Archive Update: ANCIPITAL... COMPLETED!

Markie · Post by **Markie** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 3:53 pm 0

With massive thanks to Lester M Fong he has supplied me with 2-3 shots of every screen in cippy! Total top blasting there my friend!

At last I got to see the completed message on level (9,9) ... sadley, I cant post it until the archive is complete!

Lester: You fuckin Rock! Give that man a cigar!

koworld · Post by **koworld** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:15 pm 0

mark@thearchive wrote:With massive thanks to Lester M Fong he has supplied me with 2-3 shots of every screen in cippy! Total top blasting there my friend!

At last I got to see the completed message on level (9,9) ... sadley, I cant post it until the archive is complete!

Lester: You fuckin Rock! Give that man a cigar!

How far did we get back in the day?

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:21 pm 0

And I hadn't even sat down to try playing it again... ah well guess I don't need to do that now! Though as I pointed out, if you do show a map linking each screen to where it is on the map, make sure the map has the "missing" key gate filled in

I did manage 100% once... too long ago, brain's too dead now to do that again without cheating... still it IS my favourite Llamasoft game

Markie · Post by **Markie** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:37 pm 0

How far did we get back in the day?

I think my best, and with koworld at my side was around 70% ish... the was 15 years ago!

koworld · Post by **koworld** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:51 pm 0

mark@thearchive wrote:
How far did we get back in the day?
I think my best, and with koworld at my side was around 70% ish... the was 15 years ago!

I think we probably gave-up and watched the Cannonball Run instead.

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:54 pm 0

Wasn't Gary Penn one of the first to complete it in his pre-zzap days? There's a mention of him in one of the Nature of the Beasts.

Edit: yeah, thought he was. G Penn 100% part way down the page

http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:td ... n&ie=UTF-8

Fuseball · Post by **Fuseball** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:12 pm 0

Mayhem wrote:I did manage 100% once... too long ago, brain's too dead now to do that again without cheating... still it IS my favourite Llamasoft game

Same here. Amazing bit of original but intuitive game design is Cippy. I stayed up all night completing it. It's all that bloke Minter's fault. His games ruined my education.

Markie · Post by **Markie** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:25 pm 0

Sadley, Cippy has defeated me, I have however completed HB1, IridisAlpha and Revenge.

Lester M Fong · Post by **Lester M Fong** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:30 pm 0

I found that having infinite lives made it a little bit easier...

btw, there's a couple of levels that I screwed up a bit, so the screenshots aren't very good (eg. 'Inca 2', North 8 West 1) - perhaps someone who knows the game better can redo a few specific ones?

Markie · Post by **Markie** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:34 pm 0

Lester, feel free to combat Mama Llama ... if you fancy a new challenge

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:56 pm 0

What really is a "Minter you cunt!" moment in Ancipital is the first time you discover that the keys/goats disappear if you die before collecting them. Without all of them, you can't fully beat the game. Ergo, said swearing from lots of people no doubt back then

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:55 pm 0

The Nature of the Beast wrote:<snip> eventually yield â€˜Ancipitalâ€™ running on the Spectrum <snip> not taking time off from the real machines <snip> the black-Frisbee-with-rubber-protrusions-all-over-it, <snip> the dead fleshburger, <snip> the Rubber Keys of Doom.

A huge Spectrum fan, obviously

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 7:04 pm 0

Lester M Fong wrote:I found that having infinite lives made it a little bit easier...

So the cheat code worked then?

YakYak

Archive Update: ANCIPITAL... COMPLETED!

Archive Update: ANCIPITAL... COMPLETED!

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