This is looking very interesting!
How do you program games for the Spectrum? Just using BASIC or some modern crossdev tools?
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Hi iLKke and thank you for your question.
In the past I used dedicated tools, especially AGD, to provide the basis for my games, but in the last few years I discovered ZX BASIC and used it to make Italia 1944, Ad Lunam and Ad Lunam Plus. Other parts of my games are written in Z80 Assembly from the beginning.
ZX BASIC is a programming language available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. It is developed by Jose Rodriguez and enhances the traditional Sinclair BASIC with great features such as new commands and functions and a much more open structure. Programs written in ZX BASIC must then be compiled to machine code with a dedicated command-line utility. Other parts are written in straight Z80 Assembly.
If you wish to know more about it you should visit this website: https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs
I also interviewed Jose for my 2021 Annual, you can freely download it from: https://www.alessandrogrussu.it/annuario.html