Lighthouse of Doom

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text adventure

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Lighthouse of Doom

An adventure game in Z80 assembly for CP/M and ZX Spectrum

github.com

#text adventure#z80 assembly#zx spectrum#cp/m

63points
9comments
#1,145of 3,515 in 2024
Top 33%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

4 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.47.

Performance: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun, nostalgic adventure that is short to solve

    From 2 comments
    • Best adventure solvable in 12 turns I ever played. Nicest part was being thrown back to a nostalgic ZX Spectrum BASIC prompt after finishing, and remembering that LIST is under…
      tromp on HN
    • This was great! Fun little adventure :)
      nathan_douglas on HN

Objections

  • Emulator drops keypresses at normal typing speed

    From 1 comment
    • For me, that emulator seems to drop about 1/3 of all keypresses at normal typing speed, making it basically unusable.
      o11c on HN

Requests

  • Word-wrapping for text output

    From 1 comment
    • Thank you, that's very kind. I tried to make it more playable via the tiny-font, working around the narrow width of the Spectrum display, but I think I need to add word-wrapping…
      stevekemp on HN

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