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- Wed May 15, 2024 10:54 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Wednesday 3 am quiz: Software houses by street view building
- Replies: 23
- Views: 431
Re: Wednesday 3 am quiz: Software houses by street view building
As I wrote in my first post: Since this is a quiz that was posted at 3 am and is made up of 3x3 pictures, I'm adding a "secret" condition with the number 3, but I won't reveal it yet. This secret condition, since this is a "quiz of threes" so to speak, also has a three in it: &qu...
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:11 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Wednesday 3 am quiz: Software houses by street view building
- Replies: 23
- Views: 431
Wednesday 3 am quiz: Software houses by street view building
There's nothing to stop people posting their own quizzes at 3am on a Wednesday morning! That's what he said. A very reasonable suggestion. So here's my Wednesday 3 am quiz then. The picture shows nine Google Street View images of buildings where U.K. software houses that published Speccy games back...
- Mon May 13, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1249
- Views: 210196
- Mon May 13, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1249
- Views: 210196
Re: Spectrum memes
Nice one Sloany, it's a wee bit small though innit? Too late to edit the picture URL now (unless a mod wants to step in) -> https://i.postimg.cc/28DFCLPd/IMG-20240513-084801.jpg It was inspirational though, so let me show you there are far greater horrors ... https://i.postimg.cc/7ZkB0pp7/Speccy-mem...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:45 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Coincidence!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2425
Re: Coincidence!
The Gary Lineker face in that loading screen reminds me more of Neville than of Oz though
Shame they never made a game for OFAH, but if it had been as much "quality" as the AufPet game, probably all for the better.
Shame they never made a game for OFAH, but if it had been as much "quality" as the AufPet game, probably all for the better.
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
- Replies: 41
- Views: 580
Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
Now that this thing is "done and dusted", may I ask one question ... is there a good reason why this particular quiz always starts at such an early hour on a Friday? I already assume the majority of users on the SC forums have some kind of IT job (read: sitting in front of a screen during ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Blasphemy! Your favourite C64 SID chiptunes...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1476
Re: Blasphemy! Your favourite C64 SID chiptunes...
What has been posted so far are mostly game tunes. But the C64 also plays host to tons of great non-game tunes by talented composers. Here's a bunch of faves of mine ... but some of these composers have done so many more tunes and I don't want to spam the thread with a dozen or more videos :) https:...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Who did the graphics for Denton Designs?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 287
Re: Who did the graphics for Denton Designs?
Karen Davies is also mentioned here and there, and in fact more game titles are attributed to her than Ally Noble in the ZXDB.
Maybe the interview with them in Crash issue 17 also sheds some light on it, in case you have not seen it before:
https://www.crashonline.org.uk/17/denton.htm
Maybe the interview with them in Crash issue 17 also sheds some light on it, in case you have not seen it before:
https://www.crashonline.org.uk/17/denton.htm
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:32 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Coincidence!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2425
Re: Coincidence!
You mean Travel with Pacman? It's there . Nope, I meant the one firelord posted. But the reason I didn't find it is because I did not search for the name "10D Bathroom Design" he posted, but instead searched for "Firelord" (as it was still visible in the loading screen) and only...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Coincidence!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2425
Re: Coincidence!
You can mention them here, but it's better to avoid adding them to the list in ZXDB. Otherwise it would be an incentive for CSSCGC authors to do it on purpose all the time, just to get into this list... Interesting. I was actually searching for the game he posted on the SC search, and when I didn't...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Coincidence!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2425
Re: Coincidence!
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/s/scr/StainlessSteel.scr&border=0 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=zxdb/sinclair/entries/0035394/0035394-load-1.scr&border=0 A lot of those screens hint at a lack of graphical talent of some of th...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Coincidence!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2425
Re: Coincidence!
Is the Nick Carter a game about the Backstreet Boys?
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Mastertronic Archive Site
- Replies: 17
- Views: 985
Re: Mastertronic Archive Site
Someone sure has cranked up the saturation a bit for those C64 screenshots
(Disclaimer: Yes, I know about Colodore/Pepto etc.)
(Disclaimer: Yes, I know about Colodore/Pepto etc.)
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8026
- Views: 254548
Re: Guess the screen$
Is the screenshot from the Speccy version? Looks rather washed out
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: A couple of podcasts you may have missed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 777
Re: A couple of podcasts you may have missed
I'm going to bump this as I've listened to the first part a few days ago, and just finished the second part which was released on February 29th, so a week after the last post. Both parts were highly entertaining, definitely recommended. Here's a link to part 2 (now let's see if that embeds the spoti...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Any CPC Wiki forum users?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 438
Re: Any CPC Wiki forum users?
akeley The CPC forum is probably stealthily monitoring your general internet usage and what you are writing, and if you are praising the Speccy too much then you'll be considered a Speccy scumbag (owner of the stupid colour-clashing calculator that scarred the CPC with its very existence as it led ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Article about Dinamic in the Spanish press
- Replies: 4
- Views: 482
Re: Article about Dinamic in the Spanish press
Was trying to read this via Google Translate, but sadly the "Cookies" bullsh*t makes the translated website unreadable and defaults back to Spanish after you pick one option. Though even without a translation, I know the caption "Los cuatro hermanos Ruiz en Londres en 1988" under...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8026
- Views: 254548
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1249
- Views: 210196
Re: Spectrum memes
I can't help thinking these kind of memes would feel much more accurate if they showed a balding guy 40+ and his equally old wife
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Lara Croft voted most iconic character ever
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1196
Re: Lara Croft voted most iconic character ever
How are Donkey Kong and Miner Willy not on the list at all? That article said the poll was engaged with by over 4,000 players from all over the world. Well, Miner Willy certainly wasn't known all over the world and especially isn't to an audience most likely spanning multiple generations where you ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:21 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Impossible games...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1411
Re: Impossible games...
I'm wondering what the deal is with the colours in that Dynamite Dan video. Specifically bright blue and red are ever so slightly off from what they normally look, reminding me a little bit of MSX colours here. Is there a Speccy emulator known for having these colours as default?
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:15 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 792
Re: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
Maybe you can go (edit: could have gone) to that park and do a quantum leap yourself
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Out of context Spectrum games
- Replies: 334
- Views: 50220
Re: Out of context Spectrum games
It's a real, working ZX81 but with the insides made of chocolate. And considering inflation over the 40+ years, it's actually cheaper than the one in 1981.
It also comes with a free copy of The Brontë Family Adventure, so don't delay, order today
It also comes with a free copy of The Brontë Family Adventure, so don't delay, order today
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Out of context Spectrum games
- Replies: 334
- Views: 50220
Re: Out of context Spectrum games
It's not quite on topic, but this is very definitely an out of context Sinclair. I was wandering the streets of Haworth today, and saw this rather incongruous zeddy in the window of a chocolate shop! Had a crack with the owner who cut his teeth on it as a youngster, and who recognised me as a fello...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:15 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1249
- Views: 210196
Re: Spectrum memes
What's all this talk of yellow or orange ... will no one think of the bright green on non-bright white? It's even brighter than the yellow. Such Speccy representation will not stand!