Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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0:00 Opening Title
0:33 Introduction
1:50 Original Game
6:40 Interlude
6:57 Improvements
10:17 Galactic Empire V3
16:17 Losing V3
16:29 Final Thoughts
16:59 End Card


Art and music by ZombiWorkshop!

Today's game is "Galactic Empire" by Mike Rose, from the 1985 Interface Publications book CREATING POLITICAL & MILITARY SIMULATION GAMES ON YOUR MICRO

which you can get in PDF form here:
spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry.php?id=2000100

You can get a version of the game here:
spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry.php?id=28100

For V3, I used Character Set 4 from Char-Bank by Roberto Colombo, originally from the Italian magazine Load'n'Run in 1987

spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry.php?id=26425

Zappo is a nifty machine code sound routine by E French of Lancaster, from ZX Computing in 1984.
spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry.php?id=9007

Milky Way is a gorgeous interrupt driven star scrolling effect by Neil Hopkinson, from Your Sinclair in 1988

spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry.php?id=24166

ZX Block Editor (that I used to edit the .tzx files!) is available here
zx-modules.de/?page_id=2