Spectrum Computing

Thanks Gears! I wonder why Gavin Wade and Drew Northcott are listed there? Northcott was a loading screen artists, but not sure about Wade. The loading screen is signed PIP+PAVL to make things more confusing. I can track those names from the old WOS, so, they were there for a while. Yeah, was wonde...

Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:08 pm Fair enough, but then you need to emulate the halftone grid in the colored portions of the J-card, apply some relicing, and convert the whole thing to CMYK.

Had this been a paying job, absolutely!

There’s a couple of typos that need to be fixed in the loading instructions: tap —> tape, “symbol” in “symbol SHIFT” needs to be capitalized, and I’m not sure if the “R Type Loading Error” is a nod to Dave or also a typo. ;) P.S. I’d use straight quotes (shocker!) for the LOAD "" instruct...

Timmy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:04 pm I'd definitely give you -50 quid for it.

Awfully decent of you!

Morkin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:21 pm We didn't think it was possible, but maybe... life found a way.

and NHL always finds a way! To make more $$$!

The young padawan (in regards to correct Speccy gfx) needs to know that you can't have bright 1 and bright 0 in the same 8x1 pixel row, or in the same 8x8 pixels attribute cell under "normal" circumstances (=not using any sort of multicolour routine/engine). In any case, Paper and Ink wil...

cmal wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:18 pm Interesting find! Never heard of "Monstertronic". Looks like it's trying to copy Mastertronic.

They are pretty lazy though, just blatantly ripping of the Mastertronic logo like that!

It'd be worth checking the screenshot for attribute cells with 3 colours ;) Great job all the same, though! :D Thanks! :) I do put an effort in to make the attributes correct, but usually make one that has more than two colours! Just not to disappoint anyone that looks closer! But can't remember wh...

Found this in my attic the other day! Wonder what it could be worth?!

Stefan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:33 pm Hearing that tune again... why did Steve not sue Culture Beat for ripping off his bass line in Mr Vain six years later?

It is damn close to that song! Maybe it's not too late, someone get hold of Steve!

Noticed that Steve Turner is missing in ZXDB credits for Flying Shark (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... ying_Shark). He made the music according to one of the title screens (attached).

There is an Issi on Mobygames : https://www.mobygames.com/person/1227222/issi/

EdToo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 12:19 am In that case is John Boy and John May the same person? Hard to decipher font or nickname?

I was thinking the same, but haven't found anything conclusive so far...

stupidget wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:48 pm I'm going to give this game another go. Just had a look through the RZX I thought the underwater section looked similar to the excellent Mega Drive shmup Gynoug.

I completely missed that you could swim, when I tried it! But I hadn't played the arcade version either...

Hey Peter,

The links are red and I actually DIDN'T try the page number, for unknown reasons! The page number works fine and leads to local URL. So I guess all is good.

druellan wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 2:36 pm What I can see is that the dupla May/White is credited on several games, all adaptations from arcades and US titles, so they really look legit. I still need to check those titles for confirmation.

Have you managed to dig up anything on May?

Just discovered a broken Sinclair User review link on the "Earth Defence" page. Internet Archive gives this error "The item you have requested has a problem with one or more of the metadata files that describe it, which prevents us from displaying this page.". https://spectrumcom...

stupidget wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:56 am It aint owt to do with Vikings.

Clue Number 2 - In this screen you may have a Herne-ia if you try too hard.

I remember that being a thing in The Pharaoh's Tomb, but the graphics looks way too good here!

I actually bought this back in the day. Man was I disappointed! Especially after having played the rather decent C64 version...

I just now got chatting with Anthony Rosbottom on YouTube and I found out that he created the graphics on the Spectrum version of Rock 'n Roll(he also worked on the ST version). Which was completely missing in the credits here, also no roles assigned. So I added the credits on Moby and I thought I w...

Oh, this worth a note in the game entry. Based on the inlays, it seems that here are indeed two Blaby Computer Games releases. Release #1 has no title screen and the old kong graphic, and it is preserved as the tape image #3 Release #2 has a title screen and a better kong graphic, and it is preserv...

There are four main file downloads: 1. tzx - blaby different 2. tap - blaby 3. tzx - blaby 4. tzx - prism 1, 2 and 4 seem identical, but the Kong sprite on tzx #3 matches the screen shot and also the map. What the!? You are right! But I went through all of them using the JSSpeccy links and they wer...

To clarify things a bit. Here's two screenshots, showing some of the differences.

Screenshot from SPC


Screenshot from the "different" version, that looks like all the other versions available for DL (I think).

I am a sucker for traps!

I noticed that the in-game screenshot on Killer Kong looks different compared to all the versions available. There is one version labelled "different", but it still looks the same as the other versions. Just wondering if maybe there's been a mix-up. Or possibly we don't have the differentl...