Altair for ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC

In 2013, Ivanzx, on his blog 'El rincón del Spectrum', started a contest to port any game from a spanish arcade machine to the ZX Spectrum. I decided to port Altair, a game from 1981 by the spanish company CIDELSA, which is a shoot 'em up with some interesting gameplay. It was finally the winner of the contest.

I released the game under the pseudonym Inmensa Bola de Manteca. When I was I child in Spain, as a joke, my friends used to say that the initials of the computer company IBM meant Inmensa Bola de Manteca (Immense Ball of Butter).

The game was programmed completely in Z80 assembly.

Later, I ported it to the Amstrad CPC.

The game is released as free software. You can download the most recent source code here: altair_src.tar.gz or browse the source repository at https://github.com/jorgicor/altair. Check the latest changes: ChangeLog (2019-01-31).

Here you can find the tape and disk images for ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC emulators (updated on 2019-01-31):

• ZX Spectrum
  • Manual: altair_zx.pdf (Español / English)
  • Spectrum 48K/+ (Beeper sound)
    • altair_zx48_es.tap (Español)
    • altair_zx48_en.tap (English)
  • Spectrum 128K/+2/+3 (AY sound)
    • altair_zx128_es.tap (Español)
    • altair_zx128_en.tap (English)

• Amstrad CPC
  • Manual: altair_cpc.pdf (Español / English)
  • altair_cpc_es.dsk (Español)
  • altair_cpc_en.dsk (English)

The original (but old) SDK release for Windows only is still available here: altair_sdk.zip. This is not updated anymore.

Some screenshots:

Spectrum

Amstrad