Spectrum Computing

I remember this game, it has been found a few years ago.

I made a rzx recording of it once:
https://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/videos/blam.php

So what does "re=released" means here? Was it altered in any way? Did it get a "proper" cassette release?

I have folders starting with 1st letters of the game - A. B, C, D... Actually it's a copy of old WOS game base. In the old days you could download the entire game collection of WOS by FTP. I considered in the past more management of it, even making some tool for browsing and cataloguing them. But na...

Looks really interesting but the author should deal with player sprite which flickers quite often.
Or is it some feature?

My feeling is that too much steam is going into the whistle in this thread. It really doesn't matter if something compiles in half a second, one second or three seconds. By the way, do I understand correcly that game compiler running in Forth runs on actual Zx Spectrum? Personally I would go 100% cr...

Exact amount of tapes is impossible to tell. It's similar to a question "How many trees make a forest". If I had to give some number however, I would say you become a collector from 50 tapes over ;) I also learned that you could be a collector with only one item in your collection! This ac...

So you mean games which are heavily inspired by some movie, yet they aren't official license of it. Well, speaking of Indiana Jones, we have a game called Lost Caves. Or even Lost Caves and the Tomb of Doom https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2936/ZX-Spectrum/Lost_Caves https://spectrumcomputing.c...

16384 Or 0 if you are using Zx Spectrum +3 ;) In practice, a standard game or other program has usually a short loader in Basic which runs proper machine code later so the first free space for your block of machine code will be around 23900 or 24000, after the Basic code. You can reuse and overwrit...

Let's go, Mr. Driver!

Hey, the heroes in Chase H.Q. weren't a pair of ninjas

Very pretty art.

How do you play it? What's the goal?

Okay, I guess it get it. There are actually 3 languages involved - asm, Forth and some noname ADG-like game design language. And you use tools written in Forth to compile code written in "AGD" language to code in asm :) And you don't need to know Forth for using tools written in it. Yes, t...

Thanks for explanation Ketmar. You are certainly taking a long path to your goal. If you just wanted to make a game, you could do it in 3 months or so, without making any fancy tools. But I guess, you want to make sothing more, an engine - something resuable that other people could use too. In such ...

They seem interesting. Let's hope we'll see them soon.

Any chance that we'll see this engine soon in action?

By the way I didn't understand all this Forth discussion. If this engine is
written in Forth, would it be possible to use it in a game written in assembler?

I don't have personal experience with emulator making but will share some thoughts anyway ;) I suppose there is a long way from your first, rough and buggy but working emulation to correct and precise emulation. Your first attempt could look this way: - ignore the sound, make it silent - ignore load...

There is also such trick as "USR 0 mode" when it comes to 128 kB Spectrums

It wasn't very common in commercial UK games but you'll need it much more in demoscene and
programs from Eastern Europe.

See this thread for example: viewtopic.php?t=4697

Well, relaxation and meditation in some stiff and tight metal armour feels a bit contradictory to me

Think a while - priests, gurus or philosophers in many cultures usually wear loose clothes. It must be not a chance

But it's certainly a nice picture !

Yep, Next may be quite controversial. Just like any clone which imitates Spectrum in some way but alters or extends it in another way.

You have the right to dislike it but in such case just leave it and don't spoil other people's party.

Edited. R-tape.

1. Renegade 2. Robocop 3. Target Renegade Mike Lamb was a wizard. His games were very smooth and playable. And Renegade after 35 years still remains the best beatemup for Spectrum. The worst of them is Top Gun. I tried it several times, played maybe for 3 minutes and it was "meh" for me. D...

A guy, a girl, and some chains...

This guy looks like something between Jesus, Poseidon, Prometheus and Samson

I don't recall a similar Spectrum game.

Well, I would say that's not that hard :) Let's suppose you want to do: IF conditionA AND conditionB AND conditionC THEN MakeActionX ELSE MakeActionY In a mix of assembly and pseudocode it could be: TestConditionA JP NZ, MakeActionY TestConditionB JP NZ, MakeActionY TestConditionC JP NZ, MakeActionY...

You are great with this architecture stuff!

It's on the Pavero map site

It's not the original. Just some remakes.

And I agree that seeing it would be interesting.

I have a quite "specialized" collection of Spectrum software coming from Poland. Some of them are really rare but I have no idea how much they are worth today. After all, something is worth as much as someone is going to pay for it :) About 15 years ago it was actually possible to hunt for...

I dont know about emulator that would show all memory dynamically while running the game. And how should it show it? As numbers, as graphics, as ASCII characters? If you are writing a program and want to know how much memory is left, just use some pseudoinstruction at the end of your code that would...