“Black Raven” for ZX Spectrum, distributed on 3.25” floppies. It only worked on a very specific model of it (Scorpion), which had a whooping 256kb of RAM and 7 Mhz CPU, and for some reason only on my dad’s friend’s one and not mine, so we ended up swapping our machines.
It was a high-fidelity Warcraft 1/2-like RTS that fit into the resources unimaginable by today’s standards.
It was art that’s completely and utterly lost to the modern times of bloated frameworks and gibibytes of resources that somehow still become obsolete within a few years. And if it wasn’t for this game in my adolescence, I’d probably be much less excited about learning computers and choosing them for career path.
And btw if you’re interested to check it out, the website of its genius (sole!) developer with a few other equally impressive feats is still up:
It was a high-fidelity Warcraft 1/2-like RTS that fit into the resources unimaginable by today’s standards.
It was art that’s completely and utterly lost to the modern times of bloated frameworks and gibibytes of resources that somehow still become obsolete within a few years. And if it wasn’t for this game in my adolescence, I’d probably be much less excited about learning computers and choosing them for career path.
And btw if you’re interested to check it out, the website of its genius (sole!) developer with a few other equally impressive feats is still up:
http://copperfeetgames.com/zx.html