Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

Sinclairs-great wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 10:17 pm @JohnsBargs

Do you have a video of loading a game on zx80

Pardon?

Just released: Getaway Driver for the 16K ZX81. Really like this, in some ways I think it's better looking than the Speccy one. But there seems to be a nasty bug - I was noodling around in level 1 with two baddies left, doing nothing in particular, when this happened: Getaway Driver-240703-145420.p...

So I stumbled across this today: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/29204/ZX81/The_Game_of_Puckman It's a weird Zeddy port of Pac-Man with fast, smooth movement and an unusual approach to powerpills, which are scattered liberally all over the maze. The page shows a maze very akin to the arcade, w...

Jonathan, Is there a way to turn off the flashing hints? I know it sounds daft, as this is possibly all especially needed in the game mechanics, but I wanted to start being a bit crap at playing and learn quickly. With the assist of, "Put me here" I couldn't struggle and wonder where. There's no op...

I really like it but it's SO hard without autofire that you can't clear more than about three levels before your hand falls off

That's really cool. But can you do it with Phoenix?

dr beep wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:30 pm Name of Software: KILOPEDE
Author: Johan "Dr Beep" Koelman
Release Date: 02/04/2024
Requirements (eg. 1K, 16K, AY Card, Hi-Res Scheme): 1K lowres
Commercial / Public Domain / Free ware / Other - please specify? Freeware

Very impressive! Could definitely use autofire, though.

Really nice and smooth and fun, but the white border in non-Chroma mode looks very strange when you've painted the side passages. (It also might be better to use down rather than up to enter your name, because with 2 for up it invariably insta-starts a new game with 2, which gives you the cursor key...

So here's a version with the highscore code lines in, and line 1000 changed from CLEAR to PRINT. If I print PEEK 21212 it's still 5, which is what I get from the working version, but when the race starts I get a 2/8010 error. (Line 8010 is a simple NEXT Y.) So it looks like that's not the solution :...

Another thought, you could prune some bytes from above line 1500, maybe use a VAL here and there then add your GOTO line just make sure line 1500 starts at 21,212. Use PEEK 21212 to track your pruning. It should match before and after pruning. I'd already thought that, eg I tried replacing the prob...