Repton 3 Prelude Level 1

Prelude Level 1 (Calm Before the Storm) from Repton 3 by Superior Software: http://www.superiorinteractive.com/repton/3.htm

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• Repton
• Three
• Prelude

[zionravescene]

I see you managed to get the classic graphics here as opposed to the redesigned cartoony graphics in the PC version - how did you do that?

[SentinelProxima]

I had to copy each sprite one at a time into the graphics editor that comes with the PC version to create a new graphics file, and renamed it "Prelude.r3g" so the game associated these graphics with the Prelude levels. Incidentally, while there's no built-in short cut to getting the classic graphics in the PC version, you *can* get the graphics from the Archimedes version by pressing Backspace!

[zionravescene]

(And I guess the other advantage of it all is that there's less colour clashing with the Arc set than the original BBC, resulting in less confusion in the classic set between skulls and diamonds, and the Teenage set appears less garishly pink than I remembered... :P)

[zionravescene]

I had a suspicion that it might have been the case that way. At least it'll be an excuse to play with the editor again and try out all the different options.

On the other hand, I have tried the backspace trick with the PC games and despite the lack of sets for Nova, Rainbow and Reptology, it's great to see the retro Arc character sets - there are even retro character sets for all the Repton Adventures levels!

Thanks for the tip!