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@GreenCard if you're linking to something in the archive, right click on the image and copy the address - that can be used in a forum post.

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He has some fantastic loading screens, but one of my favs is the one for his own game: Royal Birkdale: Championship Golf I see from the video Juan links to further up that this is the one that got him the gig as their graphics guy. I bet when the Ocean team asked him to do a loading screen for this...

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Been playing Catwalk today I'm pretty fond of this game. Just had a blast myself - and thoroughly failed to reach the catfood on screen 4. I don't think it's possible to represent a Jackdaw better in as many pixels. Looking at the map , the penultimate screen features JSW, Horace and Kong. Maybe I ...

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Perhaps a bit simple for the £2.50 price tag, but these are pretty charming, with an oldschool mail order feel to them. I made a strange discovery on Wingo - on level 7, "BOTTY" makes it return to BASIC (so does POTTY or anything OTTY for that matter)! I checked if it was a curse word filt...

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RIP Frederick David Thorpe. Screens like Blue Max shows he could wrestle with attributes and win, Cavelon shows artistic inspiration and skills of composition, and Chinese Juggler and Eskimo Eddie are simply fantastic screens and not just 'for the speccy'. Not to mention his landscape art. He was pr...

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There is now a learners mode, selected from the main menu, which starts with an easier level and you don't lose collected nectar between lives. Great idea. There's a bug though - if you complete a level in learner mode it gets stuck in a loop. It looks like it tried to start a new level, but automa...

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After chatting with bartfast and others, it seems unlikely that a golf game called "Bunkered" was recorded over on both sides with a BASIC golf game from 3 years earlier, and more likely that Global Software are the re-releaser of Abrasco's Golf. I still find it weird that Global haven't m...

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Given that I voted it a 6, I've given Ralf's colour MOD a 7.

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Had it have been a budget game with nothing to do with the series, called "Time Punk" then we'd probably be more forgiving. Yep great points. It could even have gone as far as 'hidden gem' with quirky speccy humour. So having said that, I'm wondering if I should up my vote from a 6 to 7...

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Yep! Android 1. Just been playing (wrestling with?) it and wondered what the reviews made of it. For some reason I found it harder than an isometric.

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Not Knight Lore!

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It's a relatively simple affair where everything moves in exact character squares, complicated by a rotate and move control system.

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Nothing specific, but this news story has 'text adventure' written all over it.

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I'm reassured by it only having ten levels, perhaps I'm less rubbish than I thought. (Got as far as The Pits) First attempt, level one was a nightmare for me. I needed to get used to the strict collision and most importantly not be so bloody eager. There's a trick with The Pits: it's easy with it, ...

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https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=zxdb/sinclair/entries/0042782/MushroomSoup-RUN-1.scr&border=0 Mushroom Soup . I heard the review on Crash radio this week and it reminded me how much I liked this little game. I noticed little extras like you actually bend down to pick up the m...

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Massive thanks to bartfast * for sending me the tape for this. With the help of people in this thread , I managed to convert it to TAP. I'm not uploading anything to the site yet as there some questions over what's what here. Here's the TAP . But it's exactly the same as Abrasco's Golf , already in ...

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8BitAG wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:37 pm I use a USB tape player and had good results following TMD2003's tips here...

Can I ask which USB tape player? There's loads out there and I want to make sure I get it right.

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Breadbins aside, I bet Speccy games cover most of those sins!

Lycanthropy - Knightlore
Illuminati - Illuminati
Tarot - Gypsy Tarot
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Thanks fellas. I haven't even got past the first hurdle yet! https://stonechatproductions.co.uk/zxgames/gameimages/AudacityProb.png I'm playing the tape, but no trace is being recorded, despite the green bar at the top moving in sync with loading noises (and responding to changes in volume). The Ste...

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That all depends on how tidy your code is, and if you RETurn from every CALL!!! :lol: You can get away with a lot of mess in a game with, for example, a jump JP directly to your 'You Died' or finally 'Game Over' function, and have that reset the stack pointer, then jump again directly to your title...

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How do you set SP from machine code? ld sp,44000 Yep just like that Sludge. As long as you're not planning to return to BASIC, you can LOAD SP anywhere your own code will not encroach, and the stack will build down from there. Maybe allow 100 bytes space to be extra careful. It's best done once at ...

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sludge wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:22 am Any easy way of remedying the issue or will my data have to be shifted lower down?

Can't you put the stack below your own code? You can go as low as CLEAR 24000, but a bit higher is safer in case you have a large BASIC loader later.

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1 - Cricket Challenge 2 - The Racing Game The field sport games are the same formula. The racing game arguably has more going for it in terms of presentation and play, but I went for the one that interested me more. Nay third place. I'm not a horse racing fan but I can remember both my uncle and my ...

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Can anyone give any pointers on how to convert cassette tapes to TAP/TZX. I thought it would be straightforward, but nothing has worked so far. I'm after the basics: -how do I get the sound onto a laptop? I have a tape player, a mono-stereo jack, and Audacity to record. Do laptops automatically reco...

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This is what I use on the title screen to load Kempston values into the game code: It might be less confusing to have 3 separate routines rather than all that code poking. So e.g. on the intro page you have a byte that says what control option has been selected, the game code could look something l...

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