One suggestion, purely for accessibility. Head bobbing (toggle on/off). As it's totally smooth movement just now it may make some feel sick.

(I couldn't tolerate the smoothness of Wolfenstein 3D, but Doom with the head bobbing cured the issue!)

Happy St. Andrews day logo spotted on the site today! 😜

(2/2) Website links:

Everything I do for the #SAMCoupe ...
www.samcoupe.com

Peripherals for #RC2014 and compatibles ...
2014.samcoupe.com

And hardware for the #ZXSpectrum ...
zx.samcoupe.com

#retrocomputing #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming #8bit
#electronics

This is where I started back in May 1983! A ZX Spectrum 48K with the included Horizons cassette, plus Hungry Horace.

My Money Bags trilogy of games on the SAM came from my love of the Jet Set Willy games. I remember my tenth birthday fondly as with the money I received that day I ran to John Menzies to buy Jet Set Willy 2 and the Your Spectrum magazine which had the full map and all the POKEs!

I did get a Crash cassette swapped once at the newsagent because I thought Glider Rider wasn't loading correctly as there was no music.

But alas, they had only put the 48K version on the tape. The 128K AY music was the best bit of the game! 😡

Come to think of it, I think GftG was a bit ropey when loading!

Didn't generally have any problems with the YS, SU and Crash cover tapes.

We did have an officially licensed 'Manic Miner' on the SAM Coupe, which came out in late 1991 and was expanded to feature 60 caverns.

[Since 2004 MM features on the cover disk with SAM Revival 9 with permission of the copyright holders/designers of the SAM version.]

on the cover tape, and the second is an issue of GamesX as it had a review of Oh No More Lemmings.

In the 80s and early 90s multiformat magazines never had any appeal for me. As a ZX Spectrum owner it was only Sinclair Programs then YS and the occasional Crash or SU I got. Only twice can I remember buying a multiformat mag - the launch issue of ACE as it had Gift From The Gods for the Spectrum..

(I did learn 6502 assembly at school, way before I started with Z80 myself. Annoyingly I always had the impression as a kid with a ZX Spectrum I believed that machine code would be impossibly hard to learn, so only taught myself Z80 asm in 1994 and found it no problem at all!)

Cool to see your VIC-20 game map there! I've often thought about porting some of my games to other platforms, with Money Bags being the ideal candidate for the VIC-20, as I'd also be able to get it to run via the cartridge interface I released to use VIC carts under emulation on SAM.

My Money Bags trilogy of games on the SAM came from my love of the Jet Set Willy games. I remember my tenth birthday fondly as with the money I received that day I ran to John Menzies to buy Jet Set Willy 2 and the Your Spectrum magazine which had the full map and all the POKEs!

Amazing stuff, so much detail! How far did you get with the game?

I've only drawn one proper map on paper, before moving to designing solely on computer for the sequels. The deisgn sketch for 'Money Bags' which I coded for the SAM Coupe in 1996...

I've quite a few sheets of graphics I drew for that game idea. Maybe one day I should go back and revisit the graphics and do something with them...🤔

I remember ASUS doing that. The motherboard I bought for my first Socket-A AMD chip (Duron 600MHz, later replaced with an Athlon 1GHz - both overclocked very well!) was white boxed.

I did leave off (mundane!) PC stuff, diy kits and devkits, plus the stuff I've designed myself (Z80 and eZ80 based).

YS was definitely my favourite, I'd pick up the occasional Crash but that was mainly for something on the cassette, likewise with SU but that was the least bought.

And we'd only get 5 issues of the reborn Crash before it vanished to be just a 'now incorporating Crash' label on a few issues of SU...