Playing Spyder on the IBM PC
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The following is footage of Spyder, developed for the IBM PC by Ed Weed in 1983. It is not a complete playthrough, but rather just enough gameplay to serve as a reference for how the game performs on the original hardware it was developed for.
This footage was recorded from an IBM PC (8088 CPU running at 4.77MHz) with a ("new-style") CGA card. The audio was tapped from the PC speaker and the video was recorded from the CGA composite output. The result was post-processed from 30i to 60p; all source frames are intact.
The graphics in this particular game were designed primarily for RGB displays, so the composite output colors seen here are not strictly as the developer intended.
Personal notes: Examination of the binaries shows this game was created in compiled BASIC.
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The appearance of the Mighty Boot for stomping spiders leads me to believe this was the first computer video game to feature Duke Nukem as the player character.
Looks like a fun little game, nice use of the PC speaker for varied sound effects and palette swapping is always refreshing to see.
Spiders, creepy sound effects, and lazers. What else could one ask for in 1983?!! Thanks for this Jim!
Neat gameplay, haven't seen this one before.
This game makes me anxious! I love it!
Based on the graphics and just how it "looked" (can't better explain that, sorry), I figured it was done in BASIC.
@Malvineous0
3 жыл бұрын
Good guess! I had a look at the .exe files and both of them have the same signature you later see on QuickBASIC .exe files, so it must've been some early version of Microsoft BASIC that could be compiled into .exe.