Ancient Fighters for ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum
Game controls in browser
Show Controller & SystemClick on the play ZX Spectrum game now button first to load the game,
with the stop / start button you can pause the emulation.
The game is controlled using the keyboard or joystick, just like on an old computer.
Ancient Fighters
Online version of Ancient Fighters for ZX Spectrum. Ancient Fighters is a grid-based dungeon crawler released in 1994 by the Slovak label Extra Vision for the ZX Spectrum, followed shortly after by a SAM Coupe conversion. Seen from a first-person view, the player works through the catacombs beneath ancient Rome while switching between three warriors, each with his own map, his own weapon and his own third of a secret scroll to recover. Fights revolve around blocking and picking the side of each blow, while hidden levers and breakable false walls gate the way forward. There is no character progression or inventory to speak of, which leaves the AY soundtrack by QJETA as the game's strongest suit.
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Online emulated version of Ancient Fighters was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum an 8-bit personal
home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, it was launched as
the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black and white display of its predecessor, the ZX81.
The Spectrum was released as eight different models, ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and
built in floppy disk drive in 1987.
The Spectrum is based on a Zilog Z80 A CPU running at 3.5 MHz (or NEC D780C-1 clone). The original model has 16 KB (16×1024 bytes) of ROM and either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM.
Hardware design was by Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research, and the outward appearance was designed by Sinclair's industrial designer Rick Dickinson.
Video output is through an RF modulator and was designed for use with contemporary television sets, for a simple colour graphic display.
Text can be displayed using 32×24 characters from the ZX Spectrum character set or from a set provided within an application,
from a palette of 15 shades: seven colours at two levels of brightness each, plus black. The image resolution is 256×192 with the same colour limitations.