Spectrum Computing

Bresenham is only really useful if you want to move 1 pixel at a time, which bullets rarely will want to I expect.

Well, if you want to move two pixels at a time you can always call it twice

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...

Is there a stage in North and South or am I making that up?

Yes, but only in the disk version

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.

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...

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 ;) ...

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...

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 ...

If you want to have a bullet flying from any point to another point then you will in most cases need the old, good Bresenham algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm Drawing a flying bullet is almost the same as drawing a line, you just don't clear the old positions in ca...

You are probably right Einar

It's a graphic utility allowing to search for sprites in Spectrum memory. It's similar to options built into some modern emulators, just more limited and akward ;) The title is weird. "Gra" means "game" in Polish. So would the title mean something like "Hacker game" in ...

I might be stretching the definition a bit too much. The player walks, jumps and falls. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles by doing these actions at the right time in the right places. Yes, you are. Calling Manic Miner a puzzle game is too much for me ;) But I get what you mean. You are inter...

I suppose the truth is somewhere in-between here ;) Yes, you can use labels (and comments) in native Spectrum assemblers but they use up memory very quickly. Assembler code always takes much more memory than compiled machine code,so if you want to make a game occupying all Spectrum memory then you h...

Original Wordle checks if the word that you entered is correct.
So it involves keeping a big dictionary of words.

Here you can type anything.
It's not better or worse. It's just a slightly different game, requiring a different strategy.

Looking nice. The graphics are Amiga/SNES level and the the same time you can immediately recognize the good, old game in it.

Yes, colour clash may be a problem here but Cannon Bubble manages to deal with it.


Speaking of similar games, nobody did Zuma for Spectrum, probably exactly due to problems with colour clash.

As long as you are having fun with it, it's okay. My experience is that guys who mess too much with tools never deliver the final product. I remember a guy who wrote a code on some archaic assembler from 1980s running on Pc running Dos and connected to a real Spectrum for testing. And I remember a g...

It's a weird thing with these CRT blurred displays. We used it in the past because there was nothing better. When technology allowed clear LCD displays everybody switched to it. Today, even on retroparties, most people use modern TVs or monitors. In emulation, while many emulators allow blurred mode...

And when it's a hobby, the pressure of people's expectations because they've put money in a pot starts to make the whole thing feel more like work... Exactly. And when you fail to deliver what they expect, they can become really toxic. Remember the Vega saga? The guys who promised Vega to the backe...

Sorry to say that but there would be probably too little interest to gain any real money from that. Retrofans are spoilt by getting stuff for free :twisted: Here you have some failed attempt: https://www.eurogamer.net/oliver-twins-admit-defeat-in-dizzy-returns-kickstarter It's exactly the same Olive...

They call it "The all-time best Spectrum 128k games " yet they didn't include any single game made after commercial era.

I really dislike when some guys believe that Zx Spectrum history ended in 1992 or so.

Comparing Satan to Sqij'd doesn't feel right for me. They are different types of games. Would you compare Hungry Horace to Robocop? And Satan is a good game indeed. I believe it's a clone of a game called Black Tiger which we also have on Spectrum: https://www.mobygames.com/game/15075/black-tiger/ h...

Especially for you all, I took the risk of downloading unknown stuff from a Russian server

And you don't need to be afraid. It's just a Spectrum puzzle game. Quite nice, try it.

Wow, it's a beatemup game! Such attempts are quite rare and always earn my respect.

To be honest, it's a bad. And probably could be made better really cheaply - custom font, some better background graphics,
flicker reduction.

But it still has my respect

Of course whenever people write that "someone" should do this and that, this "someone" will usually never materialize (and why should they) so it is always a bit futile.

"Someone" is a cool guy, he never protests if we say that he should do something