- The Z80 computer of Sir Clive Sinclair is very old... But the success was so big that many games were created on it since 1980. This Hexxagon, édited by Rok Software, is dated from 1994.
- It is russian, his author is called Dick Alex (music of Oleg Romanovitch). To play, you have, at first, to download the game from the site of the Z80 games (letter H for Hexxagon). I have searched an Ataxx game, I did'nt find, perhaps under a strange name...
- The WOS site, dedicated to the Spectrum (successor of Z80 and Z81), also contains an emulators page to play without having a Sinclair computer. For Windows, there is the simple and good ZX-32 emulator of Vaggelis Kapartzianis. So you may play a game having this look :
- To have this screen, you first have to open the file Hexxagon.z80 with the emulator. After some introduction pages (they must be accelerated by typing the blank key), you have this screen :
- You now have to use the direction keys to move the cursor and the "Inser" key to click. You will see that it is a very rich game, with multiple configurations as these :
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This little game is great
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- The pieces move is classical. There are no blocks, but the multiple board configurations are similar. There are levels, with saved games (if lost, you return at level 0...). The challenger is a greenish who it not sympathetical...
