Binary Battle
logic game for Commodore 64, 2023
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You have just woken up to find out your floppy disk is full of viruses!
Unfortunately, it contains the only copy source code of the game you have
been working on in the past months...
Recover the source code before the disk is damaged beyond repair! Luckily, you
have an excellent antivirus program, Binary Battle, at your disposal. Use it
to destroy all the viruses before it is too late.
Go through the depths of five levels of your disk, kill viruses, upgrade your
powers, collect coins and spend them on upgrades, find keys to the encrypted
chests and find the exit to the next level.
Your disk has limited health, which decreases as the viruses attack. Also,
each action generates heat, and if your drive overheats, your disk slowly
takes damage.
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Binary Battle is a novel take on the dungeon crawler genre. It was inspired by
GEOS and the PC game Folder Dungeon. It is compatible with both PAL and NTSC
machines.
Press "Q" during the game to switch between music and sound effects.
Tips and hints
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- Read the enclosed copy of the original user manual and learn about
Binary Battle.
- Become a power user and master the balance of your disk health and
drive heat while crawling each directory in this turn-based file system
adventure.
- Squash viruses, traverse directories, decrypt files and get to the exit of
each level. Your source code file awaits at the end of the fifth level.
- Every action generates disk drive heat. Once heat reaches the heat limit
you will start losing disk health for each turn. Don't grab absolutely
everything. For example, don't grab swabs if your health is full. Or coins if
you are overheating.
- Don't try to kill everything. Sometimes the best strategy is to escape,
especially if your health is low.
- When facing multiple enemies, check your attack value. A good strategy is
to first kill the ones that you can kill with the least number of attacks.
Then the ones that inflict the highest damage, or the ones with the
highest chance of attack.
- There is a powerup shop at the beginning of each level. Choose your
upgrades carefully and use your coins wisely!
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Some useful keyboard shortcuts
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[PAUSE] - stop/continue game
[F9] - quick load game state
[F12] - quick save game state (still stored after leaving the site)
[F10] - toggle performance meter
[F11] - toggle fullscreen mode
[ScrollLock] - quick switch control ports
[PageDown] - make a screenshot (320x200)