AGA no. 1
AGA no. 2

Maniacball

General info

Amiga Original

Relationships

WHDLoad

No WHDLoad installer.

Stats

1,399

Conversions

PC (Windows)

AGA / ECS / OCS / RTG

Version info

No
Max 2, Sim 2

Features

Hard Disk Installer

Yes

- Simply unpack MANIACBALL(HD version) to hard drive.

- Approx. 800k HD space is required for installation.

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1996
Maniacball
Shareware
Full Price
Worldwide
English, German, Italian
English, German
1
Rare

Notes

[1] Written in Oberon. Coding & graphics by Peter Elzner. Music by Eike Steffen (Romeo Knight). English/German level editor localisations by Peter Elzner; Italian localisation by Alessandro Basso.

[2] Min. Requirements: KS 2.x, 1MB ram, ptreplay.library (included, run installer script), asl.library V38+ (included, only needed to change screenmode), CyberGraphX (for gfx card gameplay; Picasso96 may be buggy), MUI 3.x (required to use the level editor).
Recommended: 68020/030 CPU or better, KS 3.x.

[3] Game features a standalone level editor (new levels created can only be saved using the fully registered version) and supports PAL/NTSC screenmodes (lo-res/hi-res standard or interlaced under OCS/ECS, AGA or RTG), full multitasking (memory permitting), window gameplay, mouse/joystick/keyboard control, customisable music (replace "mod.vogue" in the 'sfx' subdirectory) and a quit back to WB option.

[4] MANIACBALL V1.5 (HD demo) is available for download on AminetHERE (dir: game/misc/Maniacball.lha).
MANIACBALL V1.5 (demo disk) is available for downloadHERE [Source: EAB FTP site].

[5] ***MANIACBALL V1.5(full shareware release)*** was deemed freeware in January 2000 by coder Peter Elzner and is freely available for download from these sources:

MANIACBALL V1.5(HD version incl. keyfile) + Classic Levels pack + Magic Levels pack [Source: EAB FTP site]
MANIACBALL V1.5(HD version incl. keyfile) + Classic Levels pack + Magic Levels pack [Source: EAB FTP mirror site]
MANIACBALL V1.5(HD version) + Classic Levels pack + Magic Levels pack (requires keyfile in main directory) [Source: Aminet]
MANIACBALL V1.5(ADF disk version) + Classic Levels pack + Magic Levels pack (requires keyfile in main directory) [Source: EAB FTP site]
MANIACBALL V1.5(ADF disk version) + Classic Levels pack + Magic Levels pack (requires keyfile in main directory) [Source: EAB FTP mirror site]


Known releases:

- V1.0 (20-Oct-96) [first public release on the Meeting Pearls Vol. 4 CDROM - downloadHERE]
- V1.1 (24-Oct-96) [first Aminet release - download HERE]
- V1.2 (28-Oct-96)
- V1.3 (03-Nov-96) [download HERE]
- V1.4 (17-Jan-97) [available on Aminet CD 18 - downloadHERE]
- V1.5 (14-May-97) [downloadHERE]


TRIVIA: Title music is a rendition of Madonna's best-selling 1990 single "Vogue" © Sire Records/Warner Bros Music.

Conversion Notes

PC versions: VGA, SVGA

AGA / ECS / OCS / RTG
Screenshot AGA no. 3

[320x256 (lo-res), 32 colours OCS/ECS]

Screenshot AGA no. 4

Screenshot AGA no. 5

Screenshot AGA no. 6

Screenshot AGA no. 7

Screenshot AGA no. 8

Screenshot AGA no. 9

Screenshot AGA no. 10

Screenshot AGA no. 11

[640x480 (hi-res), 8-bit RTG]

Screenshot AGA no. 12

Screenshot AGA no. 13

Level Editor

Screenshot AGA no. 14

Box: AGA / ECS / OCS / RTG
Disk: AGA / ECS / OCS / RTG
Misc: AGA / ECS / OCS / RTG

Manual info

AGA / ECS / OCS / RTG

No manuals found.

AGA / ECS / OCS / RTG

No cheats found.

Conversion info

PC (Windows)
No conversion screens found.

Map info

AGA / ECS / OCS / RTG

No maps found.

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