
The ZX Spectrum game Quadrax was first published by Slovak company UltraSoft
in 1994. Two years later, Quadrax authors David Durcak and Marian Ferko founded
the game development studio Cauldron and released a PC conversion of the game
which eventually became the most successful logical game in Slovakia and the
Czech Republic. Recently, both authors have decided to turn this game into
freeware.

The PC version of Quadrax is now freely available online at:
http://www.cauldron.sk/files/quadrax.zip

The original ZX Spectrum game featured a custom loader with copy protection
scheme made by Busy Soft (Slavomir Labsky) and was already preserved in TZX
format. As I happen to work for Cauldron and I also know Busy Soft personally,
I felt competent enough to release this semi-official TAP version which uses
standard BASIC loader and contains no copy protection. This version resembles
the original look and feel with only minor changes to original code.

The game uses Slovak language so I translated the most important messages:

Slovak                                 English

1) Start hry                           1) Start game
2) Heslo                               2) Password
3) Pocet hracov: 1/2                   3) Number of players: 1/2
4) Ovladanie 1. hraca                  4) Player 1 controls
5) Ovladanie 2. hraca                  5) Player 2 controls

Heslo nasledujucej miestnosti je:      Password for the next level is:
Stlac ENTER                            Press ENTER

Zadaj heslo                            Enter password
Zle zadane heslo                       Wrong password
Heslo je spravne                       Password OK

1) Kempston + Enter                    1) Kempston + Enter
2) Definovanie klaves                  2) Define keys
3) Hlavne menu                         3) Main menu

Aktivacia                              Activation
Dole                                   Down
Hore                                   Up
Doprava                                Right
Dolava                                 Left
Prepinac                               Switch (player)

Pressing BREAK during a game displays following menu:

Pokracovat                             Continue
Restart levelu                         Restart level
Koniec                                 Exit

I hope ZX Spectrum and emulation enthusiasts will enjoy this release.
TZX version of the original tape is also included.

baze



It seems fatal1ty who did the AY Remix translated the scrolly text as follows:

 Already long time ago round legends that Temple Of Sun came out. Vanishing mysterious tabernacle. Thousands years legends spun its history. Already egyptians reverenced it for its ancient origin. A lot of conquerors wanted to destroy it, raze to the ground and take its treasures. No persian, greece, turkish conqueror cannot find it and plunder. Generations lived and died with aim to find it. And it comming out, enticed followers of mystics into its entrails, they come and never returned. The Sun protected its walls and desert around it sucks life from every conqueror, because into that region can come only people, which do not attach great weight to their life. But reward aspire to it. Yes, its height is appropriate to danger. And who can stand fate to face to gods in the heighest hall, he can think himself for real lucky. Only brave man with wisdom and deliberation can succesfully ends his journey. And it come out again. Before your eyes. Maybe you'll be which take the top. Maybe...

I re-edited and further refined this to :

 A long time ago, around the time the Temple of Sun came out, were legends of a mysterious vanishing tabernacle filled with treasure. It's history spanned thousands of years, with the Egyptians referencing it for its ancient origins. Many wished to destroy it, raze it to the ground and plunder its treasures, rumoured to be plentiful, but the Persians, Greek and Turkish conquerors failed to find it. Generations lived and died trying. And those who did find it never returned. The Sun protected its walls and treasures, and the surrounding desert sucked the life out of all conquerors, who would come and never return. It is foretold that only those with a pure heart and soul can safely enter, that Only those who can stand face to face with the gods in the highest hall, indeed Only those brave, lucky men with wisdom and determination can make it out alive. You must acknowlege and face the danger, battle the odds, reach for the stars and with luck you could be the first to return... Maybe...

And I also changed the text at following addresses :

36222  YOU ARE DIED  to  YOU ARE DEAD
36500  CODE IS FALSE to CODE IS WRONG

Then I encoded to a 48/128 Nugget Loader 8 Loader (loading in 128 mode gives option of Fatality's AY Remix)

- Nugget Oct 2018