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- by R-Tape
- Thu May 02, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Manic Miner: The Lost Levels
- Replies: 18
- Views: 612
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.
- by R-Tape
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Manic Miner: The Lost Levels
- Replies: 18
- Views: 612
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!
- by R-Tape
- Wed May 01, 2024 5:58 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
- Replies: 103
- Views: 5387
Just noticed Sloth Attack! from last month. Very 'Rosco the Cat'. Nice to see Absinthe Boy still at it. This is the only game in the archive with "Sloth" in the title, but is it the only game featuring a sloth? EdToo I had the same problem as you regarding taking a screenshot - inserting l...
- by R-Tape
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:53 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Game of the day...
- Replies: 608
- Views: 102848
Wait. Isn't that how people do it in MM already? It is how I do it, but you don't have to do it that way. In MM, you can jump over the honker from the same platform. That isn't possible in Winer Milly (at least I haven't managed it), so it's more true to life in that sense. I would only expect to b...
- by R-Tape
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Game of the day...
- Replies: 608
- Views: 102848
Hehe. If the telephone is the problem, you have to jump from on top of the brick wall. You can't get over it from the same height.
- by R-Tape
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Game of the day...
- Replies: 608
- Views: 102848
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/w/WinerMilly.scr&border=0 Since it was discussed here and is only 5 screens, I had to complete Winer Milly . On completion it suggests to keep an eye out for the next release in the series, and in true Mire Mare fashion, it's a game t...
- by R-Tape
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: A crap version of...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 601
A crap MM ( Ian's Night Out ) 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 a...
- by R-Tape
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:51 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Enter the Prilel
- Replies: 5
- Views: 658
Thanks. Very cool and atmospheric! It's nice to see great games still being made with the Spectrum-based AGD designer.
- by R-Tape
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:36 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: how do print to the screen using an exact pixel location in code?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 166
im sure this is fairly easy as this is the way the spectrum displays characters anyway. I'm afraid not! The spectrum's display is designed with easy printing of characters at set positions of columns and rows—not pixel positions. My beginner's sprite routine might help. Have a read of the thread as...
- by R-Tape
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Cult Games: vote
- Replies: 14
- Views: 404
I just wanted to add another shout out to Kemshu - a very interesting outlier from this publisher. I don't know if this is a well established type of puzzle, but I'd never heard of it or this game before. As noted in this thread, the keys are a bit twitchy, but it's a very addictive puzzle otherwise.
- by R-Tape
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: The 'is anyone in touch with?' thread
- Replies: 0
- Views: 136
Is anyone in touch with @Morcar? It looks like his email has been hacked* so if someone can let him know by some other channel that would be great.
*unless he's expanding his interests into dating sites with what he is pleased to call '"authentic damsels"
- by R-Tape
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Coincidence!
- Replies: 59
- Views: 1417
Interesting. I was actually searching for the game he posted on the SC search, and when I didn't find it I noticed the option "non-crap only" in Advanced so I turned it off, but still didn't find it. You mean Travel with Pacman? It's there . I guess most of the "crap" ones are n...
- by R-Tape
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:51 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Coincidence!
- Replies: 59
- Views: 1417
Curses! They've seen through my elaborate obfuscation technique of mirroring the image.
- by R-Tape
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:45 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: RIP F David Thorpe
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1785
@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.
- by R-Tape
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: RIP F David Thorpe
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1785
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...
- by R-Tape
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Game of the day...
- Replies: 608
- Views: 102848
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 ...
- by R-Tape
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Matchboxes and two more
- Replies: 3
- Views: 314
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...
- by R-Tape
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: RIP F David Thorpe
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1785
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...
- by R-Tape
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: New Game: Nectar
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1471
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...