Firehawk

Codemasters

Status: Preview, Findability: 3/5

Wow, the list of unreleased Codemasters titles for the Commodore 64 continues to grow, and grow it does with the inclusion now of Firehawk.

This time a game again by Finlay Munro which was mentioned recently in a conversation. He mentioned about working on a NES port of a top down 8-way scroller. It was likely to have been his last bit of C64 work (either that or Captain Dynamo 2 which we found).

After a bit of digging around, we found that the game was a conversion of Firehawk (see above). The game was believed to have been completed, but not released due to the market shrinking too much and Codemasters pulling out.

The game was done through Reflective Design, and recently in 2013 – Duncan Kershaw managed to recover a level 1 map from the game. Duncan suggests that he has seen the game up and running, so hopefully we will see more. You can now check out the C64 graphics for yourself as well as download the map which is embedded into the Reflective Designs editor (used for Bubble Dizzy, DJ Puff etc). There is also the note file that came with the graphics which can be ran via SYS 2064 (Thanks Vinny Mainolfi!)

Finlay has said that he will go through his disks at some point, as he never threw anything away. Firehawk should well be coming to GTW64 at some point in the future!

Watch this space!

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Contributions: Finlay Munro, Duncan Kershaw, Vinny Mainolfi

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