They bigged it up quite a lot, so I typed it in as well, and then set about debugging it, and then decided it needed some improvements, and discovered that I still had a pretty good command of ZX BASIC after 40 years of disuse, and that was my afternoon suddenly occupied. So here's Fruit Collector 2023 Edition.
Enhancements:
- score now displayed continuously, not just when you die
- you can now jump in both directions, not just right
- screen repositioned more centrally (you can adjust it by changing the value of H in line 23)
- ingame text positioning much nicer
- you can no longer climb into the sky from the top level
- there's now a floor at the bottom
- the fruit doesn't vanish permanently when it gets run over by a barrel
NB It is still not a good game. But it's a lot better than it was.
Attached: zipfile with two versions (one for left and right jump buttons, one for a single button that jumps in your last direction of movement), plus City Lander plus cassette covers for both based on Sinclair Programs' splendid illustrations, plus Minipede from the same issue just because I like it.