Games by Andrew Swann
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:18 am
I didn't submit or report any MIA games for a quite long time, so it's time now for some update 
Some time ago on WOS a man called Andrew Swann shared his MIA games with the Spectrum community. You can check the thread here:
https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/ ... apes-85-88
It went largely unnoticed there and never found its place in the database, just like everything else, unfortunately. So maybe it's time to deal with it at Spectrum Computing
Andrew is actually a known programmer from the 80s who worked on some commercial titles:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=980
The games in his upload are however mostly unknown. Some are better, some are worse but generally for me it's commercial quality
or "amost commercial" quality. He also included some source papers.
Here are some screenshots (made by me):
And here's the direct link, still working:
https://app.box.com/s/z0noole5pxv4r3nt7953e3hjnbyl30fd
Some notes about the titles:
Peker Assembler is present here: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=24435
It doesn't look I mean it's just a code sitting in the memory but you work in Spectrum Basic and type your
machine code there in REM statesments which are later compiled.
Phase of the Moon works in 128 KB only
Any chance that they will go into ZXDB?
Some time ago on WOS a man called Andrew Swann shared his MIA games with the Spectrum community. You can check the thread here:
https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/ ... apes-85-88
It went largely unnoticed there and never found its place in the database, just like everything else, unfortunately. So maybe it's time to deal with it at Spectrum Computing
Andrew is actually a known programmer from the 80s who worked on some commercial titles:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=980
The games in his upload are however mostly unknown. Some are better, some are worse but generally for me it's commercial quality
or "amost commercial" quality. He also included some source papers.
Here are some screenshots (made by me):
And here's the direct link, still working:
https://app.box.com/s/z0noole5pxv4r3nt7953e3hjnbyl30fd
Some notes about the titles:
Peker Assembler is present here: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=24435
It doesn't look
I mean it's just a code sitting in the memory but you work in Spectrum Basic and type yourmachine code there in REM statesments which are later compiled.
Phase of the Moon works in 128 KB only
Any chance that they will go into ZXDB?