U-BEND - New 16K ZX81 Game

[bobs]

U-Bend - for the 16K ZX81.

A version of Pipe-Mania, with 36 unique levels, bonus levels, and pass-codes system.

More details at http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/zx81.html

The game supports the ZXpand joystick, and Chroma 81 colour.

[RWAP]

Excellent - another great Christmas present for the ZX81

[marste]

A very good piece of (zx81) "ascii" art!
And very nicely playable!
Compliments!!

[bobs]

Thanks! Glad you're both enjoying the game - it's always nice to get feedback on what I write.

[stefano]

I like the high accuracy of your games.. this one is very professional.
In Chroma81 mode it really seems to be running on a different computer than a ZX81 !!
Well done: it's very addictive..

[bobs]

Thanks Stefano! I like to try and produce well-polished games which stand-out from the old BASIC games which I used to type-in from magazine listings as a child, and prove that the '81 is a capable games machine.

The Chroma stuff does look great. There'd be a lot of scope for a game purely written to use colour, rather than one that has to work for both that and black/white... Maybe one day!

[stefano]

You already did great by combining the lo-rez graphics and colors.
I'm wondering if a Lambda 8300 version could have some success.. my researches showed a relevant presence of such machines only in the Scandinavian regions for Europe, I haven't fully understood the real diffusion of such systems.
I.E. my first port of z88dk was for the VZ-200 (aka Laser 200) but at the time I had no idea it was known a bit here and there