QFrogger game

[thewiz]

Hi all,

Here is a new game for a 1Kb ZX81 called QFrogger.

I had this idea to write a number of games in 1Kb using about a quarter of the screen. I'll be entering it into the next mini game competition.

Keys are Q - T for up. A - G for down, O for right and P for right.

Thanks to Chad Gray for beta testing.

qfrog.jpg

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[sirmorris]

One word:

ABSOLUTELY FREAKING AWESOME!

This is a cracking little program - you've smashed expectations of what a 1k game can be!

It's rock hard - as it should be.
It's gorgeous to look at - A CARAVAN??!!
It's got the zap factor - it makes me jump when I play it.
It's ... How many bytes??!!

Congratulations. When's the next one coming??

C

[Chad]

Just wait til you see how fast that racing car goes!!! :p

Don't suppose I could request QDefender??!! I remember a 1k version in C&VG years ago written in basic... I wonder what you could achieve in machine code!

Chad

[thewiz]

Thanks sirmorris for the review. Glad you liked it.

[nama]

Totally awesome!!!!

[yerzmyey]

Incredible work.

Can I add the game to POUET portal???

Y

[thewiz]

Be my guest yerzmyey.

[yerzmyey]

Thank You.
It's ready now - http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=54093

[Sdw]

Very impressive stuff! I've done some attempts at coding for the unexpanded machine, and it's quite the challenge trying to balance the RAM-consuming screen and the actual code.
Looks like you are using 15x16 chars for the screen, so that eats up a good 256 bytes (15 chars + end of line marker * 16) I guess?
Oh! Just noticed that you have included the source as well, so now I can study exactly how it was done!

[Math123]

Hi thewiz!
Wow! This is impressive. I just saw the source... Nice work.

A hint to save at least 4 more bytes.

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AUTO    .DW 0                                   ; Line number (MSB)
        .DW USREND - USRBEG                     ; Line length
USRBEG  .DB $f5, $d4,                           ; PRINT USR
        .DB $1c + 1, $1c + 6, $1c + 5, $1c + 2, $1c + 7
        .db 126, 143, 1, 30, 0, 0               ; Always 16527
        .DB $76                                 ; EOL
USREND

You do not need to store the whole number literals. Since Basic looks only to the floating point values behind "db 126" this should work as well:

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AUTO    .DW 0                                   ; Line number (MSB)
        .DW USREND - USRBEG                     ; Line length
USRBEG  .DB $f5, $d4,                           ; PRINT USR
        .DB $1c                                 ; this is a 0. Maybe this byte can be skipped also?
        .db 126, 143, 1, 30, 0, 0               ; Always 16527
        .DB $76                                 ; EOL
USREND

Its worth the try to just skip the 0 as well...
Go on. Lets see more.

Matthias