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Season 38 - Week 9 - Fruity Frank (Amstrad)
Topic Started: 7 Jun 2015, 11:01 AM (289 Views)
necronom
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Week 9 brings us Fruity Frank on the Amstrad CPC, chosen by Mawrth.

Download linkhttp://www.emuparadise.me/Amstrad_CPC_ROMs/Fruity_Frank_(UK)_(1984)/129971-download

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Fruity Frank was a 1984 computer game for the Amstrad CPC and MSX home computers. Produced by Kuma Software and authored by Steve Wallis with graphics by his brother Sean Wallis, in gameplay it is very similar to Dig Dug and Mr Do, though the story involves Frank protecting a garden from invading monsters.

The player has to collect the fruits lying around the garden while avoiding touching the monsters. Apples can be pushed on these to kill them and offer temporary respite. Monsters can also be killed by throwing a bouncing apple pip at them. When all pieces of fruit have been collected the player proceeds to the next level. Each level is identifiable by a different colour background and a new jocular tune.

The game is among the most well known and most played games on the Amstrad CPC. The CPC version of the game also is superior to the MSX version, showing more colors overall.


You can get WinAPE (emulator) from here: WinAPE

Run the emulator and insert the disc image from the File menu.

type: run "fruity.bas" to run the game.

Choose Medium speed.

Scores to be in by 12:00 (mid-day UK time) on Sunday the 14th of June

Final Scores:

1) 4310 - Mawrth = 100.00 points
2) 3840 - Dumple = 88.30 points
3) 3790 - necronom = 81.47 points
4) 3070 - Sputryk = 66.86 points
5) 3070 - Macias = 66.86 points
6) 2860 - a.j.green = 51.93 points
7) 2320 - Ralph Wiggum = 39.41 points
8) 1390 - Jakuchu = 22.38 points
Edited by necronom, 14 Jun 2015, 10:58 AM.
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necronom
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1,810

I've had about another 6 goes, and I can't beat my first score when I didn't know what I was doing! :-/

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necronom
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Mawrth
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An alternative to winape is caprice 32 which available here

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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
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First few goes. Possibly too much colour making it hard to see exactly where the fruit is.
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Sputryk
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I think it is worth Congratulating Dumple already. If Dumps enters either week, there is absolutely no way that he(? Well, there haven't been many girlies over the years) is going to score a combined points total of 15. Yes, just 15. Dumps has proven to be just too good. Oh, and that is assuming that I can achieve upwards of 93 points in each of the last two games. If I fail to win both Dumps doesn't even need to take part! Congrats, Dumps - I've been thwarted again.

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Jakuchu

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2,260

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Sputryk
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Nah, too crummy for my liking; though games are quick for a change.

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Ah yes, the good old Z/X/./:/] control scheme :)

Protip: hit shift-2 to make the double-quote character to type run "fruity.bas" (and not +fruity.bas+)

I've never seen an Amstrad (real or emulated) before, so for me this is a neat missing link in computer evolution...
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Yep, it's a Mr. Do! knock-off...but a pretty capable one.

I found something non-obvious: If you touch the icon where the enemies spawn from (the one that reminds me of a Batman KAPOW! sign), it spawns a little critter at the top of the screen with a "B" on it. If you kill that, you get a whole series of them spelling B,O,N,U,S - and that gives a pretty good number of points. I've only pulled this off on the first level, though - after that chaos reigns.
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Knew nothing of the shot; that has opened up this game somewhat - it's not that crummy, now. ^_^

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Its not easy...
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Macias

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