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hi to all of you!

here is one of my first games named RETROBEAMER. i wrote it for the ZX81 with great help from ANDRE*** .

you can download it here:

http://www.zx-team.de/andre

greetings
jens

Great work - well done!

thanx for the flowers

the first version (mine) was three times slower than the final version - thank you andre*** ... he is a real genius - read his columne (ZX91) at:

http://www.zx-team.de/andre/zx91/_frame_e.htm

greetings
jens

Yo, man.
This is cool stuff but I must admit the game is hard.

i have my problems, too

And although the second (advanced - http://www.zx-team.de/andre/zip_files/Beamer2.zip ) version is harder, but I still prefer it because to have better gfx.

It is harder because the ship is bigger.
But actually You could try to change the second version by adding one more column to the "beam" (it would consist of 2 columns then).

In this case it would add some random element. And it might be a bit easier then.

Just a thought anyway.

I always regret I can't make games. I mean coding.
Making games is so cooooooooooooooooooool.

Y

Just been having an hour's fun with retrobeamer and eagle. Cracking fun!

jon

hi jon.

it was also fun to program it. i did that on christmas 2007 during some free hours. but later i found the game was slow and very easy to play. then i´ve send a copy to andre*** and he send it back to me in the version you played.

thank you andre***

greetings
jens

It would be good to have some sort of open ended fun competition among group members for new games. Maybe put in a restriction such as best game in 1k or BASIC only programming. One excellent feature of the eightyone emulator is the fact that at the highest speed setting it makes even BASIC programs playable.

jon