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Yeah, that's really odd. Although the .bas file when raw from github works fine for me... github and BASin not getting along for some reason? Anyway, https://raw.githubusercontent.... seems to work.

As for the snapshot, I have no idea what's occurring there. I just saved the .z80 from BASin and it seems fine here. Unless github is breaking binary files now too :/ 

Here's a .sna directly from Fuse. http://www.int13h.com/download...

The .sna file works fine. Level generation isn't bad. But the moment I'm next to a monster, I have to mash the direction keys a whole lot before landing a single hit, and then it doesn't seem to do much. It would be more responsive if it was turn-based, in my opinion.

It is turn based. There's a little indicator in the bottom right of the screen that rotates to show the machine is "thinking". The main loop waits on a key input before progressing. This should be handled by the pause 0 at line 530.  Mashing the keys probably wouldn't result in a good experience.

For me the issue is with the amount of entities that can be on a level and the amount of time it takes to process their moves. With a packed level it can be between 20 to 30 seconds between turns.

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Oh, huh. I misunderstood then. As for processing moves, that also takes the most time in Escape From Cnossus. But because it's written in (compiled) ZXBasic, it's just noticeably slow, not unplayably slow. :P