Posted By
JamesC
on 2001-09-09
|  Re: Rug Rider
Yes, Rug Rider was originally distributed in NTSC format. It was distributed by Tri-Micro (3+1 software) for the North American market.
I am able to successfully run Rug Rider in Mike Dailly's Minus/4 for Windows as long as the 50MHz timer is active and joystick is on cursor keys. Load the 3 block long "BOOT" program for Rug Rider to boot properly. (This is the second file on the diskette.)
Obviously, a REAL Plus/4 that is set for PAL will have problems. One of these days maybe someone will have the time to modify Rug Rider to work properly over there.
I suspect that the fascination with Rug Rider is that it's one of the few North American graphic-oriented games for the Plus/4. Most all of the games I've seen here are text-based or imported from Europe. At the time, the C64 was THE game machine here, so most software houses didn't waste time with a computer that was only sold for about 6 months.
James in NTSC-land
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