Sitting here reformatting the Utopia K240* manual in Libre Office Writer for no reason. They wrote quite a bit about the ships. Ship computers are spec'd between 200-5000 MIPS. The Amiga 500 Motorola 68K was around 1.4 MIPS in comparison. Looking at modern CISC, a 2020 Ryzen Threadripper is apparently 2,350,000 MIPS.
But the ships probably need a stable CPUs hardened for space. Don't exactly need to solve mazes in space either.
*aka Fragile Allegiance for you PC folk.
Did a ref sheet for the K240 ships starting scaling the blueprints, and discovered that the manual is doing the sci-fi thing where ship sizes are just haphazard numbers and volume in not understood. Looking at the game relevant specs, like weapon slots, HP, ore cost, lengths should probably increase like 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 or something.
Combat Eagle: 30 HP, 10m, 2 slots
Fleet Battleship: 70 HP, 92m, 6 slots
Fleet tactics were ultimately made kinda irrelevant in K240 due to Asteroid Engines.
I guess if the ship hulls are just like balloons, then a larger ship might not be more powerful.
If the shield modules negated damage like in Master of Orion 1 then it might be worth it to get a larger ship. But in K240 the shields just add hit points. There's also a bug where repair towers make shield boosted hit points overflow to 0 and kill the ship.
K240 has a lot of hidden info, which isn't good for a strategy game. But it's cool to build stuff on asteroids and see the ships fly around.
Rescaled the K240 ships based on gameplay feel and doodled a bit of nonsense detail on them.
Typing enter nasa enter will spawn cheat ships. At first I thought the Fleet Battleship would be able to 1 on 1 an enemy colony since I got it by cheating so early and the sprite is quite large, but it's just about as powerful as a few of the small ships.
Repixeled the K240 buttons and the Fleet Battleship.
I think the game is 14 colours + two anim flash, and a bitmask (so 17 colours including background transparency). But it might be 32 colours if it uses a sort of half-brite mode for the GUI dimming. Dimming could be done in 16 colours with palette and blitting operations as well I suppose, if the palette is organized properly.
A 1-bit 2 colour screen at the bottom for hover-over text and messages would've been nice. Game insisted on 320x200.
@androidarts It seems to be 32 color, at least when a dialog box is up - there's a second, darker palette for this purpose.
Normal 16-color palette is 000, 666, 444, 222, 09F, 038, D60, FC0, 700, C00, 060, 0C0, FFF, CBB, 700, FF2. The last two swap periodically. Colors 16-31 are a copy of the first 16. I think color 0 on sprites is transparent.
When a dialog box is up, the first 16 colors are a dark palette of 000, 222, 111, 000, 023, 012, 310, 330, 100, 300, 010, 030, 333, 322, 100, 331.
@cureneckbeard Hmm... since the greys are early in the palette I'm somewhat wildly guessing it might be blitting using 2 bitplanes for the asteroid iso terrain (and starfield), and that's why the terrain is a bit simple and hard to read.
I don't think there was an Atari ST version... many cross-released games were unfortunately kept strictly 16 on the Amiga too. I thought it was the case with K240 until I noticed the shaded windows.
@androidarts Maybe not, because green and blue are also used for Virus-affected terrain and Anti-Virus affected terrain, respectively, and those are further up the palette.
But yes, it was Amiga-only, perhaps because it was a 1994 release.
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