GLUF

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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ok, i'm prepared quick and dirty way to draw a custom levels:
http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/!glufCustom.zip

There is no special level editor and i'm use a charPad from c64 world.

How to make levels:

Run CharPad, go to options->Color Palletes->ZX SPECTRUM
Open a baseNullLevel.ctm file and save it with levelXX name. don't forget to type .ctm extension manualy since there is charpad bug
Draw an level
Go on FILE->EXPORT DATA check only MAP and save as levelXX.bin
Run build bat and there is a gluf.tap with your levels

Since a charPad is an universal editor drawing a levels has some troubles and i not remember all of it :)

Here is some tips i still remember:

On the first level there is no enemies since GLUF letters uses an enemy sprites
No more than 32 elevators, if platform splits an elevator it must be splited by special CROSS tile 40
as in !splitElevator.ctm example

red ghost tile it's a ghost respawn points, it must be 4 on level if there is a ghost

arrows tiles it's a waypoints for flying enemies
when an enemy collide with waypoint it randomly gets an one of directions
be carefull if flying enemy try to move off screen it resets a game

door tile not used since a door always appear at enemy start point

no more than 4 enemies on level but i recommend 3 to stable gameplay

good luck :)
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Amazing game. The use of color is incredible, even better than El Stompo!

Great work Denis!!
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DenisGrachev wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:44 am ok, i'm prepared quick and dirty way to draw a custom levels:
http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/!glufCustom.zip
Great! Any chance of creating custom levels for Old Tower as well? :)
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DenisGrachev wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:42 am
Einar Saukas wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 7:15 am That's an awesome game! Good work!!!

It's almost like a mix between EL STOMPO and SUN BUCKET :)

I just finished playing the game and mapping it. If anyone's interested, the game map is available here.
awesome map, thanks!
Thank you!

It's now online at https://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=GLUF
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DenisGrachev wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:44 am ok, i'm prepared quick and dirty way to draw a custom levels:
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Oorah! This will be fun.
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Finally managed to have a play through of the first 3 levels and yep, as expected, it’s brilliant. Great music, great colours, great animations and a really well thought out game.

Imagine if these multi-coloured games had been released in the 80’s! That would have kept those naysayers about the Speccy colour clash a bit quiet!!
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I had chance to play it properly only today too.

It's great, what can I say more? ;) It's colourful. It's playable. It has proper difficulty. It has smooth fluent movement or it feels so.

Early multicolor games sometimes felt jerky as they involved horizontal movent by 8 pixels. Here yuo don't see any jerkyness at all.

Good job, Denis !
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Ersh wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:20 pm Great! Any chance of creating custom levels for Old Tower as well? :)
There is no free memory in 48k version of OldTower, only if for 128k :D
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DenisGrachev wrote: Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:04 am There is no free memory in 48k version of OldTower, only if for 128k :D
That makes sense. :) So it isn't possible to edit the levels with charPad and just replace them like with GLUF? Maybe the level-data is more complex in Old Tower? Anyway, a proper Old Tower level editor would be sweet even if 128k only. :D
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Haha, poor Denis,

There's only one thing worse than being given post-release bug reports, and that's being given post-release bonus feature requests :mrgreen:
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By the way, why this name? Does GLUF actually means something?

Get Lost Ugly F*cker? ;)
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R-Tape wrote: Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:03 pm Haha, poor Denis,

There's only one thing worse than being given post-release bug reports, and that's being given post-release bonus feature requests :mrgreen:
True, true. :lol: It's an excellent game though, taxing puzzles yet simple rules. As I played through the game I was thinking about ideas for new levels. :)
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Ersh wrote: Mon Jan 14, 2019 11:50 am That makes sense. :) So it isn't possible to edit the levels with charPad and just replace them like with GLUF? Maybe the level-data is more complex in Old Tower? Anyway, a proper Old Tower level editor would be sweet even if 128k only. :D
Just opened it and i don't remember a lot of code, so not so much chances for Old Tower editor :)

UPD: fill a cofee and find a solution for old tower
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Hi Denis,

another lovely creation! Simple and effective, and very well presented in both visual and sound, as your previous titles.

And a very big thank you for using my SetoLOAD turbo scheme :D
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and here is a gluf source code, if anyone interested :) try to clean it a bit but have not much time for it :(
http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/!glufSrc.zip

hopefully it will be usefull for someone :)

see ya!
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DenisGrachev wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 2:19 am and here is a gluf source code, if anyone interested :) try to clean it a bit but have not much time for it :(
http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/!glufSrc.zip

hopefully it will be usefull for someone :)

see ya!
That's awesome, thank you!!!

Hopefully your example will motivate more developers to release their source codes too!!!
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DenisGrachev wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:50 am just remember that back in 2000 when we buy a pc i'm only preserve a my basic games from "Join" series and save it as z80 snapshots with real spectrum. Still sad that i not save whole cassete as wav or even mp3.

btw, not sure if my basic games are preserver at sc:
http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/joinBasicZ80.zip
No they're not preserved at SC. I'm collating them now—they're very decent BASIC games (I'm glad you moved to ASM though!).

Can you remember the years of release?
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R-Tape wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2019 5:20 pm No they're not preserved at SC. I'm collating them now—they're very decent BASIC games (I'm glad you moved to ASM though!).
Can you remember the years of release?
as i remember 1,2,3 was 1998 and 3.5,4 was 1999 :)
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What a brilliant game! And I am not usually much of a game player either so it goes to show how much this game got me going1 Also thanks to Mr. Moore (I can't remember the rest of your handle, sorry!) for the turbo loader which made life easier.

Took me a while to figure out how to load it because Fuse defaults to 48k and I'm not sure how I finally got it to load so I have it paused for going back to but never mind these little details, this game is fun and its a bit of a puzzler to get going at first - probably old hat to all you gamesters - everything about this is new to me, figuring out the controls, then what to do, then how you get up or down a line, just blindly trying stuff out but the point is it kept me interested enough not to say "Sod this!" and bin it never to return which is my reaction to 99% of games!

So if it gets me this interested it must be a bloody good game! Well done everyone responsible, it looks good, sounds good, in fact its so good I think its going to be HDMI to the big TV to really get the full effect (and P?s? off the wife too but hey, its her turn, I have to put up with her politics crap!)
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llewelyn wrote: Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:37 pm Also thanks to Mr. Moore (I can't remember the rest of your handle, sorry!) for the turbo loader which made life easier.
Glad you found my little loader useful!
llewelyn wrote: Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:37 pmTook me a while to figure out how to load it because Fuse defaults to 48k
You choose which machine you wish to use in Preferences > Machine (not sure what it’s called on your OS). There’s a list of different Spectrum models.
llewelyn wrote: Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:37 pm(and P?s? off the wife too but hey, its her turn, I have to put up with her politics crap!)
I hear you, brother. :lol:
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