The Great Escape (AI turbo edition)

[ervin]

Code & Logic Involvement

Debugging / Optimization only (Human wrote, AI analyzed/fixed)

Assets & Pipeline Involvement

None (Code-only or pure human assets)

Project Notes & Prompts

I was always disappointed with how incredibly slow The Great Escape is compared with the Spectrum version.

Here is a much faster version, optimised with Claude.
Just watching the demo mode is lovely now.

The_Great_Escape_fast.dsk (199.8 KB)

[Anthony_Flack]

This is a huge improvement. It looks about twice as fast, and much easier to look at. Seems like a winner to me.

Now speaking of slow and/or jerky old games, I wonder if somebody could have a go at speeding up H.A.T.E or fixing the janky screen update in Splat?

[Arnaud6128]

Whoo, that’s how it should have been. It was particularly slugish.

[Gryzor]

Οοοh nice one!

[ervin]

Splat! (nicer scrolling edition)

Code & Logic Involvement Debugging / Optimization only (Human wrote, AI analyzed/fixed) Assets & Pipeline Involvement None (Code-only or pure human assets) Project Notes & Prompts Hi everyone. Here is Splat! running with improved scrolling. It’s not perfect, and there is a tiny glitch where the scroll meets the game border, but the scrolling is certainly a lot nicer now. I haven’t had a chance to play it a whole lot, so I don’t know how reliable the code is. Splat_smooth.dsk (191.0 KB)

[ixien]

Good job ! I’m sure a full joypad version playable on GX4000 would be appreciated

[hERMOL]

It would be really interesting to see a CPC conversion of the ZX version of “Where Time Stood Still”—a game that bears a striking resemblance to “The Great Escape.”

[XeNoMoRPH]

@hERMOL

really interesting to see a CPC conversion of the ZX version of “Where Time Stood Still”, a game that bears a striking resemblance to “The Great Escape”.

Indeed, I was always disappointed that I couldn’t play this game on the Amstrad; long live cpcrulez

[Wakeden]

This is amazing! It’s a shame I didn’t see it this way back in the ’80s. It would be fantastic to make the most of all four colours and create something like this, or even better!