The One 11

Cite as: The One 11
Original: https://archive.org/details/theone-magazine-11
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Archived: https://archive.org/download/theone-magazine-11/TheOne_11_Aug_1989_djvu.xml
Accessed: 2026-11-06
Licence: © EMAP (at the time of publication); scan hosted by the Internet Archive
Credit: Scan in the Internet Archive item "theone-magazine-11"; the pin is the item's OCR, as DjVu XML.
Notes: Pinned in stubs batch 34 for Rainbow Islands: the review (Firebird) on p. 30, whose text and marks are not in the OCR, and Andrew Braybrook's Backspace column on the ST and Amiga versions.

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Writing in The One in August 1989, Andrew Braybrook said Graftgold had converted the arcade original accurately to the ST and was building the Amiga version from it, replacing routines where the Amiga's hardware helped. On the Amiga the sound would be better quality and on four channels, and the game would fit on one disk rather than two. The game's sound used 18 instruments and 31 sound effects.	`p. 98, Backspace (image 98)p. 98 (image 98)p. 98 (image 98)p. 98 (image 98)p. 98 (image 98)`	Magazine
The One's August 1989 issue gave Firebird's Rainbow Islands a four-page work-in-progress review (pp. 30-33), whose standfirst says Gary Penn went to see Graftgold's work in progress in February. The Atari ST box gives a price of £24.95, a release date of September, and marks of 90% for graphics, 90% for sound, 95% for playability, 88% for value and 94% overall. It calls the game "a conversion of such a high quality that it's easy to forget that it's not the original". A second box on p. 33 also gives 94% overall.	`p. 4, contents (image 4)p. 31, standfirst (image 31)p. 32, ST box (image 32)p. 32, ST box (image 32)p. 33, second box (image 33)`	Magazine