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Name of Software: Elfbayne Author: Me (i.e. 4K ROM a.k.a. benkid77) Release Date: 17/06/2019 Requirements: 16K RAM ZX80 with original 4K ROM Description: A text adventure in the classic early 8-bit style Screenshots: elfbayne-title.png elfbayne-ingame.png Download link (if available for download): e...

Thanks Stefano.

I recompiled it again using sdcc with the -O3 option. It did result in a tapefile 8 bytes larger than sdcc without using -O3, but from what you are saying, the running program would use less memory. So I can see that this would be very useful in some cases.

Thanks for the tip. I tried compiling the original generic C source using sdcc just out of interest. It did give some errors, but different ones than the sccz80 compiler. I then tried the modified (z88dk compatible) source using sdcc - this compiled fine with no further modifications and resulted in...

I have just compiled the adv_a version from the z88dk examples console directory, targeting the ZX80 and I am happy to say that one does appear to be working fine. So it was only specifically that old, previously compiled version which had the problem. Whatever the issue was, it is fixed now in the ...

Apologies Stefano, I just found out via a web search that adv_a is supplied with the z88dk distribution.

I didn't know that until now (been away from retro computing too long!)

I will check out that example version next time I get a chance.

Thanks very much for the pointer.

Hello Stefano, Thank you for the reply. The one problem I had was with this version previously provided in this thread:- https://sinclairzxworld.com/download/file.php?id=1537 As mentioned above, that one does not appear to be completable because some of the commands required to complete the game don...

If anyone is interested, I have now uploaded the end result of the above endeavours to YouTube. Two complete walkthroughs of the ZX80 version, based on solutions by Zeljko Juric can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sopIkxFevm8 If you open up the description for that video I have also provd...

It's been a while (years), but I re-installed Z88DK on my laptop. Then, after some minor modifications I was able to recompile poglad's (Paul Taylor's?) translated C source after finding an archived copy on the Internet Archive at http://web.archive.org/web/20100823141809/http://www.penelope.demon.c...

Hello all and thank you for producing these versions of Planet of Death. I am particularly interested in the text-only ZX80 version in this thread at https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/download/file.php?id=1537 Also, the ZX81 text-only version at https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/download/file.php?id=153...