New Spectrum ports for C64!

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Ralf
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Re: New Spectrum ports for C64!

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I would like to see this game on Spectrum, maybe it is possible to do something like this with the Nirvana engine?
Nice platformer. Seems quite easy and straightforward to implement on Spectrum - no scrolling, small sprites and graphics that you
can port without any work.
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Pegaz
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Re: New Spectrum ports for C64!

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Yeah, I think the same.
The only question is, how to fit the main character in a pretty colorfull background without color clash?
btw, the game has an interesting background, it was originally made for the Colecovision console, and then its ported to SNES and c64.
I also saw the announcement for the msx version but I'm not sure if it's finished.
Probably an even better candidate for conversion is the c64 game Barnsley Badger, apparently inspired by Monty Mole series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9nzSNvsTtA
 
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Re: New Spectrum ports for C64!

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Ralf wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 10:23 am Your ports are really good. It's obvious that you have a lot of love both for C64 and Spectrum.

Don't be afraid to post here on these forums ;) We are mostly friendly, reasonable men who have never been fanboys/haters
and while we prefer Spectrum (that's why we are here), we have a lot of admiration for other retro platforms too.
Thanks guys, ho I visit the forum very often, it's my favorite ZX Spectrum related forum.

Also I'm waiting for a second kickstarter run to grab a ZX Next

I had even experienced ZX spectrum coding some years ago,
I wanted to port my C64 game Bug Hunt ( https://csdb.dk/release/?id=146979 ) to the speccy.
Unfortunately I realized that there were a bit too many sprites to make it run at decent speed.
And I don't like too much Z80 asm :?
buggy WIP demo :
[media]https://youtu.be/CKSVuHzgSig[/media]
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Ast A. Moore
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Re: New Spectrum ports for C64!

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Bug Hunt looks like a lot of fun. Reminds me of Koji the Frog for older Macs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIU_A8jEF-U

I think a Speccy port is quite doable. You should keep at it.
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