From the supplied text file:-

Donkey Soft PRESENTS: Bounce!

This is version v0.01 of Bounce, and is heavily cost-reduced. A full version will follow shortly, but at the moment, it stops when your score gets to -2.

The full version will feature:

A nice front end (well, a front end),
Some beeps,
A high score table,
The same addictive gameplay and awesome graphics.

Enjoy!

Hello,
"Slap Me Forum Troll" is my csscgc 2008 entry.
September 10,2008 (v17)

After being kicked out of another speccy forum, you, lamestage, found yourself in another nicely populated forum. Hopefully this time you can take the forum over, and have it all for yourself.

How to play?
You read posts on the forum and flamefight with everyone about everything. Try to gain karma by flaming poor, and cheering rich. Try and force everyone out. This time you will kick others, and be the best lamestage of all times! Recommended game level is "2-easy"

The game is written in basic and compiled with Mcoder3. Tools used in this fine creation are Basin and ZxSpin emulators.

[Arda mentions his email address and blog URL in the readme which you can download - I won't put these details on here in case of spam. - DP]

Arda "ref" Erdikmen 2008

If it's any consolation to Dr BEEP that his game may from now onwards be considered crap, then at least the same goes for everyone else's entries here. For this is the compo where [nearly] everyone knows your [nick]name and we can sometimes laugh with you and not just at you.

Full game instructions included in the download.

Avoid trouble as you somehow make it back to the bus stop. If you succeed then why not ramp up the difficulty to Ollie Reed levels by consuming an even larger amount of (simulated) beer. In fact it probably helps if you have some real beers too.

The game features colourful high resolution graphics.

Makes rather smart use of the ramdisk (Which us specchums like to refer to as the "silicon disk").

Be sure to check out the full instructions file, provided in the download.

To save some time for you CGC fans, I've also converted the program into a "playable" sna file, which I had to make anyway for the arcade page. It's also included in the download.

The program itself thoughtfully POKEs the UDG sysvar and sets upper 32K to $FF as if disconnected to give a most authentic 16K experience to those 48K owners who feel they may otherwise be missing out.

The option to skip the setting of the upper 32K may certainly be appreciated by those who like to do their speccy emulation whilst on the move.

Andrew also draws our attention to the built in progress bar and the fact that the character bitmaps are actually copied from the ROM to where they should be in RAM on a 16K machine. The end result is that the lower 16K of RAM is indistinguishable from a true 16K spectrum.

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone develops a program (with UDGs even) to showcase the full potential of this environment. Seriously, this entry could theoretically be useful (oops) as I don't think QAOP has a true 16K mode!

Following on from the above entry, we now have the "Power Users" version of "16K Spectrum Emulator" written in 100% pure assembly language. It's probably about a million times faster than the previous version, so that's a nice speed improvement. You can either download this entry as usual or copy'n'paste from here:-

; Advanced 16K Spectrum Emulator
; Copyright 2008 Andrew Owen, Dr BEEP & James Smith

      org  $nnFD
      dump $nnFD
 
start equ  loop+2
 
loop  jp   p,$11cb
      defb 0,0       ; Initially LD DE,0 then just 2x NOP
      di
      ld   a,c
      ld   (de),a
      dec  de
      and  d
      jr   loop

At 21 12 bytes when assembled, you may be interested to know that this is so far the shortest entry submitted to CSSCGC 2008.

I loaded this one up under the EightyOne Emulator version 1.0, and selected model "Timex TC2048". It worked perfectly under that set-up.

You will find comprehensive instructions included in the downloadable zipfile, but to summarise, this program lets you print multicolor text as shown on the left. You can print to the "color" stream using commands like PRINT AT y,x; #4; "my text";

Note also that all characters sent to channel #4 must be terminated with a ';' or you get some strange behaviour.

Not only can you redefine all 256 characters, but you can also define the attributes of each row of each character too. Again, I highly recommend reading the supplied readme.txt file for full instructions and to see the reconfigured ZX memory map.

This is the first entry targeted at the "Spectrum SE" features as far as I know. It's also nice to get another entry that uses the Timex extra features too.

Hi,

As promised, and to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Timex screen mode, I'm submitting:

HunchBack '08

to the CSSCGC.

This was originally written by me in 1984 when I was off sick from school. Clearly I was very ill. Enter to START, Q=LEFT, P=RIGHT, SPACE=JUMP. Previously entered as HunchBack '84 in CSSCGC99 for the Spectrum 48K. This one requires a Timex TC2048. No idea if it works on any emulators besides FUSE but it should work on anything that emulates a TC2048.

Cheers!

-Andrew

*Updated 26/09/08* - "B-key added (BIASED VOTING)

I also noticed that this game had to be released during Easter 2008 since I found an easteregg in it.

When the results are shown on 1 certain game you can activate a competition.

The release of the game was overdue and the programmers forgot to take out the competition. You get the competition, but the competition has ended before the game was released on the market."

Dr BEEP did warn me before submission that this version of BASIC is impossible to program in and I really should have taken his word for it. I won't spoil the surprise by revealing what constitutes the element of "fun" here, but you can download the game or play it in the crap game arcade to find out. I can mention though that a Highlander reference finally made it into the CGC! (Which was badly needed at this point.)

ZX Road King

by Mile

Well done for buying the ZX Road King, kudos.

In this package you will find the most advanced sat navigator currently using the WALATS system.

The WALATS system uses up to date road signs and directions given by POTSOTS.

The good people at MBM have added a personality to the ZX Road King, so even if you have a car with one set you will never drive alone again, the also allows you to drive in the car pool lane according to AMDTP.

Look out for new versions with even more exciting destinations.

copyright MBM

the directions in the ZX Road king are in no way to be copied onto a scrap of paper and given to your mate.

we in no way take any responsability for you getting lost.

This game is actually quite fun as you drive along the pothole-ridden road earning plenty of cash as you do so. Although through modern eyes it could look more like the cost of fuel you are burning as you drive along!

Recently, I've fallen into the habit of only posting loading screens/intro screens on the game pages to leave an element of surprise on playing the game. So to see it, you'll have to play it!

From the supplied instructions:-

CAR GAME! (By Arda - 1985)

Make your way through 10 challenging levels of hole-jumping mayhem in this arcade action game.
Features woody's turbo loading protection so you can't take it and pirate it!

How to play:
carefully jump over the deep holes using "Space" bar. You will gain more score while jumping.
Good luck!

Here's one for the kids or adults alike from Dr BEEP, featuring a high quality Elmo graphic and lots of entertaining gameplay. I'll be sure to read up on "Elmo's World" at next oppurtunity as Dr BEEP suggests. I have some memories of the very educational Sesame Street from my early childhood.

Frank T provided the BEEP instructions for the tune and today's CSSCGC update was brought to you by the letter 'C'...

Dr BEEP Writes:-

"For the non-Sesamestreet watchers (I have a small kid, so I may watch).

In Sesamestreet Elmo has his own item called "Elmo's world".
Google on this and you understand the meaning of this game.
Best to do AFTER you have seen this program running several songs to keep the element of surprise,"

Read this Wikipedia page to learn more about the fascinating Brainf*ck language.

I have purposely screen grabbed the beginning of the BASIC listing of this entry because as can clearly be seen, the Brainf*ck source is embedded in a REM statement in line 10. This means that theoretically, someone could use this entry to actually submit a game written in Brainf*ck to the CSSCGC competition.

Again, I won't spoil the fun of showing what the program does, so again you can download it or run it from the "arcade". Of course this assumes that you aren't a Brainf*uck guru who can work it out just by looking at the source!