ITALIA 1944 - my first game

ITALIA 1944 » Devlog
2 years ago by zanklesoft
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Hi everyone, I am proud to announce Italia 1944, the first game released here on itch.io under my own label, Zankle Soft.

My name is Alessandro and I am an enthusiast developer for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. I have been creating games for this platform since 2012.

My previous games will be soon available for download, several of them will as revised and enhanced versions especially made for the re-release under the new label.

I hope you will like them!

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iLKke2 years ago

This is looking very interesting!
How do you program games for the Spectrum? Just using BASIC or some modern crossdev tools?

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zanklesoft2 years ago

Hi iLKke and thank you for your question.

In the past I used dedicated tools, especially AGD, to provide the basis for my games, but in the last few years I discovered ZX BASIC and used it to make Italia 1944, Ad Lunam and Ad Lunam Plus. Other parts of my games are written in Z80 Assembly from the beginning.

ZX BASIC is a programming language available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. It is developed by Jose Rodriguez and enhances the traditional Sinclair BASIC with great features such as new commands and functions and a much more open structure. Programs written in ZX BASIC must then be compiled to machine code with a dedicated command-line utility.  Other parts are written in straight Z80 Assembly.

If you wish to know more about it you should visit this website: https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs

I also interviewed Jose for my 2021 Annual, you can freely download it from: https://www.alessandrogrussu.it/annuario.html

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iLKke2 years ago

Thank you kindly for such a detailed reply!

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