Short:        BioJet
Author:       royspa@overthehill.de (Roy Schneider)
Uploader:     royspa overthehill de (Roy Schneider)
Type:         game/misc
Version:      1.0.3
Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 1.2.0
Kurz:         BioJet, the game, FREEWARE

Version 1.0.3:
Fixed a blitter issue in the routine that clears a block from the playfield.

Version 1.0.2:
Some small optimizations.

Version 1.0.1:
First release to the AMIGA community.

Overview:

In 1997 we released a game called 'Cybergene' for the MS-DOS platform.
The graphics for that project had been drawn on several AMIGA's. I always
wanted to use the graphics again for an AMIGA platformer. Well the result
is a bit different and it is 22 years late - but finally... :-)

Technical Info:

The game is entirely written in 68K assembly, taking advantage of horizontal
sprite multiplexing, using a heavy copperlist, in order to make the scrolling
background image. To generate that 'stone' background image, sprite stripes
are used, 16 pixels wide and 192 pixels high. Sprite 4 is placed at x=0,y=0
and sprite 5 is placed x=16,y=0. The sprite priority register is set, so
that sprites appear beyond the playfield bitmap data. When the raster beam reaches
the sprite 5 on the first line, the sprite control register for sprite 4 is changed
x-wise by 32 pixels, making the chipset repeating the pixel line of sprite 4 right
to sprite 5. Then when the raster beam has reached that 'multiplexed' line, the
control register for sprite 5 is changed, so that this sprite is repeated right
to the already repeated sprite 4. This is now repeated until the scanline ends.
To put it into a nutshell, the copper is 'running' ahead of the beam, twisting
the sprite registers. On the end of each scanline the sprite positions are turned
back to normal and the procedure is now repeated for the next and next scanline,
until we reach the bottom line of the playfield. The slow scrolling effect is
made simply by changing the sprite images for the two sprites. The foreground
graphics is a standard 4-plane playfield giving 16 colors using a 352 pixel wide
screen with a modulo of 4, ending up with 320 logical pixels per scanline. For
scrolling purposes 16 pixels are hidden on the left, by setting up the window
accordingly. So we end up with 304 visible pixels per scanline. The game character
is build up from two 16-color sprites made from four 4-color sprites 0/1/2/3.
Sprite 6-7 stay unused. The bottom drop graphics is 5 planes, filling up the
screen to scan line 245. So on NTSC machines some of the credits might not be
visible, but that does not effect the game play.

Requirements:

- Any AMIGA with 68k CPU.
- 512 KB Chip and 512 KB (Slow)Fast or more.
- OCS/ECS/AGA chipset, PAL/NTSC supported.
- Kickstart 1.2 or higher

Installation:

To install the game on a hard disk, first double-click
your hard disk icon. Then insert the BioJet disk into
a drive. Double-click its icon and drag the BioJet
drawer into the hard disk window.

The game runs under Kickstart 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 3.0 and
3.1 on OCS, ECS and AGA computers.

This game is Freeware.

Thanks to Cippel for the music and CRAZY CRACK for
the TP3 replay.

So, have fun!

Kind regards

Roy Schneider