A lovely curiosity added to the archives today thanks to Marco Das, with the preservation of a very rare non-playable demo of Alleykat distributed by Hewson back in the day. It was likely for shops to showcase the game in their stores, or for magazines to get a sneak preview before release.
The tape was purchased from a Norwegian retro gaming site by Marco and has been fully preserved as a TAP image, and with the original DMP images too. Below are the downloads and a video of the demo too.
I wondered if the demo may actually still contain any joystick related code to make it playable once more, and if there could be content that was cut from the final release. Well, Martin Piper came to the rescue and produced the following:
Below is an added download for the playable version that Martin has very kindly created. It seems that the game is pretty much the final game, just had the demo/preview code adding in. If we’re wrong, please do let us know.
A huge thank you to Marco Das for saving the demo and for Martin Piper for making playable!
Download
- Demo_Alleykat
- Alleykat demo play – thanks to Martin Piper!
Gallery
Great work like ever so often. Frank.
Thanks Adam!
Well, that was quick: https://youtu.be/zzTpBRvA6pA?si=aCCJy4Zwbcgw1xsL
That was indeed Toni! Martin is amazing :)