Re: "Champ Kong" and "The King"

Champ Kong has some nice options, especially the CHAMP exclusive levels and bonus round. Played in DosBox with speed on 'Auto' this runs quite fast! Made it to the pie board in both versions, but again that was as far as I got. Challenging and FUN!



Had some trouble getting The King to work, as CoCo is unfamiliar territory for me. Finally got it going, albeit too slowly to play, in MESS.



There's mention of another DK (Sock Master version) on the same site, but it's in .DSK format and I haven't figured out how to run it yet, either. Any hints on running these two properly?

http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/donkeykong.html

Signing off- got a 'hot' date tonight. ;-)

I actually have two ports with this "missing" level in it. The PC-compatible one is called "Champ Kong", and is DOS-based. IIRC, the web address you can find it is here:

WWW.CHAMP-EM.COM

The download link has a "/" replaced with a "\". You'll have to correct this download in your URL text window to get the download to start.

The other port I have is called "The King", formerly known as Donkey King. It's found here:

http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/donkeyking.html

This Donkey Kong area you describe, which in "The King" calls "Jacks", is passed by simply skipping the hammers and climbing up from the left side of the screen. It seems (as least in "The King") that the effective strategy is to get up to the top before the enemies become overwhelming in number. This doesn't do much for your score, of course. :-)

- Tricob.