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It's a fantastic game and a great package. Why is it disk only?

(sending you a PM btw)

Mike Chambers wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 18, 2019 1:53 am

Hi all, new here. I'm writing a Spectrum emulator...

Great stuff!

Can we put the pettifogging details to one side and ask: have you got a cool name in mind ?

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:25 pm

Hi, @PeterJ , just uploaded a new inlay using the upload facility. I think I made it twice!

It's the first time I'm using it, I hope I made it well.

Looks good Juan, I can see Spy vs Spy III and Supergran. It won't be this update, but it'll happen

2018 saw me buckle down and sharpen my assembly skills to write myself some software (and some music) to enable me to perform a gig using two 48k spectrums. Hi uglifruit! This is proper cool. What was the gig exactly? General electronic music, or retro-computer themed? And how did it go down?! ...2...

stupidget wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:22 pm

No point doing this list to be honest, as it’s clearly going to won by the monumental William Wobbler

No chance—Weetabix versus the Titchies all the way.*

I'm probably with redballoon, but I still think Willow Pattern is worth a mention.

*not really namco!

One note: this Bandersnatch barcode program better would be classified as "demo", not "simulation" I deliberated between the two genres, and opted for simulation because it was a pretend representation (like the teletext simulator). But since you mention Ralf, demo does feel more correct today. Dem...

AndyC wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:49 pm

Remove FLASH because it's horrific,

Do you mean the command only, or the property as well?

add in a FILL for flood filling regions of the screen.

Good call, as long as it's not painfully slow.

madaxe wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:02 pm

There is a small mistake in this update.

This is weird, I can't find any trace of you in the SC search, and I thought I didn't add you properly yet! Can you link to where you found this information?

Haha, poor Denis,

There's only one thing worse than being given post-release bug reports, and that's being given post-release bonus feature requests

New beta 4 for Lovecraft Mythos and awesome level editor! at ancientbytes.com the beta 2 was great and addictive, imho it only needed some more introductory levels.. what do you think about the new changes? Just had a play and 'found' 4 levels. It takes a bit of getting used to but it's fun to run ...