Pool or Snooker on ZX81???
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Pool or Snooker on ZX81???
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!
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Re: Pool or Snooker on ZX81???
It would be quite a fun thing to write
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Re: Pool or Snooker on ZX81???
Bob!!!
No kickstarter though, just itch or Cronosoft like you normally do!
ZX80 (white psu)
Issue 1 ZX81
32k comp mod ZX81 filesixty keyboard
Issue 1 Spectrum
Issue 2 Specrum
Toastrack
Issue 3 in Lo-Profile keyboard
Harlequin 128
DivMMC future
vdrive
TZXduino
ZX printer
Alphacom printer
Issue 1 ZX81
32k comp mod ZX81 filesixty keyboard
Issue 1 Spectrum
Issue 2 Specrum
Toastrack
Issue 3 in Lo-Profile keyboard
Harlequin 128
DivMMC future
vdrive
TZXduino
ZX printer
Alphacom printer
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Re: Pool or Snooker on ZX81???
"And for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green"β¦ Ted Lowe.
Sounds just right for the ZX81 version
Mark
Sounds just right for the ZX81 version
Mark
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Standby alert
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Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb
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Re: Pool or Snooker on ZX81???
Allthough no pool or snooker I still have in mind to code my bouncing balls games for the ZX81.Its1982again wrote: βSat 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!
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... cing_Balls
Re: Pool or Snooker on ZX81???
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.
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.
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