About: Laser.shk
Status: Public Domain
Author: Huibert Aalbers Indaberea
Email: huibert@mail.proesa.com.mx
WWW: http://www.mexred.net.mx/~huibert/AppleIIgs/LaserForce/LaserForceEn.html 

LaserForce, published in 1990 was my last comercial program for the Apple IIgs.
It was quite an ambitious project since the gare require some very efficient
routines in order to display a 3D game screen on a computer that ran at only 2.8
MHz. However, the true challenge was to develop a very fast sound engine that
allowed to play complex music without using too much processing power. These
routines later became the foundation of my SoundSmith program, released a couple
of moths later as shareware. Surprisingly, most programs at that time used
digitized music instead of computer generated music. This used a lot of disk
space and did not take advantage of the incredible Ensoniq sound chip included in
every Apple IIgs.

LaserForce consist of 76 Levels.

LaserForce is a game based on Br¿derbund's smash hit Lode Runner, and one of the
few developped only for the IIgs platform. The player's goal is to collect all
the energy boxes scattered around the gaming board, avoiding the robots that
protect them, before running out of energy. The players can use their laser to
destroy the robots (or to kill each other in two players mode). In order to
collect the energy boxes, the players can use ropes, ladders and even
tele-transporters. Players will find out than in higher levels, robots get
smarter and energy boxes get harder to find.


LaserForce includes a graphical level editor that allows to easily create new and
challenging levels that can be shared with other players.

If you still have an Apple IIgs or a computer that can emulate this vintage
computer, you can now play this exciting game by just downloading this file:

       Laserforce.shk 


I hope that you'll enjoy LaserForce and that it will help you remember the days
where there was still no Nintendo 64...