This game is just written in BASIC for the 48K speccy. I suppose a 16K would work too. But I wrote it in Fuse emulator. It's a different take on the lunar lander game. It's actually turn based. Sounds weird I know. But once you get into the game you will understand.

the tap file is in my google drive at this link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M8hsfdICnY0_YkENydt_sH8WGH454peY/view?usp=sharing

and the prologue to the game goes:

You are at Mission Control. Your job is to fly the lander to the surface of the moon from orbit. 

The goal is to land with horizontal velocity of 10 m/s or less and vertical velocity of 5 m/s or less. Get ready.

What I need to know is. Can you land the craft. And if you can land the craft, how much fuel in seconds do you have left?

Thanks.

I'm creating a simple game in BASIC which I'm excited about. But I was wondering if this is a good place to find beta testers for it. I plan on releasing it free of course.

Two 512 kilobytes SRAM chips. No refresh, no wait, turbo ready. Pentagon's 7FFD page manager. Specially to 6.11 TR-DOS ramdisk (letter D).

It's a sidescroller, where you can explore and you have a few characters, I believe they were d&d inspired, and you fought enemies and found chests and the first level was like a labyrinth. You had projectiles (spells?) with a few characters too and one character was a bearded dwarf.

EDIT: you go from left to right only and there was a castle. No top-down view.

It's a sidescroller, where you can explore and you have a few characters, I believe they were d&d inspired, and you fought enemies and found chests and the first level was like a labyrinth. You had projectiles (spells?) with a few characters too and one character was a bearded dwarf.

I have a mac, and have some BASIC that I've got ChatGPT to write. What's the easiest way to do this? I want to test it out to see if it works. I have downloaded Fuse and looked at JSSPeccy but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Thanks! :)

Hi all,

For fun, I'd like to try out some Z80 assemblers on the spectrum. I specifically mean assembler utilities designed to run on the Spectrum, not PC utilities.

There seems to be a number available, but information is limited.

Any suggestions as to which is "best", or perhaps most usable would be most appreciated.

Many thanks

Hi all,

I just repaired and refurbished my original Microdrive, and it seems to be working reliably, but I have some questions.

1. The manual states "up to 100k". I'm getting about 85k. Is that typical?

2. Is it possible to overwrite a file? When I save using an existing file name it reports "writing to a read file"

3. Is there a way to make the CAT command list file sizes?

Many thanks

I am new to the world of ZX Spectrum.

I am trying to save my program to tape first time ever in my life and for some reason sometime it works and sometime it does not.

When it does not work, I am unable to verify the program on the tape and can’t load it because the Spectrum can’t find any program on the tape or it is simply fail to load the program.

However, other times like 1 time out of 5, it works I can save to tape and load the program from tape with the same settings, nothing change. It just works 1 time out of 5 tries.

Would anyone have any idea why is this happening? Is there anything I can try to improve this?

Thank you.

Update///: It seems saving/recording to tape at 75% volume and then load from tape at 100% volume did improve it and now 4 times out of 5 saving to tape did work.

I can imagine it is also depends on the casette recorder and how dirty the heads are. Cleaning the heads could possibly further improve this.

Hello friends, we are pleased to announce that the new game The Land of Rustles 2 has been released! This is a beautiful adventure platformer with a pleasant story, completely developed on a hardware clone of the ZX Spectrum.

https://preview.redd.it/8daol99vskyc1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d9d531ab06247ca0f4d48d3a3ca1b95ae8ac4ae

This is a continuation of the adventures of the Otter with a human face and Smoker in the amazing world in which the Rustles live. This time Otter will have to solve several difficult problems in a magical forest inhabited by different characters – both good and evil. The story begins with the fact that little Rustle falls ill and the cat Murka needs a magic book to treat her. As you progress through the game, you will have to solve many quests, and also learn how to dashingly jump and throw battle stars, because there are many enemies in the forest, and they do not sleep!

The game has gorgeous full-color graphics, because it is designed to run on a modern ZX Spectrum clone called TS-Conf. And if you don’t have a “hardware” computer of this architecture, it doesn’t matter, the downloaded archive contains a version of the game for Windows (this is a newest UnrealSpeccy emulator with autorun of binary files of the original game configured).

https://preview.redd.it/4mxckulxskyc1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec80e0edf97982f954739cc684f0675232dac2cd

Of particular note is that the game has full-screen scrolling (and this is rare even for modern ZX Spectrum clones) and the ability to listen to music and sounds under NeoGS, they are great! By the way, the music for the game was written by the famous musician MmcM, whose tracks you have definitely already heard in other games

https://zxonline.net/adventures-in-a-magical-forest/

https://preview.redd.it/tt95z3z2lhyc1.png?width=523&format=png&auto=webp&s=f26ca0b936993cf11f34d45d4ae07bb0bdc83222

Just a little graphical mock-up I put together.

I'm far more familiar with the libraries of two main Commodore computers (C64 and Amiga), primarily due to the design (contemporary comments alongside each game's listing, for one thing) of the two Lemon sites.

I have a ZX Spectrum 48k and a ZX Spectrum Plus 48k.

The 48k has a modded digital video output. The Plus 48k has analog video output. The refresh rate of the TV is 50hz.

So far I have no problem with the 48k. Everything works as expected. However on the Plus 48k the screen of some games is flickering. Looks like it is trying to display the screen at 2 different scale at the same time.

Since I have the flickering only on the Plus 48k and only with few games, is it possible the games are simply not compatible or is it an indication of a hardware problem in the Plus 48k?

One thing is common with the flickering games is that they are large, takes a long time to load in to memory. Could be the flickering the result of faulty memory maybe?

Thank you.

Update/// Have noticed if I leave the Spectrum Plus running with the flickering games loaded, the machine get very hot near the DC port and I lose video output completely after 20 minutes.

If the machine cooldown and discharge, it works again.

This also applies to 80s computers in general, the only one that comes close is the Raspberry Pi, and even then the pi still lacks software uniquely developed for it or any killer app, and i find that kinda sad, i wish there were more developers for the pi, and we also need more coding and development tools in general, the speccy was unique in that any person could make their own software and games, thats basically impossible nowadays, be it for complexity, lack of tools or simply lack of teaching after the rise of the GUI, idk I wanna see what the sub thinks, I definitely think the raspberry pi is the closest to this ideal tho and can be improved.