Spectrum Computing

Thanks @flatduckrecords

That's the problem with pdfs. Can't see a lot of the page at once and can occasionally skip to the next column without realising what's below.

Hi all. I'm trying to load Psychedelia (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... sychedelia).

Looking at Crash 93 (it's on the tape) it says you need to load it in "line mode".

I've never heard that term before. What does it mean? I'm using a +2a.

Does anyone know a poke or fixed version of this game please? When using Kempston, left and right are reversed (on +2a at least)

Hi All,

It seems recently recovered MIA Ant Attack https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/20 ... k-mia.html isn't compatible with the +2A. The game loads and starts, but the controls don't work at all.

Anyone think they can fix this please?

Thanks @Morkin

That works.

Thanks @Morkin
That works perfectly. Looks like the original POKE was wrong!

Out of interest... say I wanted to use CAPS SHIFT as jump instead of Space. What would I change?

Trying to get my head around how these things work!

Hi,

I'm curious to know whether the Spectrum can make use of a 2nd joystick button (or Master System pad buttons for example)?

I know that no games use a second button, but with some POKEs, could jump etc to allocated to it?

I've seen it done with Stay Frosty 2 on the Atari 2600.

Thanks @Morkin
That works perfectly. Looks like the original POKE was wrong!

Hi, I'm trying to apply the following POKEs to Jumping Jack to change the controls to Q, W, Space. POKE 30356,251: POKE 30374,79: POKE 30383,71 = change left/right to Q,W POKE 30370,223 = changes jump to SPACE I found this on Tipshop. I am loading the game, going to Tools - Poke Memory, and then ent...

One more detail about Super Soccer, it's listed on the database as football management, but the instructions clearly indicate it's not management but rather a normal football game. Might be worth updating?

Another MIA currently on eBay, and the seller even lists it as such! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373960624536?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=xtzliwhJRsy&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=b5Y7MFlXTSq&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Could someone at least download the artwor...

I just watched Seb's interesting video here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqhMyZ4zl8Y I had no idea there was a Codemasters Spectrum release that was 'genuinely' unavailable anywhere online. It was on the Super Sports Challenge compilation. My question is, is the game denied, or actually MIA? I...

I love this old-skool attitude. "It's not them, it's me." We need more of this in the 2020s. To be fair, this is my standard attitude these days... if I hate a TV show/movie/song/social attitude, I just accept I'm not the target audience and ignore it! And vice versa if I like something t...

I always thought this was a punishment for not kicking all the bikers off. I can't remember what the arcade version did. Did it keep sending bikes at you until the timer ran out? Or just set the gang members on you after a set time? I'll have to check.

Is there a list (or collection) of all the type-in games from the Usborne computer books series? I always wanted to try a few, but only ever typed one in, and it was crap.

Hi @Oloturia , no idea why he turns into an oven. Doesn't related to any UK culture/media that I'm aware of, not even The Young Ones, where something like that wouldn't be out of place. Guessing it was just a convenient sprite for the programmers to swap in.

In How To Be A Complete Bas**rd, if you open the umbrella indoors you turn into an oven for the rest of the game. That counts as quite a 'change', doesn't it?

Has anyone compiled a Worst 100 game set? I'm tempted, just for the amusement of having them all ready to play.

Does this site allow you to identify the 100 lowest rated games (from the commercial era), English language only?

The only equivalent I've found is the old archived bottom 100 on WOS.

Probably discussed loads of times already, but I'm curious. If a bit more time and effort was spent on designing the Speccy in 1982, could colour clash have potentially been eliminated? Or is it a more fundamental design flaw of the Spectrum hardware?

I'm probably the only person who really enjoys Cosmic Cruiser, but even I didn't vote for it as the best

My top 3...
Jumping Jack
Zzoom
Cosmic Cruiser (but Arcadia is actually better)

bluespikey wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:11 am From the makers of Minions and The Mario Movie, in a world where 64K is too much, crowds are lining around the block for the latest cinema masterpiece :

Interesting to see Volodymyr Zelenskyy has returned to acting in this alternate universe!

Correct me if I've missed it, but as far as I know, no-one has attempted a homebrew port of Puzzle Bobble yet. The C64 and even the CPC have good versions now.

Wonder why no one's done it yet? I can't imagine colour clash would be a problem, since the bubbles are in a grid pattern.

Imagine Software, after faking their own demise in 1984, have resurfaced and announced they are still working on Bandersnatch. You can do "literally anything you want" in the game, which has nearly 100,000 screens. They promise the game will come with a 25 LP newly recorded soundtrack by a...

How about someone starting a regular voting series (similar to PeteProdge 's covertape wars). However, this time we would go through a list of all major releases in a month-by-month basis and vote for the best to worst? We could get the releases by referring to the magazines, unless ZXDB has a way o...

Looks like my memory combined First Class and Steal into one show. I remember both now. I wonder if the games from Steal were ever released?