Tiny Jetpac men loose on your desktop.
ZXJetMen is a little retro desktop toy inspired by the bright, chunky, beautifully economical graphics of the ZX Spectrum classic Jetpac.
It drops tiny jetmen onto your desktop, lets treasures tumble in from above, and turns your windows into platforms for a miniature 8-bit scramble. They walk, thrust, fall, chase treasure, and occasionally make a charming mess of the place.
- Jetpac-inspired spacemen and treasure sprites.
- Little jetmen walking, flying, and collecting whatever treasure they bump into.
- A smoke puff when they blast off from a platform.
- A tray/menu-bar icon with controls for adding or removing jetmen.
- A mini mode for native-size sprites, and the regular chunky 2x mode.
- Windows desktop window edges used as platforms.
- Faint built-in platforms on macOS and other systems.
- Installers for people who just want to run it.
This is for anyone who still has affection for single-screen arcade chaos, harsh little pixels, and the ZX Spectrum palette doing far more work than it had any right to.
ZXJetMen is not a game remake. It is more like a tiny desktop toy box: a handful of little space-lads wandering around while you get on with other things.
If you just want to play with it, grab the installer for your platform from the project releases.
Once running, use the tray/menu-bar icon to:
- Add or remove jetmen.
- Toggle mini mode.
- Exit cleanly.
You will need the .NET 9 SDK.
Clone with submodules:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/deanthecoder/ZXJetMen.gitFor an existing checkout:
git submodule update --init --recursiveBuild and run:
dotnet build ZXJetMen.sln
dotnet run --project ZxJetMen.csprojZXJetMen is a fan-made desktop toy and is not affiliated with the original Jetpac or its creators.
Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.