Spectrum Computing

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!

That is awesome! I find that much more satisfying, thanks for listening!

I think the beeper is amazing for sound effects, and no games machine should be without one. Though when it comes to music, I vastly prefer AY to beeper, which is why I've never even tried Beepola yet, though would like to sometime, especially after your recommendation, Cheez. Where do you DL Beepol...

We've already got it, ported in 2014 by Trefi and Tiboh: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/30073 :) Blimey, you're right! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TP171sPJw8 Also worth mentioning another quirky modern platform game conversion: "Nothing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtksG-w...

I think Keith Stuart has compiled an excellent list here, with a nice mix of machines, and no shortage of reference to the 8-bit era. I'm personally happy that YS made top ten :dance Interesting to note that the 18 magazines in this list represents less than 1 in 5 of the total British videogames pu...

My Speccy setup:

Cheez26 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 12:39 pm I just remembered Manic Pietro.

Yes that's gotta be the ultimate one, I very nearly mentioned it!

Had a quick look at a video of IWBTG and it looks fun. Doesn't look easy to me, looks hard, maybe even cruel. Though not as cruel as "World's Hardest Game" - another awesome title that would be fun to convert to the Speccy. I think the most distinctive feature of IWBTG is the tiny little s...

Maybe I'm a bit old but beyond the Speccy, my only knowledge of YouTube videogame reviewers is AVGN I think twentysomethings these days seem to have a general knowledge of YouTube celebrities that we don't. Certainly I don't!

Am I the only one who's never heard of "IWBTG"?

Gotcha. Bit like how I approximated the phrase "Hey Mickey!" in this recent tune.

Prophyt wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 2:20 pm Noah

Spoiler

Noah

Gary Lineker's Super Star Soccer

How exactly are you planning on synthesizing vocals?

There's a video review of v2.5 here . It's Russian but you can skip through for a quick visual summary of the nice features of this version. I do need some templates and compatible samples to try out before I take a crack at making my own. Templates aren't needed, but it's definitely useful to have ...

So, I found this old thing that somebody was working on Fascinating! Running this is a bit over my head, but could this actually convert a game music file into a vortex tracker? I didn't even think that was possible. As for which tracker, I've tinkered with Deflemask and I know Furnace is the ultim...

Wow, Prophyt, you did it! I was starting to think this one was impossible. I thought about Noah's Ark games but the word is in the title. Very well done!

My best mate and I spent a lot of our time on Target Renegade and Rampage. Oh yeah, the three of us played Rampage a lot, too! :-) Terrific fun! https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/r/scr/Rampage.scr&border=0 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php...