Spectrum Computing

While I voted Don Quijote, I think Rescate Atlantis deserves more love, is one of the best Dinamic games (good graphics with scroll like AMC, good in-game music like Simulador, and very playable), so my proportional votes: 1.Don Quijote 2.Rescate Atlantis 3.Phantomas Other games that I can remember ...

Couldn't be some type of coincidence?

You can have the different palettes stored somewhere and then load one or another, but you can't swich them with a simple OUT.

Turrican wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 5:56 pm I've finished Game Over, Phantis and After the War.

akeley wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 11:58 am Cobra's Arc looks pretty good, I wish somebody translated it.

There are English (and French) translations, not sure if oficial. Looks better than it plays.

A lot of good graphics, some nice tunes (Simulador Professional de Tenis), but BITD one I liked a lot was a text adventure, Don Quijote (it was a cartoon TV series too), so it's my vote.

HEXdidnt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:10 am One cool little extra - which he gave me the honour of unwrapping - was 'The Art of Selling SAM', the marketing booklet put together for vendors.

"Someone" should scan and preserve that thing.

Weird, I had the same problem months ago with opqa (a message sayind "not fetched" or something so) but now all works fine. No idea why.

bluespikey wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 2:15 pm Theres no shooting in 3D Monster Maze, but what about Zigzag from 1984? Plus it had a great death animation when you catch up with the baddies.

Agree. Some 3D labyrinths with foes qualify as proto-FPS.

On the ZX, I guess Castle Master could qualify as a proto-fps, with insistence on "proto" (I'm not sure if other Freescape games have some shooting?). Almost all have the "shooting" function ( if not all, not sure). I played a lot BITD Driller and to me it's a proto-FPS all the ...

I read somewhere that it also take cues from FreeBASIC; Well, FreeBASIC is too based in QBASIC (like QB64) so at the end is the same. Structured BASIC vs. Unstructured BASIC. I'm not user of Boriel, although I see it as very interesting and have tested it a bit, but others will give you better advi...

Boriel is more like Qbasic, it's not very difficult to port from the Spectrum BASIC, but you need to understand a bit how each work. I'm not aware of an official IDE, but you can use a standard text editor (programmers oriented) like Programmers Notepad and similar. PS: maybe you can test first the ...

Lee P wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 9:37 am Turbo Esprit was in first person and there was shooting.

Just like Chase HQ, I don't think it qualifies as FPS.

I've corrected some of the MicroHobby ones (not all, only a few), between 1988 and 1991 (see https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/ad ... ishers.php for details).

Yes, a lot of LCD screens will, entirely as a side effect of their image processing, hide the flickering you'd normally see. The distinction is more obvious on an old school CRT. Side note: this information maybe should be added at https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?group_id=1060 When I think in ...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:58 am Not too sure where to go.

Best type-ins by magazine?

AndyC wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:02 pm 2) You can get into USR0 mode by type PRINT USR 0 in 128 basic. On a +2A/+3 you can also just type SPECTRUM (this is a subtle change from the original 128 models).

Ah, I thought the SPECTRUM command was standard in all the 128k models.

Luzie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:23 pm ... to see if there´s one Zodiac sign which is ahead of the others.

Probably no, we cover "all the spectrum" of the zodiac.

https://hackaday.com/2024/04/19/end-of-life-for-z80-cpu-and-peripherals-announced/ "What this effectively means is that after just under 48 years since its launch in 1976, the Zilog Z80 will no longer be available for sale as discrete components, which is likely to primarily impact hobbyists a...

Sad. Somehow, I feel the calendar is running out of pages.

Hi, I think it might be , 24 volts, I asked on another website. Here: https://k1.spdns.de/Vintage/Sinclair/82/Timex%20Peripherals/TS2040%20Printer/ "The printer required and came with an own power supply. Therefore it could still be used with the ZX Spectrum+3 and +2A/B. (to be verified) The P...

I've found this photo:


I assume the thing at the right is a power supply.

I was reading the press, periodically appears some 8 bits nostalgia related readings: https://elpais.com/icon/2024-04-16/un-reto-brutal-como-cuatro-adolescentes-espanoles-revolucionaron-el-mundo-del-videojuego-deportivo.html (in Spanish, curiously they name the ZX Spectrum as "the Spectrum ZX&q...

Mine was a very late +2A, with Robocop 2 and Chase HQ 2.

stupidget wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:44 am For some reason I seem to remember reading in a magazine that SAM stood for SpectrumAMiga and that it was going to be this giant slaying super computer. Apparently not

Haha, no idea why but for long time I was sure SAM stood for SpectrumAdvancedMachine. Error.