Magnetic Scrolls masterpieces remastered for the Spectrum Next

[stupidget]

Has anybody managed to get these working on ZEsarUX? I can load the game and a tune plays, but as soon as I press a key the machine resets back to a 48k screen.

Are you using Windows? There is a script for running the games in ZEsarUX (run_zesarux.bat) included in the game download ZIPs. Have you tried this script? If you're not on Windows or are not using this script, please post your command-line for invoking ZEsarUX and we will make it work for you

Note that the AY intro music is played a bit choppy in ZEsarUX. I don't know the reason for this.

I don't want to recommend one emulator over the other but the games do currently run more smoothly in the CSpect emulator compared to ZEsarUX.

I’m using a MAC but now that I’ve got a working tbblue.mmc file I’ll try it in Cspect. Cheers

[Stefan123]

Are you using Windows? There is a script for running the games in ZEsarUX (run_zesarux.bat) included in the game download ZIPs. Have you tried this script? If you're not on Windows or are not using this script, please post your command-line for invoking ZEsarUX and we will make it work for you

Note that the AY intro music is played a bit choppy in ZEsarUX. I don't know the reason for this.

I don't want to recommend one emulator over the other but the games do currently run more smoothly in the CSpect emulator compared to ZEsarUX.

I’m using a MAC but now that I’ve got a working tbblue.mmc file I’ll try it in Cspect. Cheers

Note that both CSpect and ZEsarUX supports two modes: Either running from an SD card file system image containing NextZXOS and everything or emulating the ESXDOS API on top of the host file system. The second approach works fine if your program takes over the machine and only uses ESXDOS without calling any NextZXOS APIs. The Magnetic Scrolls games work in both modes. For ease of use, the included scripts run_cspect.bat and run_zesarux.bat use the second mode where the emulators emulate the ESXDOS API on top of the host file system.

[Stefan123]

A new version of the Magnetic Scrolls games have been released. In this version, the font has been better adapted for the Timex hi-res mode and is now easier to read and kinder to your eyes. Have a look and see The location image transitions have also been made smoother.

If you have played the games earlier and have saved game positions, you can easily transfer them to the new game versions by copying the *.SAV files from the old game folders to the new ones.

Here are the download links:

The Pawn:
https://gitlab.com/strandgames/brahman/ ... d/pawn.zip

The Guild of Thieves:
https://gitlab.com/strandgames/brahman/ ... /guild.zip

Jinxter:
https://gitlab.com/strandgames/brahman/ ... inxter.zip

Corruption:
https://gitlab.com/strandgames/brahman/ ... orrupt.zip

Fish:
https://gitlab.com/strandgames/brahman/ ... d/fish.zip

Myth:
https://gitlab.com/strandgames/brahman/ ... d/myth.zip