Spectrum Computing

Some people are incredibly consistent at beating Nethack though (I've never beaten it since it is so damn hard of course!). That has had years of balance applied though I spose. Similar thing applies to other "random" games like FTL on PC (which is also excellent)... they are so well balan...

Export to C is probably best option yeah. * Not too hard to convert C to ASM if you need to speed it up as long as the C compiler emits understandable and readable code. You may want an option to export data as DB or DW or DG though. DB for binary data, DW for tables of pointers, DG for graphics (si...

Think I am going to be COASTING to another win lol, right at the end ha ha. It should have blocked that one if it doesn't challenge. LOL it knew about it, didn't challenge, obviously does not consider moves I may make even when it knows exactly what I have left. Maybe it doesn't even know what tiles...

Well OoT was written in C.

You want specific objects to communicate to nearby spaces the actions they have available probably so if you are standing there it adds it to your available actions. May want priorities for the actions then obvs.

Well that's just Ocarina of Time which was probably first game to do that right. Not that hard to design and program.

Decided to risk STATION with DAT, pretty sure it will be denied though I want to find out one way or another whether DAT is good though so I remember it lol https://i.postimg.cc/TY3Drr5X/risk.png Gets challenged... Yup it's bad. As you were :( Still got STATION on rack though. Let's hope I don't get...

I agree... played it. No challenge. It's a variant spelling of FUSE I think. OE n pl. -S a whirlwind off the Faeroe islands? Might have another meaning as well. Thought that would be a proper noun otherwise. New rack, still no blank, looks ok though https://i.postimg.cc/ZnFhfB9k/game2rack10.png CPU ...

I’d not heard of Scrabble Deluxe for the Spectrum. I wonder why it’s in black and white when the original had plenty of (and useful) colour? I’m sure some Googling would tell me but I’m currently warming myself by our fire pit in the garden and I can’t be bothered trying to figure it out on my iPho...

So I think I want to hang onto FUZ + S cos I know FUZE(s) is good, seen this very program play that against me before. There's only 3 E's left in bag though but there are still 2 blanks missing. XJ only big scoring tiles left and there's the K (=5) still in the bag too. So wanna play with BII I thin...

you could use blp for bloop nvm, too late Yeah I was looking there earlier as well. Let's see if ENE was ok... Yup ENE n 1: the compass point midway between northeast and east [syn: {east northeast}, {ENE}] I would have thought that was capitalised always myself, allowed in SOWPODS though So missed...

I decided to go with RETUNED. ENDURE scores 3 less and I'd rather have an E instead of a U on rack. ENDURE leave of TE is good though as well. RETUNED is challenged. Of course it is valid, computer just doesn't know about it. (valid in SOWPODS and US). Well I did pick up a Q immediately afterwards l...

Note / At / Me ? That only scores 18 and still leaves triple lane wide open... think I have to use one of the triples to minimise the damage on the CPUs next turn. Also the rack leave is poor UERE. RETUNED just keeps an E. Don't think I've got a bingo through the D. I've also got ENTERED for 24 but...

If you only have a few size possibilities use a lookup table mapping bits to double/triple/quadruple bits. Then if that also needs shifting, shift each row into a temp buffer. Then draw each line of the buffer for zoom amount of rows. Slower way is shifting the data out of A register and building th...

I played ONCE for 12. New rack https://i.postimg.cc/3wFnnZNK/game2rack2.png Hmm CPU plays COW for 16 https://i.postimg.cc/cLQmLcQQ/cpu1.png HENGE joining onto end of ONCE is ok (18 leaves ERR). Could also play across the middle of CONE: HEnGE/GO/EW (I think EW is fine) for 21 I think, terrible leave...

Nethack is a fantastic game though. (It's extremely difficult however). Plenty of amusement to be had in being killed by a kitten, killed kicking a wall, falling down the stairs and landing on a cockatrice corpse (turning you to stone), dying by falling off your horse when attempting to mount it, be...

Game 2 is afoot. I lead 1-0 https://i.postimg.cc/ryrtTwG4/game2rack1.png Doesn't look like a good rack... will go and get some beers then have a think. EDIT: Got beer. I can only see ONCE and CONE or GONE or GENE. GENE looks best since it gets rid of 2 Es, still keeps the C though (COE). Can't see a...

Thanks, it plays a good game, much better than the Psion version (that's good if you aren't an intermediate player though). I think a rematch is going to be on the cards once I get some beers in ;) Wasn't any audience participation but I only started playing at stupid o'clock on a Friday night (well...

I'm just playing this now. Obviously it's slow, but not a bad little game for the day. It doesn't seem to have been noticed much. This is the list of Roguelikes according to ZXDB: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?group_id=1043 Seems to just hang on "Loading please wait"? Unless it exp...

I was thinking of this for the budget game

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... r_of_Magic

but it seems the map was not random

https://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=MasterofMagic

Mystic Tower came with Currah Microspeech, pretty sure that was random layout https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3351/ZX-Spectrum/Mystic_Tower Interesting, it says it is part of an unidentified collection, even though it is linked to from the Currah Microspeech page :) https://spectrumcomputing.c...

So I play LAIR just to go out https://i.postimg.cc/QxwcSmP5/goingout.png ME HAS WON! 315-300 So the answer to the question posed in the OP is yes, I can beat Scrabble Deluxe on the highest level, despite not drawing any blanks, making no bingos, and losing a turn for an illegal word played ;) ME = c...

https://i.postimg.cc/VNVwbS5Y/rana.png Thought for a while about that. I think that means it has 5 tiles on his rack, doesn't tell you that either which is a bit rubbish you can look at that IRL and see how many tiles they have left ;) I'm still going to win though. Still playing safe. Pretty sure ...

It knows it is beaten now I think (ROW/RE/EE) in bottom left https://i.postimg.cc/RVyZ2DvS/itknowsitisbeaten.png I've got too many I's can probably change and still win, not worked out what letters are left in the bag, it doesn't tell you :( https://i.postimg.cc/R0zVZJ32/toomanyis.png I think I can ...

CPU got the J played a nice word (AJEE). https://i.postimg.cc/xTTm9hrL/ajee.png Pretty sure (99.99%) that ZEE is also a word though, it didn't think about that did it with the triple right there. Could all come down to this really I guess https://i.postimg.cc/Jhb0N5V1/challenge3.png IN YOUR FACE SCR...

Nice long word from CPU... QAT/SIT is available gonna play that obvs https://i.postimg.cc/SNDW8qLZ/inertia.png Doesn't like it... obvs a very good and often played scrabble word though https://i.postimg.cc/5tFvZChG/challenge2.png https://i.postimg.cc/TwMmGPGP/qat.png It's some sort of leaf you munch...