Spacestation Pheta
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Spacestation Pheta is a video game for the Apple Macintosh computer developed by T & T Software in the late 1980s. It is a fast, multi-screen platform game
. Each screen contains surprises such as transporters, secret ladders, materializers, cannons, and trampolines. There are 100 built-in screens plus an editor to create one's own screens. A "show me the solution" feature can help if one gets stuck. Other features include printable on-line help, digitized sounds, and color graphics.
The game runs on almost all 68k and PowerPC Macintosh computers, including black and white models including the MacPlus as well as PowerMacs.
Sounds from Spacestation Pheta were sampled by the electronic group Underworld
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A version of this game was released on disk for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Home Computer written in Wycove Forth.
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
. Each screen contains surprises such as transporters, secret ladders, materializers, cannons, and trampolines. There are 100 built-in screens plus an editor to create one's own screens. A "show me the solution" feature can help if one gets stuck. Other features include printable on-line help, digitized sounds, and color graphics.
The game runs on almost all 68k and PowerPC Macintosh computers, including black and white models including the MacPlus as well as PowerMacs.
Sounds from Spacestation Pheta were sampled by the electronic group Underworld
Underworld (band)
Underworld are a British electronic group, and principal name under which duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded together since 1980.- Early years: 1979–1986 :...
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A version of this game was released on disk for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A was an early home computer, released in June 1981, originally at a price of USD $525. It was an enhanced version of the less-successful—and quite rare—TI-99/4 model, which was released in late 1979 at a price of $1,150...
Home Computer written in Wycove Forth.
External links
- [ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mac/games/pheta.sit Pheta 1.5 shareware] as a StuffItStuffItStuffIt is a family of computer software utilities for archiving and compressing files on the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms: it was originally produced for the Macintosh. An old version for Linux and Sun Solaris 2.7 or later is also available...
archive in FUNETFUNETFUNET is the Finnish University and Research Network, a backbone network providing Internet connections for Finnish universities and polytechnics as well as other research facilities. It is governed by the state-owned CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd. The FUNET project started in December 1983 and...
's FTP archive of old Macintosh games - Answers.com review