ZX Spectrum · original game · version 1.0

Cryptmorrow ZX

The dungeon explorer of Cryptmorrow for the ZX Spectrum. Sixteen rooms beneath the hill of Morrow, keys and locked doors, skeletons and bats, three seals and the portal of the Moss Gate, with AY music on the 128K.

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The Cryptmorrow title screen on the ZX Spectrum, the name in big grey letters over a stone wall with moss, torches and a red door, with the menu music, sound effects, silent, the controls and press fire. — The title, with music, sound effects or silence, and three kinds of controls

The Amber Hall, a room of red and yellow stone with pillars and red jars, where the explorer strikes a skeleton with his blade while another skeleton and a bat close in; energy, keys, two seals of three and the score on top. — The Amber Hall, with the blade out

The loading screen, a grey stone hall under a great arch with torches, a red door, three purple seals, a skeleton, a bat and the explorer in front. — The loading screen

The victory screen, the word VICTORY in yellow letters over the open gate, with score 010400, seals 3 of 3 and rooms 16 of 16. — Out through the portal

The defeat screen, GAME OVER in red letters over a cyan stone wall with skulls and bones, with score, seals and rooms visited. — Game over

Under the hill of Morrow lies a crypt of sixteen rooms: an atrium of seven and three zones of three. The explorer walks it with a blade: keys open the locked doors, treasures raise the score and potions give back energy, skeletons patrol and bats give chase. With all three seals the portal of the Moss Gate opens, and out through it the game is won. With no energy left, it is lost.

Open the tape in Fuse with fuse --machine 48 --tape cryptmorrow-zx-1.0.tap --auto-load (--machine 128 for the music), or type LOAD "" on any other emulator or on a real Spectrum. It runs on the 48K; on a 128K, or on any Spectrum with an AY chip, it plays its music too.

These screens are real captures of version 1.0, nothing drawn or retouched.

Where it comes from

Written line by line in Cryptmorrow ZX, volume 1 of the ZX Spectrum Game Manual Series:

Chapters 1 to 15 — see the contents.