Congratulation on realising this. There's a lot of good stuff here.
In Roasty, is some weird control of the hero after flipping the switch a bug or a feature?
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- Sat Dec 23, 2023 5:11 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: WOOT 2023 released!
- Replies: 88
- Views: 5465
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 11:32 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Cursed Castle
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1004
Re: Cursed Castle
And I was using Spectaculator as well.
With exactly the same scenario - in 128kB mode game
crashed immediately after selecting Kempston, exiting the menu, entering the gameplay and pressing left or right on emulated Kempston.
As long as you don't press anything, it works.
With exactly the same scenario - in 128kB mode game
crashed immediately after selecting Kempston, exiting the menu, entering the gameplay and pressing left or right on emulated Kempston.
As long as you don't press anything, it works.
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 6:30 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Cursed Castle
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1004
Re: Cursed Castle
Nice game with obvious inspirations coming from Ghosts'n'Goblins.
Some things to be fixed:
- Kempston control is messed up
- game crashes on 128kB Spectrum
Some things to be fixed:
- Kempston control is messed up
- game crashes on 128kB Spectrum
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:58 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Johnny The Ghost
- Replies: 17
- Views: 867
Re: Johnny The Ghost
So it's Spectrum game, inspired by Atari game, inspired by Gameboy gameI had this game on the Gameboy, it was called Pitman
If you start looking for game inspirations, you often end with such chains.
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 11:30 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Johnny The Ghost
- Replies: 17
- Views: 867
Re: Johnny The Ghost
So it's actually a remake of Atari 8-bit game.
Nothing to be ashamed of The Spectrum version keeps the good original level design and improves the
graphics and music of the original.
Nothing to be ashamed of The Spectrum version keeps the good original level design and improves the
graphics and music of the original.
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 7:57 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Johnny The Ghost
- Replies: 17
- Views: 867
Re: Johnny The Ghost
Very nice game!
Good graphics, nice music, smooth movement and good puzzles. What would you need more?
I wonder why this ghost is collecting Roman helmets but maybe it's not the most important thing in the game
Good graphics, nice music, smooth movement and good puzzles. What would you need more?
I wonder why this ghost is collecting Roman helmets but maybe it's not the most important thing in the game
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:34 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Joe blade
- Replies: 6
- Views: 345
Re: Joe blade
I never got into Joe Blade games.
Can't say they were bad. Just uninteresting for me. It didn't help that they were monochrome and all looked the same. And required mapping.
Can't say they were bad. Just uninteresting for me. It didn't help that they were monochrome and all looked the same. And required mapping.
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:34 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Just a few barely useful Vic-20 games...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 464
Re: Just a few barely useful Vic-20 games...
Some of these games seem to have a colour clash very similar to Spectrum.
While others don't have it.
Did Vic-20 had something like colour clash?
While others don't have it.
Did Vic-20 had something like colour clash?
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 7:34 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: New game under development - working title "Calais"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 582
Re: New game under development - working title "Calais"
Pretty stuff!
I get some Defender of the Crown vibe here.It will be that as well Political management, diplomacy, espionage and turn-based combat, all rolled into one.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 7:15 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: New game under development - working title "Calais"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 582
Re: New game under development - working title "Calais"
Now I'm lost. I was going to believe it's some war simulation but now I'm not so certain
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 7:14 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1036
Re: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
Zaxxon is one of these games that have cult status on other platforms but were always nothing special on Zx Spectrum.
Just like Boulder Dash, River Raid or Donkey Kong.
And looking at the video - yes it's bad. Very slow and jerky. Certainly could have been done better.
Just like Boulder Dash, River Raid or Donkey Kong.
And looking at the video - yes it's bad. Very slow and jerky. Certainly could have been done better.
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 10:36 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Killer Kong screenshot
- Replies: 6
- Views: 310
Re: Killer Kong screenshot
Nice spot!
It looks like the game on the first screenshot is the original one and the game on
the second screenshot is a later version with improved graphics.
It looks like the game on the first screenshot is the original one and the game on
the second screenshot is a later version with improved graphics.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 3:24 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: +3 disk games that really stand out
- Replies: 4
- Views: 252
Re: +3 disk games that really stand out
At the Russian forum there is a list of all +3 disk games with improvements:
https://zx-pk.ru/threads/31635-spisok-i ... t-s-3.html
The list itself is in English so don't be afraid to check it out
https://zx-pk.ru/threads/31635-spisok-i ... t-s-3.html
The list itself is in English so don't be afraid to check it out
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:38 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Colour clash query
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1589
Re: Colour clash query
Yes. 16 independent colours without any BRIGHT thing.The easiest significant improvement would be 16 colors for INK and PAPER, without FLASH and BRIGHT:
Spectrum bright colours were too similar to their non bright versions. It was almost like Spectrum had only 8 colours.
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 6:46 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: Xmas Card
- Replies: 1
- Views: 123
Xmas Card
This seems to be the same program:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... /Xmas_Card
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... /Xmas_Card
Or is there a reason that it's stored as two entries?
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... /Xmas_Card
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... /Xmas_Card
Or is there a reason that it's stored as two entries?
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:13 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Colour clash query
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1589
Re: Colour clash query
Probably the best way to deal with colour clash without serious increase of the screen memory would be hardware sprites. You could even keep the background as it is, with the clash rules. It would have its limitations but with clever design most people wouldn't even notice it. The worst clash happen...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:56 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
- Replies: 72
- Views: 2959
Re: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
In the previous years I helped with Woot but not this time unfortunately.
I'll be releasing my new game on Xmas and another one probably on New Year so Woot would be too much for me.
Good luck with your projects guys!
I'll be releasing my new game on Xmas and another one probably on New Year so Woot would be too much for me.
Good luck with your projects guys!
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 6:43 pm
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: Bullet Spray routines
- Replies: 27
- Views: 855
Re: Bullet Spray routines
Well, if you want to move two pixels at a time you can always call it twiceBresenham is only really useful if you want to move 1 pixel at a time, which bullets rarely will want to I expect.
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:49 pm
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: Bullet Spray routines
- Replies: 27
- Views: 855
Re: Bullet Spray routines
I think 100 bullets may be a tad ambitious on the speccy There is a modern game called Chibi Akumas which may reach 100 bullets at its busiest moments: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/34747/ZX-Spectrum/Chibi_Akumas Click the link and check the video. About 34 minute for example. It's very unp...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 2:33 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games that take place on top of a train
- Replies: 12
- Views: 338
Re: Games that take place on top of a train
Yes, but only in the disk versionIs there a stage in North and South or am I making that up?
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:27 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Google bard vs ChatGPT
- Replies: 13
- Views: 322
Re: Google bard vs ChatGPT
Chat GPT doesn't work well yet when dealing with Zx Spectrum. I tried asking some assembler stuff and the answer was crap, just dressed in some nice wording.
But I suppose it's a matter of time until it starts to give correct answers.
But I suppose it's a matter of time until it starts to give correct answers.
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:20 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games that take place on top of a train
- Replies: 12
- Views: 338
Re: Games that take place on top of a train
Express Raider, some stages: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/e/ExpressRaider.scr&border=0 Dragon Ninja, the last but one stage: http://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=DragonNinja Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, one stage: http://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=DragonNinja Qu...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: How I find [CENSORED] game
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2525
Re: How I find [CENSORED] game
By the way, if you are after X-rated games, you can always check a copy of old WOS (current WOS is total trash) and you'll find the proper link there. https://worldofspectrum.net/archive/ It's not as actual as ZXDB but it's okay and most people would just look for Samantha Fox Strip Poker anyway ;) ...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:42 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: What's the SHORTEST Speccy game ever?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 2516
Re: What's the SHORTEST Speccy game ever?
Well, let me say something obvious that everyone is too shy to say. In theory you can complete many of these games really fast but in practice you won't. You will die many times and have to repeat. You will have to learn the maze, learn the rules etc. Old games were running on systems with limited m...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:19 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: How I find [CENSORED] game
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2525
Re: How I find [CENSORED] game
The world is a very different place to what is was 20-30 years ago Exactly. You need to be much more careful nowadays than before. About copyrights. About porn. About racism. About religion. About slightiest possibility of offending anyone with content you publish. Imagine some dumb mommy learning ...