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Fred's Journey by Cosmos Designs [web] & Retroguru [web]
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release date : april 2020
release party : Revision 2020
compo : gamedev
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added on the 2020-04-12 18:36:08 by Kojote Kojote

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Nice little game! Going to warm up my Tac2 tonight!
rulez added on the 2020-04-12 18:40:22 by Alkaron Alkaron
yes
Appears to be buggy, once I collected something the display was trashed (looked like some blit going haywire) and I had to reboot. All this on a 68000 A500 with disabled external drive as game otherwise wouldn't work.
added on the 2020-04-12 18:45:21 by StingRay StingRay
ok
rulez added on the 2020-04-12 18:47:33 by SiR SiR
A lot of efforts has gone into this. If you find a bug, please let us know with as many details as possible, so we can fix it. Our contact details can be found at retroguru.com. Thanks everyone and enjoy playing! There most likely will be a boxed version sometime the next few weeks (the game will stay free as digital download!).
rulez added on the 2020-04-12 19:00:04 by Kojote Kojote
It looks very funny to play with.Congratulations!
rulez added on the 2020-04-12 19:13:11 by ast ast
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Appears to be buggy, once I collected something the display was trashed ...


Hello StringRay! Yes there is a bug in the game when running on 512k Chip / 512K Slow memory. If you play on emulator please activate 1MB Chip.
We are working on a bug fixed version. Sorry for the inconvenience.
added on the 2020-04-12 19:13:33 by ceel ceel
and little gameplay:
linky
added on the 2020-04-12 20:05:54 by saberman saberman
Sweet!
rulez added on the 2020-04-12 20:07:02 by Mystra Mystra
I love RetroGuru. This game looks like fun. Will try play the game on my A1200 today or tomorrow.
rulez added on the 2020-04-12 21:38:08 by nikosidis nikosidis
That looks like playing smooth
rulez added on the 2020-04-12 22:07:50 by Optimus Optimus
I have a Amiga 500 + 2.0 Roms (37.175). The game doesn´t work. I can see the first screen of Fred´s (loading into memory, please wait ...) and then another red screen and nothing else. Thannks.
added on the 2020-04-12 23:01:47 by Damastes Damastes
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I have a Amiga 500 + 2.0 Roms (37.175). The game doesn´t work. I can see the first screen of Fred´s (loading into memory, please wait ...) and then another red screen and nothing else. Thannks.

red screen means that there is not enough memory.
if you have 1meg total of memory please deactivate all
extra floppy drives.

if you manage to get it to start you will likely then
have the crash problem.

am working on a bug fix.
added on the 2020-04-12 23:21:50 by ceel ceel
Looks good
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 00:54:15 by baah baah
Nice
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 03:14:43 by Black Dragon Black Dragon
Very nice game !!! I really like all the "Fred's back" games on the C-64 and this here is as good as them with even more colors, thanks to the Amiga. Great !!! More games like this here would be superb on the Amiga, they play clearly better than all these building-kit games which came out for the system in last years. And by the way, a Amiga-port of the Atari-ST game "Super STario Land", would also be superb. Maybe this comes one day?
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 05:07:41 by AW87 AW87
Find out just that moment, that also the levels are exactly like in "Fred's back 1", so maybe there is a chance of a "Fred's Journey 2" and "Fred's Journey 3" on the Amiga, with the levels of "Fred's back 2" and "Fred's back 3" then? And then there is also "Fred's in Trouble" on the C-64. Alot levels for new versions of "Fred's Journey" in the future.
added on the 2020-04-13 05:26:41 by AW87 AW87
great, seem fun to play congratulations :)
my fav of the game compo
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 08:58:36 by Xyl2k Xyl2k
I have explained it wrong, sorry. I have a Amiga 500 + / 1 MB chip / 2.0 Roms (37,175). My computer doesn´t have any extra floppy drive, it only have a Gotek unit. I have looked at the information in Sysinfo, everything correct. I have also tried other games and everything is perfect. Thanks for your work. Waiting for further updates. Cheers.
added on the 2020-04-13 09:49:47 by Damastes Damastes
An updated version is available. Just download the game again.
And please report back if you still have any issues.
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 10:03:06 by ceel ceel
Quote:
Find out just that moment, that also the levels are exactly like in "Fred's back 1", so maybe there is a chance of a "Fred's Journey 2" and "Fred's Journey 3" on the Amiga, with the levels of "Fred's back 2" and "Fred's back 3" then? And then there is also "Fred's in Trouble" on the C-64. Alot levels for new versions of "Fred's Journey" in the future.

This game was coded 1995 by me as a port of the C64 game "Fred's back 2".
We then added the levels from Fred's back 1 and renamed it to "Fred's Journey" as there would be no Fred's back 1 for Amiga.
So this game is actually Fred's back 1 & 2 in one game :-)
added on the 2020-04-13 10:08:04 by ceel ceel
The update has the same problem, red screen. Waiting for further updates. Cheers.
added on the 2020-04-13 10:31:42 by Damastes Damastes
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The update has the same problem, red screen. Waiting for further updates. Cheers.

I see the problem. I am requesting fast memory blocks but your Amiga has only chipmem. I think that should be fixable.
added on the 2020-04-13 10:58:53 by ceel ceel
This looks super fun to play, actually a lot more playable than Sqrx. And it's so super cute
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 11:09:51 by Hopper/SquoQuo Hopper/SquoQuo
Lovely.
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 13:47:16 by muhmac muhmac
Cute. Have to play that soon. Graphics are so sweeet!
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 13:47:59 by neoman neoman
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The update has the same problem, red screen. Waiting for further updates. Cheers.

I see the problem. I am requesting fast memory blocks but your Amiga has only chipmem. I think that should be fixable.

The problem was not the memory type allocation. Kick 2.04 uses 30-35K more memory then Kick 1.3. So the program did not fit into memory. I've sacrificed the intro MODs and one level MOD. Maybe we will add this again in a later version.

A new version is online. Besides the missing MODs the game has all previous features.

Enjoy!
added on the 2020-04-13 14:36:57 by ceel ceel
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The problem was not the memory type allocation.


You could just simple print an error message that any external drives have to be disconnected. This leaves enough memory for the game to run.

I have tried the new updated and it works fine but it feels strange without the intro modules (yes yes, I know, I'm a pain. :D).

Good game, thanks for it!
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 14:46:06 by StingRay StingRay
The game works perfect now. Also the game has very nice graphics and good music. Could I give a recommendation? Fred has no animation when stopped. He could open and close his eyes or move his foot. Also, a second button for the joypad would be interesting. Anyway, the game is perfect If I see something wrong , I´ ll report the problem. Thank you very much for everything and greetings.
added on the 2020-04-13 15:27:22 by Damastes Damastes
Sorry, Fred closes his eyes when time passes. All perfect.
added on the 2020-04-13 15:30:34 by Damastes Damastes
Very nice.
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 16:00:43 by apx^a1k apx^a1k
Theres obviously a lot of work in this and the code, gfx and music are great but in the end it just feels like another mario/ggs clone with mediocre gameplay to me, sorry...
Still a thumb for the effort
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 18:38:25 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
Cool! One of my fav game on the C64.
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 18:55:55 by Buckethead Buckethead
Looks very good, also great gameplay
rulez added on the 2020-04-13 22:34:34 by Chainsaw Chainsaw
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Kick 2.04 uses 30-35K more memory then Kick 1.3. So the program did not fit into memory. I've sacrificed the intro MODs and one level MOD. Maybe we will add this again in a later version.


I saw on the disk, that the little tool "add21k" was used for this game. Maybe the tool "add36k" could help here?
added on the 2020-04-15 01:35:24 by AW87 AW87
Cute art style and sweet music. A solid platformer as far as I can tell. If you've ever wanted to play a round head with feet attached to it, here's your chance! LOL

The Amiga can never have enough fresh platformers, especially in our times. Good work! :)
rulez added on the 2020-04-15 01:47:52 by SunSpire SunSpire
Cool!
rulez added on the 2020-04-22 13:54:24 by EXL EXL
The current download version on this site still has a memory bug when playing level 10.

A new improved version with a lot of changes and some bugs fixed is ready and will be available soon.
added on the 2020-07-04 00:08:20 by ceel ceel
cute!
rulez added on the 2020-07-04 02:15:19 by wertstahl wertstahl
:D
rulez added on the 2020-07-04 09:55:46 by elkmoose elkmoose

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