Alpha Man (Commodore 64)

This is a C64 BASIC conversion of Soleau Software's shareware MS-DOS game, originally developed by William Soleau in 1992. In this game you control Alpha Man on a 11x7 grid where the object is to push blue blocks with letters on them over tiles marked with the same letter. Sounds like a very simple task, but the actual solution of each puzzle in this game can prove to be very challenging. (Part of the reason why I chose to make this conversion.)

There are a few notable differences between the original game and this version:

1. Just like the DOS version, this one also has a save feature, though significantly simplified to merely saving all the records into a single file, instead of creating and managing "player cards". If you intend to use the load/save feature, make it sure that you have a writeable floppy disk in drive 8, either physically or virtually.

2. In this version of the game, the tiles and the possible letter markings on them are obscured by the blocks and the player standing over them. This can be taken as added difficulty, but to avoid unnecessary confusion, when a letter block is positioned over a matching tile, it becomes purple.

3. The original game provides an option to demonstrate a solution for the first few puzzles. This one doesn't, but I don't believe not having this feature is a huge loss.

This game offers the same 25 word puzzles as the shareware version of Soleau's Alpha Man. The full version adds another 25 puzzles, which I'd be glad to add to the next C64 Alpha Man later, but until then, I wish you to have a lot of fun with this one.