Spectrum Computing

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!

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...

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...

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.

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...

stupidget wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:07 pm JetSet Willy is a pre-acid casualty version of Fahrenheit 3000

FTFY

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...

Thanks. Very cool and atmospheric! It's nice to see great games still being made with the Spectrum-based AGD designer.

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...

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.

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"

Superb idea and presentation. It's taking a few goes but I'm getting the hang of it.

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...

@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.

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...