Spectrum Computing

Paradigm, thank you, I do appreciate your interest and advice. Please note that I wasn't questioning your credentials, merely pointing out that you don't know the first thing about my project, and therefore speculation (even from an expert) would be pointless. It's not that I don't want to hear your...

Thanks, Ketmar.

You don't want to set a limit on code size anyway While your advice is greatly appreciated, you don't know the first thing about my project, what it is, the hardware involved, either of the machine or the games, or anything about the architecture, how games are distributed, stored and shared, which...

Thanks, chaps, that's really helpful info! :-) I forgot about level data. I appreciate that every game is different, but there's still going to be a 'bell curve' average. i wonder why OP is interested. prolly they have some bigger question in mind. @Lee Bee, if this is true, could you tell us that b...

Your image inspired me to make a tune for the game

PLEASE someone make this game! Grongy, I don't normally do requests, but I would love to see this image with animated flames and flag!

Anyone know roughly what's the split of code to graphics for a "typical" 48k game? Is code normally smaller?

If needed, I would be happy to provide a new logo AND in-game AY music!

Nice images, Dave! Reading the bio of the developer, Juan Carlos, I'm starting to suspect he is simply quite naive about these things. It seems like he made this game for his own personal amusement, for fun, and that's fine - personal projects we create for ourselves aren't bound by copyright. He ju...

Given the "open and free" nature of the Spectrum community and its games, this could have been an innocent mistake made in good faith, perhaps by someone quite young and naive. Though it is striking to see such heavy, uncredited borrowing from a modern game used by someone with a developer...

Apparently, it was done without permission. https://zarzak.itch.io/escape-from-exodron-zx-spectrum

Such a beautiful, atmospheric game. Would make a good backdrop for a Scooby-Doo game!

Looks good, though the cover and logo have sparked a little controversy with Juan J. Martínez.

Well done!

blucey wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 6:35 amStriker?

SteveSmith wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 7:44 am Bowls?

Nope. Let's zoom out a touch. Only 1 more pixel, but this could change everything…

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 1:23 am

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 1:38 am Well it's either cricket >> tennis >> baseball I guess?

Ha ha ha, wrong >> wrong >> wrong!

Yup that's correct I was surprised when my random choice had Morkin (regular poster here) and Rorthron (not so regular poster here I think) as the authors :) Ooh, I actually had no idea that our friends Morkin and Rothron were behind that game, or that they'd made a couple of games ten years ago! F...

Actually not the game I was thinking of!

Balachor's Revenge?

I wrote to Codemasters in 1993 asking if I could buy Crystal Kingdom Dizzy directly from them since I couldn't find it in any shops or mail order. They must be quite busy chaps as I haven't had a reply yet. (Plus I've moved house about 60 times since then.)

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 9:36 pm Pheenix, Orbiter and Galaxians

A game that very much "does what it says on the tin".

sludge wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 9:27 pm Smudge - Bad Moonee Rising

I love that game! And trust Sludge to think of Smudge!

Cheez, you have some disturbing tastes in music! If you haven't seen it, you'll love the Quentin Smirhes YouTube channel - a delicious blend of 1970s retro, horror and comedy.

Aargh, that game is so familiar to me yet I can't remember what it's called!