Spectrum Computing

SPECCY forum fellas!

Nice one. Teh interwebs makes some things very easy! Cheers.

I'm adding the Azipack compilation to the DB (which I think by Azi's own admission has not a little in common with Firebird's Don't Buy This!). One of the games has an opening beeper ditty that I recognise. So I can add it as a musical reference, can anyone tell me what it is? Download here . The ga...

flatduckrecords wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 6:43 pm Pictured: Bodger (left) and Badger (loves mashed potato)

It upsets me most days that it came just too late to be a commercially viable Spectrum game.

Just done Fair Shares. @pavero should I do the rest? (making sure to avoid duplication)

Any chance of a link? I can't find it. I wonder if that gives any more clues to the authors. Bloody hell I've fallen for an Eq tangent! You were talking about Rise out of the Dungeons on MSX. I actually woke in the night and thought "Hang on - the odds of a Blaby release on the MSX are rather ...

Time passes. Not far off 2 years as it goes, and I see the RZX has appeared, so bloody well done Eq on persevering! This game doesn't have any authors attributed. The game mentions them only as 3 letter acronyms "AJS" and "PMC". I'll get these added, but can anyone do any detecti...

Well done on those RZX for Tiny Nightmares @pavero and Whirlwind @equinox. Rollback or no rollback, they are not trivial to complete!

So it sounds like it's an unofficial re-release, that was technically legal in Italy?

If added, is there a precedent for such things @Einar Saukas? Would it just be added as a re-releaser to ID 190 with a note?

Mega Tron seems to be still missing in Spectrum Computing database ;) https://trastero.speccy.org/2024/Thrydhent/Thrydhent.html Ta. Added. Don't forget you can add these yourself via Pav's easy to use tool (red link at top). They're going for Dynamic levels of difficulty - I found it hard to play l...

Alright. Screen 1. I've cleared the (lethal) wheelbarrow, but how do you land on the wall next to it without dyeing?

Keys QW-Space

The listing itself says to remember to SAVE the UDGs. Here's a temporary link to a fix. The file will appear after the next update.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 4:37 pm Do we have undiscovered gem material here...?

Not in any real sense.

There's a smaller tape file in the zip - that's the UDGs. You need to LOAD""CODE those first.

I'll look at concatenating both files as a bugfix. Do we have undiscovered gem material here...?

Thanks for your efforts on this Frankie. I agree on both conflicting points - it is a lot of effort to go to for an illegal crack, and it is unusual that Vortex doesn't get a mention. So that doesn't help! Alessandro has a good nose for things like this too, just in case. Any chance you can make the...

Nice interface and a good read. I like the cut of Coarsetone's gib with the Overcomposure article. Honest criticism from a standpoint of wanting better, and praise where it was due. The Dave Fountain article has lead me down a rabbithole of old FP and Knucklegirl's demos :o It won't revolutionise ho...

Simon Cooke's label entry links to a Wikipedia article which is actually about a Kiwi olympic sailor of the same name.

I can't find an alternative Simon Cooke at Wikipedia, so the wiki link should be deleted. However, the link to his own site is good, and has a pretty cool speccy themed GUI!

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/w/WarOfTheRoses.scr&border=0 Give that it's The Roses* this weekend- War Of The Roses . Someone needs to make a contemporary speccy game where the battles are played out as track and field sports, plus online & board gaming, debat...

Duncan McDonald Ta for the tip. Bought the book and just finished it. Most of it is really enjoyable, especially as you can trust that at least half of it is true, but towards the end I found the endless madcap dole adventures a bit depressing and drug addled. Overall though, it's like Kerouac's On...

I nearly finished it on bread and water: 84 items and an energy of 009, but I still needed to get back to Minnie. I saved a snapshot and ended up using it. The difficulty is really well judged though - BITD I'd have been happy to go back to the start, knowing I'd probably complete it that time. Ther...

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat May 06, 2023 8:15 pm Heard one today! I think it was doing the code block from Nonterraqueous.

Almost a year to the day - I heard a Sedge Warbler today, though this time it was doing the loading screen from Disco Dan.

We're safe for another year folks!

8 - Boulder Dash

(Compliments on the clue)

Hooray! Great fun as always. The graphics and sound are SOOO on point. Well done @Daveysloan and @Lee Bee.

The-Red-Bayron wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 9:58 am Hi R-Tape, Thanks for your message. Hope that you are enjoying the game, this is my first attempt and it seem be doing well.

Indeed it is. I'm halfway and enjoying it. Sent you a PM btw.

@bluespikey

Fantastic. I didn't know about the extra levels on other platforms. It feels like I'm playing MM all over again in a parallel universe - so thanks!