Spectrum Computing

Very well deserved winners. Some excellent releases last year.

I dunno, I'm imagining a man in a cute little blocky room with TV, fridge, etc... I may make this game when I finish my more serious little game project (which only needs another day or two, I guess -- game is done really, but I want to do a +3 disk version so I have to work out how to make a boota...

You are in Southern Ireland I guess. Retroleum have been good for my purchases, but I'm based in UK. Would somewhere like https://www.micomputer.es work better for you?

I can certainly see benefits in this DAAD ready has a 48k text only option for adventures and 128k option which stores images in the extra banks. There doesn't seem to be any reason why such an engine could be coded to use the 128k banks for a wide range of purposes, extra sprite animations, music, ...

equinox wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:27 pm Hmm, perhaps now we need a kalsarikännit simulator (Finnish word for hanging around in one's underwear boozing).

Text only hopefully.

Dr beep wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:57 pm The program took me yesterday evening. So still time enough to do nothing afterwards.

Dr beep wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:52 pm I just sent in
"The Dutch Art Of Doing Nothing A.K.A. 'NIKSEN'-Simulator"

Now reviewed

Looks good.

After a short delay caused by real life I've caught up with reviews. Many thanks for the patience of the contestants who have been eagerly refreshing this thread for the past fortnight. The reviews are here Katakombs of Kakrafon - Jim Waterman Level Up - Samuel Pedigo cmpltly awsme bgl simlater - Sa...

I guess his story could be correct, I’m know that Ocean used US Gold’s CentreSoft arm for distribution (like Gremlin and a few other publishers), but from doing a bit of digging around, it was Ablex that did the tape duplication : http://www.masis.co.uk/us_gold_information.htm (this has to be the h...

equinox wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:49 pm By the way, am I missing something or did you omit to mention who submitted and wrote this game?

Entirely possible with the state the game left me in. Dave Hughes the UDG King. I'll adjust the article later.

rich_r wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 7:54 pm Swapped the Z80 - and now it passes all the RAM tests, and boots to the normal copyright message!

However, it now doesn't respond to keypresses.

I'm sure this Spectrum just doesn't want to live any more...

You are getting closer though.

Thanks to @R-Tape we have a strong contender

Grongy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 4:08 pm

Really love this one.

The key delay got me every time, congratulations on completing it.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:55 am I'm still working out my strategy. If only level 1 was the underscore!

I thought that, it is the easiest to draw. I think I wanted it yo draw going down as well as left to right.

My approach was to do many, many circles trying to turn at the right time, very unsuccessfully.

Finish off the last two adventures in my series. One 80% coded, the other 30% but I've mislaid the book of notes I made on it last year.

Survive C.S.S.C.G.C.

Learn z80 machine code.

Repair my poor rubber keyed 48k.

A new delight has appeared Art House.

Morkin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:22 pm surströmming.

I feel queasy just at the thought.

Jbizzel wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:55 pm I was most please with the H key that used OVER to toggle the help screen on and off.

That was a nice touch.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:14 pm Vengeance is bizzel's! Compliments on the out of screen errors.

I knew there was something I forgot to mention while testing. I need to keep better notes.

And the first definitely not game Etch A Sketch Delux.

The latest review it up, enjoy Porridge Roulette.

TMD2003 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:30 pm I promise no Etch-a-Sketch programs this year, even on the Next - although it did teach me a few tricks with layers and transparency and various delights that the programmers of 1983 would never have believed.

You keep dangling the carrot about a Next entry, my inbox is waiting