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Arcade Game Designer v1.1
As if SEUD were not enough, here's something else for you to have a play with. AGD allows absolutely anyone to create simple stand-alone arcade games for the Spectrum. Although it isn't as easy to use as PGD or SEUD, it should be capable of producing a variety of different game styles with a little patience and imagination.
Latest release is version 1.1. Instructions are included in the zip file.
To download right-click here, then rename file to AGD.zip
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Damage
Formerly known as Shooty Thing, Damage is a demonstration game written with my new Shoot-Em-Up Designer tool, SEUD. I've tagged on an intro using Intro Maker V1.2, and this is the result - 3 levels of hardcore blasting. There is room for further expansion with more levels or extensions to the 3 already done, but I'll leave that to others.
SEUD is now complete and will be available from Cronosoft in due course.
Anyway, have fun.
To download right-click here, then rename file to Demo.tap
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Intro Maker 1.3
Now updated to incorporate a custom font if required. Designed for games produced using PGD and SEUD, this will also work with software created with a number of other utilities. Simply load in your game, type in the text you want to appear on the title page, answer a few questions, and then the program creates an intro for you. You can even add effects such as a starfield or scrolling message. No need to worry about BASIC loaders or what start address to use, it's all done for you automatically.
To download right-click here, then rename file to Intro.tap
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Egghead 5 - Egghead Round the Med (released 30.11.2007)
To celebrate his 18th birthday, (yes, it HAS been that long), Egghead takes a trip around the Mediterranean on his yacht. Unfortunately, his friends overdo the alcohol slightly and it's up to Egghead to find them all and bring them back to the yacht. Featuring 140 screens, with hundreds of patrolling nasties, conveyors, doors, spikes and crushers all out to stop him in this game for 128K machines.
Right-click here to download file and rename to Egghead5.tap
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Blizzard's Rift (released 07.03.2007)
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Released to celebrate the Spectrum's 25th birthday, this game is for the 128K models.
Centuries after space adventurer Henri Latrine disappeared in a far-flung corner of the galaxy, Digby Blizzard discovers his black box flight recorder revealing the locations of dozens of treasure-laden alien tombs. Heavily in debt, Digby decides to take a chance and heads off to seek his own fortune in the necropolises of extinct alien civilisations.
Zipfile contains instructions.
To download right-click here, then rename file to Blizzard.zip
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Egghead 4 - Egghead Entertains (released 21.04.2006)
Shelley is Coming to tea at three o'clock and the oval fellow is determined to cook something nice. Not having the culinary expertise to fry an egg, he has a sentient oven to suggest a suitable recipe for the occasion - trouble is, he has to source all the ingredients himself. None of this genetically modified rubbish, only the finest ingredients will do - would you mind giving him a hand?
Right-click here to download file and rename to Egghead4.tap
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Turbomania 16K (released 31.10.2005)
Six times Formula Retro racing champion Tim Wrangle receives an unpleasant surprise during a practice lap when he hits a hole in the fabric of space and time and is transported to a parallel universe. In this universe motor sport takes a different form. Trapped inside what appears to be a simple video game, Tim must cover every inch of the track while pursued by two opponents intent on his demise. Our hero will need his wits about him just to survive, never mind find a way back to his own dimension.
Right-click here to download file and rename to Turbomania.tap
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Area 51 (released 04.05.2005)
After a heavy night drinking with his friends Fizzog decides to go for a quick spin around the galaxy on his CosmoScooter. Alas, the extra-terrestrial numpty crashes his precious vehicle on a primitive planet called Earth completely wrecking it in the process, his only hope of sourcing the components required to fix it being to search the place known only as Area 51. To add to his worries a meddlesome Earthling cult calling itself "The US Army" has been conducting genetic experiments upon previous alien visitors and the hideous consequences of these Frankenstein-like dabblings patrol the very hangars and sheds Fizzog needs to search. Yikes!
The original Area 51 was written in 4K of memory, and did quite well in the 2004 minigame competition, taking fourth place. This is the full and final version, considerably expanded for the 16K Spectrum.
Right-click here to download file and rename to Area51.tap
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Lunaris (released 19.11.2004)
Pulled off-course by unexpected gravitational forces, space adventurer Henri Latrine has drifted into a little-known region of the galaxy only to encounter a previously undiscovered planet which was once the home of a great alien civilisation. This alien race is long gone, destroyed by a mystery event which occurred even before the dinosaurs walked the Earth, but the moons surrounding the planet are peppered with the tombs of their elders. These underground burial chambers are full of bounty, but still guarded by the automatic defence mechanisms left in place to deter tomb raiders aeons ago. Rich pickings are there for the taking, if Henri can navigate his way around the catacombs...
Originally written in just five hours at the ORSAM show 2004, an extended version is available from Retro-Soft. I'd like to do another "game in a day", or even a "game over a weekend" sometime, but there's no Orsam show this year so it'll have to wait, unless I'm invited to another event.
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Anno Domini (released 18.07.2004)
In the year 4000BC a tribe of hunter-gatherers decide to settle down and start farming the land. It is the very dawn of civilisation, and you have been chosen as their leader. Can you build the greatest civilisation the world has ever seen, or will your people end up as a small footnote in history?
Originally written in just 4K for the minigame competition 2004.
Version 1.01 is the latest version and boasts numerous improvements.
Right-click here to download file and rename to Anno.zip
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Fun Park (released 19.03.2004)
Fun Park is a major expansion of Amusement Park 4000, and the first commercially-released game for the 16K model for 20 years. I'm probably more proud of this one than anything else I've written. Now available from the Cronosoft website.
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Amusement Park 4000 (released 26.07.2003)
Anyone familiar with games like Rollercoaster Tycoon or Theme Park will recognise this. Build and run your own amusement park, decide how much to spend on advertising and put money into R&D to develop new rides. Can you build a park to stand the test of time, or will you go bankrupt?
This game took the silver joystick in the 2003 minigames competition. For those who don't already know, the aim was to write a game either in 1K or 4K of memory. It was a tight squeeze getting this into 4K but I was happy with the result. It should work on all Spectrums - yes, even the rare 16K model, providing you don't have a Microdrive attached.
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Right-click here to download file and rename to AmusPark.zip
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Egghead III - Egghead in Space (released 07.12.2002)
For those who wish to experience the real thing, a specially extended version is now available on cassette for the ZX Spectrum. For more information go to the Cronosoft website
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Our hero returns in his third outing for the Spectrum.
The plot: Remember how those aliens paid Egghead a visit a few years ago leaving his house in such a mess he had to go around clearing up after them? Obviously that wasn't "un oeuf", because they're back again and this time they've abducted Egghead's favourite Spectrum games.Quick witted as ever, our "dairydevil" hero managed to "scramble" aboard one of the alien rocket ships before it took off for planet Zog and hitched a ride back with the extra-terrestrials to retrieve his precious software collection. Upon arriving, Egghead managed to teleport into the underground labyrinth and that was when his problems really began...
You can now download the complete version of the game as a .TAP file, complete with an excellent loading screen courtesy of Tommy Pereira. Feel free to mail me with any constructive comments - you never know, I might yet be persuaded to write Egghead IV...
Right-click here to download file and rename to Egghead3.tap
The file is in Spectrum tape format, so should be compatible with most Spectrum emulators.
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ZX32 is recommended, but other emulators should be okay to use too.
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