From Presh's release post on the Spectrum Computing Forum Sun Aug 14, 2022 4:54 pm: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7814

Just found this on my hard drive, as a snapshot dated 04/01/2021. Some might say this is more fun than the original US Gold conversion... the frame rate is definitely an improvement a lot of the time :lol:

Load from BASIC using LOAD "" then RUN
(n.b. I didn't use LINE when SAVEing as the game starts immediately - due to the 1K limit, y'see?)

Controls are:
Q - left
P - right
(make sure caps lock is off!)

Top line: distance travelled
2nd line: score

The aim is to travel the full distance (1000) - the game is over if you go off the road.

You get 5x more points for driving on the left-hand side of the road.

When the game is over, you'll be also given your final rank - this is your score as a percentage of the highest score available.

To play again, BREAK into the program and RUN again. (again, due to the 1K limit)

https://zx.preshaudio.co.uk/download.ph ... t&type=tzx

So, why 1K? IIRC, I was planning to do a ZX81 "demake" for one of the crap game competitions but, having never used a ZX81 before, I figured it'd be best to write it on the Speccy *then* port it to the ZX81.

I never finished the ZX81 version, as I hadn't realised how *insanely slow* ZX81 BASIC is - even shortening the road to just 2 characters tall, it still runs at a snail's pace (and half of the game logic isn't even in there yet!) - plus the inability to put multiple BASIC commands on a single line number or after an IF condition (using the : character) means I would have run out of memory anyway... the Speccy version already comes in at 849 bytes, rising to 1017 bytes at runtime once all the variables have been created.