New game: Earthraid

[britlion]

Very nice little game, LCD. Very difficult, too - even on easy levels! There's never enough time to hit back. I was using poison a lot, and then realised that just shortens lifespan, and really doesn't stop the darned things. Mines seem to be the most winning.

I noticed it seems to crash occasionally - a couple of times when generating a landscape and once right after starting. There's some corruption occurring sometimes, somewhere...

By the way, I noticed that BeepFX crashes in ZXBC if is called inside a SUB:

Code:

Sub BeepFX(effect as ubyte)
  poke 60001,effect
  asm
    call 60000
  end asm
end sub

I think that's because it corrupts the IX register. I've posted a HOWTO for a cleaner method of using it, I think - which pushes IX as part of the beepfx code, and pops it when back to ZXB. Also allows you to just #include assembly, rather than link binaries.
(I know you've seen that, LCD - but thought I'd mention it for anyone else reading this thread later!)