Comments on: Who remembers the Sinclair Spectrum?

By: mike

mike — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:59:13 +0000

Hey Pickle Pumper, now that is a cool photo and brings back all sorts of memories. I am going to have to get out my Spectrum 48k now and put a photo up :o)

Mike

By: Pickle Pumper

Pickle Pumper — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:31:55 +0000

I’ve got a Timex Sinclair 1000 on my desk. First computer I owned (not the actual one, but the same make/model).

Don’t know if this link will work but here’s a pic:

By: mike

mike — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:20:04 +0000

Hi Joe

I do remember Archon and I also remember that when I was playing it I was not very good :o)

When I have played at writing games in Java, I’ve normally taken an idea which I’ve seen or played from these older platforms. The reason being the graphics are not that hard to copy and the game concept is also normally not too complex.

Having said that, I have an incomplete version of Atic Atac I was re-writing in Java and its not until you get into writing the game that you come across all sorts of problems you have to solve to make even the most basic game work at times. It can be surprising.

Another good game to look at is Xenon: Mega blast by the bitmap brothers. This game gave me the inspiration to have a go at writing a game on the iPhone. As the tutorials progress I’m going to be using sprites from this game, one because I like them but also because I suck at creating gfx :o)

The second Tutorial should be posted soon.

Mike

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:44:52 +0000

Hello Mike,

When you have played with the C64 or Amiga you will remember Archon. This game features a 2D battle field.
Though I think somebody is already implementing this for the iPhone it should be fun to program.

Can’t wait to read through the 2nd part of your tutorial. Thanks for writing it.

Cheers,
Joe