Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 Forums

XavSnap wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 20, 2019 11:25 pm

YES...

Never type RUN... only GOTO 1 !

No need to type anything as it's self running.

I don't about anyone else but all I get is error code 2/4 when it loads then self runs and when listed there appears to be just 8 lines of code.

What exactly is it supposed to do?

Press "M" this allows the block to move using the playing keys then press "M" again to give control back to the player.
You have to keep swapping between the two every time you want to move the block.

I have the two other games you mention and find them most enjoyable. What I would like to give a big thank you for is a program I found on type fantastic called SPRF - Single Precision Prime Factorisation. I could never get it to work at the time as the original listing was in my opinion a bit of a ...

Thanks for the info Paul, a most excellent site which is richer for your contributions and which I see has another of Mike Hyam's creations called Chart topper. This is one I play to death when I'm in the mood as simulations are my bag and confirm no errors with this one and is a nice piece of softw...

Line 5. After Gosport in the listing. There has to be 9 chrs in a line then a forward slash so 7 letters for Gosport, 2 spaces then the forward slash. to be honest though there is so much more wrong with this game as to make it totally unplayable. You will have to excuse my ignorance re Type fantast...

There is a poor mans version of football manager called grandstand amongst the software which was a magazine type in and unfortunately who ever did the typing omitted one single forward slash in the program listing which causes you to go through an entire season only to end up with your own team pla...

dr beep wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 04, 2019 1:39 pm

Definitely the ZXPAND-routine. Tested it on EO with ZXPAND.
Works without, so I need to rewrite that part.

Thanks for quick fix.

All is good now Johan and the game is very enjoyable even for some one who plays as bad as me!

Looks nice enough, unfortunately it doesn't read the keys with Memotech keyboard attached and as the 81 I use is chassis mounted with no membrane keyboard I cannot say how well it plays.

Ok Thomas check my late edit to the post above.