Pool or Snooker on ZX81???

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Pool or Snooker on ZX81???

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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! πŸ˜†
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It would be quite a fun thing to write 8-)
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bobs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 7:37 pm It would be quite a fun thing to write 8-)
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"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 :lol:

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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! πŸ˜†
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
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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.
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