Talk:Zarch

Those missile things?
At the side of the launchpad are three or four structures which look like missiles. I understood these to be fuel silos; destruction of them means that the player cannot refuel the lander. However, my memory may be lacking! Can anyone confirm? Preacherdoc 10:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)Preacherdoc.


 * Refuelling still works after destroying all three of them. No idea what they mean. 130.83.244.129 18:12, 30 Jul 2006


 * I seem to remember that the player could launch these missiles to automatically clear an area of the map of nasties. Hence the missile display at the top of the screen, too. Unfortunately I don't have a version to test this with. Cpc464 14:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Something worth mentioning
As a big of trivia, Future Publishing's 'ACE' magazine awarded the game a perfect 1000/1000 review score. Might be worth mentioning in the article.
 * Not true. Zarch was rated 979 (ACE issue 3, page 61).--84.177.88.62 (talk) 19:55, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:19, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Merge with Virus (video game)
If Virus is simply the name for Zarch on other platforms, there's really no case for having separate pages, as it's just the same thing under a different name. I suggest they be merged. Ubcule (talk) 15:06, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ In that case, think it could really do with the box artwork for the original Zarch being added. Unfortunately I don't have it, so can't do so myself. --trevj (talk) 14:51, 15 February 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅ Some tidying remains but at least the content's all in one place now. --Trevj (talk) 14:39, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Evidence that Braben coded the ST and Amiga versions?
ACE magazine (issue 2) said that the Argonaut programming team led by Jez San did the Amiga and ST conversions of Zarch. Where's the evidence that it was in fact Braben who did it? Also, Zarch was never renamed to Virus. Braben's project had always been called Virus, but Acorn had a say in the Archimedes release and wanted it to be called Zarch for obvious reasons. --84.177.88.62 (talk) 19:39, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ That's changed but if you can add details to the porting ref, please do (there seems to be no relevant discussion at Talk:Virus (video game)). I also think you're right with the name too: the interview in The Micro User states Rather unfortunately, in my opinion, Acorn registered the name Zarch (sounds like a soap powder) which I agreed to stay with on the Archimedes computers. However, the game may be appearing, in a slightly inferior form, on the Commodore Amiga and perhaps the Atari ST under a different name (not STarch). --Trevj (talk) 02:31, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Origin of the name
I wonder why it was called Zarch. Just speculation: could it be z for a three-dimensional third axis, plus Arch for Archimedes? 82.113.133.21 (talk) 09:36, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * https://web.archive.org/web/20000308210902/http://www.meristation.com/noticias/ects98/david_braven.htm
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