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* Joystick enabled menu and scoreboard controls for GX4000
 
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== Still to do ==
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* Clipping Coily sprite when he leaps off the pyramid
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* Sound effects for different enemies
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* Slow and fast speeds for different enemies?
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* Increasing game pace in later rounds, if the Z80 interrupt system can handle it
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* Next level music
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* Two player option
  
 
== Making Q*bert ==
 
== Making Q*bert ==

Revision as of 15:53, 10 March 2026

Loading screen
Q*bert main menu
Q*bert instructions
Q*bert level screen
Q*bert game
Q*bert high scores

Q*bert - The original game

Q*bert was programmed by Gottlieb in 1982. The arcade game inspired a plethora of ports to many home computers in the early 80s, including several clones for the Amstrad CPC (Er*bert and Englebert). Despite this, there has never been a version for the Amstrad Plus machines that takes advantage of its advanced capabilities. CPSoft hope to release a faithful rendition of the game for the Amstrad Plus platform.

Proposed features

  • Graphically as close as possible to the arcade version as the Amstrad allows
  • Multicoloured hardware sprites
  • All the original game mechanics, levels and sprites to be recreated
  • Hopefully Q*bert's speech to be recreated by synthesis software
  • Redefinable keys
  • Joystick enabled menu and scoreboard controls for GX4000
  • Cartridge version, floppy disc and cassette version

Still to do

  • Clipping Coily sprite when he leaps off the pyramid
  • Sound effects for different enemies
  • Slow and fast speeds for different enemies?
  • Increasing game pace in later rounds, if the Z80 interrupt system can handle it
  • Next level music
  • Two player option

Making Q*bert

Developing Q*bert PDF - How I developed Q*bert from the original arcade game

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