People are still making stuff for the Sinclair related machines. Tell us about new games and other software that runs on the Spectrum, ZX80/ZX81, Pentagon and Next.
let me introduce our demo for Speccy 128k called VOID. It is computer generated science fiction movie... no, just kidding
Bear with me, since I didn't do anything serious on the speccy for the last 10 years or so.
It runs on 128, +2, +3, Pentagon and Next. It all fits into 128k at once (no multiload). Machine type is detected in the beginning to adjust timimgs.
And before anyone asks - no, it does not take any advantage of Next's HW, sorry.
Bubu wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:14 pm
I'm not a 128K user, so do you plan to make a port to 48K?
Huh, never thought about it. I can't imagine how it could fit into 48k to be honest. It would need complete rewrite of almost everything. 128k is used and abused to last byte. There are 32k of tables for calculations, 16k of scene data, 16k of objects and compressed resources, 11k of compressed music... Engine alone is ~10k and it utilizes second videopage as well... I would rather give you my +2 than re-doing this for 48k
Ralf wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:48 am
Are 3D parts precalculated in some way? If even so, then it's still really impressive.The objects are really big and fast.
Hi Ralf, all is calculated in realtime. It is not slow (I can't really say that it's fast), because it is not polygon based engine. If you haven't read it yet, please check the fileid.diz in the zip file for more details about rotoid engine.
) work. Really enjoyed watching it.
