I have now been able to secure the OK to publish Alien Hijack - the 3D arcade adventure game for the Sinclair QL, originally written by Chisoft and sold under the Maxtronics brand - it can even use their QTALK module.
Alien Hijack places you on-board a ship, where you are the engineer. Having entered the Bermuda Triangle, you find that the ship has been taken over by aliens and the crew vanished.
You have to explore 192 rooms to collect 3 codes, which together form the shape of an anchor, avoiding the various entities inhabiting the rooms. With these codes, you can regain control of the ship.
There is food to replenish your strength, but moving about takes some getting used to.
See http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/detail ... ijack-1738
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Re: Alien Hijack Re-Released
Gah I just picked up the original of this recently on microdrive too, great work though getting all these top games back out. 

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What we need is some more videos of the games in play - like the great one for Match Point.
I just wonder what happened to the other game by Chisoft - PuzzleMania ?
I just wonder what happened to the other game by Chisoft - PuzzleMania ?
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That sounds like a hurry up, I'll have to get cracking. Maybe if it rains on the weekend 

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Re: Alien Hijack Re-Released
Hi Rich,
could you tell me if this game is compatible with Minerva 1.98 + toolkit 2 and 512k ram expansion ?
I've a great interest about that game and my QL has above reported feature.
Thanks in advance.
could you tell me if this game is compatible with Minerva 1.98 + toolkit 2 and 512k ram expansion ?
I've a great interest about that game and my QL has above reported feature.
Thanks in advance.
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It should certainly work, but I don't have any Minerva QLs to try it on. Certainly memory expansion and Toolkit 2 are not an issue.belg4rion67 wrote:Hi Rich,
could you tell me if this game is compatible with Minerva 1.98 + toolkit 2 and 512k ram expansion ?
I've a great interest about that game and my QL has above reported feature.
Thanks in advance.
I tried it on q-emulator and it loads, but does not respond to keys being pressed (although that is an issue with a few programs on the latest q-emulator + minerva for some reason)
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