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MonkeyByte.com has announced the release of an updated version of Galactic Patrol, designed to run natively on Mac OS X. You can download a demo of the game from their Web site now. Earlier this week MonkeyByte.com announced the OS X build of the game had gone gold master.

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The Galactic Asteroids Patrol is a nostalgic & exciting re-imagining of the classic-style arcade games of blowing things up in outer space. Features: Single & Multiplayer gameplay: play with or against your friends online in 4 different multiplayer game types, including 'Asteroids Ball'! Free download Galactic Patrol Galactic Patrol for Mac OS X. Galactic Patrol - Via MacMinute Galactic Patrol is a 3D homage to the classic arcade hits of the early 80's.

Featuring flat-shaded polygonal graphics and gameplay derivative of 1980s arcade classics like Galaxian, Phoenix and Gyruss, Galactic Patrol takes a lesson from the old school and applies it to modern machines. It’s a 3D homage to those classic arcade hits, with more than 300 waves and 25 levels of action, as well as a whole bunch of boss levels to keep you occupied.

The game has been available for Mac OS and Windows for some time, but this is the first time that the game has been available to run natively in Mac OS X. That’s because of a relationship between MonkeyByte.com and Ideas from the Deep, a game publishing and development concern headed up by former MonkeyByte boss Lane Roathe.

Some game makers are content to just make a 3D action homage to a classic arcade game and leave it at that, but Galactic Patrol mixes it up a bit by combining not just 3D levels but 2D levels, too — from wave to wave you may be shooting at legions of alien invaders from a 3D perspective, a top-down perspective, or a side-scrolling perspective depending on what the strategy demands.

Galactic Patrol costs US$20 to register, regardless of platform. If you already have the Classic version and you’d like to upgrade to the Mac OS X release, MonkeyByte.com has priced the upgrade at $5. System requirements call for a PowerPC equipped Mac running Mac OS 8.5 or better, including Mac OS X.

MonkeyByte.com also advises that Galactic Patrol fans should “stay tuned” for Galactic Patrol – Special Assignment.

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Ever wonder what the old-school space shooters of the '80s would become in a 3D universe?

Galactic Patrol begins as you might expect a 3D interpretation of Space Invaders would: you blast through space, the starfield zooming along, controlling your craft from a back-on view. You don't have any bunkers to hide behind, but you've got some shields. As you swoop across the screen you'll notice that even though your ship can cover every pixel of the playing area, your weapons are restricted to a somewhat smaller field of fire. It means that, just like in the olden days, the alien critters can temporarily slide into an almost untouchable corner.

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To combat this behavior you've got a number of special weapons which will allow you to reach out and obliterate the pesky aliens who try and hover just outside of your gun's range. The Smart Bomb is pretty typical, and missiles (in Cluster and Smart flavors) do what you'd expect. Nice as they are, they're overshadowed by the real toys in your arsenal: the Gravity Vortex and the Death Blossom. Gravity Vortex fires a small black hole into the middle of an alien formation, which is very satisfying to watch, and the Death Blossom is a dream come true for anyone who loved 'The Last Starfighter' film - trigger it and your ship unleashes mass destruction in a gyroscopic pyrotechnic frenzy. Other powerups allow you to upgrade your standard gun with different types of ammo, firing patterns, and rates of fire, and the game's balanced to the point where you're rarely really stuck for adequate firepower.

Your enemies come in regular and 'Boss' sizes, and although they're constructed out of fairly simply shaded polygons, they're quite distinctive and inventive in their design. What really makes them work, however, is the way these beasties move. They'll swoop in across every available axis and spin around your screen in an intricately choreographed ballet of doom before settling into formation. Even then they'll feint, come in from behind, and do just about everything but sit still, leaving you challenged to stay alive... never mind target them. If you do manage to lock on to a couple of enemy vessels, the resulting explosions are a satisfying pay-off.

The feature that keeps you on your toes through all 25 levels (300 enemy waves) is the perspective shift that happens at various intervals. One second you're blasting away in the over-the-shoulder mode, then the game flips the universe around and you're playing Galactic Patrol top-down, Galaxian style. Following that it might swing the camera around to your ship's side, and you'll be playing a side-scrolling shooter with echoes of R-Type.

— MacCentral

I'm sorry but I couldn't turn down the challenge. Lane Roathe said to me that his game Galactic Patrol would take 8 weeks to port to MacOS. I looked at the game and said, naaahhhh maybe 4 weeks. We emailed each other little jibes until Lane sent me the source and said, Ok, prove it.

I got the source on Saturday (10 days ago), then on Superbowl Sunday I had an 85% complete version of the game with sound, input and just about all the graphics finished.

And I only worked on it about 4 hours a day (I have other things to do. :)

— Rebecca 'Burger' Heineman's .plan file, 3 February 1999

Compatibility

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Architecture: PPC PPC (Carbonized)

Minimum Requirements

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• PowerPC processor (G3 recommended)
• 16 MB of RAM
• 8 MB of available HD space
• Mac OS 8.1
• Game Sprockets 1.5
• 640x480, 256-color resolution

If you play in OS 9 and OS X on the same machine, the registration code must be entered under each OS.