Spectrum Computing

RIP Thorpe. He seemed to have lived a full life so he's earned a well deserved rest.

I've just discovered all the modern Pacman games (except the emulator one which I was familiar with) on this thread. Fantastic stuff!

When I first loaded up the superb Tau Ceti by Pete Cooke, in late 1989 I believe, I was surprised to see that the BASIC loader was titled "Ian's Baby" and I've always wondered about it ever since. Well I'm glad that the mystery was finally put to rest for me after 3 decades and I hope this...

I must shamefacedly admit I've not played any of the games apart from trying out Mindfighter and Bored Of The Rings (for a few minutes) to check out the hype. If I had to play one game, which one would it be? Something easy to begin with preferably. Must say his games have pretty nice graphics too. ...

Which games give you ability to change protagonist during game except picking up weapons and power ups Protagonist enters some vehicle. select protagonist with different skills before or during the game Here are some more: Mailstrom - You can enter/exit the van. Thundercats - You can enter/exit the...

Is this from the same company that was at the centre of the Vega debacle?

I finished it with snapshots a decade ago. Some of the levels were pure evil!

No, it would not be true to say that DAAD is a Spanish version of the PAW. DAAD was a separate, specially commissioned development system that grew from the PAW, in a similar way to how the PAW itself came from The Quill. DAAD has its own entry in SC. (There *was* a Spanish version of the PAW. But ...

Just a bit of off-topic maybe... Which version seems to have the best graphics? Interestingly, it seems the art was generated by AI according to the credits on the website. Maybe "Art" credit should be updated accordingly? EDIT: Also, the DAAD being referred to here seems to be the. Spani...

Can you please write me a program which has an asterisk in the middle of the screen. If I press one of the Spectrum's cursor keys, then the asterisk moves in that direction. can you add code so that the player cannot move outside the bounds of the screen? there is also a line of dashes that run hor...

Might be worth a few pointers to how you think it is supposed to work, then doubtless someone can put you back on the right lines He had reached out on discord and some suggestions have been put forth to him, in case anyone was wondering about the apparent lack of response from emulation authors. :)

I voted for Saboteur 2. Spent so many hours creeping along dark rooms and corridors and assassinating unsuspecting enemies from the shadows. Oh and "recolouring" the female character on the loading screen. Good times! EDIT: Incidentally, it's amazing that UbiSoft is still around making gam...

Thundercats, Rygar, North Star and Vixen played basically the same with slight variations here and there, but same game mechanics in all four. And I've probably forgotten some more very similar from back in the day. Shut yer mouth! Thundercats was great, awesome even. Northstar and Vixen (the origi...

This is by the way but... When I wrote The Forest in the early 80s (1983 for the second version, for ZX Spectrum) Very cool! Always nice to run into an author of original software from the 80's. How was your development experience back then? Did you make enough money to buy a Ferrari? ;) I notice t...

Even though I voted for Turbo Espirit, I must admit to spending a lot of time playing Sigma 7. It's a weird mashup of pacman and qbert like mechanics (with none of the charm of either) and some bland flying scrolly shoot-em section bolted on to make up a game that has excellent graphics and sound bu...

Gusman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:24 pm About running in the mac, as it's not a signed program you need to remove it from quarantine, this instructions are from another of my projects but apply the same to it if you want to run the IDE: Notes for Linux and MacOS users

Thanks. That did the trick!

Great job! Celeste is such a wonderful game. It can't have been easy porting to the Next! Unfortunately, I don't own a Next so can't actually check it out but I appreciate the effort just the same.

Very nice! Especially loved the graphics and sound - seems to be quite faithful to the original based on the videos I saw online. I'm quite intrigued by the mention of ZX Basic studio. I haven't heard of that before. I checked out the github repo but there are zero details on what the project is abo...

Woodster wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:16 pm Feel free to join our discord where dodgy emulation bugs are often discussed!
https://discord.gg/Ur4JgYCf

Along with other nonsense, so it's all good fun.

Looks spiffy! Love the keyboard and time travel options.I've never heard of the Avalonia framework before, but it seems like a very cool multi platform C# framework. But bugger me, 99 Euros a year? Wow. Makes sense (kinda) if you're a professional .net developer. Anyway, some feedback: * The lack of...

PROSM wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:30 pm It probably could have been faster, with the benefit of hindsight. There were some insightful posts recently in the "Ultimate Filmation Maths" thread, written by @what_the_wasabi and quoted below:

Fascinating! I love such deep dives into game code.

Neil Parsons wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:35 pm Thank you! As 20 programs are quite short in length, I could type them using Spectaculator 8 emulator. Creating TAP/TZX files for everyone of them was also easier.

Why not use BASIN instead though? I would think it a lot more convenient to type in BASIC listings but hey, whatever works!

I wandered down to my local library and I picked up a lot of books at that made me feel that way. The one that was most influential for me was the 1983 Usborne Introduction to Machine Code for Beginners (link provided by publisher) - it had cool robots, good pacing and did a great job at making ass...

Wow, this guy had made a lot of equally good games in many different genres. I'm impressed! I was thinking the same thing. I voted for Decathlon because I played the crap out of it way back. Such a fun game! But the man clearly has an impressive portfolio of varied games. One of the top talents on ...

equinox wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:09 pm10 NEW

A crash is an unexpected behaviour during the normal course of a program. The BASIC command "NEW" however behaves exactly like it should. So I would argue that it's not a crash in the technical sense.