Short: Conversion of Advanced Lawnmower Sim Author: bs4kmg@bath.ac.uk (Bremstrahlung X Jones - 'C-Monster') Uploader: unsatisfactory bigfoot com (Chris Young) Type: game/misc Architecture: m68k-amigaos ADVANCED LAWNMOWER SIMULATOR This version of ALS is NOT an exact/direct conversion of the original. Sure, the idea's the same - but this uses '16-bit stereo samples', 'sprites', 'high resolution graphics', 'true colour displays' and 'double-buffering' resulting in 'super-smooth movement', 'amazing quality screen displays' and 'high quality sound fx'. OK, not all of that is true - but you'll see what I'm talking about when you load it. Excerpt from the docs: "Advanced lawnmower simulator originated in this twisted but horribly fertile imagination of Dunc Mac'Donald (or however you spelt it) and quickly found itself snuggled up inside the RAM underneath the erotic black rubber keyboard of the Speccy, where it was reviewed by Your Sinclair (R.I.P.) and swiftly awarded a Megagame in a April Fools Joke. Which I took seriously for 3 Months. "Anyway in about a years time Y.S. (sniff) chose to put it on their covertape, exposing thousands of young minds to the first Nihilist computer game, causing the frantic coding of dozens of Clones, which were reviewed in Y.S.'s (snivel) Crap Game Corner, each one more and more twisted than the last. There was a 3D advanced lawnmower simulator, and versions with levels and powerups and even (gasp) gameplay! "Which was missing the point entirely. What made A.L.S. so great was the fact it chose to ignore completely what the public conceived as a game and did something new. Surrealist humour, which is now such a huge part of successful magazines, found it's way into binary form. Not the limp-wristed kiddie humour of Monkey Island, or the Gross Innuendo Larry seems to be so fond of, but something entirely fresh and new and awesome. And now it's back. In a cruder form." AD BREAK I imagine most people reading this would already have looked at my archive game/misc/mowersim.lha which contains an exact conversion of ALS for Amiga, Acorn, Casio Calc (!), MSX (emu), FLEX (emu) and soon QL. There is also enhanced versions and an als.library (newer in util/libs/als_lib.lha) in the archive. If you haven't, well, take a look at it. (it was in the Aminet charts for a few weeks, and is also distributed by 'Software Of The Month Club') Also, I recommend you to look at Your Sinclair: A Celebration at this URL: http://homepages.enterprise.net/cavan/ysac/ or the off-line AmigaGuide in docs/hyper/ys-app.lha