https://github.com/nzeemin/uknc-saboteur1

Porting Saboteur game from Spectrum to UKNC, WIP 🚧
https://github.com/nzeemin/uknc-saboteur1

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Porting Saboteur game from Spectrum to UKNC, WIP 🚧

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nzeemin/uknc-saboteur1
• Owner: nzeemin
• Created: 2025-05-03T16:01:03.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2026-03-18T14:07:29.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-03-19T04:54:47.421Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: 16bit, game, macro11, pdp11, porting, porting-game, retro, retrocomputing
• Language: Assembly
• Homepage:
• Size: 424 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
# uknc-saboteur1

Porting Saboteur game from ZX Spectrum to UKNC.

### Project Status

Work in Progress

### Screenshots

![](screenshot/gameplay.png) ![](screenshot/auto-gun.png)

### Code Structure

 - `SABOT1.MAC`: system-specific code, PPU code etc.

 - `S1CORE.MAC`: game logic

 - `S1PICT.MAC`: RLE encoded sequence for menu picture

 - `S1FONT.MAC`: font definition

 - `S1INDS.MAC`: RLE encoded sequence for game frame, plus the frame tiles

 - `S1ROOM.MAC`: room structures

 - `S1SPRT.MAC`: sprites as blocks of tiles

 - `S1TILE.MAC`: tiles

### Tools

 - [macro11](https://gitlab.com/Rhialto/macro11) cross-compiler

 - [pclink11](https://github.com/nzeemin/pclink11) cross-linker

 - [UKNCBTL utilities](https://github.com/nzeemin/ukncbtl-utils): `rt11dsk` to work with disk images

Emulators of the machine, to test the result:

 - [UKNCBTL](https://github.com/nzeemin/ukncbtl)

 - [EmuStudio](https://zx-pk.ru/threads/18027-emulyator-uknts-emustudio.html)

### Credits

Original game by Clive Townsend for ZX Spectrum.

### See Also

 - [Saboteur ZX Spectrum disassembly](https://nzeemin.github.io/skoolkit-game-revs/saboteur1-zx/saboteur/)