Spectrum Computing

WallyX wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 4:42 pm Must be Techno Cop

Indeed it must.

Which brings us to:

Pobulous wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 1:10 pm No, but it was the same year.

That narrows it down to the even more obscure than Tuareg (at least I've never heard of it before) Murray Mouse Supercop.

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 11:51 am In case anyone wasn't aware, Monty On The Run was covered on the Spectrum long ago in a demo by the brilliant Frantisek Fuka, it can be heard here.

Which František Fuka improved on again when converting to the SAM.

bluespikey wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 9:04 am Wow, I only know a handful of Toposoft games from other publishers. But they sure made pretty loading screens for 1988. The COLISEUM and SURVIVOR screens are mint.

And Coliseum was the link to the previous Super Trux screen which contained a colosseum.

Pyramex has covered quite a few of Rob Hubbard’s masterpieces on the SAM Coupé’s considerably less blasphemous SAA1099

Hint: it is not Prince of Persia.

Reading through all Format issues could provide more insight. SD Software was advertising in pretty much every issue.

Of we go again then, while looking for the previous screen I ran into some really nice loading screens of rather obscure games. They all have rather brilliant artwork and abysmal review scores...

Super Trux!

Although I'm not seeing that image on the loading screen, and with distribution denied its a bit tricky to check

Alan's original message is here , but this reads like a spam mail to me? What the heck is a "Water Foundry Manufacturer"? Google has exactly three hits on this on the entire web. Update: someone seems to have actually mistyped that, it seems to be a Wafer Foundry Manufacturer - more on htt...

worcestersource wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:08 pm Defenders of the Earth?

Well done!

Prophyt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:33 am Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles?

Edit: Nope, the Technodrome had tank treads, not legs

Nope indeed.

Vampyre wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:16 amSidewize?

Nope, would have been cool though.

stupidget wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:51 amArc of Yesod

Nope.

SteveSmith wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:08 am Forgotten Worlds?

Nope.

Easy one this time:

Jackal! https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... rum/Jackal

Evil Genius wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:57 pm You're gonna have to explain this one. Shaker style kitchen?

A blender can be used to create a milkshake, so why not call it a shaker?

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:01 pm Rick Dangerous

Spoiler

Rick Dangerous

Make a chip

I went into a deeper-dive about the machine and was gobsmacked to find out that the compatibility was through an emulator and not native to the machine. It is not an emulator in today’s sense. It is running native Z80 code on a real Z80, screen mode 1 is identical to the Speccy screen layout, port ...

GreenCard wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:00 pmSim City?

Indeed it is.

Tough crowd...

How about a live attribute version of a portion of the tiles? This portion could also move and sway around 'magnifying' different areas inducing sea sickness?

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:13 am EDIT: Your link just takes me to an empty page though

It was trying to get to viewtopic.php?t=11092

Between The Stars is a ZX81 program, but the screens show flashing green. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/41500/ZX81/Between_the_Stars It was a type in for the ZX81 which was typed in on a Spectrum and "enhanced" :-) The Spectrum TZX is attached to that entry, it also contains typos...

blucey wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:43 pm Yep!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Um, yep...