New Software 2019

People are still making stuff for the Sinclair related machines. Tell us about new games and other software that runs on the Spectrum, ZX80/ZX81, Pentagon and Next.
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Rade Blunner, a platform made with the Churrera V1.
Well, very standard for Churrera, I guess.
I'd love to see a GOOD Spectrum game inspired by Blade Runner but it's not going to happen yet this time ;)
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Alessandro wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:33 am Rade Blunner, a platform made with the Churrera V1.
Cool. Is anyone in touch with this author? Could they check their ZXDB permission stance pleez :)
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R-Tape wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:13 pm Cool. Is anyone in touch with this author? Could they check their ZXDB permission stance pleez :)
I did that, let's wait for an answer.
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R-Tape nice to meet you, I am iadvd, please be free to add Rade Blunner to the ZXDB,
by the way, there is an explanation of the game in English here:
https://github.com/Iadvd/Retrocomputing ... adeBlunner

-Alessandro: many thanks for your message!

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iadvd wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:18 am R-Tape nice to meet you, I am iadvd, please be free to add Rade Blunner to the ZXDB,
Ta very much! It'll be in the next update.
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New Russian game, Chip's Rescue.

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Link at zx.pk.ru, download link.

I don't think it's made in a designer, and looks very promising—especially as the author is pretty new to coding for the speccy. Hopefully the sprite flicker will be fixed and the game completed.
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Source code is also available.
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A few new games from the jswmm community that members might appreciate. I've not seen them mentioned here as of yet, some are to be listed in the main page I suspect:

Manic Miner: A ten-cavern challenge

Jet Set Willy 25-100

Maria vs Some B**tards : 2019 Bug-Fixed Edition

Manic Mixup

Jet Set Willy - The Mr Noseybonk Edition

Double Miner

Manic Scroller

The links provided take you to the download/description page so you can see a description straight away of what each game is about etc, along with a couple of screenshots. I think a few (but not all) of these are 'here' , the rest will no doubt be pending entries.

Enjoy. :)
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A new demo called Zx Zoo

https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/ ... mhz#latest

Best to watch from some distance. Really. If you are at some desk, wlak away from it ;)
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If you want to see how it works, export 6144 bytes from address 59083 while it's running. Then reset the Spectrum and load those bytes back in at address 16384.
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Ralf wrote: Wed May 01, 2019 12:54 pm A new demo called Zx Zoo

https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/ ... mhz#latest

Best to watch from some distance. Really. If you are at some desk, wlak away from it ;)
Can anyone unzip this? I'm using 7Zip and it can't handle it.

Direct download: https://mega.nz/#!XnJygCCJ!O0XYx_wwBYIa ... RhF9RbbSew
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I couldn't extract it either using 7Zip. Out of interest I also had the same problem with the CSpect Next emulator which is also packaged as a RAR file so some kind of setting may be being applied when these are compressed, as 7Zip normally has no problem opening such files.

In the end I had to use the free command line unRAR utility (https://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarw32.exe).

Also just found this useful online tool https://extract.me/ which will open it and allow the contents to be downloaded...
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R-Tape wrote: Mon May 13, 2019 7:11 pm
Ralf wrote: Wed May 01, 2019 12:54 pm A new demo called Zx Zoo

https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/ ... mhz#latest

Best to watch from some distance. Really. If you are at some desk, wlak away from it ;)
Can anyone unzip this? I'm using 7Zip and it can't handle it.

Direct download: https://mega.nz/#!XnJygCCJ!O0XYx_wwBYIa ... RhF9RbbSew
Odd, I've managed to open it with 7Zip just fine. Maybe you need to update your software? I'm on version 18.05 (x64, Windows).
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Yep, thanks [mention]PROSM[/mention] that was indeed the problem. I was on version 9.0 upgraded now to version 19.0 and it handles these RAR file ok now.
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Dear all, here is my second game... Birdy Cantabile (a Musical Puzzle) :)

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Guide & code here:
https://github.com/Iadvd/Retrocomputing ... yCantabile

Download here:
https://github.com/Iadvd/Retrocomputing ... ic_ver.tap

If you have Fuse+Spectranet (or a real Spectrum + Spectranet peripheral) you can try the Android TCP/IP Virtual Joystick and play wireless using your Android phone or tablet as a joystick with this version below (instructions to use it are in the first link):
https://github.com/Iadvd/Retrocomputing ... ck_ver.tap

If R-Tape is reading this: please feel free to add it to the ZXDB :)

Some screen caps, hope you like it! Cheers! :D :D :D

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iadvd wrote: Thu May 16, 2019 7:37 am Dear all, here is my second game... Birdy Cantabile (a Musical Puzzle) :)

If R-Tape is reading this: please feel free to add it to the ZXDB :)
Excellent! And thanks. This and your first game will be in the next update, sorry it's taking a while.
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iadvd wrote: Thu May 16, 2019 7:37 am Image
This looks cute! However, I take issue with random notes being displayed as mirror images. Gotta fix that, man. Gotta fix that.
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Ast A. Moore wrote: Thu May 16, 2019 10:15 am
iadvd wrote: Thu May 16, 2019 7:37 am Image
This looks cute! However, I take issue with random notes being displayed as mirror images. Gotta fix that, man. Gotta fix that.
Hi thanks for your feedback! But sorry I do not understand very well :) do you mean that for instance the sticks of the musical notes should all be to the right side of the notes so the tiles that have those mirrored notes right now are not real notation? :D or is another thing?

If you mean that, sure I will fix it for the future 128k version!! Cheers!
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I think he's talking about the crotchets (filled notes) in that screenshot, they're facing the wrong way. Only the upward stems are meant to be on the right, the downward ones go on the left. And technically if a note is above the centre line, the stem points downwards, otherwise it points up.

But it doesn't really bother me that much ;) So you can decide whether it's worth changing or not.
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iadvd wrote: Thu May 16, 2019 1:16 pm I do not understand very well :) do you mean that for instance the sticks of the musical notes should all be to the right side of the notes so the tiles that have those mirrored notes right now are not real notation?
Well, sheet music is written (and read) left to right. Notes have heads and stems (aside from whole notes, that is) that are appended to the right of the heads if they go up. For notes that are written with their stems down, you simply rotate them 180 degrees, so the stems end up on the left side.

For deciding when a stem goes up or down, a simple rule is the note B (which is written on the middle line of the staff). It can usually be written with the stem going in either direction. Notes that are below it have their stems go up; notes that are above it have their stems go down.

Dots (which simply extend a note’s duration by half) are also written to the right of the notes.

So, as an example of one of the note groups you have in that screen (a dotted quarter note, followed by a quarter note, followed by a half note), here’s what it should look like:

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The same goes for the pictogram in the bottom left.

;)
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Ast A. Moore wrote: Thu May 16, 2019 2:06 pm
iadvd wrote: Thu May 16, 2019 1:16 pm I do not understand very well :) do you mean that for instance the sticks of the musical notes should all be to the right side of the notes so the tiles that have those mirrored notes right now are not real notation?
Well, sheet music is written (and read) left to right. Notes have heads and stems (aside from whole notes, that is) that are appended to the right of the heads if they go up. For notes that are written with their stems down, you simply rotate them 180 degrees, so the stems end up on the left side.

For deciding when a stem goes up or down, a simple rule is the note B (which is written on the middle line of the staff). It can usually be written with the stem going in either direction. Notes that are below it have their stems go up; notes that are above it have their stems go down.

Dots (which simply extend a note’s duration by half) are also written to the right of the notes.

So, as an example of one of the note groups you have in that screen (a dotted quarter note, followed by a quarter note, followed by a half note), here’s what it should look like:

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The same goes for the pictogram in the bottom left.

;)
Thanks for the explanation! I have changed all. If you download the .tap now I think is more realistic :D Hope you like this one!
Indeed if you refresh this forum page in your navigator the images of our former messages should be changed by the new ones too (the cache sometimes takes one or two navigator refreshes to update the images). Cheers and thanks again!

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Excellent! Looks great now.
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Really nice. That background twister is very cool.

A high score feature would make it even better.
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