Spectrum Computing

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...

I've been playing a few of the titles from the 60 Spectrum Games compilation by Magnum Software, and so far there's been: A crap Jumping Jack ( Head-Banger ) A crap MM ( Ian's Night Out ) A crap Moon Alert ( Escape From Alderon ) Maybe "crap" is a bit harsh - they're not Cassette 50 materi...

I assume CGC entries don't count?

The last five minutes of this rave mix has the unmistakable sound of lots of Speccy bytes being loaded in, with sampled drumbeats and other things all around the place. I'm 100% confident it's the Speccy, not a dial-up modem or a similar 8-bit computer cassette. Towards the end, they drop in some p...

I also wonder if Flak was rush released for the Speccy, as the Commodore version was released in late 1984 (or at least Commodore User etc were reviewing it around then) On the other hand (and going off topic a bit), one way to get a more accurate date for Flak might be to look at Speedlock versions...

There are a few more cases here: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/relations.php (look under "LOADING SCREEN ADAPTED FROM") One thing I didn't notice about Raid Over Moscow/Flak is they don't quite line up, Flak sits higher on the screen than Raid: https://i.postimg.cc/kVvHBGS0/ezgif-4-5f48...

Agent X and Turbo Esprit are different cars ! You can see that the one is a Turbo and the other is an X1 . This car mode was very popular during the 80s -especially in cyan color-. This explains that the images look alike -they had the same car model and they draw it.. Yeah, right! https://i.postim...