Fly Harder (Amiga)

Box and instructions (front) Click to enlarge.	Box and instructions (back) Click to enlarge.

Basic DATA

Ship	1P mode only. Your ship has HP, however, it would die instantly if it touches certain traps. HP is recovered automatically unless it was damaged, though. You have 5 ships. After you enter a password, you can restart that level with 5 ships.
Option	Gravity( LIGHT / NORMAL / HEAVY ): It changes gravity and how much fuel are used. Aggressivity( EASY / NORMAL / HARD ): It changes the number of bullets certain enemies fire (mainly turrets).
License	Commercial. No websites are given permission to upload. It's illegal if you download the game.

Controls	CD32 pad	Keyboard
Rotate left	left	z
Rotate right	right	x
Thrust	up	Space
Fire	Red button	Right Shift
	--	(You can redefine above.)
Pause	--	p
Return to the title screen	--	Esc
Note: "joy2key2" doesn't work.

Can't recommend you to buy CD32 version!

...It is because CD32 version forces you to use CD32 pad only ( up = thrust, you cannot redefine ) .
Amiga version does allow you to use keyboard and redefine keys. Recommended setting is:

Thrust	Right Shift
Rotate left	z
Rotate right	x
Fire	Enter

For CD32+Analogic FDD users:

After you insert Disk A , it shows "Starbyte" logo screen and title picture screen.
In principle, it should show the loading screen as a screenshot on the left.
However, actually it doesn't show "Please insert Disk B in any drive." message.
( It only shows "Loading" message forever. )
Of course nothing happens after you insert Disk B.
I don't know what's wrong about it,
anyway I can say that this startup script is uncompatible with Analogic FDD.
On the other hand, nothing happens if you boot with no startup-sequence.
( It doesn't show Amiga DOS screen. It shows a black screen forever. )
We need another choice to play the game...

Boot from HD or RAM disk:

In this method, we can avoid that bug shown above.
As the instructions booklet says, copy all files of 2 disks to your hard disk.( Fortunately there is no copy protection. )
Analogic FDD users must copy files to RAM disk !
To save chip RAM space, don't copy unnecessary files unrelated to the game itself. See below.

Contents of 2 disks:

Disk A		Disk B
AFlyLogo.con	Necessary.	BFlyHarderLevels	Necessary.
APlayHigh		BGameOver.con
APlayTitle		BIntro1.con
ATitleok.con		BIntro2.con
fly		BIntro3.con
Dummy	Unnecessary.	BIntro4.con	Necessary. But don't copy when you challenge the 8th level.
Logo		BIntro5.con
s/startup-sequence		BIntro6.con
system-configuration		BIntro7.con
Type		BTheEnd1.con	Necessary. But don't have to copy before you can manage to leach the 8th level.
		BTheEnd2.con
		BTheEnd3.con
		BTheEnd4.con
		BTheEnd5.con
		BTheEnd6.con

Even though the original box says " 1 Meg only ", actually the game can be loaded at 645KB Chip RAM.
First insert a (pseudo) workbench disk ( it's OK if it has only "LoadWB" ) and boot your CD32.
Make sure that chip RAM is about 1820 KB remained.
Then insert 2 disks and copy necessary files to RAM.
If you are going to challenge the 8th level (final one) and beat the game,
you have to copy BTheEnd1~6.con, however, don't copy BIntro4~7.con instead.
Otherwise the game can't be loaded due to lack of RAM.
( It also means that you MUST press SPACE key to skip an introduction demo before it shows the 4th screen of that demo! )
Close all windows on the Workbench screen.
Type "fly" by executing a command. The game would be loaded after the title picture screen !

The game:

Here I show you how to play the game as an example of the 3rd level.

( I ) Shoot this switch to disable two lasers ( I' ) . Turrets from the ceiling fire more and more bullets in HARD mode.
( II ) Shoot this switch to disable a laser beam ( II' ) .
( A ) This item refuels.
( B ) This enemy fires bullets while it chases you. To make it crash into the wall, you must place your ship above Sphinx and wait a while.
( C ) You must bring this ball (energy sphere) to the reactor ( D ). The ball is destroyed if it crashes into the wall. Bring it again.
( III ) Don't forget to shoot this switch to disable a laser beam ( III' ) .
( E ) This item allows you to fire in rapid succession.
( F ) This enemy sprays bullets toward you. Of course you can destroy it. In this game, enemies respawn after a while.
( G )&( H ) You can bring them to the reactor ( D ) at the same time.
The aim of this level is bringing 3 balls to the reactor before your all ships run out.
For example, if you brought 1 ball to the reactor then died, next you only have to bring other 2 balls to the reactor.
However, you have to shoot switches and disable lasers again.

Entering the password:

Unlike CD32 version, it doesn't show the password typed by you.
For example, if you want to start from the 2nd level, type "photon" even though "photon" word typed by you isn't shown.
The 2nd level would start immediately.

Level 1	--	Level 5	supernova
Level 2	photon	Level 6	transmitter
Level 3	metagrav	Level 7	quant
Level 4	blackhole	Level 8	neogeopower

Playing the game on WinUAE:

It might become corrupt screens if you load the game from hard disk.
Reboot with both buttons of the mouse and choose "Enhanced" at the Early Startup Control screen (Display Options - Chip Type) .

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