Also, what's "Vacation in Gemland" doing among the easy levels of "Holiday Lemmings" - Flurry? (Its graphics don't match the rest of the game, either - it seems to have spilled over from "Oh no - more Lemmings".
Mike Rosoft
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Lemmings Main / Re: Worst port of Lemmings?
September 23, 2011, 08:09:11 PM
I remember playing Lemmings on ZX Spectrum. Looking back, I judge the port a valiant effort, but ultimately a futile one due to the computer's limitations.
Spectrum only lets you put two colors ("ink" and "paper") in each 8x8 square of the screen. For that reason, the game had to be in monochrome. Steel and traps were cut from the game (though water can be seen in a few levels). A few levels were broken somewhat; e.g. in "Just dig" lemmings can't survive falling from the top of the level towards the exit, in "Don't do anything too hasty" you can't just build towards the exit - you have to fall onto one of the spikes. Worst of all, you can't move the cursor while the game is paused!
Mike Rosoft
Spectrum only lets you put two colors ("ink" and "paper") in each 8x8 square of the screen. For that reason, the game had to be in monochrome. Steel and traps were cut from the game (though water can be seen in a few levels). A few levels were broken somewhat; e.g. in "Just dig" lemmings can't survive falling from the top of the level towards the exit, in "Don't do anything too hasty" you can't just build towards the exit - you have to fall onto one of the spikes. Worst of all, you can't move the cursor while the game is paused!
Mike Rosoft
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Help & Guides / Re: Let's try to find all the official game levels with likely backroutes...
March 16, 2008, 10:55:19 AM
Let's see.
I already know about the backroutes for Cascade (Tricky 25), If at first you don't succeed (Taxing 1), Compression Method 1 (Taxing 6), and Come on over to my place (Taxing 22). Other unorthodox solutions I have managed to do include:
*Upsidedown World (Taxing 13), saved 100%. On the right, I needed to keep two lemmings busy while making sure that the rest of the tribe can't escape to the right, but can escape to the left; I had to spend a digger, a miner, and only one builder. I followed it by bashing under the one-way hill in the wrong direction, sending a climber over the next hill, breaking into the bridge construction so that the climber can't escape to the right, going under (rather than over) the trap (while making sure that I don't have to spend the second builder to stop the basher) ...
*Walk the web rope (Taxing 20), saved 100%. Not too much of a backroute, really. The key to the perfect solution was to start bashing on the right and stopping the basher before he completed a single stroke; afterwards, I had to close the resulting chamber using stairs so that lemmings can enter it but can't escape.
Mike Rosoft
I already know about the backroutes for Cascade (Tricky 25), If at first you don't succeed (Taxing 1), Compression Method 1 (Taxing 6), and Come on over to my place (Taxing 22). Other unorthodox solutions I have managed to do include:
*Upsidedown World (Taxing 13), saved 100%. On the right, I needed to keep two lemmings busy while making sure that the rest of the tribe can't escape to the right, but can escape to the left; I had to spend a digger, a miner, and only one builder. I followed it by bashing under the one-way hill in the wrong direction, sending a climber over the next hill, breaking into the bridge construction so that the climber can't escape to the right, going under (rather than over) the trap (while making sure that I don't have to spend the second builder to stop the basher) ...
*Walk the web rope (Taxing 20), saved 100%. Not too much of a backroute, really. The key to the perfect solution was to start bashing on the right and stopping the basher before he completed a single stroke; afterwards, I had to close the resulting chamber using stairs so that lemmings can enter it but can't escape.
Mike Rosoft
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