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A new ZX-Evolution based game competition anounced! Need to mention that BaseConf of ZX Evolution supports classic 48K,128K British models timings!


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http://speccy-live.untergrund.net/2019/ ... ur-game-6/

Welcome to a new gamedev compo for ZX Spectrum - "Your Game 6".
Previously this competition was held in 2014 and collected 10 works:
http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/ti5_pack.zip

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The competition, like last time, accepts games that fully work on a bare ZX Evo board with baseconf firmware (i.e. 48K / 128K / Pentagon1024 / ATM2 / ATM3 + SD-card). The game should not require any more devices, but can support them. Voting will be conducted taking into account the system requirements of the game.

The prize fund at the moment is 155,000 rubles and can be increased with the funds of those who wish (see the contacts section below).
The main sponsor is SASPACK LLC
By popular vote, the prize is divided as follows (in the future, amounts may grow up, and other special prizes may be added):
50,000 rubles - first place
30,000 rubles - second place
20,000 rubles - third place
Moreover:
50,000 rubles - prize from the jury (the jury is determined by the main sponsor)
5,000 rubles - special prize from Alone Coder

The deadline for accepting works is October 4, 2020. The award period is within a month from this date.

The game should not be released until this date, except for the demos released before this announcement (but during the development process you can upload screenshots and video materials).
Only full games will participate in the competition, that is, not demo versions.

For participants new to the ZX Evo (baseconf) architecture:
- Russian documentation (ATM2): http://atmturbo.nedopc.com/inf/books/n ... m_hard.zip
- Russian documentation (ATM3): http://svn.zxevo.ru/dl.php?repname=pent ... ration.pdf
- English documentation (ATM2): http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/books/ATMHW.rar
- English documentation (ATM3): http://svn.zxevo.ru/dl.php?repname=pent ... on_eng.odt
- http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/evosdk_libs.rar - a set of utilities and a tile-sprite library for development with C language (ATM2 / ATM3).
- http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/unreal_project.rar - a set of utilities and a tile-sprite library for development with ALASM assembler (ATM2).
- http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/atm_example.rar - SjASMPlus cross-assembler with the simplest example of sprite output (ATM2).
- http://nedoos.ru/ - an operating system that simplifies the development of large projects with SjASMPlus, C and NedoLang (ATM2 / ATM3 + SD-card / HDD).
- documentation for ERS system calls that allow you to directly download files from FAT-drives (only for ZX Evo): http://svn.zxevo.ru/dl.php?repname=pent ... %27%27.pdf

Contacts:
- for participants (team search, help with code, testing, accepting promises and works): dmitry.alonecoder(at)gmail.com
- for sponsors (preliminary arrangement and transfer of funds to the prize fund): staspi(at)yandex.ru
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They should say more clearly if they accept standard Zx Spectrum games or not.

An will they have any chance against games on steroids using extra graphics modes of Zx Evo?
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DenisGrachev wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:33 am A new ZX-Evolution based game competition anounced! Need to mention that BaseConf of ZX Evolution supports classic 48K,128K British models timings!
Thanks for the clarification! Are then TAP/TZX images accepted?
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Do any of the supported configurations have contended memory?
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In 48K mode, the contention is identical to the original ZX Spectrum 48K.
In 128K mode, the contention is identical to the original ZX Spectrum 128K and +2.
In other modes, there are Pentagon timings, or else turbo mode with unreliable contention (differs on all compatible machines).

ZX Evo supports TAP images.
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New website of Your Game 6: http://ti6.club/
Maybe both will work.
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The deadline is moved to the 1st of December. The prizes are the same.

The jury so far includes three people involved in ZX Spectrum game making.
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So far we have only 3 entries. The jury decided to move the deadline to 31st of December, 2020.
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Need to mention that EVO SDK is a very easy to use for one screen games. There is enought time to make one and support compo.

http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/evosdk_libs.rar - a set of utilities and a tile-sprite library for development with C language (ATM2 / ATM3).

I have made a enhached version of Gravibots very fast.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_3APf5y6OA[/media]
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5 games so far!
Game developers, you still have chances to win a prize :)
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Alone Coder wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:42 pm 5 games so far!
Game developers, you still have chances to win a prize :)
Are they for normal Spectrums or special machines? :)
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48K, 128K, Pentagon 128-1024, ATM2, and ATM3 allowed.
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Alone Coder wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 9:22 am 48K, 128K, Pentagon 128-1024, ATM2, and ATM3 allowed.
But I mean the games that were already submitted :)
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Will they run on +2As?
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Two of 5 games will.
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One more game arrived. So, there are 6 at the compo. Online voting is being prepared.
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Stream starts at 21:00MSK (6:00PM GMT): https://youtu.be/vFP3cpaiEMo
Voting starts at 23:00MSK (8:00PM GMT): https://events.retroscene.org/ti6
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Stream recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER4Nk1BZl3w
Games shown:
Numeris II
High Way Star
Gravibots
Последнее Испытание 8 бит (demo version)
Red Raid: The Sinking
ZX Battle City
Everlasting Summer (demo version)
Many of Us (demo version)
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Nice to see 2 new games for the Spectrum, and thanks for hosting the compo, [mention]Alone Coder[/mention] :)
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If I could make a suggestion for the future to the compo organisers, you should really split competition into two categories:

- games for classic Spectrums (Pentagon included)
- games for all these clones

Putting a classic game into competition with games made for a modern FPGA clone with better graphics, more speed and memory
just feels unfair, at least to me.
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There are too few authors to make categories.
All the entries this year can work on a generic Russian Spectrum clone (ATM-)Turbo 2+ (I even patched Last Mission for this). You don't need FPGA emulators.
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The author of the demoversion of "Последнее испытание 8 bit" has announced that the game mechanics will be changed - a logic platformer instead of RPG.
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Alone Coder wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:53 pm The author of the demoversion of "Последнее испытание 8 bit" has announced that the game mechanics will be changed - a logic platformer instead of RPG.
I cant see it in the web. Looking in google I've found only this site:

http://alemorf.ru/pi/1/index.html
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+3code wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:32 pm
Alone Coder wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:53 pm The author of the demoversion of "Последнее испытание 8 bit" has announced that the game mechanics will be changed - a logic platformer instead of RPG.
I cant see it in the web. Looking in google I've found only this site:

http://alemorf.ru/pi/1/index.html
The author has removed all the other videos from YouTube. I showed the demo (3 levels) at Your Game 6 stream https://youtu.be/ER4Nk1BZl3w?t=4230 . The announcement was posted in VKontakte https://vk.com/feed?w=wall38437349_9292_r9299
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