New Hires Games: Hero, Beamrider, Magic Floor

[nocash]

Alongsides with the new no$zx emulator update, here are also some newly released ZX81 games:

H.E.R.O.
http://nocash.emubase.de/hero.htm
This is an old Activsion title, ported from MSX to ZX81.

Beamrider
http://nocash.emubase.de/beamride.htm
Also an old Activsion title, ported from MSX to ZX81.

Magic Floor
http://nocash.emubase.de/magicflr.htm
A small search game for ZX81 and Jupiter ACE (and various other consoles).

Starfight
http://nocash.emubase.de/starfigh.htm
A small shoot-em-up game, ported from CPC to ZX81 (this isn't actually a new, it's been already released some years ago).

Some screenshots of the four hires games (and two unrelated lowres games):


All four games are working in no$zx v2.0 (http://nocash.emubase.de/zx.htm) and on real ZX81 hardware (with hires-compatible RAM expansion). Hero and Beamrider require at lot of RAM (48K and 32K), the other two games are working with 16K.

[sirmorris]

Wow you've been busy!!!

More for me to try out later The 32k games should work unpatched on ZXpand - would you consider adding ZXpand joystick compatibility too

Thanks for releasing these - we've had such an incredible year - it will be difficult for 2013 ro keep up

[bobs]

Can I ask a question? As these machines - MSX, CPC (etc) - are all Z80 based were these titles created by literally converting over the original code to run on the ZX81, by updating the graphics and keyboard routines?

[yerzmyey]

Wow, that's most interesting news! And the "Starfight" looks even better than on GameBoy.
I will be testing the soon.
MANY THANX for sharing!!!!!!

[RWAP]

They look amazing - I really need to update my software page when I get time to add in all the new titles!!

Can I add downloads of these games to my website?

[RWAP]

Just had a play on Hero - it took me a while to realise the down key drops a bomb !!

Unfortunately, there are a few places where the screen goes completely blank except for the spiders and the Hero character - when you place a bomb, some of the screen is redrawn, but the majority stays black.

[bobs]

Just had a play on Hero - it took me a while to realise the down key drops a bomb !!

Unfortunately, there are a few places where the screen goes completely blank except for the spiders and the Hero character - when you place a bomb, some of the screen is redrawn, but the majority stays black.

That's the game - there are lanterns that if touched or shot blow and plunge the area into darkness.

[Andy Rea]

Fantastic stuff, hopefully will gwt chance to try these out on some real hardware in the next few days,

Thanks for the hard work

Regards andy

[Andy Rea]

Very nice, all work on real hardware, starfighter and Magic carpet need the ;X when loading from ZX-pand,

Regards Andy

P.s Star Fighter is a bit too quick see my you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Det7VhRDEI4

[RWAP]

Just had a play on Hero - it took me a while to realise the down key drops a bomb !!

Unfortunately, there are a few places where the screen goes completely blank except for the spiders and the Hero character - when you place a bomb, some of the screen is redrawn, but the majority stays black.

That's the game - there are lanterns that if touched or shot blow and plunge the area into darkness.

Ah - that would explain it then !!