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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.

Pobulous wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:11 pmThe Planets

Correct...!

Try this one then:

Awesome Speccy artist, those screens are proper quality.

Well, that's that then.

See you guys on the Amiga forums...