Spectrum Computing

https://zxart.ee/zxscreen/border:0/mode:mix/pal:alone/type:standard/zoom:1/id:497174/ I love how this thread is full of images I never thought I'd see on a Spectrum, yet feel natural and unforced in their own context - a complete artistic expression. I've been noticing (perhaps incorrectly?) that a...

Is this it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4nTXbBg2Fo&t=100s In 1988 there was what looks like it might possibly cause someone to allege has the possibly interpretable appearance of something perhaps mistakenly similar to an unauthorised Spectrum version: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/alt/53...

Oh that is so nice and smooth, and the parallax works so well! Great presentation, and a fun game

Some notables, not yet mentioned : Software Star is software company manager, by Kevin 'Football Manager' Toms. Not as good as Software House, as I recall. Millionaire is about a software house as well. Write what you know, I suppose. Millionaire is a perfect rainy-day game. My sister and i would p...

https://i.postimg.cc/XpT4qHqj/Rebelstar-Spectrum-Analyser.png It is slow going but I'm trying to get a better understanding of how the chance to hit and damage mechanics worked. There are a lot of data tables for weapons, units and map elements that aren't formatted anywhere currently but I'll try ...

I'm not really sure what you're asking here, so I won't attempt an answer, but I have to ask: Are you assigning labels to instructions that aren't jumped to or called from anywhere else in the code? If so, why? No - these are labels already present in the control file that i'm renaming for consiste...

I'm running into a couple of issues with how to best handle labels for subroutines: Subroutines with no external entry points given labels indistinguishable from common routines An attempt to fully-qualify the label leads to less ambiguity but also makes the html disassembly slightly more unsightly ...

The Colt is a new BASIC compiler from HiSoft, previously well-known for their Spectrum Pascal package. Colt is a fourth generation program, descended from ZX-GT, Mcoder 1, and Mcoder 2, reviewed last issue. Rather confusingly, Mcoder 3 (which we look at later) is an entirely new program. https://ww...

I've not studied the code obviously Consider it homework ;) After almost 40 years, Skooldaze is still a assigning stealth-homework to kids :twisted: It did have great potential for other games. But from interviews in Retrogamer, Skool Daze was written simply because the author wanted a game which a...

Grongy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:08 pm

I love the atmospherics of this one. The headlight rain-blurred reflections are such a nice touch!

I think you may be overestimating the amount of "source control management" done in those days ;) Really? She had to organise and manage and keep track of how many (hundreds? thousands?) of bits of paper all with different versions of routines, and the same routines with different dates/b...

Always thought that there should have been a third game called “Work Daze” with Eric working in a factory or something. I want this game. Find a way to get promoted to head office, then file TPS reports on time and stay late, or hide from mangers, smash printers without getting caught, etc. Well th...

The way the 'skool' engine handles the player sprites is distinct from most other games i'm aware of - e.g. how sitting at a desk melds your sprite into the background layer seamlessly and you literally become a part of the school - a subtlety but one which boosts my sense of immersion considerably....

bluespikey wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:00 am Heheheh. Rebelstar Raiders.

Yay - you got it

Contact Sam Cruise Through the Monkey Island Trap Door

Thanks - glad you liked it

Does anyone else want to go next, or should i go again?

That's the one!

blucey wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:52 pmScumball?

That's not it either, sorry!

stupidget wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:55 am What year is this from? If it’s after 1990 then there’s probably only 6 people on Earth who’ll know what it is

It was published in the UK in 1986

SteveSmith wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:45 amSir Fred?

Stefan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:28 amSabre Wulf?

Oloturia wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:11 pmSuper Mutt?

It's none of those, but all of those do have something in common that forms part of the correct answer.

Sorry! Here's more - i hope i didn't pick something too obscure.

Sorry, that's not it.

Sorry, no cos good guess! Here's more:

It's a doorning on me that my previous hint was inshipicient