Spectrum Computing

1024MAK wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 2:36 pm Unless of course you keep your "retro" computers in a main battle tank or armoured personal carrier that is designed for combat in a nuclear war...

I certainly will, after reading this thread.

Sounds like it might be one of the friendlier online gaming communities

bluespikey wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 1:54 pm Bugaboo the Flea

You're not allowed to play the next game until you've got him out.

As an aside, do you guys play Scrabble irl against other people? I'm aware how accomplished Scrabble players know hoards of those two/three letter words that most of us mortals haven't heard of. If I was playing a mate and started playing those, I'd probably get eyerolls and people not wanting to pl...

A Day in the Life?

Pretty much every UDG sprite I tried to animate when learning BASIC in the 80s.

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...

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...

It'll probably vary on the type of game.

Might need to ask "for a game like X"

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...

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...

OK, in that case:

16 - Superkid

I had the last guess - let me know when it's a free-for-all...

19 - Wizard's Warriors

11. Blue Max

4. Scuba Dive

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...

Just looked at the manual, this looks quite interesting.

Added to Morkin's weekend playlist.

firelord 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.

Oh - "Voyage to the end of the universe"? Looks like that one is on YouTube. Might watch it now

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...

Wow, I used to play Rogue quite a bit, but that dragon-y thing rang absolutely no bells whatsoever

1024MAK wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:03 pm Good luck finding a working disk drive...

FTFY

Cool, looks like a fan site, there are links to FB and TwitterX groups.