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- Wed Oct 30, 2019 5:13 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1235
- Views: 199881
Re: Spectrum memes
Chortle. Any idea what he's playing btw? Or.. or.. just a thought.. that phone can't receive texts.. I'd say that's on her! :lol: I knew somebody would beat me to pointing out the obvious flaw with this picture. Also he's about 12 and she's about 25, so any interaction of that nature would be highl...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:18 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Mastertronic: vote
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3039
Re: The best Speccy game by Mastertronic: vote
Chronos is one of the best shoot-em-ups ever made for the Spectrum. I must admit that this completely passed me by at the time (a lot of these did to be honest), which is a real shame; I've had a quick glance at the walkthrough and it looks like it would have been right up my street. Interestingly ...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:25 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Mastertronic: vote
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3039
Re: The best Speccy game by Mastertronic: vote
Kind of surprised that Loco-Motion doesn't have more love on here. For me, it's the absolute standout and still plays well today.
1. Loco-Motion
2. Finders Keepers
3. Kikstart 2
1. Loco-Motion
2. Finders Keepers
3. Kikstart 2
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:05 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Mastertronic Added Dimension: vote
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2647
Re: The best Speccy game by Mastertronic Added Dimension: vote
It's a pretty good line-up, really. Some of these polls, I struggle to make a top 3 but I could probably do...oh, at least a credible top 5 from these. 180 at the top of course; it's a bit easy, but is such a great game to play even now that it has to be in first place. 1. 180 2. Spellbound 3. Knigh...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 4:42 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Old BASIC games that deserve a Machine Code remake
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2516
Re: Old BASIC games that deserve a Machine Code remake
A compiler is the middle way, I compiled a few basic games back in the day with M Coder (the first version), the biggest effort was compiling Kevin Tom's Football Manager. Of course it won't add any polish or class to the game, it just means you don't have such long waits for the next screen to app...
- Wed Oct 23, 2019 4:06 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1235
- Views: 199881
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 4:44 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Famous beeper sounds
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6582
Re: Famous beeper sounds
The sound from Dynamite Dan when you lose a life is excellent, it always stands out for me because before I heard that, I didn't know that the Spectrum could be coerced into making that kind of noise. But all the sound in both Dynamite Dan games is great. It's no real surprise that Rod Bowkett was a...
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 5:28 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Changing Fonts in ZX Spectrum :)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7888
Re: Changing Fonts in ZX Spectrum :)
1. Not really, not unless you 'write' directly to the new font location to 'build' it live. A bit like that character thickener routine that's been used in a few bits of Basic. Not unless you change it in the ROM that is. :D I’ve been searching for a character thickening routine, but this is the on...
- Tue Sep 24, 2019 3:03 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Melbourne House: vote
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3012
Re: The best Speccy game by Melbourne House: vote
Very difficult, lots of nice games here and - possibly more pertinently - lots of games that I played a lot back in the 1980s, which always colours my votes on these things. I'm going to go for: 1. Starion 2. Way Of The Exploding Fist 3. Hampstead Could easily have had Gyroscope, Sherlock, Penetrato...
- Tue Sep 24, 2019 2:56 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Micromega: vote
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2202
Re: The best Speccy game by Micromega: vote
I've gone for Full Throttle, I thought it was a really good racing simulation for its time. And Deathchase doesn't really need any more votes.
1. Full Throttle
2. Jasper!
3. Deathchase
1. Full Throttle
2. Jasper!
3. Deathchase
- Tue Sep 24, 2019 2:43 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Did you ever think you were the last Spectrum user?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5741
Re: Did you ever think you were the last Spectrum user?
Excellent topic. In my last year at university in Dundee (1992-93) I took my Spectrum with me and it was permanently connected to the massive CRT TV (which weighed roughly one metric tonne) that I'd bought for £40 from a dodgy second-hand shop. This was purely so that I could run my revolutionary fo...
- Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:39 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Encore: vote re-run (sorry)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 813
Re: The best Speccy game by Encore: vote re-run (sorry)
I finally played Mike Read's Pop Quiz today. I'm a total pop nerd, so I'm not sure why I've not sought it out before (probably because of the Mike Read connection). I didn't mind the obscure 1950s/1960s questions, as these are fair (and some should always be included in a well-rounded pop quiz) plus...
- Sun Sep 15, 2019 2:38 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Melbourne House: discussion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1261
Re: The best Speccy game by Melbourne House: discussion
I must admit that I didn't realise that a lot of these were Melbourne House releases. It's not a bad roster, all told. Of the adventures, I much preferred Hampstead and Sherlock to The Hobbit/Lord Of The Rings, but that's really just down to my preference for the settings/subject matter. When Sherlo...
- Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:10 am
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Keyboard Controls
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17935
Re: Keyboard Controls
I know that QAOP and M/SPACE is the classic key layout for Speccy games, but I've seen some people prefer a sort of 'left-handed' version of this with ZX for left/right and up/down on the right. If there was another option for keys in a game (and not redefinable), what would it be? If I could redef...
- Sun Sep 01, 2019 5:13 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Encore: vote
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1376
Re: The best Speccy game by Encore: vote
I don't even know who that Mike Read is! :lol: He's, um... like a real-life Alan Partridge. A TV/radio presenter from the 1980s who had very little charisma. He was on things, but I could never suss out why. Must be a case of knowing the right people, because he's certainly inept and has no social ...
- Sun Sep 01, 2019 2:57 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Elite: vote
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4048
Re: The best Speccy game by Elite: vote
As I mentioned in the discussion thread, this is between two absolute classics for me. It's almost a coin toss because they're both so good. But I think Bomb Jack just about edges it. 3rd place to Kokotoni Wilf; although not really close to the standard of the first two, still a good, fun game. 1. B...
- Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:28 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Complete release list
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5920
Re: Complete release list
Seriously man, get it downloaded now! Probably the best Spectrum game ever (apart from Zythum by Mirrorsoft of course).
- Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:13 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Elite: discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3139
Re: The best Speccy game by Elite: discussion
I'd actually forgotten how many good games Elite put out. For some reason my lasting impression of them has been of a downmarket US Gold, all rushed-out licences of poor-quality US TV shows, but looking at the list, there are some great games there and at least a couple of absolute classics (as othe...
- Sun Aug 18, 2019 5:59 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: BasinC oddnesses
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4833
Re: BasinC oddnesses
As the author of BASin has said it might have a few bugs and it will be fixed but not yet (and he is hinting it will be merged into a shiny new Spin :) ) so if you are having an issue with saving then save as a .bas and before you exit basin just copy the text into notepad and save that. if the .ba...
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:59 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: BasinC oddnesses
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4833
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:14 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: BasinC oddnesses
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4833
Re: BasinC oddnesses
OK, here's an odd one. I've been messing with something for the last couple of days and saving it as a .bas file. Everything was fine, the file was saved and re-opened probably ten times or more with no problems, until today. Attempting to open it does nothing, there is apparently no program. It's n...
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 5:32 pm
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Surnames
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15628
Re: Surnames
Ok, no problem. I want to finish the season as top scorer! :mrgreen: I'm still considering how it's all going to work. Normally I'd save a bit of memory by having the initial competitors pre-defined, but as new competitors are going to have to be generated as the game progresses, I thought I might ...
- Mon Aug 12, 2019 10:14 pm
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Surnames
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15628
Re: Surnames
From the Wally Week saga I'm missing Hinsley & Strudwick. We can also include artists like Thorpe, Wakelin, Azpiri, Delcan & Royo (another three foreign! ;) ), Frey, Rowe and Lund. Excellent! Think I've got 95 now, so probably enough to get going (although I've not worked out exactly how ev...
- Mon Aug 12, 2019 4:06 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Activision: vote
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5152
Re: The best Speccy game by Activision: vote
I honestly barely remember more than a handful of these. The only one that I spent any kind of time on was Mindshadow, so that gets my vote. Adventure games could often be quite impenetrable in those days (especially as in most cases I only had tape-to-tape copies with no instructions) but Mindshado...
- Mon Aug 12, 2019 3:32 pm
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: Surnames
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15628
Re: Surnames
Thanks everyone, some great suggestions here. I would add some of the people who created the speccy... Done! If 'tangential' counts, then how about Braben and Bell? or are they/Elite more associated with the Beeb? Oh absolutely, I already had a couple of C64 programmers. I've put the rest of your su...