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by DenisGrachev
Thu Dec 01, 2022 1:56 pm
Forum: Brand new software!
Topic: New Game: Ringo (128k)
Replies: 45
Views: 3052

New Game: Ringo (128k)

Ringo is a logical platformer made in experimental graphic mode and inspired by classic arcade games. https://youtu.be/bTy5BsWtgy4 You play as a young Snoogle named Ringo who needs to find as many magic stars as possible in the underground labyrinths of the twilight land. The fact is that the Snoogl...
by DenisGrachev
Fri Nov 11, 2022 2:50 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Upcoming game that looks ace.
Replies: 5
Views: 322

Re: Upcoming game that looks ace.

I’d been wondering (meant to create a topic actually) if many games used that feature, but never thought of using it “just” for colour tricks. Groovy! i use a same render style in Twinlight. But new game use another engine to do this ) https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/31994/ZX-Spectrum/TWINLIG...
by DenisGrachev
Wed Nov 02, 2022 1:53 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Key preferences - am I the only one who doesn't like QAOP?
Replies: 24
Views: 503

Re: Key preferences - am I the only one who doesn't like QAOP?

as far i remember it's was used to avoid/minimize keyboard ghosting
by DenisGrachev
Wed May 25, 2022 3:36 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Optimisation Challenge, for the benefit of new programmers
Replies: 94
Views: 3440

Re: Optimisation Challenge, for the benefit of new programmers

Cool experiments, looks similar to what shiru did for petscii robots speccy version :)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/coding-secrets-58271401
by DenisGrachev
Tue Feb 08, 2022 3:25 pm
Forum: Brand new software!
Topic: Tiny Dungeons
Replies: 3
Views: 364

Tiny Dungeons

Our small roguelite experiment for 128k speccy An evil Necromancer holds the land of Twilight in fear. Three brave heroes set out into the ancient dungeons to put an end to his evil deeds... https://retrosouls.itch.io/tiny-dungeons https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMTM5MDg4Ni84MTA0NTA3LnBuZw==/794x1000/...
by DenisGrachev
Sat Jan 22, 2022 4:39 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Wanting to add AY music to games
Replies: 17
Views: 1003

Re: Wanting to add AY music to games

Info Guide #11 http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/books/IG11.ZIP also contains the shortest player by Dr.Lion (down to 571 bytes) and a fast player by Monster/Sage (used in Born Dead and Insanity). I definitely need to check out the fast player, trying to save as many T-states as possible over here! :...
by DenisGrachev
Tue Jan 18, 2022 4:04 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Wanting to add AY music to games
Replies: 17
Views: 1003

Re: Wanting to add AY music to games

I always wonder why everyone export with player from Vortex Tracker. All players sources are in a same site as tracker :) Anyway, here is a zip with a two pt3 players to be compiled with sjasmplus and also a bin folder with precompiled to 49152 https://www.retrosouls.net/zx/pt3players.zip There is a...
by DenisGrachev
Wed May 26, 2021 5:02 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Mode 6: pseudo-3D renderer
Replies: 7
Views: 683

Re: Mode 6: pseudo-3D renderer

This is great, very easy to use. Have some fun with playin with sources. Thanks for sharing \0/
by DenisGrachev
Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:35 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Your Game 6
Replies: 25
Views: 13310

Re: Your Game 6

Need to mention that EVO SDK is a very easy to use for one screen games. There is enought time to make one and support compo. http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/evosdk_libs.rar - a set of utilities and a tile-sprite library for development with C language (ATM2 / ATM3). I have made a enhached version o...
by DenisGrachev
Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:58 pm
Forum: Brand new software!
Topic: Yandex Competition: 15 new games released...
Replies: 23
Views: 11192

Re: Yandex Competition: 15 new games released...

There is some nice games, but Cosmic Payback is my favorite one. Maybe to fast it start to be chaleging, but still love it and nice tech. Play it all friday evening!
by DenisGrachev
Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:17 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Russian ATM Turbo 2+
Replies: 79
Views: 9497

Re: Russian ATM Turbo 2+

Atm is pretty rare. I know coupe of atm owners and they atms totaly broken 90% time :)
You can buy ZX Evolution that have backwards capability with atm :)
by DenisGrachev
Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:01 am
Forum: Showcase your work!
Topic: New Retrosouls game WIP
Replies: 1
Views: 6519

New Retrosouls game WIP

Wanna share some wip from a new game i'm working on. It's kinda mix of board games and roguelike. i'm work on a base engine last 2 mouths. Gfx part can handle multicolor cell based scroll with support of animations for tiles. And finnaly it start to work :) [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3q...
by DenisGrachev
Mon May 18, 2020 5:52 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: What's the greatest ORIGINAL Speccy homebrew of all time?
Replies: 38
Views: 6103

Re: What's the greatest ORIGINAL Speccy homebrew of all time?

Always wonder why anyone need to compare, why need to find a GREATEST,BEST e.t.c
Just enjoy a show, every new game for Speccy are great!

Peace \0/
by DenisGrachev
Mon May 18, 2020 5:49 am
Forum: Other Retro Stuff
Topic: The MSX
Replies: 19
Views: 2411

Re: The MSX

Yep, nice machine. I ported Yazzie and Twinlight from speccy to msx1 in a week :)
by DenisGrachev
Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:33 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Your Game 6
Replies: 25
Views: 13310

Your Game 6

A new ZX-Evolution based game competition anounced! Need to mention that BaseConf of ZX Evolution supports classic 48K,128K British models timings! Site Url: http://speccy-live.untergrund.net/2019/12/%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be%d1%8f-%d0%b8%d0%b3%d1%80%d0%b0-6-your-game-6/ Welcome to a new gamedev compo for ...
by DenisGrachev
Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:17 am
Forum: Brand new software!
Topic: 19 new games at Yandex competition!!!!
Replies: 73
Views: 10743

Re: 19 new games at Yandex competition!!!!

Have a nice chat with author of Automated Cave Exploler at prizegiving and afterparty unofficial beer part :) He made a game from scrath in 4 month without any previous experience with z80 coding, wow :)
by DenisGrachev
Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:08 am
Forum: Brand new software!
Topic: Yazzie 48k,128k,Pentagon
Replies: 6
Views: 1542

Yazzie 48k,128k,Pentagon

[media]https://youtu.be/iuBidB0iovU[/media] Ok, here is a final verision of Yazzie with 48K,128K and Pentagon versions http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/yazzie.zip And here is a game sources: http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/yazzieSrc.zip There is also an MSX version, if anyone interested http://www.retrosou...
by DenisGrachev
Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:01 am
Forum: Brand new software!
Topic: 19 new games at Yandex competition!!!!
Replies: 73
Views: 10743

Re: 19 new games at Yandex competition!!!!

What a great compo, as expectrd. As a Tourmaline author i really enjoy Automated Cave Explorer
Btw, final version of Yazzie (with 48K version + pentagon) will be released at the end of the week.
by DenisGrachev
Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:38 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019
Replies: 22
Views: 5596

Re: Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019

Where can we see the preview of those games??? BTW I saw the loading screen from the game you are going to submit, high hype approaching! :D There is no any preview according to rules :) I made a geme in a 6 days so it's not big and not polished, but plays nice and i like it. Actually it's my first...
by DenisGrachev
Tue Dec 03, 2019 1:41 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019
Replies: 22
Views: 5596

Re: Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019

Deadline moves to 5 december. Really looking forward to this one - more than 15 games coming :)
by DenisGrachev
Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:29 pm
Forum: Preservation
Topic: Help with permissions
Replies: 18
Views: 3383

Re: Help with permissions

Can anyone with connections help with permissions for any of these games? Astroblaster . Matt Jackson. Who the hell is this mysterious genius, and can we host this game? Where did it first spring from? I've seen his post at facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/z80asm/permalink/872526889807607/
by DenisGrachev
Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:55 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: The gigascreen thread!
Replies: 29
Views: 4888

Re: The gigascreen thread!

So, until the Super Mario Brothers thread , I'd not before heard of gigascreen. Or if I had, I'd forgotten about it. I'm gobsmacked by how good it looks on my ZXDS. What other gigascreen games/demos do I need to download TODAY?! Maybe it's time to heard about MultiGigaScreen - it's a combination of...
by DenisGrachev
Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:38 am
Forum: Brand new software!
Topic: New Super Mario Bros (demo)
Replies: 68
Views: 11786

Re: New Super Mario Bros (demo)

Was at party and have some talk with author. It's more than a game, this one is only a demo of a whole framework to make a scrolling arcades. So finger crossed and wait for release
by DenisGrachev
Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:14 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Which Speccy game would you put in an arcade?
Replies: 50
Views: 9247

Re: Which Speccy game would you put in an arcade?

R-Tape wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:15 pm
DenisGrachev wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:24 am Image
Great post Denis,

The names make sense apart from JetPac. I guess it means 'Assemble the Snowstorm', and "snowstorm" is the name of the rocket?
Yep!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)