Altair (ZX, CPC)

Intro 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...