A ZX Spectrum BASIC game from 1986, recreated in HTML5 by Xavier Carrascosa
Washing Line
A ZX Spectrum BASIC game from 1986, recreated in HTML5
Source code on Github: https://github.com/xcarrascosa/washing-line
The story by Xavier
In early 2025, I came across a scan of an old issue of Sinclair Usermagazine from 1986. Inside, printed in a tiny font across two columns, was the full BASIC listing for a game called Washing Line — a simple but charming arcade game where you play a housewife hanging laundry on a line while a hippo throws mud at you.
I had never built a game before. My programming background was in Inform 7, a natural language system for writing interactive fiction — about as far from game loops and collision detection as you can get. But something about that scanned magazine page made me want to try.
This project is the result.
Play, here
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