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- Thu May 09, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy no longer available
- Replies: 23
- Views: 676
Re: Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy no longer available
One could always ask to see the assessment of the value of said intellectual property as declared for inheritance tax purposes when it transferred to the widow of the holder, since it's so valuable.
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Why didn't the Spectrum have an FPS?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 678
Re: Why didn't the Spectrum have an FPS?
Catch 23 , The Eidolon . You could say anything like Battlezone was an open-world FPS. The underground sections of Mercenary were probably the closest thing, although there was nothing to shoot at. The limitation was rendering the 3D environment. Aliens was a really good alternative to 90° movement...
- Thu May 09, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy no longer available
- Replies: 23
- Views: 676
Re: Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy no longer available
What's sad about that document is it's written by a paralegal. Not a solicitor. It carries no weight whatsoever. Look it up. A 'paralegal' is a solicitor's secretary. Unless they work for a law firm with actual solicitors behind them, a letter from one means no more than from an angry meddler down y...
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy no longer available
- Replies: 23
- Views: 676
Re: Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy no longer available
In case anyone hasn't figured it out yet, the bit in The Haunting of Waterbelle End where you can take a shovel, dig up a corpse from its grave, and end up with a roll of printer paper granting you the rights to Harry S. Price's back-catalogue... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X-cGCu4azEog1bml5J6z...
- Wed May 08, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy no longer available
- Replies: 23
- Views: 676
Re: Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy no longer available
The 'legal response' is pathetic - it basically admits there's no evidence whatsoever to either support or contradict their statement of the history of the rights, so they're just going to side with whoever paid them. And they're not even a lawyer, just a paralegal.
- Fri May 03, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
- Replies: 41
- Views: 521
Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
How (T.F.) is that algorithm working then? The Boulderdash title panel is mostly blue with a few cyan pixels, yet that thing's rendered it all in cyan. Superkid 's head has all gone black except for one character in white. And yet the title has all gone red. It's not simply using the INK or PAPER fo...
- Fri May 03, 2024 12:51 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
- Replies: 41
- Views: 521
Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
Nope, not a clue. Always too late to these. Thanks, job.
Utterly convinced 16 was Penetrator, but it evidently isn't. It's not even going to be a cockpit view down a tunnel, is it?
Utterly convinced 16 was Penetrator, but it evidently isn't. It's not even going to be a cockpit view down a tunnel, is it?
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: A crap version of...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 622
Re: A crap version of...
I'll call Transmuter crap if you like, but then that's largely because it really is crap! :lol: Mind you, Speccy Nemesis isn't exactly a miracle, so I'll concede that the relative crapness is questionable, but it is still distinctly downwards. At least in Nemesis when you blow up a mini-base, a flee...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Poll: Spectrum Users and their Zodiac Signs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 428
Re: Poll: Spectrum Users and their Zodiac Signs
Dara O'Briain has a brilliant take on this. He points out that, from a scientific and statistical point if view, if you really must take everyone in the world, divide them up into arbitrary groups based entirely on the circumstances of their birth (i.e. nothing they themselves have any control over)...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: New forum game -- Spectrum graphics in the real world?
- Replies: 145
- Views: 7810
Re: New forum game -- Spectrum graphics in the real world?
Err - can you perhaps photoshop one more brick into that image and re-post it?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Article about Dinamic in the Spanish press
- Replies: 4
- Views: 423
Re: Article about Dinamic in the Spanish press
I was amused by the link at the bottom to a piece on "the genesis of Super Mario" - interesting choice of words!!!
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: New forum game -- Spectrum graphics in the real world?
- Replies: 145
- Views: 7810
Re: New forum game -- Spectrum graphics in the real world?
Well this bit of the show is obvious: As for The Adventure Game , clearly not entirely obvious, they're still trying to work it out! Looks like it's RED or PENTAGON this week! :lol: Now that's from an early series, before the vortex grid. You had to get across that token board without setting off t...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:44 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: New forum game -- Spectrum graphics in the real world?
- Replies: 145
- Views: 7810
Re: New forum game -- Spectrum graphics in the real world?
Well this bit of the show is obvious: https://cdn.mobygames.com/screenshots/16006700-puzznic-zx-spectrum-loading-screen.png I added the arcade version of this to my RetroPie setup and was quite taken aback when I gave it a try recently! :shock: If you've ever wondered why the playing area sometimes...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: The insane engineering of the Game Boy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 717
Re: The insane engineering of the Game Boy
A friend of mine built two gigantic wooden ones, with the screens driven by Gamecubes emulating GameBoys, linked together to play Tetris!
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Data prior to the default UDG bank
- Replies: 15
- Views: 405
Re: Data prior to the default UDG bank
The Spectrum ROM puts the stack wherever the system variable RAMTOP points, which indicates the memory that the ROM and the BASIC interpreter is free to use. When you do a CLEAR, you move that pointer down, to tell the ROM to leave the memory above it alone (you can still POKE the memory above that ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Data prior to the default UDG bank
- Replies: 15
- Views: 405
Re: Data prior to the default UDG bank
ADD HL,SP is particularly annoying, as far as I'm concerned, for being the wrong way round! I've never used EX (SP),HL, and I can't imagine where I would, but if you Google it you I found a post I wrote nearly 7 years ago!!! :lol: When used in the combination POP HL // EX (SP),HL it lets you get th...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Data prior to the default UDG bank
- Replies: 15
- Views: 405
Re: Data prior to the default UDG bank
It's best done once at the start and not changed again, unless you're doing something unusual. That all depends on how tidy your code is, and if you RETurn from every CALL!!! :lol: You can get away with a lot of mess in a game with, for example, a jump JP directly to your 'You Died' or finally 'Gam...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: any suggestion for a good portable device that can play zx spectrum games?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 956
Re: any suggestion for a good portable device that can play zx spectrum games?
I agree that using a 3DS with a DS version via the R4 or similar card is suboptimal for the reasons you mention. BUT there is now a native 3DS version with unique features such as border emulation, RZX recording and, most importantly, rollback. The last one alone is IMO worth it. And you don't even...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: BASin - How to load code from assembler?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 329
Re: BASin - How to load code from assembler?
As far as I know, the only way to do it is to have a .TAP file attached as a tape. It doesn't jump out to any sort of special development environment file-handling, it just looks for the next sequential unit in a tape file, like any other emulator would. I haven't tried loading using ROM calls from ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 45
- Views: 995
Re: The best playable demo of a full price game on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
I don't recall playing many demos. I probably did play them, I just don't remember! I'm pretty sure I didn't come across any demo on that list that inspired me to rush out and buy the game though! I don't see R-Type on the list though - was that a C+VG Spectrum/C64 dual tape? I can't remember if I p...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Lara Croft voted most iconic character ever
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1124
Re: Lara Croft voted most iconic character ever
I kind of agree with a lot of that list, from a gaming point of view. Apart from the BG3 crap. And maybe Hitman is a bit fanboy. Then again, why post about this result now; did I miss a post about the poll when it happened? :lol: It's one thing to say it's slanted towards more recent games, and a yo...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:37 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: MAD Cover Artist
- Replies: 4
- Views: 226
Re: MAD Cover Artist
The artwork was good but I didn't like that rather drab spotted background framing; I much preferred full-page images. I guess it's an attempt at brand-recognition marketing. I always associate that style with re-releases; I wouldn't look at repeated designs like that and immediately think 'Ooh, a s...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 251914
Re: Guess the screen$
Jet Set Willy 2, surely?
(If it's right, I'll hand it over to someone else).
(If it's right, I'll hand it over to someone else).
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: AGD - How to play AY sound effects WITH music?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1685
Re: AGD - How to play AY sound effects WITH music?
What happens if you enable noise on more that one channel? Is it any louder? Or is it just the same as when it's on one channel? I can see how maybe you could temporarily override the setting of noise pitch for your sound effect, but continue to use noise on your music channel for percussion. Would ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Dr. Acula
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1598
Re: Dr. Acula
I do love that loading screen. It makes that big cartoon style look so effortless! I mean, you can clearly see the colours are restricted to the Spectrum's simple palette, but you have to look really hard to find even a hint of the artist struggling with attribute placement.