Spectrum Computing

Spirit Software is a great one for this game. This is what their Kensington address looks like today: https://i.postimg.cc/5jXX2cbW/Spirit-Software-Pembroke-Mews.jpg Pretty swish huh? Hardly the place you'd expect to be the postage address for a notorious ZX Spectrum rip -off. Except, this is what i...

My 48k came with the now legendary Horizon tape and the Sinclair Six Pack ( scrabble, horace goes skiing, chequered flag, make a chip, survival & Chess). On the same day we picked the Speccy up from Boots ( yes kids you used to be able to buy computers from a chemists 🤣), I also bought Luna Cra...

I'm still waiting for The Eye of the Moon, the third Lords of Midnight game. It was due in 1985.

Morkin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:52 pm Ok, in that case, from now on, wrong suggestions permitted.

The Spectrum version of Up the Elephant and Round the Dragon, starring Jim Donaldson.

Yes to Lords of Midnight and Domark's Revenge. Yes, also to Fairlight. As technically amazing as Knight Lore and Alien 8 were, they never had the sense of world building that Fairlight gave. Valhalla did something interesting with the world, the characters seemed to have their own needs. They weren'...

I'm going to be incredibly lazy and quote something I wrote on my blog The exact circumstances which allowed him to revoke Bug-Byte's licence to produce the game are not clear but it revolved around a clause in his contract. Smith recalled in an interview with POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY volume 3, numb...

Thanks both of you for your help. I managed to get everything working as it should.

How do I enter POKES in Fuse? I've got four POKES for Highway Encounter Infinite time 35125 0 and 37268 43 and Invincibility 39443 0 and 39412 0 I've load the TAP file and started the game and gone to the Fuse menu > Machine > Poke Memory and added the POKES by putting the long number in the address...

I did wonder about the scary origins of Newsfield comment myself. Like you I hope it's misplaced concern rather than homophobia. The Zack website is really interesting (although people may not want to browse it on the train or at work) and I'm now struck by the similarity between the logos for Him a...

This is just a guess, but could it be Your Spectrum, since the review was in their July issue, maybe after the SU article was written, and it got 2 "Miss"es and 1 Hit (although the Hit gave it a lower score than two misses (!) ). (This is on the same page as a reviewer giving Chaos a &quo...

That's a lovely video. Thanks for sharing it.

Plus this from the Spitting Image book

Equinox by Micro-Gen because like an idiot I used an infinite lives poke on my first go. I never made that mistake again.

As for Ultimate's general reputation, I'd think that they were of their time and their prime was really the latter half of 1983. That's when the first six games came out and they all felt outstanding for the time, even though some have held up better than others. After that, their releases became m...

Stop the Express would fit in well with the earlier pre-Sabre Wulf games.

Domark are still going, sort of.

Domark became part of Eidos in 1996, then Eidos were taken over by SCi (who had themselves written Spectrum games as The Sales Curve Limited ), and then Edios/SCi got taken over by Square Enix in 2009.

That's a great video with a really good use of comparison photos to show how it looked then, and now.

When Crash became a pamphlet :( :( :( Probably same here (just added a meme pic to this effect :lol: ) Ditto. I completely lost track of the Spectrum scene after getting an Atari ST l. It was a real shock to see Crash in the newsagent and realise how thin it had become. It was weirdly like bumping ...

bluespikey wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 2:57 pm All these years, there are still some people left who are stunned to discover that Jetpac had a hover key, or Sabrewulf was slightly 3D. Or Lloyd mangram didn't exist.

Jetpac had a hover key?

1) Nodes Of Yesod
2) Robin Of the Wood
3) Heartland

I feel a bit rotten pointing this out but I think only Nodes of Yesod and Robin of the Wood are pure Odin games. Heartland and Hypaball both have Telecomsoft branding on the packaging. I had a go at working out the Thor/Odin/Telecomsoft timeline at the bottom of this page https://whereweretheynow.bl...

Not a boss, but that bloody pit on screen two of Hunchback.

I’m reading a book written in 1992 about a Mars expedition set in 2020. It’s rather realistic until characters get phone calls on their landlines. That reminds me of this episode of Tomorrow's World from 1987 on Youtube, https://youtu.be/4I2c9vlpb9Q . Howard Stableford is given the line , "the...

Those pictures are great. A phone with a screen! How outré. Ironically, if he'd somehow managed to draw a modern phone none of the readers would have recognised it. I find it really interesting when people had a distinct vision of the future but were missing one key fact. There's an episode of Star ...

It's Only Rock n Roll , an obscure game from K-tel, gave you the chance to sit through "highlights of your performance." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Qif4QVDSA&t=202s If my brother was playing I used to try to annoy him (and vice versa) by leaning over and pressing Y before he co...