

Consequently, the game was not released either. is taking a fair amount of work, but is looking like it will be well worth it."Ī port of the game was reportedly developed for the SNES-CD, a video game console add-on that was never released. DeForest (software engineer and later CTO at Cyan) in December 1995 indicated a colorized version was in development, noting, ". For those who didn't have a CD-ROM drive, the floppy version offered fewer planets to explore and required a hard drive for installation.

A XCMD plug-in enabled VideoWorks animated sprites to be displayed with an alpha mask on top or behind HyperCard's graphic layer.Īs it was one of the first CD-ROM games, Cyan also offered a floppy disk version that didn't include background music. Animated portions were made using MacroMind VideoWorks, a linear animation program that later became Macromedia Director. It was created, and runs, using HyperCard.
