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Show HN: An adventure game in Z80 assembly for CP/M and ZX Spectrum
- smcin 3y agoOr if you're too lazy to install the emulator, just play it from his webpage: https://steve.fi/software/lighthouse/ https://steve.fi/software/lighthouse/
- o11c 3y agoFor me, that emulator seems to drop about 1/3 of all keypresses at normal typing speed, making it basically unusable.
- pugworthy 3y agoI mean this in all sincerity, but just type slower.
- smcin 3y agoYes, but the ZX Spectrum membrane keyboard and the PLA scheme for sensing one keypress among each set of five keys, also dropped keypresses and forced you to type really slow.
- ilkke 3y agoThat means it's an accurate emulator! There's a reason Speccy had a word-per-key input mode for programming
- tromp 3y agoBest adventure solvable in 12 turns I ever played. Nicest part was being thrown back to a nostalgic ZX Spectrum BASIC prompt after finishing, and remembering that LIST is under the 'K' key.
- stevekemp 3y agoThank you, that's very kind. I tried to make it more playable via the tiny-font, working around the narrow width of the Spectrum display, but I think I need to add word-wrapping to the text-output for a better experience. (PS. You can solve the game in four turns if you try!)
- neilwilson 3y agoFantastic job Steve.
- nathan_douglas 3y agoThis was great! Fun little adventure :)