Introduction

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Hi and Welcome,

What did you write your latest game in?
Did you use DizzyAGE this time?

Alex

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I used Visual Basic again, as I had an old scrolling game engine I made years ago (for an unrelated game) and thought it could adapt for a "Fantastic Dizzy" style game. I've drawn a whole new set of sprites, though, as my old 16-colour ones were looking decidedly past their best (and I no longer need to be able to fit all my files on a single floppy disk, thank God).

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Hi Anthony,

Magicland on the C64 was my favourite one too. It was looking for an emulator version of it that first brought me here.

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Hello. :smile: I hope you managed to find a version. I used to have the spectrum version of that on emulator (possibly still do), but I'm not sure where one could find the c64 version (other than using the actual tape to create a .tap file).

Thank you for the welcome. :smile:

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Yeah, I think it was the spectrum version I found on the web. The two are pretty much the same tho. :smile:

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Very similar in most respects, as I recall, but with all the games where the C64 and Spectrum (128) versions has different music, I always felt the C64 had the edge.

Surely there was a touch of red as well ...

I did like that the Amstrad versions bothered to add a bit of shading to Dizzy, even if the effect was slightly reminiscent of him going mouldy around the edges. Still, my overall prejudice leans towards the C64 for music and the Spectrum for graphics, attribute clash or no: Dizzy games on their native platform tended to have better animations. Especially Spellbound Dizzy, which was seriously disappointing in both its C64 incarnations.

hello there, nice to have you here specially as you've posted a game right off the bat, thanks very :tongue:

Thanks for the welcome. :smile: I'd been making the game for a few months and was very pleased to find there was still an online Dizzy presence for me to submit it to. I noticed a couple of sites no longer updating, but this one seems to be going very strong.

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had/have Spellbound on the c64, it was fantastic.
but most of my dizzy was played on the amstrad.

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I mainly remember C64 Spellbound for having incredibly long screen-draw times, like the C64 version of Seymour Goes to Hollywood (also a good game, but requiring immense patience). It was certainly a lot quicker on the Spectrum, though it was never my favourite of the series (Too many hazards, not to mention all the fetching and carrying of rocks).

Might have been my emulators at fault, then. The screens on the spectrum version did seem to draw in a lot more quickly. Or it might just be that all the fetching and carrying of heavy rocks to the windy shaft and trudging back again for more was causing my brain to warp time ...

If a program was tailor made for the C64, such as Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, it would indeed run very fast and smooth. Some Dizzy games, though, (as well as Seymour, and several others) were ported across from the spectrum with little optimisation for C64, and the Commodore was always better at running low-res full-colour graphics than the monochrome hi-res style beloved of Spectrum games (For a really bad example, compare the excellent Spectrum version of Chase HQ to its C64 equivalent: a close port, but hideously slow and jerky).

Having said that, I thought the majority of C64 Dizzy ports ran at a perfectly acceptable speed, in spite of Zzap64's criticisms, but I do recall Spellbound as being a particularly lethargic example, with long black-out moments inbetween screens. It was also clearly a rush job (The version released on the Excellent Adventures compilation in particular, which was severely cut down from the original length).