Spectrum Computing

Yep. Here's the top 15 from the third and final iteration of this now not-so-quick and dirty algorithm: ... 314445 - IF 310840 - THEN IF and THEN should be exactly the same, there is no way to write a line with IF without THEN, and viceversa. This fact doesn't invalidate your valuable statistics. (...

Sent a PM to Pavero for correcting a bug that prevented visiting the "missing" room, and I uploaded the amended version (in .Z80 format) to my itch.io

Many thanks again, @pavero

This is so great!!! Thank you!!! #4 goes to the top left of the map. #1 in the blank space at the top right. #2 in the space below #4. #3 in the remaining space at the right of #4 To reach the ? room you have to find the right transporter... In any case here it is the missing room, in the middle of ...

Written in BASIC, there is an -in my honest opinion- unfairly underrated game submitted to the great Bytemaniacos 2020 contest: Granher https://bytemaniacos.com/?page_id=3639 If you read the instructions carefully before playing (just in Spanish, but easy to translate), you can enjoy the daily tasks...

I did an unpicked and commented version of the BASIC listing for this (...) Looking forward to a @pavero map of this one. So great job! Please check comment #150, the jump reset is for screen change through the top (only by jumping), not the left. The explanations for the code are totally correct! ...

I am amazed about the repercussion of this little game...

Thanks to all of you for the comments!

I was planning to do by doing something along the lines of: Print at 2, a; z$(n) print at 3, 10; " Winners Circle" Where 'a' would be 32 minus the len of z$(n) /2 For this purpose, just add the needed spaces at the beginning of each city, and print all of them in the same column, this is ...

If using INPUT, upper case can be avoided, even using POKE 23658,8. I suggest to use PEEK 23556: this PEEK stores the code of the key pressed, always in upper case no matter if you are pressing Caps Shift, Symbol Shift, or none. If there is no key pressed, its value is 255. If it is pressed, its val...

@IgnaCoBo is a specialist in doing things in 4 pixels in BASIC: this Printing Routine is another master piece, as it was his Arkanoid Back to Basic; and wait and you will see what is next, in 4 pixels as well...

Controls:

O & P Left and right

Long jump: Caps Shift or Z
Short jump: X, C, or V

60 rooms, no need to cross all of them for reaching the exit key.

Just 48K mode, issue 3.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/ad ... _48_en.tap

A link provided by @R-Tape, thanks!!!

Thanks @patters!!!

How can I submit the game here? I would be glad if all of you can test it.

jpnz wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:10 am The characters in line 30 are UDGs?

Yes, they define the ATTR, and LPRINT put them on the screen.

Note that using LPRUNT this way only works for 48K mode.

patters wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 1:00 am Have I missed something?

Yes, as I wrote, letters in line 30 are UDG. Those are the ATTR patterns for using LPRINT.

My contribution.

It is not as lean as Patters' solution, but It shows the pattern 'almost' instantly.

Please note that letters A to P in line 30 are UDG, remember to type them using Graphic Mode (CAPS+9)

I have been testing some colours for the scenario, and so far the best is bright white background, black objects, red and cyan shadows for 3D. Magenta or blue for the body of objects (not for the shadows, these are still red and cyan) may work, but I have cellophan glases, and I didn't find those co...

hikoki wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 4:45 pm Do it!
It'd be interesting if gameplay was affected by the 3d effect.

I am doing it. For progressing along the screen, jumps must reach certain platforms, those closer to the player.

Do try green. It filters as good as red so you get ghost free images. And it's about the same density as red, so both images will be equally bright. Trust me on this, red/green works much better. Keep using Cyan on the Spectrum because it works with both sets of glasses. There's no gain in using gr...

You have two problems. One is the quality of the colour lenses. Red cellophane is usually decent, but Cyan leaks too much. So better use Green. Green filters much better and also works with red/cyan anaglyphs. I use red and blue cellophan, 3D effect is OK but with some "ghost" color aroun...

I found this topic since I am learning and testing anaglyphs in a BASIC game. The games above mentioned I am afraid that do not work so well (my craft glasses work with some YT anaglyp vids, but not with those games). Check 2011 Crap compo, there is a better 3D attempt there. So far I found some pri...

A somewhat more comprehensible and realistic use for VAL$ is string substitution. 10 LET a$="""The ""+b$+"" sat on the ""+c$" 20 LET b$="cat" 30 LET c$="mat" 40 PRINT VAL$ a$ Yes, this is a way to use it for defining a function b...

Great work @IvanBasic, Micro Gauntlet is amazing! The presentation is so neat, and it even has nice little sounds as well. That must have taken a very long time to create and optimise. Thanks @Patters, in fact the seed was that 1-liner with penguins moving I did, so I had to add the layout generati...

Turtle_Quality wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:19 pm Here it is after dumping the listing from Basinc, not sure what the line 3500 is there for

Ooppps, line 3500 remained unerased after doing a renum... Hope this mistake does not put me out of contest for having over 10 lines...

So proud my little game inspired this...

Thank you very much for appreciating it, [mention]Ersh[/mention]

A little step forward: the OCR-A is related to the font in "old" credit and bank documents (checks, credit cards), so I found the font "Kredit", which matches what I was looking for: https://i.postimg.cc/2qMXLWXB/kredit-font-7-original.png So, little arrangements made the spectru...