Tag: Jet Pac
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Jet Pac – Graphics
The Original Sprites The initial idea was to make remakes of the original games. The first prototype for the Jet Pac remake running on Windows Phone 7 is shown below. To speed up things, the graphics were ripped from the original game, this allowed development to continue whilst the graphics were redrawn. The below screenshots…
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Apptastic idea….
So it appears we’ve now gone full circle, the app coding phenomenon for the smart phones and tablets now perfectly mimics what happened 30 years ago I guess in 2013, we are at the 90’s point in the gaming world. The crossover point between hobbyist/small studios to the mega game studios. I couldn’t help but…
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Removing the Sinclair ROM from the emulator
The Spectrum has a 16K ROM. The ROM being the primitive operating system (monitor) for the computer, one of the first tasks was to reverse engineer it so a complete understanding of the machine could be gleaned. The exercise was largely trivial as it was well documented, as shown here in The Complete Spectrum ROM…
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Ultimate Play the Game
The “computer game” has been with us now since Space Invaders was released in 1978, 35 years ago, cor blimey. In that timeframe I suspect the number of games that got cancelled for whatever reason outnumber those that got published. This blog is about a ‘failed game’, or more accurately a ‘failed app’, and whilst…