Spectrum Computing

1.Dustin - what a legend of a game. When I was a kid I was sure it's based on Papillon, but somebody dispelled that notion in the forum era (I still want to believe thou) 2. After The War 3. West Bank They were silly and impossible, but I actually did enjoy Game Over, AMC, Navy/Army Moves, in a way....

It's simple, Game Over.

Wait, what, you mean the best game, not the best cover?

V1.2 is up....most likely the "final" one. This update adds Crash Top 100 list plus additional games from it (10). It's a bit weird list - see above - but it's Crash, so I guess we need it too for posterity. But it also shows that Your Sinclair readers were a much more refined bunch, har h...

I think it's actually not a bad mix at all, and it cleverly covers all bases. I would place my favourites (YS & ACE) much higher, but then it's not my list. And yeah, Edge, despite its perceived stuffiness and some hilarious mishaps ( GTA 3 - 7/10 lol) probably does deserve the #1.

StooB wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 12:32 pm So, positions 100-51 are the bottom half of their Top 100 and the rest were never printed.

Messy Thanks for clearing this up.

Looking closer at the Crash list generates another "what were they smoking?" question, this time of a more editorial nature. Both Renegades and SWIV seem to have double entries...how on Earth can you miss an error like that? It's a top 100 list, not 1000 ;) Or is it me, missing something o...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 8:28 amI don't trust anyone who doesn't like Bubble Bobble.

Hah, indeed, playing it should be included into a Citizen Test, voting rights, or some such

This is a rather tricky question, but the short answer always will be "C64". My usual quick'n dirty metric is looking at the Gamebase collections, since they're very accurate and adhere to 1G1R principle. The latest one for the ZX (v5 by Manguan) counts 15200 and GBC v17 has 28500 entries....

I guess one reason it didn't have a 'proper' 3D FPS is because of the control method. You need one for movement of the person and one for the directions. Without a mouse, I can't see how this would work. Nah, mouse was only needed for later, fully 3d fps games which had freelook, starting with Quak...

I'd insist that flight sims, and also assorted 90-degrees games don't really qualify as they're different genres (though some borderline cases like Zig Zag could maybe be called "proto" fps). Catch 23 (and Cholo too) looks amazing, can't believe I've never heard of it before - and that it'...

I think it's rather important to define an "fps" as having a smooth 360 degrees freedom of movement in some sort of corridor-based environment. Otherwise the list of games which clearly don't qualify (various dungeon crawlers, sims, or even Op Wolf-likes) will be endless. On the ZX, I gues...

Me and my best friend (R.I.P Pusin) were both broke and before we could finally afford our Spectrums we would haunt one sailor-dad (ie rich) dude who had a +2, which in itself was a status symbol. We went there at least a few times a week but, strangely, I don't recall playing any multiplayer games....

I know you can "bodge" something (2nd language here) but I've never heard that used to describe a person(s). Cute. Especially considering its origin is from wood-dwelling chair makers (probably a rough lot), so it's a clever way to poke fun at fellow coders.

berarma wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 11:09 am Thanks, I wasn't able to find it. It's indeed sad that such iconic titles are distribution denied.

They're still available on WoS and WoS Classic.

Thank you! PM sent. I'm not terribly active on that forum but like to have a look from time to time, and mostly I'm just curious why this refuses to work. My guess would be it's something a bit deeper in the interwebs and perhaps outside of Gryzor's jurisdiction. Eg flagging connections from Asia as...

Nobody willing to help?

Thank you. I actually did look at the index pages of these issues but somehow managed to miss the lists. I blame the Nineties web design ;) I must say that Crash list is even more WTF than Stu's YS one. If you look at the top 30 it's all about action games and Dizzy, with some rare outliers such as ...

I look at Crash's Top 100 list, but it's only 50-1. Am I missing something here or is it really only top 50? Well the article says "the ultimate chart of your all-time fave 50 Speccy games" so I guess it is...just wonder why they called it that, or is there a real Crash Top 100 out there s...

I think 3D Seiddab Attack from Hewson is quite interesting (at least for 1984).

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 8:10 pm how do you land on the wall next to it without dyeing?

A question for the ages. And to think some people like to talk about "Nintendo-hard"...little do they know...

There's a game called Cleaner: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... um/Cleaner

When I tried to run it (emulators & FPGA) , the gfx is displayed as capital letters. But the screenshots show normal graphics.

berarma wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 4:29 pm I load games using an stereo cable and the option to invert channels in PlayZX. Zero issues, no hacks.

Massive thanks for this tip. Saved me buying a new cable...PlayZX is awesome to have this option!

I dunno, if I had unlimited cash I'd probably buy a Commie + floppy drive (or Amiga, depending on the year) :D Seriously though, it'd be rather mundane: -Spectrum +3, for the FDD &, more importantly RGB -a decent tape deck -a decent pair of joysticks, probably CompPro or similar -and I'd splash ...

Kudos to TechSpot for turning it into a news item...but deary me, they really could name drop the ZX or CPC, instead of just saying it's been used in "several home computers". Of course, the consoles get a proper mention, even the silly SG-1000. The famous Yankee Bias strikes again ;) http...

Amazing stuff, GOTY candidate for me. A true Spectrum game (whatever that means ;)