Exploring K240 disassembles and explores the undocumented game mechanics of the 1994 Commodore Amiga game K240. Read more about this project.
Materials wanted: I'm currently seeking to acquire a copy of the extant original K240 source code disks, the tutorial VHS tape, any surviving Gremlin Interactive design documents or development tools, the French demo version, and magazine review copies, in order to document them at this site. If you have access to any of this data, please reply or add a ticket.
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Summary
Undocumented game mechanics
- Introduction
- Asteroids and ore
- Bugs
- Bugs: Photon vs Plasma
- Building behaviour
- Building hitpoints
- Cheats
- Health, radiation and population growth
- Income and ore prices
- Intel
- Miscellaneous features
- Missile damage and effects
- PAFW and resource deficiency
- Random events
- Security and morale
- Ship hardpoints and combat
Demo versions and unreleased prototypes
Undocumented alien mechanics
- General alien mechanics
- #1: Kll-Kp-Qua
- #2: Ore Eaters
- #3: Ax'Zilanths
- #4: Tylarans
- #5: Rigellians
- #6: Swixarans
History
Fun
- Could K240 be made today?
- Powerplant is the worst building
- Unlikely things to happen
- Speedrunning K240
- Largest possible colony
Data
- Generating random numbers in 68k asm
- Disassembly and analysis tutorial
- File formats
- Extracted images (MGL files)
- Manual protection codes
- Save game format
- Raw extracted game data
- Some scripts used in analysis
- K240 v2.000 disassembly (2022)
- Previous partial disassemblies: K240 v1.886 2014 (1.7MB), K240 v1.886 2018 (1.8MB)
Links
- K240-Bugfix by drDragonSmoke
- Authorized Gremlin Games download of K240 v1.886
- All K240 articles at the Amiga Magazine Rack
- K240 manual (plain text, English) at LemonAmiga
- K240 manual (PDF, English/German/French) at Hall of Light
- K240 at Hall of Light
- K240 at The Gremlin Graphics Archive
- YouTube: GouldFish's K240 review, Thiima's Tylaran playthrough, Thiima's Swixaran playthrough, K240 at YouTube, Search for latest K240 videos
- Sector53, a modern K240-inspired game in development by Hollett Gaming
- Exploring the Dungeons of Avalon, a similar project for a 1992 RPG series