Down the Pipe
Guide Turdesley through hazardous pipes, dodging obstacles and shooting enemies. Three worlds and three difficulty settings give this irreverent shooter plenty to explore. The SAM Coupé Mode 1 conversion uses the original 128K edition, including its AY music and speech.
Downloads
Starting and controls
Mount the MGT file and use the SAM Coupé disk boot procedure; the AUTO loader leads to the original menu.
Q/A/O/P: movement; M or SPACE: fire; H: hold. Press S on the title screen to choose controls and difficulty.
The BASIC loader can be interrupted with BREAK.
Compatibility notes
The first stage, Game Over and restart were verified. The measured beeper tune is about 2.4% longer; extreme tones, envelopes and noise differ from the original AY. Full-game completion and physical hardware were not verified.
Technical notes and measured limitations
Credits
DF Design — Design and code
Lobo; additional graphics: Andy Green — Graphics and artwork
Rich 'Tufty' Hollins — Beeper sound and additional graphics
CJ Echo — AY music
Shiru — Phaser3 engine
Gabriele Amore — Font
Davey Sludge — Original character
Luca Bordoni; Mike 'The Hitman' van der lee; Seb Braunert — Additional code
2026 by Outsoftware using ChatGPT & Codex