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Re: New ZX81 Game: Against The Elements

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:44 pm
by Villordsutch
Done and review done to along with thanks to this site both in the video and the description (link included).

Re: New ZX81 Game: Against The Elements

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 4:12 pm
by Fruitcake
A video showing a complete playthrough of Against The Elements is now available on YouTube. The video shows the game utilising the colour facilities of the Chroma 81 SCART interface.

Re: New ZX81 Game: Against The Elements

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:43 pm
by Fruitcake
I've just released a minor update to Against the Elements that adds a slight performance improvement (when run on both 50Hz and 60Hz ZX81s). No other functionality is affected. The updated game can be downloaded from here.

Re: New ZX81 Game: Against The Elements

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 1:34 pm
by Fruitcake
I've created a patch for Against the Elements that allows the game to be played using the joystick socket of the ZXpand interface. The patch can be downloaded from here.

Re: New ZX81 Game: Against The Elements

Posted: Sat May 06, 2017 1:42 pm
by Fruitcake
Fruitcake wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:34 am if anyone knows of any then I would be interested to hear about them
Well I ended up answering my own question regarding whether there were other games that used the alternate pseudo hi-res technique employed in Software Farm's Z-Xtricator!

Odyssey Computing released High Resolution Invaders in 1983, a year before Z-Xtricator, and it essentially uses the same technique but achieves it using a more convoluted display driver routine. Unlike Z-Xtricator where everything moves at character level resolution, i.e. 8 pixels, High Resolution Invaders makes efforts to move at finer resolution. This inevitably means that the graphics do not remain perfectly formed as they do in Z-Xtricator, but it does give the game's animation a much smoother feel.

Re: New ZX81 Game: Against The Elements

Posted: Sat May 06, 2017 8:40 pm
by sirmorris
I've never been able to get this one running. I wonder if I've had bad rips :?

Re: New ZX81 Game: Against The Elements

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 11:09 pm
by Fruitcake
sirmorris wrote: Sat May 06, 2017 8:40 pm I've never been able to get this one running. I wonder if I've had bad rips :?
I've listed some instructions to load High Resolution Invaders into the EightyOne emulator on this posting.

Re: New ZX81 Game: Against The Elements

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:34 am
by BarryN
All the links to download "Against The Elements" seem to be coming back as error 404.

Re: New ZX81 Game: Against The Elements

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:43 am
by mrtinb
The whole Fruitcake website is down. We hope he'll get it back soon. (hosting problems)

Re: New ZX81 Game: Against The Elements

Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:49 am
by mrtinb
The website can be seen on the Internet Archive Wayback https://web.archive.org/web/20190225154 ... ements.htm

And the software I found on my hard drive: https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws ... ements.zip