Yes, it's finally out! I'm not even going to bother with the usual guff, let's go straight to the full press release:
After more than four years of development, Artex Software are proud to present the realtime strategy game TEK 1608!
Some features:
- High resolution rendered graphics
- State-of-the-art design
- Stunning gameplay, easy to understand but challenging
- Screen resolutions from 640x480 up to 1024x768 (the latter requires 2MB VRAM)
- Additional smaller windows can be opened for guarding or tracking your battle units or buildings
- A small map of the whole area is displayed on the status bar, showing all your units/buildings, and everything you know about the enemy
- The surface consists of isometric fields with four height levels
- Your units can only see what's within their radar. So you can hide movements and make really nasty unseen attacks.
- Everything outside the radar of your units is displayed dark.
- Every place never visited before is unknown, ie black.
- Three different terain sets
- 12 different battle units
People will be able to purchase TEK at the Wakefield Show 2002. The TEK package is available for about 30 ukp and includes the Artex best-sellers "Exodus - The Colonisation of Space" and "Ankh - The Tales of Mystery" as well as "BotKiller 1" and "BotKiller 2".
The game is available from R-Comp Interactive:
R-Comp Interactive
22 Robert Moffat
High Legh
KNUTSFORD
Cheshire WA16 6PS
Tel: (+44) 01925 755043
Fax: (+44) 01925 757377
Email: rci@rcomp.co.ukMinimum system requirements are:
RiscStation R7500 or similar
16 MB RAM
60 MB harddisc space
CD drive
Recommended system is:
StrongARM RiscPC
16 MB RAM
2 MB VRAM
60 MB harddisc space
CD drive
The game has successfully been tested on the Kinetic.
It needs a "v-boot" with Viewfinder.
For more infos please visit
www.artexsoft.com
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(11:03 15/5/2002) Jason Togneri (13:14 15/5/2002) Guest (15:20 15/5/2002) Jan Klose (15:28 15/5/2002) Guest (16:46 15/5/2002) Guest (17:04 15/5/2002) Guest (19:47 15/5/2002) Jeffrey Lee (20:01 15/5/2002) Guest (20:22 15/5/2002) Guest (20:37 15/5/2002) Guest (20:40 15/5/2002) Max Palmer (20:44 15/5/2002) Guest (20:47 15/5/2002) Guest (02:09 16/5/2002) Guest (10:28 16/5/2002) Tim Fountain (16:00 16/5/2002) Mark Quint (22:10 16/5/2002) Guest (09:13 17/5/2002) Jason Togneri (10:08 17/5/2002) Simon Challands (13:15 17/5/2002) Guest (21:06 20/5/2002) Jason Togneri (13:10 21/5/2002) [mentat] (15:19 21/5/2002) Guest (17:36 22/5/2002)
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Message #87378, posted at 11:03, 15/5/2002 |
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Yeah! :) One game every 4 years... not bad! Better than the hardware sitch anyway... ;) |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #87379, posted at 13:14, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87378 |
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Well I've sent off my order... all that remains now is to see how long it takes to get here/if it gets lost in the post :(
~ J |
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Message #87380, posted at 15:20, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87379 |
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I take it that it isn't going to work with my poor ARM 710 then :( |
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Jan Klose |
Message #87381, posted at 15:28, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87380 |
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If you have a look at the "rival" site www.acorn-gaming.org.uk, you'll find that Gareth says it's just about playable on a RiscPC 700. We have tested it with the ARM610 and found that, even after optimising, it is just a bit too slow to call it playable with that processor. Future optimisations might improve this, but TEK is already quite speed-optimised. |
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Message #87382, posted at 16:46, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87381 |
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Woo hoo! Just ordered my game on the phone, Xbox your gonna be consigned to the dust. I was also told something is being released that has something to do with Hotmail? Well, we will know at Wakefield. |
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Message #87383, posted at 17:04, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87382 |
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Cool. I'll be ordering my copy as soon as the exams are over! (Wednesday)
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Message #87384, posted at 19:47, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87383 |
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Oh the hotmail thing. Just checked on the Icon bar, its called Grapevine. Looks pretty exciting, its a chat program. Loads of features.
http://www.arsvcs.demon.co.uk/r-comp/Grapevine/grapevine.html
TEK and Grapevine, suddenly things look very bright for RISCOS. Im also waiting to find out what 1608 stand for, should find out tomorrow in the post...
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Jeffrey Lee |
Message #87385, posted at 20:01, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87384 |
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Woohoo! |
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Message #87386, posted at 20:22, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87385 |
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WhooHoo! Par-tay |
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Message #87387, posted at 20:37, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87386 |
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1608 is the number of your squad. :)
Gareth
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Message #87388, posted at 20:40, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87387 |
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Thats it? ooh. |
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Max Palmer |
Message #87389, posted at 20:44, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87388 |
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Have AA got a review copy yet ?
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Message #87390, posted at 20:47, 15/5/2002, in reply to message #87389 |
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If they have im sure they will be too busy playing it to tell us. Soooo no news is good news, eh. |
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Message #87391, posted at 02:09, 16/5/2002, in reply to message #87390 |
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A huge round of applause for everyone involved in the creation of TEK!! Well done Artex!
So what's the next project? |
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Message #87392, posted at 10:28, 16/5/2002, in reply to message #87391 |
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The next project is Iron Dignity. So whats the situation on that Jan? Anything new? Pleeze tell. |
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Tim Fountain |
Message #87393, posted at 16:00, 16/5/2002, in reply to message #87392 |
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AA review copy is being sorted out at the moment, we haven't got it yet but we should have shortly. |
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Mark Quint |
Message #87394, posted at 22:10, 16/5/2002, in reply to message #87393 |
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I think its officially time to let off loads of fireworks :D nice 1 artex :) |
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Message #87395, posted at 09:13, 17/5/2002, in reply to message #87394 |
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Wow, my copy of TEK turned up in the post this morning. Thank you Artek for all your hard work. Its going to keep the RISCOS community busy for ages. |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #87396, posted at 10:08, 17/5/2002, in reply to message #87395 |
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Still not got mine :( don't know if I can last much longer...
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Simon Challands |
Message #87397, posted at 13:15, 17/5/2002, in reply to message #87396 |
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Still not even ordered a copy. What a time to not have any money :-( No Wakefield for me :-( |
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Message #87398, posted at 21:06, 20/5/2002, in reply to message #87397 |
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I'm not sure whether to buy it soon or wait until it's more Arm 7 optimised. |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #87399, posted at 13:10, 21/5/2002, in reply to message #87398 |
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Trust me, wait until it's more ARM 7 optimised... I've tried it on an ARM 710 and it's a bit shaky, but then again I'm happy because I'll be upgrading to a StrongARM before long. You're better to wait though, and get the benefits of playing it smoothly. Also, I've met one or two bugs along the way...
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Message #87400, posted at 15:19, 21/5/2002, in reply to message #87399 |
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Possibly more importantly, wait till it's been fixed so that it crashes less... :| |
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Message #87401, posted at 17:36, 22/5/2002, in reply to message #87400 |
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I can't get past level 3 because it crashes.
Bummer.
Also, Ankh freezes the machine before leaving the desktop. Oh yes, Exodus does too.
Perhaps it's my machine... (28Mb SA RiscPC RO4.29)
Benjamin
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