Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

Been going thru the offerings of Pool and Snooker games for the Speccy recently. Steve Davis Snooker was/is something of a miracle and still very playable on that 48k machine! Anyway now I'm wondering if there is or was anything for the ZX81 of that nature. I know there's the text only snooker but I'm not going to include that!

It would be quite a fun thing to write

bobs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 7:37 pm It would be quite a fun thing to write

Bob!!!

No kickstarter though, just itch or Cronosoft like you normally do!

"And for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green"… Ted Lowe.

Sounds just right for the ZX81 version

Mark

Its1982again wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 7:18 pm Been going thru the offerings of Pool and Snooker games for the Speccy recently. Steve Davis Snooker was/is something of a miracle and still very playable on that 48k machine! Anyway now I'm wondering if there is or was anything for the ZX81 of that nature. I know there's the text only snooker but I'm not going to include that!

Allthough no pool or snooker I still have in mind to code my bouncing balls games for the ZX81.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... cing_Balls

Seeing as I've just found this thread, two months late... how hard can it be, as long as you understand the calculations needed for a simple Spectrum snooker game, such as the one Visions made that fit into the 16K model?

About the only problem I can see is that all the "balls" will be limited to whole-square movements; it'd be a bit tricky to use the quarter-square graphics for twice the precision, without the accompanying colour. With the whole-square graphics you can at least have 0 for the cue ball, 1 for the reds, 2 for the yellow and so on. You could do pool like that as well - 1-8 for the solid colours, A-G for the stripes, 0 or O for the cue ball.