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it's really cool that you showed up!!!
I'm really curious as to how programming worked on that machine. did you simply write everything in assembly, were there any tools?
 
no, i used built-in ZX Spectrum BASIC 128. and all images were loaded into RAM disk, then accessed from it when needed.
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by bug or courageous design choice, when you start the game the last musical note played keeps going forever as a static tone so maybe turn the volume down at this point
 
btw, there was no such bug when the game was released. i just checked it with ZXMAK2 emulator (original TZX tape image), and there's no glitch sound when you start a game after title screen music...
 
p.s.: the game was developed on Pentagon 128K or even my later Profi 512K machine, so maybe it's better to run it on that hardware (in emulator, of course).
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heh, making fun of my engrish. :D yeah, when i was young, the only chances to get acquainted with english language were some games, magazines and demos. so... :disgust:
 
btw, i wanted to make "proper language" version not a long time ago, but i realized that there's not only in-game text, but the screens with graphics (where text was overlayed as graphics, too). and i haven't source code or graphics anymore, so no chance for it. :(
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