TCKSOFT.CO.UK

I’ve recently been thinking of how to give away games for free but also with a little encouragement for people to donate to help me keep going – and maybe even let me buy my ever-suffering wife a Christmas present. My reasoning was maybe access to the high score board of future games could just [...]

No Comments »

Visually I think the game is just about there now – as you can see from a comparison to the original. Hopefully it’s looking like a nice mid-80s arcade machine game or something. Over the last couple of days I’ve added in scoring and the combo and bonus metres both work now. Bonus points aren’t [...]

No Comments »

I’ve added the other three “frames” from the Spectrum version of the game to my code. What is a frame? It’s just another name for a level. There are a couple of extra frames in the Dragon32 version of the game which I’m going to try to uncover and add to the game also – [...]

Tags: Cruising On Broadway

1 Comment »

Things seem to be coming along quite well. It might be due to the nice boost I got when contacting the original author of the game who is more than happy to let me remake it and seems enthusiastic about Cruising still after all this time. Mega thanks to Jeff for being such a bloody [...]

Tags: Cruising On Broadway

No Comments »

Who knows. Only time will tell, but I hope so. I’ve been looking at videos and screens of my old games and thinking maybe they weren’t so bad and maybe I still have a little more to offer to the remaking fraternity even if things have progressed and quality levels have increased. I’m not going [...]

Tags: Cruising On Broadway

2 Comments »

The results for Category 4 of the Retro Remakes 2008 are finally up – whoever is responsible for posting them has taken their own sweet time about it. This of course includes the reviews for my 24 hour coded entry. They are not for the easily offended as one or two of them may contain [...]

No Comments »