Atari XL/XE - The Eidolon [Lucasfilm games] 1985
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Ah my 800 xl :(
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What would games be like today if fractals kept on being worked on in games, and voxols, and procedural coding, an text parsers!
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I never ceased to be amazed by this game: The curved crypt ceiling, the speed of drawing it, the tunnels, I just can't stop wondering how they got that level of detail from that level of hardware. It rivals game environments from today.
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@jonwoodscience - Rescue on Fractalus was the first Lucasfilm game to use fractal graphics, and that engine was then modified to produce the caves in The Eidolon. I don't know of any games in general prior to Fractalus that used fractals.
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@Optimus6128 It's a fractal engine of some sort.... probably a harnessed version of the lakes and mountains fractal landscape system.
Very good though.. and as Lucasfilm say somewhere... faster than the engine created for Flight Simulator!
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Graphics remind me of rescue on Fractalus
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I am right in remembering this as the first game to use fractal graphics, aren't I? Or did Jeff Minter do something weird? What am I saying? Everything Jeff did was weird, but not fractal.
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I had this on my C64! Pretty amazing for the time.
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Oh i remember this game all the way to the end where you reached the Dark Cave....lol.
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The little guys with helmets look like they are dancing, especially once the sfx starts sounding like drums.
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1985 apologizes for being unable to please you in the graphics department.
corporatewhite 1 year ago 16
Aaargh! This wouldn't work on my original Atari 800. The XL / XE was required to run Eidolon and consequently I was disappointed at the time. This was a breakthrough in the respect that it was OK to sacrifice frame rate in order to gain complexity of on-screen graphics. Like Fractalus, shallow by today's standards, but a paridigm in its time from a technical perspective. These are the building blocks that make today's games what they are. Thanks Lucasfilm.
fronkenpoop 2 years ago 10