Another hot news story has just been sent to us by Saberman, as if you have a ZX Spectrum or a ZX Spectrum NEXT, and want to play something that's very impressive, especially as it can be run on an original 8bit machine, is the latest Alpha of a playable Quake engine that has been created by Alone Coder together with Dragons' Lord: an engine running at an impressive speed even on a standard ZX Spectrum 128k. In light of this news, we have some more details below and a new video from Saberman and ZX-Retro.
This is a playable Quake engine with moving enemies running at impressive speed on a standard 3,5 MHz ZX Spectrum 128k. The engine also has support for 7 and 14 MHz. You play with W, A, S, D and cursor keys. Tap and Scl files is available in the download. In the video above is the 7 MHz version that has been played on an original ZX machine, as well as the other video running on a ZX Spectrum Next, 28 MHz. If that wasn't enough to surprise you, this engine, even running at 3,5 MHz, totally beats the old Freescape engine that were used in the 80s games.
In this version 0.05 alpha the following has been added:
- - Three weapons visually on the screen with different types of ammo,
- - Shambler model animation,
- - The summoning unit of the shambler is a skeleton,
- - Teleport,
- - Sounding of all gameplay in a unique way on standard AY,
- - Written subsystems responsible for:
- - Ammo generation.
- - Tracking of bullets collision with the floor,
- - Bullet collision with walls,
- - Exclusion of bullets outside the visible zone,
- - Collision of bullets with monsters with damage (white border blinks),
- - Collision of skeletons with a player causing damage (blinks red),
- - Collision of monsters with the player (will bite his ass - will blink red),
- - Generation and animation of particle explosions (including the organization of plumes behind a flying skeleton and a flying rocket).
- Quake Engine using DOOM UI/GUNS
If it's the 'quake' why are all the gfx & guns from doom?
ReplyDeleteSee my reply further down 😊
DeleteThat's not possible!!! I love my Speccy but this is voodoo level magic. Literally I had to buy a Voodoo card to get Quake running on my Cyrix 5x86 back in the day. To see the Spectum do this is 🤯.
ReplyDeleteVery impressive! But it's not the quake engine.a home grown engine using cut down quake models i expect.
ReplyDeleteNo idea why the developer calls it the quake Engine as I too noticed many doom similarities.. Oh well 🤗
DeleteQuake engine was polygon based, that's Doom engine if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteThis one is a polygon based too, except the UI, and there are a lot of things in the video, that can not be done in Doom engine. It's much closer to Quake than Doom.
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Delete"Quake Engine using DOOM UI/GUNS" - and the Shambler looks polygonish...
ReplyDeleteYou have got to be kidding me O_O. What .. Hooooow?! Wow that is freaking amazing and I am floored! Wow! Just ...WHOA!
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Deleteno colors?
ReplyDeleteTwo. Black and white.
DeleteThe ZX Spectrum has designed the graphics display in a very specific way. I'm sure in the next versions of this engine they will color static parts of the image - it's UI but an attempt to color a 3D game window would end up in a cluttered mess.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dadzZuAy-ks
- also ..
I have absolutely no idea how this is running on a freakin' ZX Spectrum but damn that is beyond impressive
ReplyDeleteThe DOOM engine renders space in a completely different and simpler way. This ZX engine is really more similar to Quake than DOOM.
ReplyDeleteWell... Vector graphic like in many games in 80s/90s, just named "Quake" to clickbait. Below is more complex game, You can even fly!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM1M10V23Yk
If you watch it closely, you may see some textures here and there. And it's faster than the Incentive engine (yes, I know, this video is a Spectrum Next at 28 mhz, but there are other videos as well, such as this one:
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Back in the 80's there was a 3D game "total eclipse" very similar to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_U0V10NlBY
ReplyDeletePlease send this back to 1984, it will change the future.
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