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by Rorthron
Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:38 pm
Forum: ZXDB Discussion
Topic: Cricket?
Replies: 7
Views: 215

Re: Cricket?

To me the graphics look far too similar to be chance resemblances. The Graham Gooch game might have been an update of the 1986 Bug-Byte version to fill the licence. (Cf World Cup Carnival.) The "Original by M J McLean" text on the loading screen is interesting. I might have missed somethin...
by Rorthron
Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:12 am
Forum: Preservation
Topic: Cocktails
Replies: 9
Views: 268

Re: Cocktails

by Rorthron
Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:58 am
Forum: Preservation
Topic: Cocktails
Replies: 9
Views: 268

Re: Cocktails

The International Bartenders' Association still exists.

https://iba-world.com/about-iba/

Their Americano recipe hasn't changed.

https://iba-world.com/americano/
by Rorthron
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:57 pm
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: Count Duckula
Replies: 3
Views: 254

Re: Count Duckula

The game Count Duckula is also called "Count Duckula in No Sax Please - We're Egyptian" in inlay and adverts. Perhaps I'm missing something, but doesn't this answer your question? It was an alternative title. Incidentally, the alternative title for Count Duckula 2 does seem to be a mistak...
by Rorthron
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:52 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Best game music/sound
Replies: 37
Views: 1871

Re: Best game music/sound

I'm still impressed by Fairlight . The tune was already done before on C64 game Wizardry : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mKUIQjpvA I didn't know WIzardry used the same music, but are you sure Wizardry came first? SC has an August 1985 release for Fairlight. The first reviews of WIzardry seem to...
by Rorthron
Sat Dec 30, 2023 1:07 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Bandersnatch hardware
Replies: 7
Views: 595

Re: Bandersnatch hardware

There are other reasons for the presence of the Fuller gear, eg Fuller might just have given Imagine some freebies to persuade them to write games for them, Imagine could have just bought them, etc. There were, though, close (but not always cordial) relationships among the various Liverpool companies.
by Rorthron
Sat Dec 30, 2023 5:31 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Bandersnatch hardware
Replies: 7
Views: 595

Bandersnatch hardware

Watching the excellent Nostalgia Nerd video about Imagine Software, I just saw the Bandersnatch expansion board prototype connected to what seems to be a Fuller Box: https://i.postimg.cc/V5nvgbcy/2023-01-03-09h07-07.png Reading this post from druellan made me wonder who designed and made the protot...
by Rorthron
Thu Dec 28, 2023 12:40 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

:dance

Thanks for the great quiz. Very much appreciated. I missed the first rounds, but the crossword kept me entertained while I was ill in bed.
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:51 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

9D Wriggler

Mwahaha!
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:27 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

41D Super Sprint
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:24 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

34D Simulator
37D Bobby Bearing
39D Yes, Prime Minister
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:59 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

Sorry, I wrote the wrong number for Street Cred Boxing.

6D Super Space Invaders
25D Rogue Trooper
30D Castle Master
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:58 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

34A Survival
40A White Heat
1D Match Day
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:52 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

3A Star Control
11A Strider
12A Street Cred Boxing
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:37 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

Oh only the grid image is lost which is obviously not important ;) I've reverse-engineered the grid, ParadigmShifter https://i.postimg.cc/284V1HRJ/Picture1.png The symmetry breaks down in the bottom right. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10177#p10177 SOLUTION https://i.postim...
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:41 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

The Bard's Tale

I'm off to try to get some sleep.
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:31 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

ParadigmShifter wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:26 am Crazy Stealth Bread

is another one of mine I remember fondly
How many letters?
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:23 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

There's a library of premade clues here: viewtopic.php?p=23589#p23589
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:13 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

ParadigmShifter wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:11 am Oh only the grid image is lost which is obviously not important ;)
Think of it as an extra challenge.
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:09 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

It's definitely more Daily Star level than Times/Guardian anyway ;) I'm sure a 15x15 symmetric grid would be possible if we included BASIC keywords/tokens, peripherals, hardware terms, Z80 opcodes etc. It's just really hard with games only. The closest I got was this one, though the grid image is n...
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:02 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

7D Skool Daze
10D The Birds and the Bees
20D Hungry Horace (Oddly I was thinking of your clue before you mentioned it.)
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:59 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

Should 26D be 8 letters?
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:57 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

42A Terra Cresta?
46A Airwolf
47A Viz
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:52 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

22A Rambo
27A Game Over
44A Finders Keepers
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:47 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2303

Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023

OK. Sorry if I got it wrong.