Koules

Ported to Atari ST by Neil Rackett.

Push them out before they push you

Koules is a fast, frictionless arcade game: you are a rocket in a box full of red spheres, and everything bounces. Push the koules into the walls before they push you, and try not to be shoved into a black hole while you do it.

Written by Jan Hubicka in 1995 for Linux and SVGAlib, it never appeared on the Atari ST. This is a native port built on STDL, drawing in ST interleaved planar with no chunky backbuffer and no c2p pass anywhere.

Installation

Disk image

• Download KOULES.ST
• Load it with your favourite emulator or Gotek/FlashFloppy device

Floppy or hard disk

• Copy all of the files below (except KOULES.ST) to a floppy or hard disk on your ST or favourite emulator.
• Run KOULES.TOS
• Got a Mega ST or Mega STE with a 68881/2 FPU? Try running KOULSFP4.TOS (experimental)

Controls

Key	Joystick	Action
↑ ↓ ← →	↑ ↓ ← →	Thrust (player 1)
W A S D		Thrust (player 2)
I J K L		Thrust (player 3)
Keypad 8 4 5 6		Thrust (player 4)
Return	Fire	Select menu item
Esc		Back to menu / quit
H		Help
P		Pause
F		Toggle the frame-timing panel

The joystick in port 1 drives player one and the menus. Keys are rebindable from CONTROL on the main menu and are remembered between sessions.

System requirements

• Atari ST, STE or Mega STE, 512KB minimum
• 1MB gets pre-shifted sprites, which make unaligned blits free; on 512KB the game detects the shortfall and falls back to plain sprites automatically
• Sound effects play through the STE's DMA hardware where available if you have 1MB RAM or more, falling back to YM2149 everywhere else