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Definitely Christmas, as the reyes magos (the magic kings) are very important in xmas in Spain and most central and south american countries (not sure if also in eastern europe) where children get their xmas gifts from them (not Santa) in the night of 5th january. We know about them and celebrate t...

Also it seems that you miss 3 Reyes Magos:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=27998

I believe it's about these guys so it's definitely Christmas theme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi

W: Wanderers. Chained in the dark https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=30168

I: Invasion of the Zombie Monsters https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=24601

This one:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=7507

It's a Polish demo containing a collection of traditional Polish Christmas carols (load in 128 kB mode and press numbers to hear them)

You probably know Mojon Twins. They released dozens of games like they were some kind of factory. Each of them separately is quite nice. But try playing several of them one after another and you'll get a strong feeling of deja vu, a feeling that you are actually playing the same game ;) So they did ...

I'll try to do the rarest letters where we don't have so much choice: Q: Quadrax - cool logical game from Slovakia https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=9403 Y: Yumiko in the Haunted Mansion - average game but out of lack of others at Y ;) https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?...

Okay, some from me:

A
B Buzzsaw by Jason J Railton
C Castlevania: Spectral Interlude
D Dizzy 7 (remake)
E
F Fire & Ice
G
H
I
J
K
L
M Metal Man
N
O
P Prince of Persia
Q
R
S Sword of Ianna
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
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Yes, it's great. Great graphics, great sounds, great gameplay. Unfortunately second part (yes, it exists for Spectrum) is total crap. You may not know that there are 48kB and 128kB version of this game and they differ. IT's not only AY music but also some changes in gameplay in 128kb version. Actual...

Please people, don't remove adult titles from Spectrum Computing. 99% of us are old men in 30s, 40s and 50s and we all know how a naked human body looks like ;) If some lost kid would come here then it would be enough to put some warning, maybe require clicking that he accepts watching and downloadi...

I disagree that 2017 has been a stinker of a year for the Speccy. It was a mixed bag. The bad: dirty bad fight around Vega projects and quite recently several marketing lies reaveled. Community deeply split into followers and haters. Old WOS, may now better called World of Lee going down with each ...

This guy is incredible!

I don't remember ever, since 2003 when I started using Internet and browsing Spectrum news that anybody produced so much and so good quality loading screens for Spectrum games. What else can I say, waiting for even more

A new-old game is discovered :) A man called Jon Burton, who is currently an active modern games developer decided to share his first game with world. It was written in 80s when Jon was just 14-15. The game is called GUP and here's the author's Youtube video: [youtube]https://youtu.be/wQGuH7tQuBs[/y...

You have to pick objects in order, first 10, 20, and so on And when collect them all, go to some pyramid shaped object to finish the level. I played it for the moment. Interesting game and probably with good difficulty. Unfortunately it's just me who is crap at isometric games. From time to time Ig...

A related question, though, now that I *think* I'm beginning to understand this is... why 16x16 blocks 16 x 16 pixels is a good compromise. 32x32 would be too big in most cases as you say although there are games that use it - as an example I can give Robocop 3, have a look on graphical representat...

Thanks for it. I played it for about 5 minutes to see what it is like. I like the graphics. Simple but stylish. In 128 kb there is also quite a lot of nice music. I recognized some old classic Russian tune :) The gameplay is unfortunately difficult. Colision detection is very unforgiving, you are fa...

Maybe try posting to zx.pk.ru I suppose it's the best place to get the answer. It's Russian forum but they have an English section if I remember correctly.

I read it. Read it again. And read it again. And I still don't really geddit. Okay. I guess I'll need to write a proper long post with pictures about it :) Especially as people showed interest in other posts. Actually I disassembled engine of Stormlord some time ago and have my own game, about 30% ...

A good example of game with efficient scroll engine is Stormlord . It's better engine than Ghosts'n'Goblins or Cobra as it allows much more variety of graphics. I made a post about it on old WOS but i may repeat it here. So the scroll is by 2 pixels and framerate is 25 fps. you have 16x16 pixel tile...

Great !

The problem is this line: ld hl,21+15*256 It loads HL with 9216 = 0,36 which is an impossible coord. Yes, now I remember old post at WOS about it. Spin doesn't follow standard math order of calculations. You know - multiplication first, addition later. Instead it goes just from left to right: 21+15...

I can't help you with this one but I would have an general advice. Remember that Spin is unfortunately a bit buggy It's really a pity as it without bugs it would be really, really great and now it's just good

Some new more info about this project here: https://vk.com/treasureislandzx The link goes to site VKontakte which if you didn't know is something like Russian Facebook as Facebook isn't popular in Russia. They made a group there about this game so if you are interested watch it from time to time to ...

I don't remember seeing this discussion before

Okay, so let's talk about classic Spanish games from the 80ties. Beautiful looking, with lots of colour but difficult as hell.

Do you have any favourite one?

Some info from Poland. There was a guy called Mateusz Stryjecki who designed covers for Polish programs. He did: Basic Test: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=18808 Czarny Poniedziałek : https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=21536 Funkcja Kwadratowa: https://s...

For me they all are games that you weren't supposed to ever complete. Walk, enjoy the experience, sometimes see something not seen before but to play it properly you would have to map them. And I was never patient enough to do it in my teens. As for the poll I choose Robin of the Wood, it had a grea...