Old Tower

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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Finished this ,frankly brilliant game, earlier today without any bugs or crashes.

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stupidget wrote: Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:17 pm Finished this ,frankly brilliant game, earlier today without any bugs or crashes.
Top stuff. Only one life lost? Did you play on bread and water, or POKE it? If the latter, did you BREAK the loader to do so?
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R-Tape wrote: Sat Dec 01, 2018 8:47 pm
stupidget wrote: Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:17 pm Finished this ,frankly brilliant game, earlier today without any bugs or crashes.
Top stuff. Only one life lost? Did you play on bread and water, or POKE it? If the latter, did you BREAK the loader to do so?
I played it on my +2 using a DiVMMC so i took lots of snapshots 😀
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At last I had some time to sit down and play this properly. What can I say, it's simply great, not only the silky smooth multicolour scrolling tech and nice pixelart but the gameplay as well. The game design is also superb. For instance; I love how it introduces the 'switch-character' mechanic, the two are placed in separate rooms so when you've collected everything with the first character and got nowhere else to go, you look at the other room, notice the other character and try the fire-button, no instructions needed, just great! Had a lot of fun completing this. Great job!

Edit: Oh and also the pacing was excellent, having some more action-oriented levels after a particularly taxing puzzle level. Helps with the motivation.
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ok, here is another one quick and dirty way to edit a levels in old tower
http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/!otCustom.zip

edit with charpad run a build.bat, enjoy a show!
there is a limitation with number of coins,enemies,guns and heroes on level, do not remember it right now.

kudos!
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That's bloody brilliant Denis! :D Thanks for all your hard work!
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Upload an Old Tower sources, as is:

http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/!otSrc.zip

have fun!
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DenisGrachev wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:36 am Upload an Old Tower sources, as is:

http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/!otSrc.zip

have fun!
That's awesome, thank you!!!

Hopefully your example will motivate more developers to release their source codes too!!!
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This gane is mint.

Not much else to say :)
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In case you missed we made a port to Sega Genesis\Megadrive with new levels and gfx.

https://retrosouls.itch.io/old-towers

https://youtu.be/otnIIrQYpbU

Cheers!
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