A fast-paced 2-player game for the Amstrad CPC. This is a port of the Space Hockey Type-In by David Hay in Amstrad Action Issue 42 (March 1989) from Locomotive Basic to Z80 Assembly Language.
Original Type in is in HOCKEY.BAS (with a couple of small bug-fixes). I ported it to ASM as a learning experience as I never could get my head around anything other than BASIC back in the 1980s, and Space Hockey was the first ever type-in from Amstrad Action that I typed in.
Note that the Controls have changed compared to the original Type-In.
Player 1 (Red) - Joystick to move, Fire to return to Goal Line (or Cursor Keys/Z in an Emulator) Player 2 (Yellow) - QAOP tro move, Spare to return to Goal Line
Q to quit on Title Screen/Game Over screen
Game is fully playable and almost identical to the original type-in although it runs faster than the BASIC version.
Compiled using the excellent RASM assembler on Linux with
./rasm/rasm_linux64 -eo ./main.asm
To run it in an Emulator, such as Caprice that supports injecting directly use something like:
../caprice32/cap32 -a "MEMORY &7fff" -i ./hockey.bin -o 0x8000
By default RASM will produce a BIN file, but by changing a setting in main.asm a CDT or DSK file will be generated that will work with most emulators and real CPCs (just remember to do MEMORY &7FFF if loading from BASIC).
Standard Firmware Calls are used so should be compatible with all models of CPC.
Please note that the code will need a few adjustments to work with WINAPE's inbuilt compiler.
Change Log:
v1.0.1 (04/07/2023):
- Added Diagonal Ball Movement
- Fixed a bug with Player 2 not being able to move to the very top of the Playing Area
- Added Game Over Sound Effect
v1.0.0 (01/07/2023):
- Initial Release