100 paces NW of the starting position is an invisible patch of grass where the author forgot to include a height check. Press E and you teleport to the Colony Craft, far above you. This bug has gone unnoticed for 41 years!
paulgerhardt 24 hours ago [-]
Nice, how did you find this? Does it make for a speedrun sequence break or does one still need other items before exploiting this?
Wow, this is very nice! I was thiniking about porting it myself this year, but glad I dont have to!
aenis 1 days ago [-]
Omg. Mercenary was a game that left a huge mark on me. I played it on Commodore PLUS/4 when I was 9. The freedom to explore! The hidden elevator far outside the city. The destructible buildings. The satellite!
salvarito 15 hours ago [-]
Very impressed with the site and its detailed explanations. congratulations to the author(s).
will check back often!
Razengan 22 hours ago [-]
One day I still plan to figure out M.U.L.E.
TacticalCoder 10 hours ago [-]
I had a Commodore 64, had many games, tools, a "power cartdridge" (to freeze software and go modify stuff in memory, like the number of lives or gold in a game), demos, etc. and it was my life for years and years.
And yet the C64 never ceases to amaze me: I had not heard about Mercenary and it's amazing what was possible with so little memory/resources.
(signing off, going to lament at the size of JavaScript loaded by the next site)
Rendered at 22:09:07 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
http://mercenarysite.free.fr/minmemoriam_paul_woakes.htm
May his essential 12939 supply never run out.
https://uzudil.github.io/merc/
And yet the C64 never ceases to amaze me: I had not heard about Mercenary and it's amazing what was possible with so little memory/resources.
(signing off, going to lament at the size of JavaScript loaded by the next site)