Loving this game - I like how 1980s hard it is! Unfortunately the Spectrum version has a crash that reboots after you lose all your lives. Tried various emulators and real hardware.
Thank you very much for your appreciation and for spotting the problem! I'm sorry about the issue, I thoroughly tested the "expanded code" version of the game, but not enough the "compressed" one :'( The problem was due to the old ugBASIC runtime; I rebuilt the game with the latest version of ugBASIC (1.17.1) and it now seems to work fine. You can download the fixed package Lader_BASIC10LinerContest_fix.zip from the project page: https://retrobits.itch.io/lader
Thanks for the fix - works great now. I still love how fast and difficult the game is - keeps me coming back for more! Reminds me a lot of Donkey Kong and Chuckie Egg, but sped up!
Thank you again for your appreciation. Yes, I deliberately chose to keep the game fast and difficult to make it a bit challenging, especially since there are only 3 distinct screens. However, on request by one user, on the newer versions available on retrobits.itch.io/lader it is possible to choose the desired game speed.
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Loving this game - I like how 1980s hard it is! Unfortunately the Spectrum version has a crash that reboots after you lose all your lives. Tried various emulators and real hardware.
Thank you very much for your appreciation and for spotting the problem!
I'm sorry about the issue, I thoroughly tested the "expanded code" version of the game, but not enough the "compressed" one :'(
The problem was due to the old ugBASIC runtime; I rebuilt the game with the latest version of ugBASIC (1.17.1) and it now seems to work fine. You can download the fixed package Lader_BASIC10LinerContest_fix.zip from the project page: https://retrobits.itch.io/lader
Thanks for the fix - works great now. I still love how fast and difficult the game is - keeps me coming back for more! Reminds me a lot of Donkey Kong and Chuckie Egg, but sped up!
Thank you again for your appreciation. Yes, I deliberately chose to keep the game fast and difficult to make it a bit challenging, especially since there are only 3 distinct screens.
However, on request by one user, on the newer versions available on retrobits.itch.io/lader it is possible to choose the desired game speed.
Would be greater if it had Oric support too! ;P (Just kidding, its already great, nicely done..)
Thank you! ;-)
Unluckily, the Oric is not (yet?) supported by ugBASIC, maybe in the future! https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/targets#targets
very good
thank you!!!