First full release.

Lots of tuning and bug fixes.

• hit boxes look good
• fixes to music cycling
• scores stay on screen
• health orbs have a life-time

Many changes to address feedback.

• final boss has been reworked
• boss spends more time on screen fight you
• there are now mini-bosses on each level
• added new enemy, green saucers. They periodically drop health orbs to refresh you shields
• difficulty switch for easy vs pro. easy has slow fighters, slower enemy fire rates and larger hitboxes
• regular fighters now have a larger sprite and slightly larger hit box overall
• fixed main ship sprite, so the bullets go where you are aiming

Todo:

• high-score on transition screens
• high-scores + savekey/card

Pokey fix.

update:
set pokeysupport $450
Should fix header / emulator support

20260121

Lots of good improvements:

• added timer to delay spawn of enemies at start of level
• music will rotate on title-screen
• no more auto screen advance.. waits for the user
• added health-bars are revamp of UI

Full Changelog: 2026012...2026012

First public release

Welcome to Astrowing. Game is still under heavy development, so expect bugs -- and report them!

The project has been setup for CMake and VSCode, but compiling with 7800basic.sh(.bat) should work just fine.

A number of issues have been created to track valuable community feedback.