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Forget /refresh - static ram only please!

Andy - please see new subject in enulators topic about hardware simulator. It might be up your street.

There's a couple of places where that can happen - those rebounding balls are a bit wild!. The gun is only redrawn when it moves. For speed, or something

Now you'll have to implement 'keyboard cable crack' as well as rampack wobble, Mike!

Nice! I was thinking on my cycle ride home (in the rain) about a 'zeddie simulator'. This week I've been trying to program some eeproms that I've pulled from some old PC motherboards - 29ee010/020 units. I've hooked them up to an arduino and an i2c I/O expander and tried to read from them. I'm getti...

/me bows

Thanks guys

Yeah and I never heard of computers getting cancer! So the zx81's gunna be ok..

Nope, that's just part of the random nature of the game.

You need to shoot balls away 'into space' if they're no good. You can wait, but that just increases the tension.

Sometimes you just need to blast the balls (geddit!) to get to the next level before the time runs out

Instructions: Ball on status line shows next to fire. Aim this at any matching ball on screen. Hitting a matching ball will give you 3X score if it's on the top line, 2X score on middle line, or 1X score if on bottom line. Hitting a non-matching ball will score no points. Clear level before time run...

V0.75

I haven't finished it yet, and the fact that it's been in development for nearly 2 years (off and on) indicates I probably won't

However it's still fairly complete if a little boring...


I've included the source in case anyone wants to finish it for me - Andrew?
Charlie

I'd like to make a board like this.

Anyone done anything similar?

Cheers!