Spectrum Computing

I've completed the game on 3 lives before but not collected all the gems. I tried to play a perfect game tonight in the latest version and failed twice!

The feedback I've been getting is that maybe you need more lives to finish it without saving snapshots.

Here is the latest version which has 3 extra life pickups dotted around the map.

http://www.andy-farrell.co.uk/springbot/SBOT1.3.zip

Wow guys, thanks for the great feedback!

Very nice. Looks good, plays good and pretty advanced. This isn't your first game is it? I thought it wasn't AGD at first, because some of the scenery is redrawn, hiding the AGD XOR. Nice touch. Thanks! It's my first Spectrum game. I wrote a couple of games for the Commodore Amiga in the '90s using...

Thanks for the feedback!

'Any plans to do a 128k version with AY tunes and sound effects?'

Absolutely, I just wanted to get the 48K version out there to see what kind of response it got.

I'm looking for people to play-test my new game for the 48k Spectrum - Springbot - Mars Attack! If you could report any bugs or just give me general feedback that would be great. My main worry is that the game is too easy / difficult or that I've overlooked something game-breaking. The game is set o...

Is there a poke or some other way to do this?

edit - thanks for the replies

Thanks for the replies!

Can this be done?

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, my basic loader loads the code and then I'm going to build a menu in basic to handle things like define keys, etc. Anyway, I tried what you suggested and it works perfectly, thank you!

Newbie here, how do you calculate the value to poke 23607? For example, I am working on an AGD project with a basic loader and I'd like to use the font in the AGD code in the loader. I know that the font address is 31232. Thanks.