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Anybody play this back in the day?

Well, there's an \"opentyrian\" project out there where you can download the game (data and all) for free.

For those of you that haven't played it, it's a vertical scrolling shooter. It's a pretty cool game- like what you'd expect to see in an arcade- quite fun. You guys should check it out.

For those who have played both this and Raptor:Call of the Shadows, how do they compare?

(time for me to go fight the battle-cow!)

I just booted up the shareware of Raptor for about two seconds. After my brief experience with it, I'd say it's quite similar- I like the feel of the tyrian interface more, and either my computer was running raptor really slowly, or the tyrian action is a lot higher-paced.

Also, tyrian has a windows build, while you have to run Raptor through dosbox.

Here's a linky

http://code.google.com/p/opentyrian/

Tyrian is faster paced, has more depth, and is a lot harder than Raptor, at least if you play on the secret difficulty modes. IMO, Raptor has better game art though, especially if you don't like Tyrian's arcade look, but also in the general case. I play Tyrian to have more adrenaline-backed fun, whereas I play Raptor to enjoy myself while I wind down, such as before I go to bed.

I guess I have no excuse to play Tyrian in dosbox anymore. Opentyrian appears to run well on linux too btw.

Played Tyrian to the end several times, secret levels, as many bonus levels as I could, some were uber intense and amazed me that I got through. Like scoring 100% on the alley-oop in driving school San Andreas... holy crap I did it!

Great game. One of my favorite PC shooters from \"back in the day.\"

snoopy wrote:either my computer was running raptor really slowly, or the tyrian action is a lot higher-paced.

Action on Raptor, level 1 is pretty slow. It gets faster as you go farther through the game.

tyrian has a windows build, while you have to run Raptor through dosbox.

No you don't.

http://www.mking.com/raptor/index.html

Jeff250 wrote:I guess I have no excuse to play Tyrian in dosbox anymore. Opentyrian appears to run well on linux too btw.

I built it in Ubuntu & the only problem I see is with trying to save your high score. If you esc out of saving it, it seems to run without problems. Trying to save your high score crashes the program.

Try this simple patch:


It looks like a classic buffer overflow. gcc can do some runtime detection for buffer overflows and will abort the program if they're detected. This is to avoid unintended behavior later on in execution, such as someone trying to overwrite other values on the stack to exploit a server that you may be running! Compilers on other platforms are probably not doing this, or at least by default, which is why builds for them don't abort. I've passed this on to the developers, so hopefully this will get officially fixed soon.

edit: It's officially fixed now in revision 950.