Fishmonger

14th June 2001

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/     __/__ ____/ /    /          \     \ \____\ \  \__\ \____\ \____\   
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             Lander            Mutant             Swarmer

        P                                                     x
    Humanoid                    >8=-                         Bomb  

               %                -=-                  ()   
             Bomber            Baiter               Pod   

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This is the home of Fishmonger - an implementation of Defender for 80x24 serial terminals, written by Marke ``The Chief Slime Monster'' Fincher <mafincher@callnetuk.com> back in 1989 or somesuch year, at Warwick University. In these enlightened days, you'll probably have to run it under an xterm rather than a real terminal, but you can get some of the effect with

xterm -fg gold -bg black -geom 80x24

Here's what I've got:

• Screenshots:
  • The start of a new game
  • Who let the swarmers out?
  • Smashed to smithereens by a mutant

• Downloads:
  • Complete source code.
  • Prebuilt binary for i386 Linux.
  • Prebuilt binary for SPARC Solaris.

If you like Fishmonger, there's every chance you'll also like Marke's previous effort, Chicken Vomit. And if you're into this kind of late-eighties retro-computing in general, especially if that's because you were at Warwick University at the time, you should check out the multi-user dungeon MUNDI.