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Hi Folks. Back in 1986/7 I wrote Hoverzone and "sold" it to Talent. I have a copy of the review from QL World but I was rather hoping someone could make a more comprehensive video of the gameplay and upload it to youtube so I can add it to me "memory archive"? The video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxODmzKfuQY is pretty basic. It would be nice to have one showing the bombers and podules and zippers and muties in action! Anyway, good to see people flying the flag for the old QL! Some great memories. regards, Richard. (rgr).

I made that video, it's from the PC based QL game collection

http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/detail ... ion-1-2152

Did you do any more games?

Hi Richard,

Welcome to the forums - it is always great to hear from the old software authors. I actually still sell Hoverzone on behalf of Talent

Is there anything you could add to the QL Wiki -
http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/i ... =Hoverzone

RWAP wrote:Hi Richard,

Welcome to the forums - it is always great to hear from the old software authors. I actually still sell Hoverzone on behalf of Talent

Is there anything you could add to the QL Wiki -
http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/i ... =Hoverzone

Hmm I never heard from Talent again after a down payment of a massive 250 quid! Which paid for the twin floppy drive I needed to finish the development! It was a learn by doing experiment and a lot of fun back then. Anyway, that's by the by. Unfortunately I can't get uQLx working on a 64 bit debian install. So if anyone out there could make a more comprehensive video showing more than just shooting landers and upload it to youtube that would be super!

rileyrg wrote:Hi Folks. Back in 1986/7 I wrote Hoverzone and "sold" it to Talent. I have a copy of the review from QL World but I was rather hoping someone could make a more comprehensive video of the gameplay and upload it to youtube so I can add it to me "memory archive"? The video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxODmzKfuQY is pretty basic. It would be nice to have one showing the bombers and podules and zippers and muties in action! Anyway, good to see people flying the flag for the old QL! Some great memories. regards, Richard. (rgr).

Great Richard!!!

I have it original and I think I have a dump that works on QemuLator

I will let you know: great game!!!

rileyrg wrote:

RWAP wrote:Hi Richard,

Welcome to the forums - it is always great to hear from the old software authors. I actually still sell Hoverzone on behalf of Talent

Is there anything you could add to the QL Wiki -
http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/i ... =Hoverzone

Hmm I never heard from Talent again after a down payment of a massive 250 quid! Which paid for the twin floppy drive I needed to finish the development! It was a learn by doing experiment and a lot of fun back then. Anyway, that's by the by. Unfortunately I can't get uQLx working on a 64 bit debian install. So if anyone out there could make a more comprehensive video showing more than just shooting landers and upload it to youtube that would be super!

Hi RIchard,

I biught Hoverzone from Talent, I thought it was one of the best games on the QL.

Do you still do any programming?

With regards to UQLX, the source code is required to be compiled on the target Linux box, I have never got UQLX compiled correctly since Redhat 9, many years ago.

But QPC2 runs under WINE, SMSQmulator runs under Java. I use both those emulators on a 64bit Ubuntu 16.04 box. These are all free.

QEMulator also runs under Wine on Linux, but too use the best features of the emualtor, a there is a payment required, still a very nice piece of software.

rileyrg wrote: Hmm I never heard from Talent again after a down payment of a massive 250 quid! Which paid for the twin floppy drive I needed to finish the development! It was a learn by doing experiment and a lot of fun back then. Anyway, that's by the by. Unfortunately I can't get uQLx working on a 64 bit debian install. So if anyone out there could make a more comprehensive video showing more than just shooting landers and upload it to youtube that would be super!

Have you tried the Slimlogic uqlx fork? It does work on my 64 bit Linux Mint install. https://github.com/slimlogic/uqlx-fork

cheers, Jan.

janbredenbeek wrote:

rileyrg wrote: Hmm I never heard from Talent again after a down payment of a massive 250 quid! Which paid for the twin floppy drive I needed to finish the development! It was a learn by doing experiment and a lot of fun back then. Anyway, that's by the by. Unfortunately I can't get uQLx working on a 64 bit debian install. So if anyone out there could make a more comprehensive video showing more than just shooting landers and upload it to youtube that would be super!

Have you tried the Slimlogic uqlx fork? It does work on my 64 bit Linux Mint install. https://github.com/slimlogic/uqlx-fork

cheers, Jan.

I'll try that. Cheers.

Outsoft wrote:

rileyrg wrote:Hi Folks. Back in 1986/7 I wrote Hoverzone and "sold" it to Talent. I have a copy of the review from QL World but I was rather hoping someone could make a more comprehensive video of the gameplay and upload it to youtube so I can add it to me "memory archive"? The video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxODmzKfuQY is pretty basic. It would be nice to have one showing the bombers and podules and zippers and muties in action! Anyway, good to see people flying the flag for the old QL! Some great memories. regards, Richard. (rgr).

Great Richard!!!

I have it original and I think I have a dump that works on QemuLator

I will let you know: great game!!!

A dump that runs on qemulator would be great. That runs under wine fine. rileyrg<at>gmail

rileyrg wrote:

janbredenbeek wrote:

rileyrg wrote: Hmm I never heard from Talent again after a down payment of a massive 250 quid! Which paid for the twin floppy drive I needed to finish the development! It was a learn by doing experiment and a lot of fun back then. Anyway, that's by the by. Unfortunately I can't get uQLx working on a 64 bit debian install. So if anyone out there could make a more comprehensive video showing more than just shooting landers and upload it to youtube that would be super!

Have you tried the Slimlogic uqlx fork? It does work on my 64 bit Linux Mint install. https://github.com/slimlogic/uqlx-fork

cheers, Jan.

I'll try that. Cheers.

OK, despite the docs bearing next to relation to the actual code I got i built. Wow. It totally takes control of my desktop... had to log into another console and kill it! xmonad never got a look in. I have an img file from RWAP .. err, how do I run it ... ;