Hyper Active - The Game Instructions

This month's Megagame, Hyper Active, features such amazing music, effects and gameplay that you'll never believe it comes sellotaped to the cover of SU. Special FX Software has laboured hard to make Hyper Active a great blast with all the features of a full-price game.

Hyper Active is compatible with Sinclair, Kempston and cursor joysticks. You can also play using the keyboard, using keys Q (up), A (down), O (left), P (right), and M (fire), or define your own control keys, including a pause.

Now prepare to fight for your life. Your spacesuited hero is trapped on a tiny unstable asteroid. To survive, you must find spherical energy pods and return them to the crystal holds at the centre of the asteroid. Fly into the pods and they will circle around you; make your way back to the hold and manoeuvre the pod into it. Then go off after another one.

Use the scanner at the bottom of the screen to locate pods. When you have collected all eight, destroy the remaining aliens to complete the level.

There are millions of aliens, all of whom hate smelly, pod-stealing spacemen. if you hang around too tong, they'll be joined by a homing saucer which is even faster and more vicious.

The next level, the Dragon Wave, features four wriggly space-snakes which can only be killed by multiple hits to the head.

Level three is an attack wave, where all you have to do is destroy the aliens while avoiding damage.

On level four, the bonus wave, you must use your bombs to knock out the deadly bubbles, while collecting as many bonus items as you can within the time limit.

After that the waves repeat, getting harder and harder each time.

HINTS AND TIPS

- Keep a close eye on your radar display to locate aliens and pods.

- The row of helmets shows the number of lives left, and the status bars
your rapid fire, shield, radar and laser energy supplies. If any of these fall too low, you may lose functions of any of these weapons.

- Don't leave pod coliecting until last on a survival wave, or the homing saucers will get you!

Egész jó játék lenne, csak nagyon nehéz irányítani és célozni. Ha az órajelet 2Mhz-re veszem, akkor már majdnem egészen játszható.

And flickering. Are there any nuances with this when porting games from Spectrum? I know in Tom Cat sprites also flicker a lot (and, it seems, there was another game with a similar flaw).

És villog. Van ebben valami árnyalat a játékok Spectrumról történő portolásakor? Tudom, hogy a Tom Catben a sprite-ok is sokat villognak (és úgy tűnik, volt egy másik játék is hasonló hibával).

Unfortunately, the game has almost no sounds.
If in the original the shots sound almost the same as in the Jetpack game, then here they are not heard at all.
Of course, you can say that sounds are not heard in space, but the gradient sky shows that the asteroid still has an atmosphere

Sajnos a játéknak szinte nincsenek hangjai.
Ha az eredetiben szinte ugyanúgy szólnak a lövések, mint a Jetpack játékban, akkor itt egyáltalán nem hallhatók.
Persze lehet mondani, hogy az űrben nem hallatszanak hangok, de a gradiens égbolt azt mutatja, hogy az aszteroidának még van légköre

На жаль, під час гри майже немає звуків.
Якщо в оригіналі постріли звучать майже так само, як і в грі Jetpack, то тут їх не чути зовсім.
Звичайно, можна сказати, що звуків у космосі не чути, але градієнтне небо показує, що астероїд все ще має атмосферу