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Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:51 am
by JonAbbott
Image Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

ID: 10355
Version: Unknown
Developer: Richard Norman; Milo Shaffer
Genre: Puzzle
RAM: 1024

CPU compatibility: ARM2 ARM250 ARM3 ARM610 ARM700 ARM710 ARM7500 StrongARM ARMv5+
OS compatibility: 3.11 3.5x 3.6x 3.7x 4.x 5.x

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Game info
To run the game use "Boot floppy" from the ADFFS Filer.

Synopsis
The water supply has been polluted by various nasty chemical compounds which have been placed there by evil aliens from Zygon 3 !! The only hope is to use the purification factories to remove the chemicals and make the water clean again. The aliens were not able to destroy these compounds but they have made accessing them hard by building huge structures over them and placing complicated puzzles inside these structures (the aliens have a very strange sense of humour and seem to find this funny). You must control a robot which can withstand the chemicals to a certain extent and direct the water to the exit pipe; from here it will flow into the purification plant and will be cleaned. You must do this within a certain time or the corrosive chemicals in the water will destroy your robot. When a level has been purified you will be able to move onto the next. You must purify all eight zones and there are five different structures in each zone.

Screenshots
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Gameplay

Re: Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 6:49 pm
by Dal
Damned addictive puzzler. Has that "just one more go" thing going on. I remember playing it at school during lunch breaks - quite surprised how many levels I remembered when I came to revisit it off the back of this very thread. I'm up to Level 29 so far...

Re: Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 7:22 pm
by Qjimbo
Just got my Pi set up again! From the screenshots this game looks a lot like Cataclysm, should give this a go later!

Re: Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:43 pm
by JonAbbott
Qjimbo wrote:Just got my Pi set up again! From the screenshots this game looks a lot like Cataclysm, should give this a go later!
If you look at the CPU and OS compatibility, you'll see it doesn't work on either RISCOS 5 or ARM11 yet. I'll test it and see what's required to get it running, I believe it only requires 26bit Module support which I'm currently developing.

Re: Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:27 am
by Qjimbo
JonAbbott wrote:
Qjimbo wrote:Just got my Pi set up again! From the screenshots this game looks a lot like Cataclysm, should give this a go later!
If you look at the CPU and OS compatibility, you'll see it doesn't work on either RISCOS 5 or ARM11 yet. I'll test it and see what's required to get it running, I believe it only requires 26bit Module support which I'm currently developing.
Oh! You don't have to go to any trouble, it's no big deal, I was just curious :) I didn't see it wasn't compatible.

Re: Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:37 am
by JonAbbott
JonAbbott wrote:'ll test it and see what's required to get it running, I believe it only requires 26bit Module support which I'm currently developing.
I've managed to get it working on the Pi, although it needs a play through to confirm, the sound Modules are certainly working correctly. I'll record a YouTube video later and test a few levels.

Re: Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2023 2:18 pm
by wmd
This won't work on my A3020 (4MB, RISC OS 3.11, ZIDEFS). When I do boot from floppy it freezes RISC OS, except for the mouse cursor. When I try booting while holding CTRL I just get a grey screen with the mouse cursor. Am using latest version of ADFFS (v2.82).

Re: Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2023 4:09 pm
by JonAbbott
wmd wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2023 2:18 pm When I do boot from floppy it freezes RISC OS, except for the mouse cursor. When I try booting while holding CTRL I just get a grey screen with the mouse cursor.
I couldn't reproduce either issue, but try replacing !ADFFS.Obey with the latest version. It wasn't setting the Screen memory size, which could potentially be a problem.

Re: Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2023 5:11 pm
by wmd
I replaced the obey file as instructed, but unfortunately I'm still getting the same problem.

Re: Cascade (1992) (Milo Shaffer and Richard Norman)

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2023 5:15 pm
by wmd
Just to check - when I transferred the obey.zip file to the A3020, I changed the file type to A91 and rename the file to just "obey". Is that correct?