Spectrum Computing

Is the screenshot from the Speccy version? Looks rather washed out

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...

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 ...

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...

stupidget wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:16 pm

That game was featured (with the loading screen) merely two weeks ago ...

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:51 am

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

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 ...

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?

Maybe you can go (edit: could have gone) to that park and do a quantum leap yourself

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'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...

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!

Timmy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:04 pm I'd definitely give you -50 quid for it.

Mate, that is quite unreasonable. You should at least add -5 packets of Rolo, or, seeing as you are Dutch, -5 stroopwaffels, mmkay?

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Not an introduction, but a warm welcome to @Ladderman, the master of Speccy maps who I've seen as the newest member.

Oh hi Mark
Yes, we had discussed this Video in a thread in 2022 after Mark had linked to something unrelated on his Twitter
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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...

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 ...?

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...

Nice MSX screenshot of Starquake

5 mins: Renegade 3 Already too much. 15 mins: Jetpac I wonder if I can find that trailer? Oops, wrong game, sod it ... 60 mins: Where Time Stood Still That RNGesus better don't send those pig-like dinosaurs at me near the end again, resulting in yet another run where I fail to finish it with all 4 ...