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I stumbled across this at the weekend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xovW-UwCzM


Which looks like quite a fun take on the classic. The YouTube page contains no useful information, but there's another very similar game in another video, described as a "ZX81 1K style Bomber game for web":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcZvOvQ_oYI

...which links to this page:

http://www.zx-gaming.co.uk/

However, all those are web versions of ZX81 games that really existed. (We discussed Caverns on this forum several years ago, and its original author is still, very slowly, recreating it on the ZX81, having lost the original code.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXD4a9ZTClc

So presumably that's also a real Bomber. But where is it? The closest I've found is this:

https://www.zx81.nl/files/bomber.p

...but it crashes constantly with a 2 error that I can't figure out, so it's hard to tell.

There are several:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=552&p=33875&hilit=c ... ber#p33875

and this

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/tape/SpaceRaiders

Yes, I know there are other ones (and sadly of course I can't play your ace-looking 1K one), but I'm looking for that specific one.

I remember this one. Ill have a look when I get home tonight. I may still have the original tape.

avrovulcan wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 2:40 pm I remember this one. Ill have a look when I get home tonight. I may still have the original tape.

Ooh, excellent. The other two Zeddy ones I can find are Blitz (by Michael Orwin) and City Bomb (by JRS) but I love the night-time look of the mystery one.

avrovulcan wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 2:40 pm I remember this one. Ill have a look when I get home tonight. I may still have the original tape.

No luck, I assume?

JohnsBargs wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 11:50 am The closest I've found is this:

https://www.zx81.nl/files/bomber.p

...but it crashes constantly with a 2 error that I can't figure out, so it's hard to tell.

It's definitely not this one, btw, I found a video of it working and it's something totally different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoRmfUdNzrA

JohnsBargs wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 10:55 pm

avrovulcan wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 2:40 pm I remember this one. Ill have a look when I get home tonight. I may still have the original tape.

No luck, I assume?

Hi Mate.

If I have the tape it wiil be down in Plymouth where my mum lives.

I'm down that way at the end of next week so i'll have a look up the loft. I have a rough idea where it is if It's still around.

Kind regards

Andy

avrovulcan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 8:59 am Hi Mate.

If I have the tape it wiil be down in Plymouth where my mum lives.

I'm down that way at the end of next week so i'll have a look up the loft. I have a rough idea where it is if It's still around.

Kind regards

Andy

Awesome

JohnsBargs wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 11:50 am https://www.zx81.nl/files/bomber.p

...but it crashes constantly with a 2 error that I can't figure out, so it's hard to tell.

If you start it using RUN then you get a 2/22 error. If your start using GOTO 1 then it appears to run ok.