Spectrum Computing

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:31 am Yeah, basically a rebrand of Crystal Computing really.

SB says WTF!

I caught up with Snouty (Phil South), Teresa and Rich Pelley for a feature on Eurogamer on YS a couple years ago.
Couldn't track down those lovebirds Rachael and Gwyn though...

yes, that surprised me too! I'm glad it has gone down well

Those books gave me my start in writing so blame Paul Johns!
I saw an advert in Retro Gamer offering 50p per review and by the time the 5th book came out I was writing mini interview led features as well.
I'm amazed they are that sought after.

Technically Henry's Hoard was a re-release

I had the pleasure of co-writing this 40th Anniversary Special this month.
It's a 14-page celebration of the Speccy and the final two pages are interviews with famous or key Speccy people.
It includes someone notable from this very forum!

Issue 62 of Retro Gamer had a making of on Dynamite Dan 1 and 2. Lots of info there.

I´m trying find the title of a game if anyone can help. It was a two dimensional game with the main character floating around and you had to squeeze through various gaps without touching the walls or edges. It may have been based underwater but cant remember. I remember it was a bit additive playin...

Daveysloan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:32 pm

Unfortunately, dropping Monty Python and the Holy Grail references into the article wasn't right for my idiom.

I've just interviewed Stephen Cargill about Sir Lancelot for Retro Gamer. The graphics were created by Andrew Arnold, aka Arnie. As far as Stephen is aware, he didn't work on any other games. Interestingly, Stephen mentioned a completed game he wrote prior to Sir Lancelot called Attack Of The Mutant...

There was a great feature on these a few weeks ago on the Guardian by Will Freeman:-

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/ ... x-spectrum

My favourite footie management game on the Speccy is Tracksuit Manager, closely followed by The Double

It's interesting the fact its a C64 conversion as the machines had different strengths so a bespoke version could have been good, as mr kung fu proves.

Anyhow, I'm speaking to David again this afternoon about another of his games, Tapper, which is somewhat better!

Cheers
Graeme

Isn't Minesweeper a clone of mined out

Here's the latest Speccy-related feature on Wizwords:-

http://www.wizwords.net/bored-of-the-ri ... us-mcneill

Van_Dammesque wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:21 am The article says that the music work was loaned out I wonder if it *had* to be included no matter what?

I did make that remark at the end of the article - perhaps that was the undoing of it all.

Tommo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 8:24 pm In all fairness, the Kung Fu Master port is a lot better than its sort-of sequel Vigilante.

Though, yeah, dropping the music might have been advisable.

Someone on twitter was saying vigilante shows what could have been and I was like erm have you played it on the speccy

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 9:57 pm Nice read.

For me, it was a very disappointing game. The original arcade is a great classic!

Another case of bad conversion is One on One. The C64 version was superb, the Spectrum version was... *sigh*

Thanks Juan!

SteveSmith wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 2:50 pm All credit to him for talking about what is regarded as a poor game. It is a very interesting article, and makes me think there aren't enough interviews with programmers of not-so-good games.

Stay tuned to wizwords

Alessandro wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 5:14 pm Thanks for the interesting read.

I sent a message to the interviewer pointing his attention to the homebrew conversion, Mr Kung Fu.

Thanks Alessandro, I got your message and indeed that is an example of "what could have been"

Cheers
Graeme

Afternoon all,

I interviewed David Anderson a while back about his somewhat disliked conversion of Kung Fu Master.
Here's the feature on Wizwords:-

http://www.wizwords.net/arcade-conversi ... gfu-master

I could ask Mike Richardson?
As a little aside, until I spoke to Mike for the Scuba dive article, I never knew that this was actually a conversion of an Oric original, created by Ron Jeffs who worked at Durell.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter anyway

Here he is: https://www.facebook.com/jon.eggelton I remember once that a load of his designs turned up at Ocean. He had applied for a job and we had a good look through them. They were very good. Thanks Mark, what I meant was he never replied to my messages. Maybe I'll try again when I have a mo.

I've always wanted to write a feature on this, but could never find the winner online. Maybe I'll have another go, especially as I now know someone else who entered a game!