Someone sure has cranked up the saturation a bit for those C64 screenshots
(Disclaimer: Yes, I know about Colodore/Pepto etc.)
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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Mastertronic Archive Site
- Replies: 4
- Views: 188
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7890
- Views: 238253
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: 6
- Views: 328
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: 4
- Views: 164
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: 313
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: 7890
- Views: 238253
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1235
- Views: 201443
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: 945
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: 922
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: 365
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: 48115
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: 48115
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: 1235
- Views: 201443
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!
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:15 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Super rare old Spectrum game discovered!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 826
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Super rare old Spectrum game discovered!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 826
Re: Super rare old Spectrum game discovered!
The young padawan (in regards to correct Speccy gfx) needs to know that you can't have bright 1 and bright 0 in the same 8x1 pixel row, or in the same 8x8 pixels attribute cell under "normal" circumstances (=not using any sort of multicolour routine/engine). In any case, Paper and Ink will...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1235
- Views: 201443
Re: Spectrum memes
You think that's bad? I paid for a 'subterranean adventure of a lifetime'. (Snip!- Ed.) I could go on, I really could, but thankfully I got out of there, but I advise nobody to repeat what I did. I don't think anyone here would enjoy it. I don't see you complaining about all the valuable minerals y...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1235
- Views: 201443
Re: Spectrum memes
https://i.imgflip.com/8hg0ku.jpg You're probably gettign no likes because there is a lack of context. The only reason I "get" that picture now is that someone randomly posted a YouTube video of some bloke talking of that Glasgow Willy Wonka debacle on a Discord server I'm on. Since it's s...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The 52 games with awards from all three major ZX Spectrum magazines
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2686
Re: The 52 games with awards from all three major ZX Spectrum magazines
I was a bit surprised not to see Tetris on the list, given the impact it had on video gaming and it's suitability to the graphical limitations of the Spectrum. But sure enough, Crash only deemed it worthy of 77%. Hard to believe it's not worthy, given some of the other games on the list. The major ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The 20 games with a <= 10% rating from all three major ZX Spectrum magazines
- Replies: 16
- Views: 486
Re: The 20 games with a <= 10% rating from all three major ZX Spectrum magazines
Am I misunderstanding your thread title? You list games that scored way more than 10% from one or two of the magazines, as confirmed by the averages you mention, yet the thread is called "<= 10% from all three magazines"? To me "from all three" means "The game received a rat...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:09 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Introduce yourself!
- Replies: 672
- Views: 182166
Re: Introduce yourself!
Not an introduction, but a warm welcome to @Ladderman, the master of Speccy maps who I've seen as the newest member.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess what Xeno, Double Take, Nightmare Rally, Basket Master, Renegade and Trap have in common
- Replies: 13
- Views: 435
Re: Guess what Xeno, Double Take, Nightmare Rally, Basket Master, Renegade and Trap have in common
Oh hi Mark
Yes, we had discussed this Video in a thread in 2022 after Mark had linked to something unrelated on his Twitter
viewtopic.php?p=84260&hilit=xeno#p84260
Yes, we had discussed this Video in a thread in 2022 after Mark had linked to something unrelated on his Twitter
viewtopic.php?p=84260&hilit=xeno#p84260
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:24 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess what Xeno, Double Take, Nightmare Rally, Basket Master, Renegade and Trap have in common
- Replies: 13
- Views: 435
Re: Guess what Xeno, Double Take, Nightmare Rally, Basket Master, Renegade and Trap have in common
Hard to say what formats these game cases are but I don't think they are 5.25" disks. They are clearly not the smaller "single tape" ones, but the "double tape" ones that Ocean (and apparently many other companies) used for a lot of their games around 1987 or so. They are 14...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess what Xeno, Double Take, Nightmare Rally, Basket Master, Renegade and Trap have in common
- Replies: 13
- Views: 435
Re: Guess what Xeno, Double Take, Nightmare Rally, Basket Master, Renegade and Trap have in common
No mention of Star Wars, World War 1, The Tube, Black Lamp, Romulus, Dark Empire, Legions of Death, Lands Of Havoc, Legend of the Sword ...?
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: Iconic Character Sprites
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4049
Re: Iconic Character Sprites
This is quite wonderful, hitm4n. Not only to see these beloved sprites arranged together so thoughtfully, but for them to have a real, physical presence. I wonder how wide it is in total? The piece is so impressive, it feels like it should be a permanent fixture of some British computing museum. Pe...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:13 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Unnecessary inclusions in games
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1907
Re: Unnecessary inclusions in games
Nice MSX screenshot of Starquake