Coming soon... AA81

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For those of you not keeping an eye on my Facebook page... a link to a video on there of something scary coming to the 16K ZX81 very soon... ;)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10 ... =2&theater
(you don't need an FB account to view it)
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Excellent - I love it !!
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Amazing!

Really don't know how you do it.
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Utterly amazing. You have the gift.
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I have no words... :o :o :o :o
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Sweet!
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Pretty damn amazing Bobs! And I thought OLG was pretty damn impressive. How do you make these things happen inside a television set using only a Sinclair ZX81?

Regards,

Shaun.
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It's simply fantastic, please go ahed and release it !

What I like most is that Sandy White wrote the original Ant Attack game by directly POKEing the hex values into the Spectrum's RAM:
http://sandywhite.co.uk/fun/ants/AAsource.htm
Even ManicMiner was already cross-assembled, so AA is probably one of the last "big size" machine code programs fully developed in the old-school way. I don't think you did it in the same way, right ? :D
Did you get comments from Sandy ?
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stefano wrote:Did you get comments from Sandy ?
I've been in contact with Sandy White (the author of the original game) for many months regarding this conversion, and he's very impressed by it ("Awesome" were his exact words when he saw the video above). Sandy has been hugely helpful in bringing this game to completion, and it would never have happened without his backing of the project.

The game will be released shortly...
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