Earthraid

[Rindex]

Нормально сделана. Жаль, что AY-музыки в меню нет.

It is normally made. It is a pity that AY music in the menu isn't present.

P.S. Уже есть!

[Crash Nicker]

Нормально сделана. Жаль, что AY-музыки в меню нет.

По-моему, без музыки игра на 16К-машинах вообще на ура будет идти. Надо только будет проверить...

I guess that without the music, this game would run on 16K machines nicely and smoothly. I need to make sure it would, though...

Оригинальная игра на C64 был доступен только на немецком языке, и была немецкая команда напечатана в журнале, где типа в было. Так что моя работа была перевести все и играть в игры на C64, пока я не понял механику и дублировать его на ZX.
И я думаю, технически это не так уж плохо, на самом деле составлен BASIC.

The original game on C64 was only available in german, and had german instruction printed in the magazine where the type-in was. So my job was to translate anything and play the game on C64 until I understood the mechanics and duplicate it on ZX.
And I think, technically it is not that bad, for the fact it is compiled BASIC.

Er, I think there's no need for translating the text to Russian, especially if it's a machine translation. And yes, I'm kinda amused that people manage to such nice little things on BASIC.

[LCD]

You are right with AY-music in Menu, so maybe I will make a v 1.1 of the game later, also with faster random numbers generator. I was waiting for the AY music and it came three days too late (I'm lame with Soundtracker).
The game will not work on 16K. I can put it below 32768 without any problems, but the map buffers, instruction and beep engine take too much memory. It is easy to manage to make the buffers smaller using single bits, and remove instruction, but there is still the compiler that puts its heap in high memory. Apart from this, I don't suppose there are many 16K users around .
I expect, most users have 128K at least (not talking about ZS Scorpion 256+ Turbo ot Pentagons).

I noticed too late that automatic translation did not make much sense. It is 30 years now since I learned russian language. Still knowing most cyrilics, but cannot enter them on german keyboard.

[Crash Nicker]

I expect, most users have 128K at least (not talking about ZS Scorpion 256+ Turbo ot Pentagons).

There's a really few Russian games that run only on machines with 256K of memory or more, or those which work exclusively on Pentagons or Scorpions. And yet there's not a lot of games that may run even on original 48K Speccies (mostly the products made in early 90s fit into these system requirements). So yeah, it's pretty much to be expected that 128K is gonna be the standard on our lands.

Not that I have anything against 48K+AY, though...

[jerri]

As i understand the game written on ZX Basic
I think if you rewrite game in assembler it will be smaller

[LCD]

As i understand the game written on ZX Basic
I think if you rewrite game in assembler it will be smaller

Yes, it is written with boriels ZX BASIC Compiler, but it has some inline assembler parts (screen handling). Written fully in assembler it would surely fit in 16K Spectrum, but I cannot code that good in Assembler. In fact I never made a full assembler game yet.
The sources for Earthraid are available here:
http://www.boriel.com/forum/gallery/...d-t766-15.html

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[jerri]

LCD, holy grail
if you want to translate the game entirely in assembler, I can help you in this event

[LCD]

LCD, holy grail
if you want to translate the game entirely in assembler, I can help you in this event

Wow. Nice offer, okay! I currently working on v 1.1 where even more stuff was replaced with pure assembler, it is also more optimised now.

[LCD]

Zdraswujtje!
I just uploaded version 1.1. Enjoy!
Available from my website:
http://members.inode.at/838331/index.html

[Rindex]

Добавил ссылку в первый пост. Появилась AY-музыка. Играть стало приятнее. Спасибо LCD.