Spectrum Computing

for programmers(read task into file_id.diz):
FizzBuzz

New beta 4 for Lovecraft Mythos and awesome level editor! at ancientbytes.com
the beta 2 was great and addictive, imho it only needed some more introductory levels.. what do you think about the new changes?

hikoki wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 11:12 am New beta 4 for Lovecraft Mythos and awesome level editor! at ancientbytes.com
the beta 2 was great and addictive, imho it only needed some more introductory levels.. what do you think about the new changes?

Just had a play and 'found' 4 levels. It takes a bit of getting used to but it's fun to run rings around these creatures of the underworld, apart from the Chthonian—that scares me and gets me into a right lather. What has changed since the first version? I can't see any differences.

[mention]Cebrian[/mention], was this made with MK2, La Churrera, or neither?

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 4:59 pm What has changed since the first version? I can't see any differences.

this is far better imho https://yadi.sk/d/6EA8gK4Iscqj8w

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 4:59 pm
Just had a play and 'found' 4 levels. It takes a bit of getting used to but it's fun to run rings around these creatures of the underworld, apart from the Chthonian—that scares me and gets me into a right lather. What has changed since the first version? I can't see any differences.

@Cebrian, was this made with MK2, La Churrera, or neither?

Thanks for playing! There are quite a few changes in the new beta. Here is a short list:

• A difficulty selector. In easy mode bullets give you three times more ammo, and pickups are more frequent.
• Health pickups, which should only appear under dire circumstances.
• Night Gaunts are now slower and have some limited ability to circumvent obstacles.
• An intermission screen (to retry a level). Now starting the game from the main menu always starts in the first screen.
• A new ending screen for easy mode
• The three last screens are now different as they were too unfair.

There should still be a new beta in a week or so with bugfixes and a few extra changes, but it's pretty close to final. Any feedback about the game (and the changes) is welcome

The game was written directly in assembler, using Pasmo, and uses no library or engine. I plan to release the source alongside the final version (it's clumsy and uninteresting, but I love open source and full Spectrum game sources seem to be rare, so why not).

By the way, the Cthonian will almost always spawn behind you and is not fast enough to get you if you run in a straight line without delay. It's only dangerous in late levels when there is no space to get away. It can also be killed with a bullet if you turn around and are fast enough.

Oh well I already told the author that I disliked the new Night Gaunt and changes on level design
there you have a RZX walkthough that I recorded half-drunk https://yadi.sk/d/dsxpg9ADgk0LfA
I am not a good player but wanted to keep pushing. The latest beta does not get to push me the same way

hikoki wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:26 pm Oh well I already told the author that I disliked the new Night Gaunt and changes on level design
there you have a RZX walkthough that I recorded half-drunk https://yadi.sk/d/dsxpg9ADgk0LfA
I am not a good player but wanted to keep pushing. The latest beta does not get to push me the same way

Have you tried hard mode? Or calling JESUS in the Gods menu? The resulting challenge should be closer to the original beta.

Nazoler Land

g0blinish wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 4:43 pm FizzBuzz

Fizz Buzz is a very simple programming task, asked in software developer job interviews.
A typical round of Fizz Buzz can be:
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100 and for multiples of '3' print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of '5' print "Buzz".

I know FizzBuzz as a spoken word game, but didn't realise it was a common software developer question.

Has anyone here ever been asked to do this at a job interview?

Actually no only some SQL questions & tasks during interview.

Has anyone here ever been asked to do this at a job interview?

Me personally not. But I've heard that yes, it's actually asked quite often on interviews.

And here's some really weird interview story about it
http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Fiz ... uter-Space

Looks like this thread is not up to date.

So, what I quickly noticed:

The Amethyst Dagger:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1236

Mike, the Guitar - The Shooter:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1253

Resistance:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1240

Also new this year...

Eight Feet Under
by Stefan Vogt
published by Pond Software (2019)
Text adventure
Produced using DAAD https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=30013
Spectrum 48K - two parts
language - English

(Only available as a bonus with the physical release of Hibernated 1 from PolyPlay
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34312 )

On the same subject... the current version of...
Hibernated 1: This Place is Death https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34312
was also produced with DAAD
and will be published as a physical edition by Polyplay in 2019
Hibernated 1: This Place is Death - Collector's Edition - CPC/Spectrum cassette @ 20 Euros
Hibernated 1: This Place is Death - Collector's Edition - Spectrum 3"-Diskette @ 25 Euros

I don't know if you'd make a separate entry for the DAAD version of Hibernated 1, compared to the PAW version. There are examples, I think, of both instances where Quilled & PAWed entries are combined and also listed as separate games.

Ralf wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:19 pm The Amethyst Dagger:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1236

This one is 2018, and the same author also has two others that are missing: Mini Explorer and Elon M. with Jetpack. All very good AGD games that many wouldn't guess were AGD. They'll have entries in the next update, hopefully file permission too.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:58 pm

g0blinish wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 4:43 pm FizzBuzz

Fizz Buzz is a very simple programming task, asked in software developer job interviews.
A typical round of Fizz Buzz can be:
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100 and for multiples of '3' print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of '5' print "Buzz".

I know FizzBuzz as a spoken word game, but didn't realise it was a common software developer question.

Has anyone here ever been asked to do this at a job interview?

We used to play this as a drinking game, but, it was called Sh1t B0110x. We’d sit round a table and we’d count up from one onwards going from person to person and anytime a multiple of 3 landed on you you said sh1t and multiples of 5 you’d say b0110x. If you got it wrong you had to neck your drink. You can imagine the states we used to get i after a few rounds !!!!

8BitAG wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:33 pm Also new this year...

Eight Feet Under
by Stefan Vogt
published by Pond Software (2019)
Text adventure
Produced using DAAD https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=30013
Spectrum 48K - two parts
language - English

(Only available as a bonus with the physical release of Hibernated 1 from PolyPlay
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34312 )

Here is the loading screen & running screen...


http://8bitag.com/temp/EFU1.scr


http://8bitag.com/temp/EFU2.scr

DerbyPro from Andrew Owen:

https://zx.itch.io/derbypro

The viewer
(an universal browser to browse images, including multicolor ones, listen to music, read texts etc)



https://kpacku.gitbook.io/the-viewer]

Ralf wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:58 pm The viewer
(an universal browser to browse images, including multicolor ones, listen to music, read texts etc)

My first impression is that this is really cool. The multicolour viewer will be most up my street.

Who is the target audience? Mainly demo coders? It certainly seems to do more in one place than a PC based utility. I can't decide if it's a fancy multi-functioning (though unused) kitchen gadget, or a real utility with an edge over what is already available.

Either way—it's an impressive piece of zx-software.

Ralf wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:58 pm The viewer
(an universal browser to browse images, including multicolor ones, listen to music, read texts etc)



https://kpacku.gitbook.io/the-viewer]

"The Viewer will only work properly on Pentagon-based machines. Minimum configuration: Pentagon 128k.
If you have ZX Evo with TS-Conf then The Viewer will use all 14 Mhz."

I will try this later on,so is it not compatible with zx next?

R-Tape wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:03 pm [Who is the target audience?

It's target on russian speccy scene and mostly for zx evolution users. I think we have at least 2000 units of for zx evo but there is no official sales stats. Also our speccy scene slightly different and focused on demos, TR DOS, real 5'25 floppys and Pentagon timings. I have Zx Evo too and it's a great machine with proper scandoubler.

Who is the target audience?

Yes, it's mostly for people who own real clones compatible with Pentagon.
It's Tr-Dos based and even if you transfered it to tape and replaced all disk reading routines with
tape reading routines it would still need Pentagon timings to properly display multicolour pictures

Such viewers appeared before, for example this one
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=21434
but this seems certainly most modern and advanced.

Adding...

"Bulbo's Intrepid Adventure" by John Wilson
Pension Productions 2019
Four part text adventure
Produced using the PAWs
Game 4 in the 'Every Day Tale of a Seeker of Gold' series.

and

"Return of the Roach" by John Wilson
Pension Productions 2019
Two part text adenture
Produced using the PAWs

...to this thread.

Download links...
TAPs - http://www.zenobi.co.uk/2019/01/here-we-go-again.html
+D and +3 versions - http://www.zenobi.co.uk/2019/01/told-you-i-would.html
Audio files - http://www.zenobi.co.uk/2019/01/zx-spec ... sions.html

TZX versions of the above: http://www.zenobi.co.uk/2019/02/tzx-versions.html

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