Kevin Phillips - recreating old ZX81 games - Auckland PUG - 19 August 2015
Channel: Kiwi PyCon
Date: 2015-08-19

Kevin Phillips
Tomorrow I'll be doing a talk on my pet project - recreating old ZX81 games - from BASIC to Python. Its a chance to see what kinds of games could be created on a machine with literally no memory back in 1981.

Its also an opportunity to look at pygame (for those unfamiliar with this awesome gaming library) and how easy it is to use. I'll try my best to be mildly entertaining and I promise not to bore everybody with tales of my long lost childhood. Well, not too many of them that is... ;-)

Details on the meetup page 

http://www.meetup.com/NZPUG-Auckland/events/222219416/


All the code from my presentation...  Including that Pacman game, as well as the ZX81 games I wrote...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-yNJZpBnrutUElIZUF2eWZVa2c/view?usp=sharing

PDF slide show
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-yNJZpBnrutOWNERFM3bFBYTmM/view?usp=sharing

My blog (the articles about the ZX game conversion project)
http://kevman3d.blogspot.co.nz/2015/07/basic-games-in-python-its-bringing-80s.html

The link to part 2 is at the bottom of that blog article.  And the link to part 3 is at the bottom of part 2... :)

If anybody wants to watch those old 'typed in' games on the spectrum I played the videos for, I have a playlist on youtube here:
https://youtu.be/SovLgr6Z1NE?list=PLZi6QHQmvfcLB_OAH51cJmGDGQXnxJDiz


Cheers, and hopefully see you next meet up!