Spectrum Computing

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:33 am Thanks for getting involved!

np. I should've known you'd already be on top of it

There’s a handful of games originally from outside the UK that might need a little thought about the category they go into. Eg. Dustin was originally released in Spain as a Spanish-language game; the only English-language release it got was on a YS cover tape. So it’s technically a re-release of a g...

There was a 34-year gap between Saboteur II (1987) and Saboteur: Deep Cover (2021).

marenja wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:53 pm Protagonist transformations:
Transformers (you play with a robot or a car)

Transformers also has you changing character during play.

In Xor you need to swap between two different characters.

You swap between different droids in Deactivators.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4537/ZX-Spectrum/Skateboard The game's name is currently "Skateboard", with "Skateboard Construction System" being an "also known as" name. However the cover art, instructions, game loading screen and the game itself all call it &qu...

TakuikaNinja wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:10 am Uh, the link is telling me that the file is gone...

Ah that's annoying! Okay, let's try this instead:

https://easyupload.io/mmt5u7

And if all else fails I'll see if I can put it up on youtube or something at the weekend.

Not a video but I've done a quick rzx recording:

https://file.io/Iz17w3JDjDTD

You can see the end screen of Gyron Atrium in ~30 seconds if you exploit a bug : Start the game and move the gun sight up about half way up the tower just in front of you. Take your finger off the fire button and move forward at full speed. When you crash into the wall you will lose some of your shi...

On that subject, the authors/contributors section could do with some attention. The game includes the following credits: Program by S.Hollingworth,M.Incley,P.Harrap. Graphics by N.Adamson. The manual credits: Game Design: Peter Harrap, Neil Adamson, Tony Kavanagh Programming: Peter Harrap, Shaun Hol...

Oops yes good shout! I had working links then somehow pasted in non-working ones!

I wrote the author on YouTube (where he had only 2 subscribers), but he didn't respond. It seems the world record holding program is lost forever. It was not archived anywhere. I've managed to track down this page: http://borialabs.free.nf/chesskelet/ The snapshots page is broken but the snapshots ...

p13z wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 9:33 pm Which pulled off some kind of official licence of the movie soundtrack trick.

See also CRL’s Blade Runner, “a video game interpretation of the film score by Vangelis”.

I was just wondering why there is no Chain Reaction on the list. Itis an official sequel to Critical Mass, but the game is most interesting because the 128k version has an "unplanned" easter egg. Due to a bug in the game, it’s not possible to hear the beautiful Jean-Michel Jarre tune, ada...

UnrealSpeccy has a really nice debugger

http://dlcorp.nedopc.com/viewforum.php?f=27

Dead cat 'Selwyn' was the 'beloved pet' which inspired the game Paws . The comment "Gremlin thought the game was inspired by the idea of acquiring the rights to the musical Cats , but let it pass" is probably closer to the mark given the pre-release reviews... https://i.ibb.co/1b8rmTT/ima...

Rigel’s Effing Revenge.

I’ve also got some nostalgia of Son of Blagger, there used to be a small independent computer game shop near where I lived and the owner gave me a copy of Son of Blagger for free because someone had ripped out the colour code protection that was printed on the back. I never did manage to get the co...

Don Priestley gets a slagging off for writing "three pages of drivel emanating from his 'seminar' on the game [ Minder by DK'Tronics ]". It states that TV spinoffs are inspiring programmers to develop new forms of Artificial Intelligence. "Priestley says he's not sure what AI is, but...

That would be my guess also.

I stumbled across this Russian blog post recently about patching Fred to run a little quicker:

https://habr.com/ru/articles/721386/

Source plus patched SNA and TAP files can be downloaded at https://github.com/kmatveev/zx-fred-reveng

Ahh I started looking at some of the missing files but never got round to raising a PR :roll: Looks like you've got all the ones I did anyway, although I used the TZX of Total Eclipse: The Sphinx Jinx instead of the TAP so I don't know if it's still useful? https://worldofspectrum.net/pub/sinclair/c...

I think there was a big discussion once about Knight Lore being written before Sabre Wulf (and Alien 8 half finished) and that the general consensus was that it was some Stamper brothers bullsh*t to add to the Ultimate mystique. IIRC (and I'm very hazy on this) something about key control layout an...

You can use a tool like tzxmerge or similar to combine them into one file, eg:

A quick contribution from me, the existing t2s file for Elite only covers one side of the tape, these create snapshots of both sides (which differ in the lineup of ships): http://www.tzxvault.org/Spectrum/TZX/Elite-48k.zip elite-48k-side-a.z80 --sim-load --tape-name "Elite - 48k - Side A.tzx&qu...

Can anyone confirm the existence of a disk release of Gryzor? It's something I've yet to get concrete information about. Several sites list a price point for a disk release, and there's a DSK file section for ZX Spectrum on planetemu that has a Gryzor from Ocean Software. But I've never seen a phys...