terça-feira, 4 de novembro de 2025

4 Magnificent Machine Code Games (ZX81 MIA)


Steven Brown e Mark Westmoreland continuam a partilhar connosco os lançamentos da C-Tech para o ZX81. O mais recente é uma colectânea com quatro jogos, mais dois de bónus, 4 Magnificent Machine Code Games.

Os jogos já estavam preservados noutra colectânea (ZX81Arcade Pack), mas três deles têm tamanhos diferentes, querendo dizer que podem ter pequenas diferenças. Qual terá saído primeiro?

Entretanto, Steven Brown criou a sua própria página para ir partilhando as preservações que vai fazendo. Porque não ajudá-lo, acedendo à página e dando um pequeno apoio? Podem aqui ver a página.

Poderão aqui descarregar este lançamento.

2 comentários:

  1. It's really strange that this collection is identical to the ZX81 Arcade Pack in terms of contents. However, what's even weirder is that both collections have one faulty game, different in each case!

    • Gunfight: In 4 Magnificent Machine Code Games, Gunfight works well and is smooth and playable. In the ZX Arcade Pack the game is so faulty as to be unplayable (the moving player characters vanish after starting the game).

    • Invaders: In the ZX Arcade Pack, Invaders works fine (though it's extremely difficult!), whereas the 4 Magnificent Machine Code Games version has flickery graphics and doesn't play correctly (the invaders flicker on and off, don't move, and you can't shoot them!).

    By combining the two packs, you can at least get a full collection of the six games in fully working form! But it's hard to understand how both collections could have been released with a non-working game on each.

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  2. Now just wait for next week... ;)

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