Space Fleet is a ZX Spectrum Chaos Inspired W40K Type-in - A discontinued Warhammer 40,000 board game from the early 90s has now been implemented in Sinclair Basic for 2 to 4 players.
Author's notes: "Back in the early 90s I was a member of a “wargames” club, in another town, being something that you had to seek out in those days, particularly in towns like the one I grew up in. I happened to come across a hobby shop on a family holiday in the midlands at the turn of the decade and was fascinated. I didn’t even really understand it all properly being a bit too young but It was all I could think about after that for months until eventually I became a subs paying wargamer after finding a club a short bus ride away from home. There were all sorts of table top role playing games, wargames, and board games in circulation and for a couple of years it was how I spent every Saturday and Thursday evening. I still have a real soft spot for all things TTRPG, their rule books and lore, which I'll happily read like someone else might read a good book.
I got older and became interested in other things and spent more time with my more conventional school friends, but towards the end of that time I remember a board game called Space Fleet that I got for Christmas but never got the chance to play. I had friends interested in computers but had stopped going to “wargames” by that point and had always been slightly embarrassed of my hobby even among my nerdier school friends. I did always think that it would make a good computer game however. It reminded me of Chaos on the ZX Spectrum which I had on a cover-tape and played to death. I still had a ZX Spectrum at this point along side my Master System, and it felt like it would make a great speccy game along the same lines as Chaos. I did dabble with programming back then but this would have been beyond me.
Thirty plus years later and I’ve now given it a go after the resurgence of the speccy thanks to the ZX Spectrum Next, although I've stuck to 48k basic so it will run on any ZX Spectrum. In the style of a ZX Spectrum type-in, written in Sinclair Basic for old times sake. I started off using Boriel Basic, which is great, but the more I got into it the more it felt it would be more fun to create a type-in that could have existed back then. Perhaps even published in a supplement or magazine somewhere. So I have. The restrictiveness of the language and slowness of Sinclair Basic in particular created some fun problems to solve and some frustrations. BBC Basic is a much better and faster period appropriate Basic with named procedures, parameters, and else statements but a bit middle class like the hobby itself, unlike me and my ZX Spectrum, so I've had to eat the GO SUBs and GO TOs as best I can. And actually it is incomplete when compared to the board game but I think it plays well all things considered. There are no critical rolls or collisions, which I have coded around and may revisit in a future version but for now I will call this version 1. If you don't really fancy typing it all in you can download the .tap file here. There's also a github repository which I may develop further, although I definitely feel like I've scratched this particular itch for now."
The game was made by Belmeister in 2024.
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