Spectrum Computing

Still hard to believe it's not Spy vs Spy. The split-screen concept is reminding me of the previous game, Deactivators.

Hello Paul, and thanks for the awesome video update! This is looking fantastic and I'm getting very excited about this program. Love its simplicity. There's no technical jargon which I don't understand, and everything is nice and graphical and immediate. Fantastic. (I really like you as well!) :-) J...

Great collection of images. Though I'm not sure how anyone is supposed to "guess" these if we don't already happen to know. Personally, I'd rather be given a list of the 9 answers so I can try and fit the buildings to the company based on style/scale.

worcestersource wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 3:01 pm Spy vs Spy?

Don't think it's that, but excellent guess, looks very similar.

I don't think the deleted the comments are a "cover-up", I just think the author heard the complaints, tried to do the right thing, updated the release, and cleaned up the outdated comments for a fresh start. I'd probably have done the same thing myself. His lack of communication is probab...

I love Lemmings. Love Tim Wright's awesome soundtrack (he also did the music for Oh No!). Just in case anyone's interested, I've been working on content for Spectrum Lemmings. I made a colour version of the logo. I made AY sound effects to emulate the Amiga sound effects (the button press sounds, et...

Cheez26 wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 6:00 am I really hope @pgregory is still working on this…

He only posted an update a few days ago! LOL

Incredible, this all makes me nostalgic for my years using Amigas and Octamed

Incredible! I'd love an OS that looked just like this!

Carbonite troubles? Let it go, let it go…!

Fascinating and informative responses, thanks!

There has to be something just a little weird about anyone who chooses to make games for a computer that came out 42 years ago. We're all a little quirky, to say the least.

Thanks for the responses chaps, it's fascinating! I have another question… I'm being told here by some that programmers don't want limits on their code size - the more space the better, ideally. Now that's something I personally agree with. I don't see anything "fun" about finding I've hit...

Paradigm, you're arguing that different game genres will create distinct peaks of their own, just as the height of men and women create two peaks on a single chart. In order for such distinct peaks to emerge, you'd need to have a small number of highly distinct game genres - a clustering together of...

Another clue? That's just greedy!

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If you're having screen$ problems, I feel bad for you, son.
I've got eighty-six problems, but a bot ain't one.

I did A-Level statistics. the "curve" could look like a mountain range. All small sets of data look like mountain ranges. However, we are talking here about a theoretically unlimited sample size, with a real data set of thousands of games. The bigger the sample size, the closer the chart w...

I totally appreciate that the size of code varies a lot, and this fact is useful to know. But, statistically, there has to be some kind of "mean" average at the top of a bell curve. Whether the curve looks something like this: https://i.postimg.cc/TPCrTTTX/mean.png Or is flatter like this:...

Sorry, after Van_Dammesque got it, I assumed everyone would.

Zooming out JUST ONE MORE PIXEL may give the game away completely…



But if you need a clue:

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Defying gravity, what a blast!

MustardTiger, that is absolutely brilliant, thank you!

As for my project, I'm sorry to be cagey at this point. It's still way too early to make any announcements, but when the time is right I can't wait to share everything.

My idea might be a monorail. We'll see.

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!