Press Fire To Jump: ZX Spectrum Challenge

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Welcome to the book that sets the challenges and the book that you play. Will you accept the challenge to complete Press Fire To Jump: ZX Spectrum Challenge? Return to a time when pressing the joystick fire button could trigger a multitude of actions ranging from jumping, attacking, accelerating and firing. Includes a brief insight to the coding challenges faced by programmers Jim "Midnight Resistance" Bagley, Philip "Dizzy" Oliver, Nigel "Chuckie Egg" Alderton and Kevin "Football Manager" Toms.

REVISIT: Fifty Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer retro games of the 1980s. REPLAY: Classic games with detailed control tips, game back story and gameplay hints. REGAME: Complete unique challenges on the games Bomb Jack, Chuckie Egg, Dizzy, R-Type, Turrican and more

Park Productions Games: The Source Code

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Get straight to the source! Discover the inner workings and go behind the video games of Park Productions.
Included within is the direct source code of four video games, complete with their cheat modes and hidden secrets. Game genres include an arcade style collect'em-up, a soccer themed Pong, a scrolling urban beat'em-up and a robotic cop shoot'em-up totalling over 10,000 lines of code.

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326 page full colour edition.
An Amstrad, Commodore & Spectrum 8-bit home computer formats graphical comparison.
Compare over 280 classic computer games on the three main home formats from 1983 to 1994.
Includes over 900 8-bit screenshots.

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326 page EBook PDF edition. IPad compatible. An Amstrad, Commodore & Spectrum 8-bit home computer formats graphical comparison. Compare over 280 classic computer games on the three main home formats from 1983 to 1994. Includes over 900 8-bit screenshots.

The Amstrad Book - The Essential Guide to Gaming with Amstrad.

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The Essential Guide to Gaming with Amstrad.
172 page collection of Amstrad features from Retro Gamer magazine. Includes over 200 photos and screenshots. more photos.