Spectrum Computing

Amstrad version is very close to Spectrum. I did ask Piko Interactive if they could put in other versions as well. They told me to go to Antstream, very disappointing.

I did try the contact us button, but felt frustration because after using it an error message was displayed. Do you have a note of the error you were getting? Certainly by the numbers of messages that come through I don't think anyone else is having an issue. It's just the standard form provided wi...

I think before joining the forum I did try the contact us button, but felt frustration because after using it an error message was displayed. I don't know if it is relatedto the spam, perhaps the soam caused it to malfunction?

Years ago I wouldn't have bothered so much.. Though Imust say I like to play games knowing I have them legally.. But I know that yes, some developers don't mind if you "pirate" their old games.

But I also understand your question.

I asked themif they could release non MS-DOS versions... They told me to look at Antstream:(

I posted a thread aboutit, should have replied this one I guessed. They have poor image qualityand you can't remap controls. Tencent invested in the company...

https://www.gamesradar.com/antstream-arcade-review/

**post merged by PJ" The Netflix of old games does not let you remap controls and has poor image quality:/ When I asked them why they would not sell games but stream them, they said this was because it is better forquality because the size of the files is going to increase with the number of ga...

I noticed zx spectrum and DOS appears to be the only ones having the March music, c64 has a specific music, Amstrad has none.

It's more the titles of movie tie-ins like ' The Great Escape ', or licenses of arcade conversions, where I wonder how they perpetuate. Was The Great Escape actually a licensed game? I know it has the movie's music. It's one of those topics that I've heard arguments about in the past. The manual of...

Great Escape and Where Time Stood Still are also available on Steam (although do not appear to be the Spectrum Versions) - they form part of a Ocean Classics Volume 1 They are the DOS ports from back in the day. Not the best. Although I imagine in this example its all above board, I always wonder w...

I suppose you are not interested in the Steam game. I had it on amstrad a tape ages ago... I am seeing one from italy on Ebay for 24 euros. https://www.ebay.fr/itm/THE-GREAT-ESCAPE-OCEAN-1986-THE-HIT-SQUAD-USATO-ZX-SPECTRUM-48-128-2-3-FR1-56728/273247943359?hash=item3f9ed8babf:g:jFUAAOSwkSlbEG1B Ano...

Good remark;)

I dont know from what I readthey didn't change anything about the games themselves, it is possible they used description from other sources I don't now.

Seeing that Piko Interactive bought Ocean Software rights I wonder if they also acquired rights for Batman and Robocop.

I had not noticed it but Pikjo Interactive acquired the rights of many Ocean Software games:https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6 ... _Volume_1/

The Great Escape and Where time stood still arethose I want.

I noticed ZXDB doesn't feature a main file area for games like Batman or Robocop. I assume this is becausethe permission from movie industry would be needed right?Has there ever been attempts to get permission?(Warner Bros and whoever owns Robocop rights)

I just found it out today, and good news, it seems the people who released it own other Ocean ips...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134 ... ver_Heels/

Glad to see microcomputer games coming back.

So Airwolf does have a proper ending on Spectrum, I just checked? It was impossible to beat on CPC due toa bug.

I do livein France indeed. It might be a www issue as I was reading an old message

Yes I finished Saboteur 1 and 2 remakes(difficulty set to 9 for the first, and collected 14 papers in the last mission of 2). I was assuming it could get more young people interested as wel, as the creator of Space onvaders said during an event that many young people were interested in old games). A...

It was not. I won't givde details about why but I lost ability of curbing some fingers and I apologize for the typos. And if you have doubts about my sincerity, while I never owned a spectrum I started playing CPC 464 when I was 4. My first games were batman(ocean),Sorcery,Cauldron 1 and 2, Silent S...

I can understand why people got angry. You know, many of us feel that these old games should be free so anybody could download them from the web and enjoy them. Companies that created them already made their money, they aren't going to earn any more real cash from them. Not to say that most of thes...

It happened on a single webpage of the site, but stilk posting it as alert gfelt weird It is in french but it is about invalid certificate "Les sites web justifient leur identité par des certificats. Firefox ne fait pas confiance à ce site, car il utilise un certificat qui n’est pas valide pour...

Wow I did not know aboutit, I wonder how they cponvinced so many developers, knowing how itis hard to contact old developers and fogure who owns what.

Hello, I am posting here even though I was an Amstrad CPC user, because I have been dreaming for a while aboyt the possibility that developers would be interested in porting old games to Steam or consoles. This has happened a lot to megadrive games for example, so I thoughtt his would be great if sa...