Androids (cart)

Products: Androids (cart)
Date: 1984
Type: Cartridge
Platform(s): TS 2068
Tags: Arcade, Game

Can you find your way through the maze without being destroyed by the Androids? You guide a figure through a maze looking for the exit while androids hunt you down. Your laser holds a limited number of shots and your shield can take only so many hits; walking over special squares recharges them (blue patterned squares for the laser, red patterned ones for the shield), and cyan doors let you through but stop the androids. The status line shows your score, field strength, bonus and laser energy, and finding the exit brings the message “WELL DONE YOU HAVE FOUND THE EXIT” and the next maze.

The menu offers P to play, D for a demonstration, H for the high score table and C to change the keys. The default keys are A (up), Z (down), X (left), C (right) and V (fire), and pressing K or J at the start chooses the keyboard or a joystick. Players who make the high score table are asked to enter their name.

The game text reads “SUNSHINE PRESENTS ANDROIDS” and “1982, PETER AKED”. Timex Computer Corporation released it for the TS2068 on cartridge in 1984.

Program Analysis

Structure

The download is a DCK cartridge image (and a raw .bin of the same ROM). The DCK header marks a single 8K ROM chunk in the dock bank, mapped at 32768–40959, so this is an AROS-style cartridge that runs alongside the TS2068 home ROM. The program is entirely machine code.

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