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Mikam73 · Post by **Mikam73** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:35 pm

What was that game called that was just like Falcon Patrol..

I forgot name..

Hanzi · Post by **Hanzi** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:16 am

It`s "SkyHawk"

fgasking · Post by **fgasking** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:46 am

It's by the same creator too

... Steven Lee wrote the game before he re-did it for Virgin Games under the name of Falcon Patrol. Falcon Patrol looks pretty much the same, but has a few enhancements (Though not many).

Hanzi · Post by **Hanzi** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:42 am

I wonder if there exist a VIC20 version of Hideous Bill, a game I used to play on the C64 , also written by Steve Lee

fgasking · Post by **fgasking** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:56 am

Probably not i'm afraid

... It seems that Steve first did work for Quicksilva on the Vic 20, then moved over to Virgin Games to do the likes of Falcon Patrol.

I think he may have done "Mission Mercury" first for Virgin, then went on to do the Falcon, Hideous Bill games. Probably Virgin saw his talents on the Vic and encouraged him to move onto the C64.

Would be great to track Steve down, I loved Falcon Patrol!

Mikam73 · Post by **Mikam73** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:11 am

Thanks

Hanzi · Post by **Hanzi** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:04 am

fgasking wrote:I loved Falcon Patrol!

Can`t disagree on that one Frank, I still play it now and then. FPII is even better IMO.
I´m a newbie in the VIC20 world, but I think SkyHawk is one of the best games I´ve seen for this gem of a computer.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:07 am

Can someone add screenshots to this thread?

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:06 am

Skyhawk VIC20

Falcon Patrol C64

Falcon Patrol II C64

16KVIC20 · Post by **16KVIC20** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:30 am

Sorry for dredging up such an old thread, I found it when I was googling for something else!

I love Skyhawk, always have done. Did the same chap also write Tornado?

My copy of Skyhawk is 3K expanded one side and 8K expanded the other. I assume they're both the same but have had memory locations adjusted to suit different memory configs? Maybe I'll try the 3K version later.

If 16K had been used, I wonder how close they could have got to the C64 version, which is quite an improvement. Falcon Patrol 2 looks even better. Blue Thunder also looks good.

Skyhawk is probably one of the best looking VIC 20 games that I have ever seen.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:33 am

16KVIC20 wrote:I love Skyhawk, always have done. Did the same chap also write Tornado?

Yes.

16KVIC20 wrote:My copy of Skyhawk is 3K expanded one side and 8K expanded the other. I assume they're both the same but have had memory locations adjusted to suit different memory configs? Maybe I'll try the 3K version later.

Yes. I don't have many games in GB20 that exhibited this consideration.

16KVIC20 · Post by **16KVIC20** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:47 am

OK, thanks Mayhem. A 16K version would have been nice, shame. I wonder how much memory Falcon Patrol took on the C64.

ravenxau · Post by **ravenxau** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:04 pm

16KVIC20 wrote:OK, thanks Mayhem. A 16K version would have been nice, shame. I wonder how much memory Falcon Patrol took on the C64.

According to the disk image the c64 version is only about 12K

16KVIC20 · Post by **16KVIC20** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:00 am

ravenxau wrote:
16KVIC20 wrote:OK, thanks Mayhem. A 16K version would have been nice, shame. I wonder how much memory Falcon Patrol took on the C64.
According to the disk image the c64 version is only about 12K

I didn't think it could have been very much. Thanks for checking.

If they had made a 16K version available for the VIC 20, we could have had a nice tune etc, etc.

´Falcon patrol´ for Vic20?