Quake Engine running on a ZX Spectrum and ZX Spectrum NEXT looks mighty impressive!

Another hot news story has just been sent to us by Saberman, as if you have a ZX Spectrum or a ZX Spectrum NEXT, and want to play something that's very impressive, especially as it can be run on an original 8bit machine, is the latest Alpha of a playable Quake engine that has been created by Alone Coder together with Dragons' Lord: an engine running at an impressive speed even on a standard ZX Spectrum 128k. In light of this news, we have some more details below and a new video from Saberman and ZX-Retro.

ZX Spectrum 128k

ZX Spectrum NEXT

This is a playable Quake engine with moving enemies running at impressive speed on a standard 3,5 MHz ZX Spectrum 128k. The engine also has support for 7 and 14 MHz. You play with W, A, S, D and cursor keys. Tap and Scl files is available in the download. In the video above is the 7 MHz version that has been played on an original ZX machine, as well as the other video running on a ZX Spectrum Next, 28 MHz. If that wasn't enough to surprise you, this engine, even running at 3,5 MHz, totally beats the old Freescape engine that were used in the 80s games.

In this version 0.05 alpha the following has been added:

• - Three weapons visually on the screen with different types of ammo,
• - Shambler model animation,
• - The summoning unit of the shambler is a skeleton,
• - Teleport,
• - Sounding of all gameplay in a unique way on standard AY,
• - Written subsystems responsible for:
• - Ammo generation.
• - Tracking of bullets collision with the floor,
• - Bullet collision with walls,
• - Exclusion of bullets outside the visible zone,
• - Collision of bullets with monsters with damage (white border blinks),
• - Collision of skeletons with a player causing damage (blinks red),
• - Collision of monsters with the player (will bite his ass - will blink red),
• - Generation and animation of particle explosions (including the organization of plumes behind a flying skeleton and a flying rocket).
• Quake Engine using DOOM UI/GUNS

Links :1) Source  2) Download