[Closed] doom played on a zx spectrum 128k

God that's awful

Yeah I'm with PP. I wasn't holding up much hope but that's really bad, I also wonder is it a true 128 or an emulator so may be using a few added extras, still awful.

There I was, all misty eyed at the prospect of a nostalgic recollection of doom in days gone by, but no, that was crap.

There's a doom version that's playable online - google app store I think - that's faithful to the original PC version, even that only lasted till halfway through level 2 before I went back to playing boom beach on a eye pad.

Surely Gauntlet was a far superior shoot-em-up on the old Speccy. Many an evening (well, afternoon) with three of us on rotation, one end of the keyboard each...

I also wonder is it a true 128 or an emulator so may be using a few added extras

It's running on a Russian Speccy clone.

Can kinda see where they were going there, from a tech demo point of view.

I always prefered SFII

Daily thomsons decathlon was the best game.
Then some fighting game (land of the risijg sun?)
Then horace goes skiing.

Yi Ar Kung Fu....made my thumb bleed on the joystick.

Then some fighting game (land of the risijg sun?)

Are you thinking of Way of the Exploding Fist?

IK+?

All irrelevant because it's not

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I spent way too many hours on Doomdark's Revenge. That Tarithel the Fey was such a pixelated hottie.

Jetpack willy, b0mb jack, and attic attack 🙂
My life came alive when newsagents started selling discounted game titles, which in general were brilliant and affordable.

God you lot are hard to please sometimes, I thought that was pretty chuffin good for a retro port...and one that gets 128k ram anyway.

Yes there are better games for putters of that age but that isn't the point. This is DOOM on a Speccy!!!

Imagine if that had of happened in the speccy days and not PC days, it may have changed puter games as we know it....but mor than likely it'd have been passed over and the legendary game we all know may not have made such a big hit.

Full games on magazine covers too...

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You can get Lords of Midnight on Android and IOS now - it's awesome!

That Doom on a Speccy is impressive but it would be better with simpler graphics as would look cleaner.

Yep. This (on the ZX81) looks better than that! (Only exaggerating slightly...)

You can't see a damn thing on the OP's clip.

That is pretty bad. I remember Ghosts and Goblins, Green Beret, Saboteur, Bruce Lee, Renegade all playing well. Tried Manic Miner on an emulator a while back and it was rubbish though.

Quite an impressive feat of programming, considering that even when released the Speccy was not the best bit of hardware.

Programming is impressive I get that bit but it's still truly awful.

From a programming point of view I think its impressive. I remember getting doom to run on my Amiga circa 1994 which was an achievement but it ran really slowly as was a CPU intensive game and the Amigas graphics chip-set was well past its sell by date and no good for 3D or planar type graphics.

Fast forward to 2010-11 and I got Doom running on an Amaiga Emulator flawlessly - even better than a 486 back in early nineties. The emulator gave the Amiga the power of an 060 processor running at > 100Mhz!

You don't do these things to play these old games, its just because you want to see if you can 🙂

I now have Doom on my XBox 360 should I want to feel nostalgic; it usually last for about 5 minutes before I go and load a modern game....

Jetpack willy,

Pardon?

Jetpack willy

Wasn't it Jetset Willy?

Are you thinking of Way of the Exploding Fist?

Thats it. I became an expert at the roundhouse kick move. Tried to copy it on my sister, fell down the stairs and broke my leg. Happy days.

I've been trying to get it to run on PS4.

Wasn't it Jetset Willy?

Yes. Well, Jet Set Willy if you want to be pedantic. (And I can still remember 35899,0...)

I've got a copy signed by Matthew Smith somewhere.

I can still remember copying the "entry code" chart, so I could play my pirate copy... God what I'd have done for a the use of a colour photocopier.

I run a Speccy emulator called Marvin on my Android phone - keeps me amused.

I remember playing games on computers with so little memory, they had to use the display memory instead, hence you got a smaller visible playing area, surrounded by what appeared to be "random" multicoloured blocks (which was actually the game RAM.......)

😉

Yes. Well, Jet Set Willy if you want to be pedantic.

Or just correct 😉 I loved that game. Anyone remember odd job Eddie?

Vegan attack FTW!!
Still good fun on Marvin.

Jetpack was a different game.

And the most printed cheat code in computing history, SHOCKED.

When I were a lad we used to play Star Trek on a Commodore Pet.

We used to play the clunkiest ever flight sim on a ZX81, it required a lot of imagination to get around the limitations of graphics and frame rate and a great deal of stabbing at that touch pad keyboard to play.

Now if you really want retro there was a version of Zaxxon ( crazy monochromatic isometric graphics ) on one of my relatives Apple2 that my 13 year-old self thought was the most amazing thing ever, then we got a BBC micro and "Elite" came along....ah, happy days 8)

i should have added that i had a commodore 64 NOT A SPECCY! 😉 commodore ftw baby 😀