Spectrum Computing

It's 1984, and we keep hearing about these fashionable "drugs". Do you have kids, or a spouse, or do you live in bloody Wales? Why not read the following important information? https://hwb.gov.wales/keeping-safe-online/in-the-know Also, here are some of the words that drug dealers might us...

What if we spelled out words by hitting a single key on the keyboard, combined with Shift or Extend modifiers... sounds crazy but I think it could work! (This was a joke about 16/48K BASIC keyboard entry by the way. Mod PeterJ correctly deleted and PMed me when I later went crazy. But you can still...

So we have this, compiled by @equinox and hosted on WoS: ... An aside: Lee, I ditched the idea of "having a home page" in 2014, but I didn't want to lose all the useful stuff I had accumulated. That included (as far as the Speccy scene cares) 1. my list of Easter eggs in games, 2. my list...

Well done on those RZX for Tiny Nightmares @pavero and Whirlwind @equinox. Rollback or no rollback, they are not trivial to complete! Next (game list) update I will post the RZX for "Rockfall 3", a game that nobody else will ever complete (except possibly Andre Leao, and future interested...

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 small" ! I dream about you too honey. Regarding the Whirlwind game: as I recall, it only...

The music is extremely high quality, wow! Texts are OK... I loved Dave Fountain's story, although if it's sad at the end, it's because we ain't doing the right thing. We were big swappers in the early 90s and I picked up a lot of his style and attitude (including the swearing). I think he told a cou...

Very informative -- thank you!

And Dr Andy Wright was definitely for me the name that I knew when I heard it -- yes -- everyone knew Beta BASIC was excellent but it's tough to introduce a new standard. (I truly think Sam BASIC is the best consumer BASIC ever made. It's stunning.)

All right, here's a more philosophical one: Knight Lore, Alien-8, Pentagram They are all the same producer of course (Ultimate) but I think any Speccy game player would separate them into 1 and 2. For me: Knight Lore is the "good" one: Pentagram is playable, Alien 8 is playable, but they a...

Any Dizzy game => any Spellbound game.
(Carried out by PeterJ)

1) Dizzy 3.5 - Because it's Dizzy! A whole new (small) adventure. A new character who is never mentioned again. A somersaulting egg. What more could you want? A weird blobby amoeba thing with huge hands. 2) Seymour Take One - Because it's almost Dizzy. The loveable spud(?) in his own mini adventure...

General -> Search Settings, Change Common Word Threshold.


Edited by PJ - PM Sent

It's a perfectly reasonable approach for software produced by enthusiastic amateurs as a hobby. The author would get a little bit of income if it was popular and sold and Nev would be taking on most of the risk and hassle of selling it. It's a perfectly reasonable approach given a minimum figure of...

@equinox, If you can find solutions within the phpBB documentation I would welcome your contributions. I just tried another popular phpBB based forum and they have a minimum of four characters so consider yourself lucky :dance :dance :dance :dance What if we spelled out words by hitting a single ke...

1024MAK wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 11:34 am https://www.qlforum.co.uk/

Plus various QL web sites.

Mark

lol, thanks but are you ready to post helpful links every time I do a search?

Nev Young mentions UNIDOS in his entry at World of SAM side comment, not about disks or DOS: Perhaps I am cynical but did Brenchley suggest "you should do a royalty-based independent-coder software house" (= the house takes care of the coder for the gradual development, and pays them repe...

Reading through all Format issues could provide more insight. SD Software was advertising in pretty much every issue. Oh I had totally forgotten about Format... I remember it existing as a paid subscription, and I remember Mr Bob Brenchley (didn't they end up being more of a Sam Coupé affair?), but...

I see, this is the "what do we call non-demo products on a tape" -- I am glad that my "promo" suggestion was used. I voted for Diz 3.5 because that was an entire (mini)game to the extent that it actually introduced a new character to the franchise (Dizzy's brother/cousin/whatever...

EXCITING! Did they really interview Fudgepacker?
Downloading it right now.
(I'm on a slow connection so it might take up to 15 seconds.)

No I'm not going to complain that it wouldn't let me do two searches in 30 seconds. I'm going to raise this: "The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: QL. You must specify at least one word to search for. Each word must consist of at least 3 chara...

I don't know how many people had an MGT +D (Plus D) floppy disk system. This plugged into yer backside and gave you proper high-speed mass storage, on 3.5" floppies, not the dodgy "mass-storage" lie of the microdrive. However of course it came somewhat later, and had no official appro...

WhatHoSnorkers wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:00 pm I met a guy at the 40th Spectrum Birthday who met Toni Baker IRL back in the 80s. She wore a duffel coat I think he said.

Heheh... I was thinking "is that nerd cred?" but no, trainspotters don't wear duffel coats, possibly anoraks.
I think the duffel was military.

Nitrowing wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:32 pm https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/undert ... game-ever/

Indeed I chose a bad example, but then why was it Undertale and not Manic Miner? Recency bias.

But the one female member of the Total! staff I'm more likely to remember was Dane McLellan. Apparently she had a massive black coffee addiction and favoured "violent beat'em-ups with lots of gore". I assume she's Scottish, and probably a Weegie. Wouldn't surprise me if she imagined herse...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:44 pm Kati Hamza, Linda Barker and Jackie Ryan have entered the chat.

Yes? "Extremely rare" doesn't mean zero.

I don't have any evidence but personally would assume a real staffer who was just assigned tips as her remit.

There were plenty of women working on magazines, but but women with any interest in home computing prior to the WWW — particularly technical interest — seem to have been extremely rare.