiction of the 1970s and 1980s – think Aliens.



                               Current State



  This is a pretty big update to Ecliptic - it includes a whole new level! 
    To get through this deck, Blue needs to repair a bunch of radiation 
     leaks while Green and Red deal with an onslaught of angry aliens.

            Red and Green are unable to enter radioactive areas, 
                only Blue has enough shielding to handle it.

     Fortunately there's a couple of these remote sentries to help out.

    Each one even comes with a stylish and rugged laptop for monitoring!

              Some of the other changes in this release are:

     Fixed a couple of Enforcer hits that were causing crashes on exit.
 
           Changed the double-buffering so it should run at the 
                      right speed on fast machines.

      Tweaked the path finding a little to try to reduce the number of
                              wasted moves.

     Improved the messages displayed when an action can't be performed.

                     Made the palette fading smoother. 

                          Updated the large font.

    Fixed many other bugs and hopefully didn't introduce too many more.

           A couple of other things to note about this release:
        The game won't run with the default 4K stack, it needs 8K.
      This release won't run on a plain A500 with 512K Chip/512K Slow. 
         I'd like it to run on these machines but it's not really a 
        priority as the game already requires a HDD so I expect most 
                    players to have some proper fast ram.
                              Lots of bug fixes.




                  Requires OS 3.1 or greater and 1MB of RAM.
                       Fast RAM and HD are recommended.
                   Amiga 1200 with HD and Fast RAM is ideal.









               A Game Worth Playing is a Game Worth Buying!


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   GREETiNGS TO - TRSi - LFC - LSD - QUARTEX - HELLFiRE - DC - X! - FiX
   And The rEST wE fORGET iN a HURRY - KEEP THE FAiTH - KEEP tHE AMIGA!






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