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How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
#314284 - 09/09/13 06:57 PM
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Re: How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
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#314290 - 09/09/13 09:09 PM
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Re: How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
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#314300 - 09/10/13 01:01 AM
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> The making of R-Type for the ZX Spectrum:
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> IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game
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> a free 138-page book by programmer Bob Pape
Thanks for sharing, what a great read. ZX R-Type was impressive, not only considering the limitations of the Spectrum but also the ridiculous conditions under which is was written. Respect!
The crown for best 8-bit port was claimed in 2012 by Easter Egg Software:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHH1V-zOlZk
I still think the Speccy version is the most impressive, all things considered.
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Re: How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
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#314315 - 09/10/13 04:56 PM
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> The crown for best 8-bit port was claimed in 2012 by Easter Egg Software:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHH1V-zOlZk
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> I still think the Speccy version is the most impressive, all things considered.
Yeah. The 2012 CPC port is certainly great, but its developers had access to a lot of useful things that porters in the 80s didn't, like MAME running the original game with a debugger and tile viewer and so on. Not to mention infinite development time.
Within the original constraints, the Spectrum version is quite impressive.
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#314316 - 09/10/13 05:05 PM
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So many ports. Non stop making those.
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Re: How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
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#314330 - 09/10/13 08:18 PM
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Re: How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
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#314332 - 09/10/13 08:30 PM
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> > The crown for best 8-bit port was claimed in 2012 by Easter Egg Software:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHH1V-zOlZk
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> best? it might be most faithful but it looks horrible. Even the cancelled c64 version
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Okay that's it. You take that back, or I'll see you outside at lunch break. Then we'll settle once and for all which platform has the best port.
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Re: How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
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#314333 - 09/10/13 08:41 PM
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R-Type port for C64 was quite a fiasco. I knew the story about the original version programmed by a different team. A good R-Type clone for the beloved is in my opinion X-Out by Rainbow Arts released in 1989.
ZX Spectrum port is good, but I always hated the Spectrum monochrome graphic and I always hated some "ZX to C64" ports. I recall Skool Daze and always thought: "What cool game could have been this classic using the power of multicolor C64 gfx?"...
Edited by Mamesick (09/10/13 08:43 PM)
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Re: How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
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#314335 - 09/10/13 09:16 PM
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> Okay that's it. You take that back, or I'll see you outside at lunch break. Then
> we'll settle once and for all which platform has the best port.
It's always the mz-700
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie8v1Q-Ap_o
ok, it's not r-type but I'm sure if there was an r-type port it would be better than that Amstrad rubbish
It's got the best 8 bit Space Harrier port too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GObao5a7Fis
Edited by smf (09/10/13 09:19 PM)
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Re: How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
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#314336 - 09/10/13 09:36 PM
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> > Okay that's it. You take that back, or I'll see you outside at lunch break. Then
> > we'll settle once and for all which platform has the best port.
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> It's always the mz-700
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie8v1Q-Ap_o
"oh look out, an L!"
> ok, it's not r-type but I'm sure if there was an r-type port it would be better than
> that Amstrad rubbish
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> It's got the best 8 bit Space Harrier port too.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GObao5a7Fis
ROFL
If you play this while sitting 15ft away from the screen and squint *really* hard you can almost make your own 37xSAI.
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Re: How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
[Re: Luca Elia]
#314369 - 09/11/13 07:31 AM
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Thanks for this - R-Type remains one of my all-time top-ten games, and, despite never having owned a Spectrum of any flavour (though having been around people who did when they were still current), that was a fascinating read. The port is also utterly astounding in light of the capabilities of the ZX Spectrum (as well as most software then-written for it), as well as the pressures on the author to complete it.
Funny how it brought back a number of incidental memories, and previously I had never had any idea how incestuously-related the ST version (which I did play the hell out of at the time) was to the Spectrum version. Great stuff.
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Re: How R-Type was ported to ZX Spectrum
[Re: Luca Elia]
#314447 - 09/13/13 05:42 AM
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> The making of R-Type for the ZX Spectrum:
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> IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game
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> a free 138-page book by programmer Bob Pape
WOW, that's awesome. I'll read this asap.
>R-Type port for C64 was quite a fiasco. I knew the story about the original version
>programmed by a different team.
I purchased the casette tape version of R-Type for the C64. After you died (lost 3 lives), you had to rewind the tape and load the game from the start again - even if you were still on Level 1. Until you got reasonably "good" at the game, it was like: 40 seconds of game play, ~25 seconds of rewinding the tape, and ~3 minutes of re-loading (or at least that's how I rememeber it). Very painful ....
The Amiga version of R-Type was pretty well arcade perfect (as far as I could tell at the time). Played this a lot in the early 90's. Hook up to a good set of speakers, turn the lights down low. Magic.
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