Spectrum Computing

But these from the same list look wrong . https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/p/Pippo.scr&border=0 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/p/Painter3D.scr&border=0 Agreed. The background view is top-down but the characters are sideways.

This one is something vice versa for me, i feel walls of this image as inverted and absolutely unreal. The world is like turning upside down. Or may be you are looking down but still the picture is not realistic. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/d/Desolator.scr&borde...

sn3j wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:46 pm If anyone's interested I can pm the code.

Or you could release your demo, source code and documentation as a new entry in the archive!

One option is, we can start classifying games into 2 separate tags "Multiple Boss Fights" and "Final Big Boss Fight", with possibly a few games on both. Depending on how many titles we find for each group (and how many "gray areas"), we may decide later to merge both gr...

marenja wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:07 pm All Renegade bosses on video seem to be of the same size so i think there is no final super boss.

The final boss in Renegade is clearly everyone else's boss. He carries a pistol and can shoot at the player, all others are unarmed.

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:07 pm Adding and removal are both O(n log n).

Actually O(log n).

Ah, I've looked up the DB for Dijkstra and A-Star before trying myself, but the search didn't turn up results. I like the idea of storing the path lengths directy in the maze. I am using 8-way movement (instead of the 4-way in your algorithm) but this could be worked out by adding either 2 or 3 to ...

Evil Genius wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:44 pm Idle curiosity: can this be adapted for multiple terrain types with differing movement costs, even at a limited range of say, 6 or 8 hexes?

In case of PATHFINDER, support for weighted terrain would require using one priority queue (implemented as binary heap) instead of a simple queue.

And if you want fast instead you can't go much wrong with A*. A* "optimality" makes it faster for large mazes. However Spectrum games don't have large enough maps to compensate it. For smaller mazes, it's probably faster to just solve the entire maze instead of spending time with heuristi...

Another gray area is: should we give Renegade a "end-level boss" tag too? It depends if we consider the last boss in Renegade as yet another end-level boss, or an end-game boss in a separate category from the others.

A single tag for bosses would be much easier...

There's something similar called PATHFINDER : The PATHFINDER library is a small efficient Assembly implementation of the "simplified Dijkstra" algorithm for finding shortest paths in small mazes, that you can freely use in your own programs. It uses 512 bytes as temporary queue and only 89...

ZXSR only has the ones from Crash Annual 2018. You can see them here:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?ye ... award_id=1

But well, we already have tags for filmation and filmation-2 engines that group 2/3 titles only. Features are a very different situation from series and sets. It doesn't make sense to say "there are not many games created with Filmation II engine so let's combine them with something else"

I think the tag itself is a great idea. However we still need to sort out the details. For instance, Castlevania has many bosses but it's a continuous game. Therefore they are neither end-level bosses or end-game bosses. Also if there are too few games in this list, we should probably have a single ...

Steel Force

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:31 pm I'm struggling for just one final boss games...

Draconus

StooB wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:25 pm based on the cover style and barcode their game actually appears to be from early 1988.

Agreed. The second Bug Byte release was already marked as 1988.

Rorthron wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:38 pm To me the graphics look far too similar to be chance resemblances.

Agreed.

Rorthron wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:38 pm I might have missed something, but is there actually any material relating to the 1986 Test Cricket game in the archive?

No, we don't have any material from the first Bug Byte release. That's explained here.

A new ZXDB version is now available!

Yes, the code is completely different, but I still suspect the graphics are too similar to be just a coincidence.

Perhaps the same artist created the graphics for both. Or perhaps one of them copied graphics from the other.

These games have similar graphics: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2111/ZX-Spectrum/Graham_Goochs_Test_Cricket https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2500/ZX-Spectrum/Test_Cricket They appear too similar to be just a coincidence... Also both were originally released as "Test Cricket",...

Joefish wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:13 pm Well remembered! But why does the database list it as Test Cricket, when the title International Cricket is all over the loading screen and cassette inlay?

Explained here.

I don't think it's appropriate to mark this title as denied, since nobody denied it.

But when a game is hosted at Itch.io, I agree it's better to ask the author's permission first, because many titles at itch.io are for sale (or asking for a donation).

You can use this:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... um/Usr0x01