Spectrum Computing

Yep, just found it and it's still completely terrible. You choose an opponent, beat them, and then all you can do is either fight them again or reset the machine and start again. As far as I can tell there's absolutely no way to have a single continuous game where you fight all the opponents in sequ...

But that version has no passwords?

Did anyone ever hack this into a disk/128/whatever version where you didn't have to write down the passwords for each fighter with a pen and paper?

Kage is actually a game that could really be improved a lot with a pretty minimal amount of modding. In the arcade it cycles through four "seasons" which are only different in palette. The Speccy version could probably replicate that in about two lines of code. Here's the standard level 1,...

Yup, seems to do the job here. Nice one

Inky wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:53 pm Curiosity got the better of me, and I fancied taking a couple of new Inkspector debugger features for a test run *ahem*, so I had a look into this. And what I found was not what I expected!

Awesome sleuthage! I'm guessing that's a non-trivial fix job

(Uploaded a snapshot at 99,000 points if anyone wants to muck around with it. It's on the boss, but he's super-easy, just shoot him 8 or 9 times then press down and fire to free the princess.)

https://uploadnow.io/f/ypKX1gf

I was mucking around playing Legend Of Kage recently, trying to figure out why the immunity POKEs didn't work, and eventually found myself playing the game properly, whereupon I noticed that despite having a six-figure scoreline, it crashes if you get over 100,000 points. Once you're over 100K, the ...

How about Wild West Heroes, it's a simple Robotron clone with autofire and lots of very simple sprites (they're not even animated). It's my go-to mindless violence fix Yeah, decent shout, although I was thinking more classic scrolling shooters than twin-stick and maybe not quite the sort of speed I...

Okay firstly I don't like how you phrase your question. "Minimalist shooter" obviously wasn't a set phrase until long after the time when it was possible to do maximalist ones. Shooters were simple because they had to be (because of limited graphics and CPU) and only now, in 2023, do we h...

By "minimalist shooter" I mean something like the amazing Lead on the Atari VCS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM3fpbI6mjc or Pulse on the VIC-20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH8zvBIoxWI or Shootout on the Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WppBBbSUgE or any of a ton of other ex...

Joefish wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 10:25 pm I thought Mighty Final Fight was a Game Boy port, but it seems not, it's from the NES.

Yeah, just looks GameBoyish because the sprites are mono.

How many have there been? (I mean things directly based on GB titles, not just in the same series or something.) I can think of Tetris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6qAApWRfbU Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkVtA6xXkR8 and Batman (Batboy): https://www.youtube.com/w...

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:15 pm I find this thread confusing. If you want R-Type with the original music then why not just play the 2019 mod, which you yourself said features it?

Because it only runs on a Russian machine and I'd like a TZX for normal Speccies, like I said.

Then it's your lucky day!

"... do the same for Flying Shark?" Simple solution just set $BF6C address to $00 you'll have autofire and you can use smartbomb too by pressing fire longer. Ooh, that works perfectly in terms of autofire and enhances the gameplay considerably :) but only at the cost of turning the sound ...

Andre Leao wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 8:41 am Indeed. The last two weeks we have been posting some other trd games on tzx, like Doom, Soko Ban, Ammytris. And some more nice stuff the next few days

I've seen. Watching closely (and especially hoping for the R-Type proper-music mod)

Andre Leao wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:02 pm Thanks. This hack is from the 90's

Yeah, but it being on a TZX for non-Russian machines is new.

Daveysloan wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 7:03 pm I think the Flying Shark thing has been addressed...

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No autofire there.

Don't know if anyone spotted this over on Planeta Sinclair, but someone's finally put out a 128K music hack of R-Type for normal Speccies, not Pentagon/Scorpion. https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2023/09/r-type-128k-hack.html Sadly it's not the proper R-Type music as seen here, which hopefully so...

Yeah, zero dice on the download link

Huh? Astro Blaster doesn't crash for me.

I absolutely LOVE this sort of thing. Seemingly I'm the only one.

Wait, Slippery Sid but no Bozy Boa?

Having now had a look through all their entries, the following Spectrum games now appear to be completely unobtainable thanks to the blanking of the Bumfun Software website. I hope they aren't permanently lost to posterity. Cars: The Remix Cave Raider Chicks & Bricks I Hate The Internet Operatio...