Metal Man

Tom-Cat

Hi all.

Not sure where I got this game from (from www.olegorigin.com aparently ;-) ). Anyway, here is a TAP version of the game Metal Man . It is unfinished aparently - 1 level only. But it does have some nice graphics :) Enjoy...

http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/MetalMan.zip

WhenIWasCruel

there are other games that doesn't seem to be in wos archive, in that site.

check'em out:

aggressor
the dark
etc.

it's a little treasure, apparently.

mheide

Only Metal Man currently comes with download, though, and that was already queued up for the next archive update yesterday. :-)

WhenIWasCruel

martjin, even aggressor is downloadable.

i'm trying to load it with zx spin, but i've never used trd files.

Ralf

What a discovery !

It's great that when you think that you have seen all quality Spectrum software, one day some bedroom coder decides to show his works to the world.

I tried this Metal Man quickly and while it plays a bit jerky, the graphics are great.

The other screenshots on this site are great too.

I'd like to see this other projects. I don't expect them to be highly playable as the author mentions Basic being used, but watching this art is fun enough.

It looks like he was more an artist than a programmer.

Ivanzx

Those games look really amazing :O

deadpan666

These look great! I really want to play "The Dark"....that looks funky!

Will try Metal Man in a bit.... :)

Pegaz

I'm sure that there is a lot of good games, forgotten somewhere and waiting to be discovered..
For example im looking for years, one of ex-yugoslavian adventure game "Lajavkovo nasledstvo" based on Alan Ford comics, but without luck..
..and still hope that I'll find it somewhere..

Tom-Cat

Pegaz wrote: »

I'm sure that there is a lot of good games, forgotten somewhere and waiting to be discovered..
For example im looking for years, one of ex-yugoslavian adventure game "Lajavkovo nasledstvo" based on Alan Ford comics, but without luck..
..and still hope that I'll find it somewhere..

Yep, I know the feeling... there are quite some Most Wanted ex-YU games on my site. I have gotten quite a few of them through the last years, so hope still exists we will get those too.
btw. Lajavkovo nasledstvo is based on "Lucky Luke" comics ;-)

http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/tomcat/yu/ZX/Wanted/Html/Lajavkovo.php

Unfortunetly all that I could get is the loading screen...

Pegaz

Tom-Cat wrote: »

Yep, I know the feeling... there are quite some Most Wanted ex-YU games on my site. I have gotten quite a few of them through the last years, so hope still exists we will get those too.
btw. Lajavkovo nasledstvo is based on "Lucky Luke" comics ;-)

http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/tomcat/yu/ZX/Wanted/Html/Lajavkovo.php

Unfortunetly all that I could get is the loading screen...

Yes, i mixed the two games. :)
The game of which i speak is actually called "Alan Ford", and they made by the same authors as "Lajavkovo nasledstvo" and that's the only information i have about them, and that they are both adventure.

BiNMaN

nice looking game, sprite movement reminds me of Robocop

moroz1999

Video from the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ovuR8gNE0

Ivanzx

The game is quite impressive!!

I always wonder why all these russian coders dont contact Cronosoft to release their games. There are a lot of them with high quality, like Stronghold.

I would love to play them on my Spectrum, really :)

moroz1999

Does Cronosoft make a distribution of anything except tape versions? Making a tape version can be a pretty hard in many cases.

Ivanzx

True! I hadnt thought about that, some games may be too long for tape.
We could ask Simon if Cronosoft could release some games exclusevely for the +3 ??
Would that be a good solution?

One game I would really love to see in the real machine is Prince of Persia, I would pay more than 30 ? for it!!

Morkin

Thanks for the update, seem to have missed this one.

Love all the detail going on in the background, and it's great to see a load of decent games being released all over the place this year..!

VanTammen

is it just me or agressor looks awsome?

Ivanzx

Can anyone do a huge favour and convert the rest of the games from Oleg, to tr.dos format to tap. or tzx.?

The games look really nice graphic-wise :o

Maroc's Astral Projection

Wow! Those game look great, especially Aggressor!

Ivanzx

Tom-Cat there?? :)

Alessandro Grussu

Ivanzx wrote: »

Tom-Cat there?? :)

Sorry to dig out this, but Tomaz left the forum a year ago.

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33936

joefish

We need a flounce tracking system.

Ivanzx

Nobody knows hot to convert the trd. into tap. or tzx.?

Ralf

Nobody knows hot to convert the trd. into tap. or tzx.?

Generally there is no easy way, Ivan.

I've got an utility called trd2tap, dont't remember where I got it. But it will just copy all the bytes without changing anything in the code. The .tap will probably not work as there will be still disk reading commands in the code.

So it requires hacking and manually changing the appropriate code. Tough job.

Ivanzx

Ralf wrote: »

Generally there is no easy way, Ivan.

I've got an utility called trd2tap, dont't remember where I got it. But it will just copy all the bytes without changing anything in the code. The .tap will probably not work as there will be still disk reading commands in the code.

So it requires hacking and manually changing the appropriate code. Tough job.

Hmm didnt know that, I actually thought it was a more familiar thing to do :)
Thanks Ralf! ;)