Spectrum Computing

StooB wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 3:34 pm I've added a request for it but I wouldn't hold your breath!

Wow, I was kinda joking. But I'm genuinely grateful -- thanks!

I'm a member of TVChaosUK and it is basically TheBox.bz with a new name. There are no invites - the whole invite system is disabled, they seem a little paranoid but I presume they have their reasons. Trouble Between The Covers is not there though. Well, I hope you don't get kicked out for revealing...

@5MinuteRetro, BBC Archive is always worth a look. https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/gaming/znqy6v4 Sure, thanks -- BBC Archive is a great site and I've used it plenty. But what I'm after here isn't related to Sinclair/gaming/computing... I guess I'm just bemoning the lack of 'retro' TV availability ge...

Aye. I find it infuriating that even now stuff drops off BBC iPlayer after a month or a year. I mean why, for heavens sake? The BBC is commissioning original programming and I don’t believe it should be beyond the wit of those in charge to ensure that the streaming elements of the contracts are made...

Morkin wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 11:28 am I'm picturing that as a countdown to the start of a race.

But it might not be.

Well, me too -- and I think we're meant to fall into an Enduro Racer-shaped trap. But that starts at 3, so...

I'm not an active member of any other online forums, and this anyway seems as good a place as any to ask. Do any of you folks remember and/or were members of TheBox.bz? It was a private tracker/torrent site for old British TV -- and a great way to find ancient programmes/series that tended not to ex...

I’d not heard of Scrabble Deluxe for the Spectrum. I wonder why it’s in black and white when the original had plenty of (and useful) colour? I’m sure some Googling would tell me but I’m currently warming myself by our fire pit in the garden and I can’t be bothered trying to figure it out on my iPhone.

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. Reading the OP’s subsequent post I’m ...

As a youngster I'd always imagined gleaming towers of industry. Most of these, especially number 5, are the sort of place when you find an especially cheap bit of kit of ebay, look up the posting address, and backoff cos it looks like a dodgy untraceable address. Me too, which is why, whenever I co...

The picture shows nine Google Street View images of buildings where U.K. software houses that published Speccy games back in the day were situated. Can you guess the software houses? Well, for numero uno I'm guessing Anirog/Anco. However, if I were to be a pedant -- and I am -- that company's addre...

And Googling that 'secret number'... it looks like Timothy was selling his Coleco Adam (in the March 1985 edition of C&VG):



Right, I really must get back to work now!

And there it is... (my memory just prompted me to look up the I, Ball walkthrough on YouTube). This is what you see when completing the game, which it's possible I did:

This hidden message reveals information about the development of Predator. I couldn't find anything in this site so I thought I could post it. I used to delight in stumbling upon stuff like this. It felt like peeking behind the curtain. All context as to how or why forgotten, I remember finding a p...

Pobulous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:39 am Nope.

Has Magic Knight vibes but doesn't appear to be from any in that series... so don't know why I'm commenting really!

stupidget wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:01 pm And first across the line is @5MinuteRetro. We have ourselves a winner

Eek. That’s two in a row for me, so I’ll get to the back of the grid and let someone take pole position for the next lap.

WEC Le Mans?

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:48 pm It's pupposed to be the TV aerial every alien mothership has!

Perhaps it’s a Phestivus pole.

stupidget wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:12 pmPheenix?

Winner, winner, alien dinner!

bluespikey wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:52 am Tau Ceti - 1983 version?

Nope. Let’s zoom out some more. Any further could give it away, I reckon. I’d call this an early classic.

Van_Dammesque wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:34 am Crosswize?

Nope. Zooming out…

Hurray! That colour scheme is just so familiar. Next!

Blue Thunder?

Could you send us all a Lenslok to view this image?

AndyC wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:10 pm

Terrible photography, but familiar nonetheless

Reminds me of this icon on the Firefly intro screen but I’m sure plenty of Spectrum games had similar icons here and there.

Is this really still going? She is real. That’s just what a conspirator would say! (But joking aside, I’m a rational person. I don’t actually care much if at all about whether or not Hannah Smith was real. The weight of evidence sure points to the likelihood that she was real. But I don’t think any...