Thrust

Check out the man page and perhaps a movie.

The object of the game is to lift the Klystron Pod from the bottom of a cave and return it safely to space. The Pod is very heavy (compared to the ship) and this makes it tougher than it may seem.

You must be careful not to run out of fuel, crash into the cave walls, or let the enemy artillery outposts shoot you down.

Is it too tough? You tell me...

If you are interested, you can design your own levels and include them in the game.

Thrust currently runs on these platforms:
Linux, SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.4/2.5, HP-UX 10.20, Irix 4.0.5, OSF1 4.0, AIX 4.2, OpenBSD 2.0 and Windows. Very likely others as well.

A port is available for the Amiga. See below for details.

Implemented

• Startup menu.
• Levels 1 through 6.
• Game engine (scrolling, shooting, explosions, shield, etc).
• Reversed gravity when the final level is completed.
• Scoring and a high-score list.
• The sliding doors operated by the small buttons.
• Stages within a level.
• Demo if the game isn't touched for a while.
• Configurable keys.
• Support for GGI (the 8 bpp limitation finally gone through the use of display-palemu).
• Support for X. 8 bpp PseudoColor required. MIT shared memory used if found.

• Rewrite of the scrolling routines (the current routine consumes bandwidth).
• Support for non 8 bpp pseudocolor visuals (X version).
• The stars should blink.
• Steering with joystick.

• Make the wire connecting the ship and the load act like a rubber band.
• Allow the ship to fuel up infinitely but penalize it with lower thrust due to the heavier load.

You can also get thrust from ibiblio by http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/games/arcade/ or by ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/games/arcade/. However, I have no control over when the files are moved out of the incoming directory.

However, there are some bugs.

• The original is at http://flakey.df.lth.se/~ola/C64/software/t/thrust.zip.
• Pick one of the emulators from the C64 emulator page at Yahoo.
• Get the C64 firmware from funet.