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W As if that isn’t enough, two other “INSTANT REPLAY”

games are in active development
through Songbird: Championship Rac-
ell, unless you’ve been
former Lynx developer Tom Schenck,
past year, living under a rock for the ing (overhead racing game) and Rem- Carl Forhan recently caught up with
nant (3D space
you proba- combat). Songbird to see what he had to say about his
bly know recently an- days as a professional Lynx coder...
that Song- nounced plans to
bird has publish Remnant
released at CGE2K in Las Classic Gamer Magazine: Could
four (yep, Vegas in late July. you give us some background on
four) new Songbird is your work experience and education
titles for the continually pursu- prior to developing Lynx games.
Atari Jag- ing other Jaguar
uar: Protec- and Lynx projects, Tom Schenck: Well, I only barely
tor, Soccer so be sure to stay completed high-school. In fact, I got
Kid, Hyper tuned to http:// into quite a bit of trouble in school for
Force, and songbird.atari. my coding/hacking practices. I
Skyham- net for the latest started programming when I was in
mer. These scoop on what’s 6th grade, after fiddling with com-
games Battlesphere up and coming puters in the classroom. My dad
come complete with from Songbird. signed me up for a Pascal program-
authentic full-color Jaguar packaging, ming course at the local college, so
and the games themselves have been my first programming experience was
a big hit with Jaguar fans worldwide. using VI and ED to create Pascal
At long last, BattleSphere arrived for The Vault programs, and compile them with CP
the Atari Jaguar this year, much to the on a UNIX machine.
pleasure of Jaguar fans everywhere. As for work, my first job was actu-
This game Cheat modes for Lynx Ponx: ally setting up (installing), and later

was one of repairing, Apple computers. I never
the most At the options screen, press had a programming job before I
anticipated ‘Opt 1’ and ‘Opt 2’ together to started working on Lynx games. I did
titles ever enable ‘evil’ mode. make games as a kind of hobby for
for the Jag- the neighborhood kids. I had found
uar, and it During the game, press an old Apple II with no disk drives,
is to ‘pause’. Press and hold ‘Opt and I would turn it on, program a
4Play’s 2’, then press ‘up.’ This will game, and leave it on for a day or
credit that enable an extra ball (max of two while the kids played it. I created
they stuck three). several games and neat hacks this

through the way.
death of Cool Lynx Lexis cheat: (it It was my then-girlfriend-now-wife
Atari Corp. reveals a hidden Galaxian who convinced me to apply for a pro-
game!)
and made gramming job I saw in the San Diego
good on Union-Tribune classifieds ...
their com- On the Table of Contents
screen, enter the following
mitment to CGM: What company did you work
see this code: L R L R D U Opt1 Opt2, with while developing Lynx games,
game pub- then start the Pages game. and which titles did you specifically

lished. work on?
The Cheats for Jaguar Hyper
Lynx front is Lynx Lexis Cheat Force: TS: A little tiny company called
equally excit- "Knight Technologies." When I joined,
ing lately. Othello was released earlier Skip a stage: 7127 4718 there were three employees; myself,
this year by hobby developer Harry Weapon 1: 1768 6965 John Smedley, and one other guy
Weapon 2: 2564 8133
Dodgson, and Songbird acquired the whose name I forget. There were a
rights and complete source to three Weapon 3: 3233 2861 few games in development, and I
unreleased games from Beyond was given ‘Dirty Larry: Renegade
Games (BattleWheels): Cybervirus, More cheats coming next issue! Cop’ as my first professional game.
Ultra Vortex, and Mechtiles. We later contracted to convert ‘Qix’ to
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