New Software 2020

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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Dr beep wrote: Sat May 02, 2020 9:02 pm This is the official release of my NEW ZX81 EMULATOR for the 48K ZX Spectrum.
Fully software and much faster than my emulator from 1997.
The old emulator is also included.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/oiejfzmj ... X.zip/file
Nice one! Would you say it's sufficiently different from your original to have a separate ID? Or should it replace for the original ID?
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R-Tape wrote: Sat May 02, 2020 9:14 pm
Dr beep wrote: Sat May 02, 2020 9:02 pm This is the official release of my NEW ZX81 EMULATOR for the 48K ZX Spectrum.
Fully software and much faster than my emulator from 1997.
The old emulator is also included.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/oiejfzmj ... X.zip/file
Nice one! Would you say it's sufficiently different from your original to have a separate ID? Or should it replace for the original ID?
The original has 81 TO SPECCIE tool in it, which must be preserved too.
The new emulator is
1) MUCH FASTER
2) has extra options in the menu
3) a full keyboard in the display
4) can load games with hidden data on it
5) can load and run games with BASIC hidden on the sysvar.

It also has a new name : old ZX81EMUL, new SP-2-ZX81
It more a new game in same category than a simple update which makes it worth a new ID.

I am thinking of adding Chroma charactersupport (not colour) but I am 256 bytes short in free memory. Either I give up the ZX81 keyboard, find room in a different way or skip this support.
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Re: New Software 2020

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NEW VERSION OF MY EMULATOR, with CHROMA support

https://sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.p ... 695#p37695
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Dr beep wrote: Tue May 05, 2020 8:41 pm NEW VERSION OF MY EMULATOR, with CHROMA support

https://sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.p ... 695#p37695
I'm not sure how to screenshot this to properly show it off. There is only a flashing cursor to see. Could someone take a screenshot of if doing something interesting, and that makes it obvious it's a ZX81 emulator? (the screen must be in the .scr format)

Also, [mention]Dr beep[/mention], do you still call yourself "YRS" as publisher, or should that be "Dr Beep" now?
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Best screenshot would be
1 start emulator until K-cursor
2 press 1 and 0 together

As for YRS that is the groupname I use, many moons ago we were with 3. I am the only one left (there can be only one). So publisher is YRS and I am the writer on behalve of YRS
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druellan wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:05 pm La Isla del Tesoro by Gusman
https://github.com/gusmanb/IslaTesoro/releases/

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What genre is this? Adventure Game: Dungeon Crawl, or Adventure Game: Graphic?

Also - does anyone know the author? Can we host the file here?
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R-Tape wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 11:49 am
druellan wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:05 pm La Isla del Tesoro by Gusman
https://github.com/gusmanb/IslaTesoro/releases/

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What genre is this? Adventure Game: Dungeon Crawl, or Adventure Game: Graphic?

Also - does anyone know the author? Can we host the file here?
Hum... Perhaps you cal leave hima message here:

https://github.com/gusmanb
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R-Tape wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 11:49 am What genre is this? Adventure Game: Dungeon Crawl, or Adventure Game: Graphic?

Also - does anyone know the author? Can we host the file here?
That's a good question. The new 2.x version has some action levels, so, at this point is more an arcade game that a Dungeon Crawler

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I'm contacting the author via Twitter.
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teutoburgo wrote: Sat May 02, 2020 9:25 am Here's a little open source Tic tac toe game for ZX Spectrum. Download it here:
http://teutoburgo.tk/giochi/indexgiochiEnFrame.html

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Thanks for adding the game to the ZXDB!
In the same website:
http://teutoburgo.tk/giochi/indexgiochiEnFrame.html
there is a new version with a bug fix. Feel free to update the ZXDB with this version..
Thanks again!
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teutoburgo wrote: Sat May 16, 2020 9:09 pm Thanks for adding the game to the ZXDB!
In the same website:
http://teutoburgo.tk/giochi/indexgiochiEnFrame.html
there is a new version with a bug fix. Feel free to update the ZXDB with this version..
Got it. Will appear in the next update.
Thanks again!
Actually thankyou: for some reason, I used to think that as long as you went first, you could not lose, provided you had the correct strategy (grab the centre, then corners). However, I realised after looking at your game, that two perfect players will always draw (that's correct innit?).
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Two new games were published in a Facebook group some days ago, a clone of Tetris and Pac-man, but both quite well done:

drive.google.com/file/d/1gQ9c84gZUx_MarBp89PQPKjFfNGm52gV/view?fbclid=IwAR17Igay9a9xLxC0DxeOay5oTG2cs7tHgF-5dg_pthfMjU1ABF_Db33ZjKI

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JH0le_ ... fwx9k0qTgg
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R-Tape wrote: Sat May 16, 2020 10:31 pm
Actually thankyou: for some reason, I used to think that as long as you went first, you could not lose, provided you had the correct strategy (grab the centre, then corners). However, I realised after looking at your game, that two perfect players will always draw (that's correct innit?).
You're right! In fact my game plays with different strategies that allows it to always draw in the worst case.. Cheers!
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teutoburgo wrote: Sun May 17, 2020 11:08 am You're right! In fact my game plays with different strategies that allows it to always draw in the worst case.. Cheers!
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Ivanzx wrote: Sat May 16, 2020 11:59 pm Two new games were published in a Facebook group some days ago, a clone of Tetris and Pac-man,
Cheers Ivan. BWT when you post a game, it'd be a great help if you could include a bit of info with it. If you know them, things like author, publisher, release date. Sometimes it can take a while for me to bring it all together, and there are cases, like this one, that are on FB so a closed shop to me entirely.

You mention two games: Pacman and Tetris?
but both quite well done:
Are you kidding?! That's possibly the best version of Pac-man I've seen on the speccy; I'll make a new thread for it.
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R-Tape wrote: Sun May 17, 2020 2:58 pm
Ivanzx wrote: Sat May 16, 2020 11:59 pm Two new games were published in a Facebook group some days ago, a clone of Tetris and Pac-man,
Cheers Ivan. BWT when you post a game, it'd be a great help if you could include a bit of info with it. If you know them, things like author, publisher, release date. Sometimes it can take a while for me to bring it all together, and there are cases, like this one, that are on FB so a closed shop to me entirely.

You mention two games: Pacman and Tetris?
but both quite well done:
Are you kidding?! That's possibly the best version of Pac-man I've seen on the speccy; I'll make a new thread for it.
Hi Dave! :)

In this case there was actually almost no info at all! The guy just did a super short post saying, here are 2 games I have done, and that was :D

I will try to see if I can get his name, that was the only info left ;)

Both of them moved surprisingly good for an author we have never heard about before, indeed!


Edit: The name of the author, I found him, is Stephen Coppack !
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Cocoa and the Time Machine is a new game that I had the pleasure of Beta testing. It a brilliant little graphic adventure with some great little touches.

http://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/202 ... e.html?m=1

Considering this is the first Speccy game this guy has ever made it’s amazing.

Highly recommended.

Ps - I don’t know the guy, I just saw on Twitter that he wanted a Beta tester so I said ‘yep’.
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stupidget wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2020 9:22 pm Cocoa and the Time Machine is a new game that I had the pleasure of Beta testing. It a brilliant little graphic adventure with some great little touches.

http://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/202 ... e.html?m=1

Considering this is the first Speccy game this guy has ever made it’s amazing.

Highly recommended.

Ps - I don’t know the guy, I just saw on Twitter that he wanted a Beta tester so I said ‘yep’.
Game is great. I tested several version and it was always a pleasure ;)
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Cheers all. BTW I need to update the games list at the start of this thread. I've made a note to do so. Apologies!

(Use the the SC archive anyway, that's up to date).
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Einar Saukas wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:26 pm H7N9
Do we foresee a sequel with the title Covid-19? :D
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Einar Saukas wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:26 pm H7N9
[mention]nitrofurano[/mention], can you (or someone) explain what this is? Should a screenshot have ULAplus enabled? And how finished is it?
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Last night in the office, a text adventure, with graphics, for the +3

https://quizlock.itch.io/last-night-in-the-office
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Ivanzx wrote: Sat Jul 04, 2020 3:46 pm Last night in the office, a text adventure, with graphics, for the +3

https://quizlock.itch.io/last-night-in-the-office
Just finished it. Great little adventure :)
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stupidget wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:48 pm
Ivanzx wrote: Sat Jul 04, 2020 3:46 pm Last night in the office, a text adventure, with graphics, for the +3

https://quizlock.itch.io/last-night-in-the-office
Just finished it. Great little adventure :)
Still stuck... :(
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Andre Leao wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:55 pm
stupidget wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:48 pm Just finished it. Great little adventure :)
Still stuck... :(
I bet you're stuck with a blunt razor blade aren't you?
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