Spectrum Computing

Alo Bao! One of the best obscure games from Italy!
Every time I played with my friends, we had some races, despite the flickering and the overall simpleness of the game.

What about Micronaut One? It's not very far from Descent.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 8:38 am So it sounds like it's an unofficial re-release, that was technically legal in Italy?

AFAIK, before 1992 it wasn't legal but not illegal too. In other words: no one cared.

IMHO a tag "unofficial release by Nuova Newel" should be enough, like the way the cracked games by Load'n'Run are treated. They are no more than bootlegs anyway, and they add very little (sometimes they miss parts, instead) to the original game.

I've just discovered that Fuochi nella Notte is Fires. I've typed it in for nothing

One of the world's obscurest mysteries is finally solved!

As many (or perhaps all) of Nuova Newel's releases, it's a cracked game, but it wasn't illegal. Back then, copying software was not unlawful, as copyrights on software weren't claimable. Some authors tried to print the source code and tried to put the rights on the text, as it was a book, but I thin...

This poll reminds me of these fine screens from the program Specola from magazine Run #7.

You did! You see, the only traces of Circus Circus are on Sinclair User's Megatape 11, which had Beach Head and Beach Head 2 on side A, while side B had two demos of Circus Circus, followed by Poke City. The first demo was a rolling one - totally unplayable, just a slideshow of static screenshots. ...

Tre Topolini Ciechi is the Italian translation of Three Blind Mice.

I did Fuochi nella notte but then I stopped because I wanted to see how the game is, so I lost the entire afternoon typing it in (OCR gave a lot of errors).

Is it possible that I played a version of Circus Circus but with the cannon-man instead?

Draconus?

As a big fan of the film, I can't describe what a relief is to see Cesare free of Caligari's influence (albeit in the good ending) I always felt overwhelmed with pity for the unwilling murderer who is, in one of the most widely acknowledged interpretation, the German -but not only- common people man...

Power Drift?

Super Trux?

Flying Shark (do do do do do do)?

They managed to change the final splash screen, too.

How interesting! And a uMIA? Check your attic @Oloturia! Otherwise, let’s hope @Andre Leao and friends can uncover it for us someday… Well it's featured on the magazine Run #7. https://www.edicola8bit.com/giochi.php?console=48k&collana=run&id=7 Neither Edicola8bit nor hal.varese (which has ...

Fun fact: I played a bootleg version named "Batrax" that featured a frog instead of a kangaroo.

There's a load of info about Design Design/Crystal games here: https://worldofspectrum.net/equinox/eggs/design_design.php Following the link, I downloaded the "Spectacle" program, which it seems to be a fake teletext bundled with Dark Star. Well, the fake teletext has the date set on 1st ...

Fall Guy?

Shadow Warriors?

Today I discovered a thread about the Whitby Computers Spectrum Simulator for the C64. At around 10th message David Tindale, the original author wrote some funny facts about the so called "Spectrum Simulator". I always thought it was just some program that emulated CIRCLE and other command...

hey, spanish games don't count, nobody can beat The Spanish Inquisition! p.s.: i did Freddy Hadest 1 and Game Over 1 without cheats. but it was accidental. One of the few games that I've been ever able to complete is Comando Tracer. Spanish games weren't harder than the average. I think the bad rep...