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Has anyone else noticed the difference between the Robot Messiah .scr displayed on SC, and the screen that's displayed when you load the tap or tzx? https://i.postimg.cc/g0kjY24V/Robot-Messiah2.jpg Loading screen displayed on SC https://i.postimg.cc/L6LnD7n1/Robot-Messiah1.jpg Actual loading screen ...

Ozric Tentacles made a few tunes in non-standard time signatures. This would be a good start:

I was under the impression that Batty was not released because of legal threats from the similarity to Arkanoid, rather than because it wasn't considered "good enough". StooB is talking about Battleships, which eventually replaced Space Harrier on the Best of Elite Vol 2 compilation a cou...

Not sure about that one, you can see your car on the screen/in the road. Possibly not an official definition but in my mind when someone says FPS I'd expect to: - see a 3D environment through the eyes of the protagonist - not see the protagonist themself (3rd person) - see a weapon/gun at the botto...

Turbo Esprit was in first person and there was shooting.

Mudhoney and Cyndi Lauper should do a mash up. Girls just wanna touch me I'm sick (Sonic Youth did a good cover of Touch Me I'm Sick too). I make mashups and play them on the radio (see my sig), I'll add that to the list. SPECCY forum fellas! In a vague attempt to get back on topic, I always though...

Ralf wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 11:40 am So they were locked for a week in some room without windows, coding 16 hours per day?

Sounds about right for Activision, didn't Bob Pape say something similar about the working conditions there?

I was playing Batty a couple of weeks ago, and realised how annoying it was... but having given everything else a quick go it's still my favourite game on the list. 1. Batty - harder than Arkanoid but I prefer the game mechanics and the graphics are better 2. Soldier One - surprisingly half-decent s...

I'm not sure where else you'd put their games, but do Pete Cooke and Cybadyne (Christian Urquhart) count as readers?

Finished the DS version now too (with snapshots again). Love the Deep Dark Hole, that took a few attempts!

There's nothing to stop people posting their own quizzes at 3am on a Wednesday morning!

Fabulous! How did you find that out? Did you just recognise it or was it talked about elsewhere? I guessed it was an Ultimate game from the distinctive noise it made (Ultimate only used 22 of the 24 rows for a loading screen, so there was always a long "blaaaaarp" at the end), and after t...

So we have this, compiled by equinox and hosted on WoS: Spectrum references in popular music . But it's not been updated for a while, so here's a thread where we can add stuff like this. As clebin just posted elsewhere, 'Letter from Hampi Mountain' by Snapped Ankles includes a recognisable snippet o...

clebin wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 11:47 am What about this from popular beat combo The Snap Dankles? Sounds like a mashed up Speccy loading screen to me (almost a minute in)

That's the Jet Pac loading screen attributes, that is!

GreenCard wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 1:16 pmPenetrator

F'NAR!

GreenCard wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 1:16 pmcockpit view down a tunnel

F'NAR!

After dying loads on the third screen I've completed the first version (saving snapshots) and now onto the DS version, which seems even more difficult! But it's MM, it'd be no fun if it wasn't a challenge.

15. Way Of The Exploding Fist

6. Starquake

7. Zynaps

Hi Lee, Thanks for your message, I hope that you are not getting to put off by level 3. The trick is to work your way up to the top right corner then down to below the key, jump up to collect the key an into the exit. Cheers! I worked it out in the end, using snapshots I'm up to the Meteor Storm no...

Parallel universe is right, but I'm finding these really bloody difficult, can only get to the third screen!

I got to the imaginatively titled second screen, thought "oh god, more of the same?" and turned it off. But at least you don't have to redo the whole thing if you die on your way back from collecting the objects.

D'oh! Only recently I was reading that article. I suppose I didn't notice the bit about UTS because I wasn't specifically looking for it at the time. Is this worth marking in ZXDB? Yes (sorry keep forgetting to reply), I'll have a look in the morning to see exactly which Your Computer I saw the ad ...

Really interesting site! Did anyone not buy the re-release of Ghostbusters? And I'm surprised some of the Ultimate games and (in particular) Starquake sold so poorly - although I suppose for parents/grandparents looking for £2 stocking fillers, the quality of the game doesn't matter as much as wheth...

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/w/WinerMilly.scr&border=0 There's also Winer Milly on the same cassette, which is even more on the nose! As you say, neither MM nor CGC material. I've got a soft spot for both. Winer Milly might even be all BASIC, which makes it a pre...