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- Tue May 14, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Innsmouth
- Replies: 9
- Views: 775
Re: Innsmouth
Had a go at the demo (sorry, I'm too cheapskate to pay for digital Speccy games :lol: ). It's been a while since I read Mr Lovecraft's books but it's nicely presented, and has a very Cthulhoid(?) atmosphere that brought back memories... :) Love the extra art and little touches like the PDF map of In...
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How much of a 48k game is graphics? How much is code?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 897
Re: How much of a 48k game is graphics? How much is code?
Just had a look. For Balachor's Revenge (fairly simple game, tile based map, lots of screens, flip screen sprite game), it was something like: Map data storage (uncompressed) - ~9k Graphics (uncompressed) - ~13k Code - ~8k There's also a fair amount of text (compression/tokenisation used to reduce s...
- Mon May 13, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How much of a 48k game is graphics? How much is code?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 897
Re: How much of a 48k game is graphics? How much is code?
It'll probably vary on the type of game.
Might need to ask "for a game like X"
Might need to ask "for a game like X"
- Sun May 12, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7993
- Views: 253494
- Thu May 09, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Why didn't the Spectrum have an FPS?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 914
Re: Why didn't the Spectrum have an FPS?
Turbo Esprit was in first person and there was shooting. Not sure about that one, you can see your car on the screen/in the road. Possibly not an official definition but in my mind when someone says FPS I'd expect to: - see a 3D environment through the eyes of the protagonist - not see the protagon...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
- Replies: 41
- Views: 541
Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
sitting in front of a screen during the day anyway Yep, that pretty much sums it up :lol: This time I was free 9-9.30 so was able to fire off a couple of guesses, and had another look at lunchtime. Other times I've only managed to check it around lunchtime and found the few that I know have already...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
- Replies: 41
- Views: 541
Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
OK, in that case:
16 - Superkid
16 - Superkid
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
- Replies: 41
- Views: 541
Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
I had the last guess - let me know when it's a free-for-all...
- Fri May 03, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
- Replies: 41
- Views: 541
Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
19 - Wizard's Warriors
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
- Replies: 41
- Views: 541
Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
11. Blue Max
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
- Replies: 41
- Views: 541
Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
4. Scuba Dive
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 6
- Replies: 41
- Views: 541
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: New game: Binary Battle!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1111
Re: New game: Binary Battle!
Quite an interesting and original game. Very nice use of dungeon crawler grind gameplay (in a good way) in a novel setting. Got as far as level 3, where I could feel the difficulty tangibly spike with the presence of lots of 'strong' viruses. Despite saving a start-of-level snapshot and trying a few...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: New game: Binary Battle!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1111
Re: New game: Binary Battle!
Just looked at the manual, this looks quite interesting.
Added to Morkin's weekend playlist.
Added to Morkin's weekend playlist.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:22 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: IKARIE XB 1
- Replies: 9
- Views: 554
Re: IKARIE XB 1
Oh - "Voyage to the end of the universe"? Looks like that one is on YouTube. Might watch it nowfirelord wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:02 am This is from the 1963 movie IKARIE XB 1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122111/ ?
I downloaded by mistake last week. Haven't seen it yet.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: IKARIE XB 1
- Replies: 9
- Views: 554
Re: IKARIE XB 1
Crikey, are you sure this isn't a UMIA text adventure from Dinamic? Lots of countdowns to death. :? First you've got a few turns to Get out of your pod before you have a few turns to avoid an asteroid hitting your ship I think I must have died about 10 times so far... :lol: Here's where I'm stuck at...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7993
- Views: 253494
Re: Guess the screen$
Wow, I used to play Rogue quite a bit, but that dragon-y thing rang absolutely no bells whatsoever
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Goodbye,Z80
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2089
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Mastertronic Archive Site
- Replies: 17
- Views: 938
Re: Mastertronic Archive Site
Cool, looks like a fan site, there are links to FB and TwitterX groups.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7993
- Views: 253494
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:30 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7993
- Views: 253494
Re: Guess the screen$
Try this one then:
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: RIP F David Thorpe
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1991
Re: RIP F David Thorpe
Awesome Speccy artist, those screens are proper quality.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Goodbye,Z80
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2089
Re: Goodbye,Z80
Well, that's that then.
See you guys on the Amiga forums...
See you guys on the Amiga forums...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7993
- Views: 253494
Re: Guess the screen$
Looks faintly familiar but can't place it. Am getting random thoughts about missile defence games.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
- Replies: 213
- Views: 4346
Re: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
Well, can you believe it - my first reaction was Android Two . The daft thing is that I didn't recall it using rotate movements in that game, so I looked it up (and snuck a peek at the review just in case). There's a review with almost that exact wording (but not quite). So by a bit of a fluke I dis...