Dizzy and the Mystical Letter
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I'm not 100% sure but it seems to be Russian language only at the moment, am I right?
Actually I played it for a moment and can say that it's a very nice, solid Dizzy game. Would be great if everybody could enjoy it here too.
Actually I played it for a moment and can say that it's a very nice, solid Dizzy game. Would be great if everybody could enjoy it here too.
Re: Dizzy and the Mystical Letter
Do you know how to open the accompanying .txt file as regular Cyrillic?
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Dizzy and the Mystical letter
Äèççè è òàèíñòâåííîå ïèñüìî
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If your text editor doesn’t allow you to choose text encodings, change the file extension to .html, open it in a web browser, and play around with encodings there. It’s probably Windows-1251.
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Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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And now the review. Just completed the game. Not too long, but very addictive...
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... etter.html
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... etter.html
Re: Dizzy and the Mystical Letter
Some info after reading the Russian thread:
- it's currently in Russian only but English version is promised to appear in the future
- some bugs are currently present too (like respawning in weird locations or going through walls), the author promises to deal with them
- it's not a mod, many graphics are obviously borrowed but the engine is original code, developed through last year
- the author wants to release the engine as an editor so everybody could do Dizzy games
This engine is not related to the engine used in Crystal Kingdom Dizzy 2017 ( https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=30381 )
It's an independent project. Actually it made a bit of turmoil at the Russian forum - why do a second engine if there's one already available, some copyright issues were also raised. Personally I respect everyone involved and hope they'll come to agreement and friendship
- it's currently in Russian only but English version is promised to appear in the future
- some bugs are currently present too (like respawning in weird locations or going through walls), the author promises to deal with them
- it's not a mod, many graphics are obviously borrowed but the engine is original code, developed through last year
- the author wants to release the engine as an editor so everybody could do Dizzy games
This engine is not related to the engine used in Crystal Kingdom Dizzy 2017 ( https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=30381 )
It's an independent project. Actually it made a bit of turmoil at the Russian forum - why do a second engine if there's one already available, some copyright issues were also raised. Personally I respect everyone involved and hope they'll come to agreement and friendship
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I don’t know. It feels . . . sluggish. Playing it on the 128K machine, I see it switches rapidly between mostly contended memory banks. Maybe it was only tested on Soviet clones, which don’t have memory contention.
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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Good news: english version will be ready very soon...
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Now translated to english by Epsiloncool. Portuguese version will be next...
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... uzido.html
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... uzido.html
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