Spectrum Computing

Muggins for 1, you didn't explain the connection to the previous game ;) Obviously correct though. I'm surprised most people don't seem very familiar with the game though... it is the best (most skilful) 2 player card game IMO. For 3 players you would want to play Hearts or something and for 4 playe...

Nope. You only have 4 things in most versions of mastermind, there'd be no room for your his nob, so you wouldn't be able to peg 29! The IRL accessory looks a bit like mastermind though but mastermind has 4 holes in a group, not 10. EDIT: Hmm ok there is a Mastermind board with this https://i.postim...

It does feature pegging yes. And not that kind of pegging, naughty. EDIT: "One of my favourite 2 player games of its type" rules out solitaire (and the other kind of pegging) of course ;) Points are registered as having been scored by "pegging" So 3x FIFTEEN would of course peg 6...

In real life version of one of the screengrabs



No it's not the biscuit game. (But it does feature nobs!)

I don't have one of those I just work it out with a pencil

Nope. Obviously it's a game you don't need a Spectrum to play (if you have someone else to play with), one of my favourite games of its type for 2 people (probably the most skillful game of its type if you only have 2 people). EDIT: You can also play with 3 players, it's a bit crap though then, and ...

Hmm thought that would have given the game away. That appears to be the only number in the game which is spelled out, so it obviously has some significance as well. https://i.postimg.cc/SsXRYfKN/hint5.png Computer seems pretty good on the high level, gave me a good pasting. I'm not that good at the ...

Nope I watched it embedded so that's why I didn't see the blurb.

If you do that maybe you should consider wandering fruit like in Ms. Pacman as well?

Big hint then



Since it's such a big hint you should really also explain the connection between this game and the last one :p

What's with the ghosts not moving first time you eat a power pill? It worked fine 2nd time you did it.

Nope. Few more hints https://i.postimg.cc/T1hfydY8/hint2.png https://i.postimg.cc/PqKg1g7d/hint3.png The connection with previous game does not apply to the spectrum game, only (optionally) when you play in real life. EDIT: I don't think it is written in BASIC (could be compiled BASIC I guess) but i...

Just had a go, it's not a bad game.

There is some connection between this game and the previous one. Connection might not be obvious though.

Try this then

It is funny that it made you annoyed yet you had to wait until 3AM Wednesday morning to make your point though :) It's only a quiz after all. Let's get quizzical, quizzical, let's get quizzical. Olivia! I thought you were so nice and innocent (until last 5 minutes of Grease anyway), then I saw this ...

So basically you are going to have to hack the code to do the loading of the next part of the tape from BASIC via microdrive instead, skip the machine code bit that loads something and call the proper entry point (after the machine code loading has finished). If it does any checks that the memory ha...

The numbers don't look obfuscated after I tried a MERGE "" with the tap file anyway. EDIT: But it does then load more code after the PRINT USR 24576, so it calls a tape loading routine from the machine code... probably be difficult to make it not do that I think? I tested that by putting a...

Those POKES make it crash if you break into the program while it is loading. Maybe they have also obfuscated the code by poking different values into the actual numerical value shown in the listing (numbers in BASIC are stored as ASCII for printing by LIST but then the actual value is stored afterwa...

You're only outputting a .lst file? I tried that on my (speccy) code, this is the kind of thing it produces # file opened: sheet.asm 1 0000 ; sjasmplus.exe --sym=out.sym --syntax=f --raw=out.bin sheet.asm 2 0000 3 0000 DEVICE ZXSPECTRUM48 4 0000 5 0000 TIMING EQU 1 6 0000 7 0000 ORGADDR EQU #8000 8 ...

It's just a challenge. (Obviously challenges can be fun too). Obviously if you care about code size that much you need to program in assembly (or Ketmar will be along soon to mention Forth which also has a very compact code footprint), as soon as you get into higher level languages/compilation (mayb...

They are 12 apart in Y direction I might try 10 instead. That probably won't fit well with the attribs though. Main thing is getting the bottom 3 rows to be same colour I guess and the top one to be mainly yellow. I'll probably do a stripy attribs thing to see what might look best. I can't squash th...

9 looks like Level9

Ok my attempt at a sheet shoot em up is underway, day 1 progress. https://i.postimg.cc/kMt7TJkY/sheettest.png Red border is how long it takes to redraw everything. * Drawing each row at a time instead of each column. I think it will be fast enough to manage it. I'm going to need to draw 1 extra alie...

It's just a reserved data block. Might not even need to load it unless there is an existing template it just modifies (like changes PUSH and POP instructions).

I suppose once you start executing it it's technically code though.

I noticed there's a slight graphical glitch in Galaxian arcade... don't know if it happens all the time or only some of the time. I managed to pause the youtube video on the exact frame one of the aliens started swooping and it disappeared for a frame. So it looks like there may be a 1 frame gap bet...

I can think of lots of reasons why games would have wildly different code vs. data distributions, and therefore averaging them may give a distribution with multiple peaks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal_distribution Some reasons off the top of my head: * hardly any graphics (puzzle games s...

Well collect a load of data (you probably want to normalise it to take into account different program and data sizes i.e. make it in the range 0-1 where 0 = all data no code, 1 = all code no data) and run it through something like this which will estimate the probability density function for you htt...