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- Wed May 01, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Blasphemy! Your favourite C64 SID chiptunes...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1410
Re: Blasphemy! Your favourite C64 SID chiptunes...
This evening, I am turning screenshots from OpenStreetMap into useful maps of parks in Cambridge and March where keen roller skaters (and also those who are reluctant, maybe even terrified, but willing) can put in the miles without undue risk of finding an unsuitable path and faceplanting into the u...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Anco Software: discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 222
Re: The best Speccy game by Anco Software: discussion
...yes, it is the same Kick-Off I had on the Game Boy. Can't say I ever got much out of that game...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Rave to the sound of... a ZX Spectrum loading
- Replies: 16
- Views: 773
Re: Rave to the sound of... a ZX Spectrum loading
All I was doing was loading Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge.Ravey Davey Gravy wrote:Well kickin'!
It finished loading.Ravey Davey Gravy wrote:Where's the tunes gone, man?
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Cassette 50: calling all Sherlocks...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 542
Re: Cassette 50: calling all Sherlocks...
This can be fairly easily solved thanks to Graeme Mason: https://www.wizwords.net/cassette-50 "Cascade Games Limited officially began life in 1983 as an amalgamation of two companies that Guy Wilhelmy had been trading: Cascade and UTS (which stood for Ulrich Technical Services, Ulrich being Gu...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Cassette 50: calling all Sherlocks...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 542
Cassette 50: calling all Sherlocks...
I don't know if this is well-known or not, but there's a detail I'm going to need to clear up, and anyone who knows the score is invited to wave a hand in the air, wear a tinfoil hat, whatever seems appropriate. It's worth a corned beef sandwich, a bendy Bully, 75p and a packet of Rolos, and a spare...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:07 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: RIP F David Thorpe
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1917
Re: RIP F David Thorpe
He had a decent innings, at least - unlike, say, Ian Weatherburn.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
- Replies: 213
- Views: 4305
Re: Guess the game from the review (Spectrum 2.0)
Sounds like it could be Knight Lore.
And if it isn't, there's one other obvious candidate...
And if it isn't, there's one other obvious candidate...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Code masters Game Genie
- Replies: 1
- Views: 301
Re: Code masters Game Genie
"For Richard Darling, this £70,000 sports car is one of the spoils of victory..." ...a Lotus Elan, and not the 1960s original? A badly-built roadster with front wheel drive and a steering rack built like a Toblerone bar so that it'd snap? SEVENTY GRAND? Even an Esprit wouldn't cost that mu...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Was Hannah Smith real?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3386
Re: Was Hannah Smith real?
I've not heard of Dane McLellan and can't find anything on Google about that name and a connection to any gaming magazine, but I'm reminded of the irony (well, alright, hypocrisy) surrounding the writer 'Robert Galbraith'. What I do remember is: this was around 1994, and Total! was under the editor...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Was Hannah Smith real?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3386
Re: Was Hannah Smith real?
Kati Hamza, Linda Barker and Jackie Ryan have entered the chat. Linda Barker, as some of you will be aware, went on to edit Total! (the independent Nintendo magazine that wasn't bought-and-paid-for like NMS) in its later days and brought back the cartoony style of the original issues with Steve Jar...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
- Replies: 103
- Views: 5449
Re: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
Good news, everyone! EdToo seems to have disappeared from here, but has recently posted a couple more entries, one by Jbizzel for the QL. I approve. Anyway - for anyone wanting to write crap Next games, as I am, Seven.FFF has posted a fully-working MMC image with NextOS 2.08, which I've just tested ...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: WOOT 2023 released!
- Replies: 90
- Views: 6383
Re: WOOT 2023 released!
I know the article you’re thinking of… and it wasn’t in ZX Computing, but Sinclair User . Congraturation! A corned beef sandwich, a bendy Bully, 75p and *two* packets of Rolos will be coming your way. Metaphorically, at least. I was convinced I'd seen the chunky font used ubiquitously by ZX Computi...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: What are the speech samples saying, in Auf Wiedersehen Monty?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1041
Re: What are the speech samples saying, in Auf Wiedersehen Monty?
This thread is really confusing for me - I played Auf Wiedersehen Monty a lot - I don't think I completed it but I got, I dunno, 2/3rds of the island showing up in the status area - but I have absolutely no recollection of speech samples. But I downloaded a .tzx and there they were, as early as the...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1240
- Views: 209439
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: What are the speech samples saying, in Auf Wiedersehen Monty?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1041
Re: What are the speech samples saying, in Auf Wiedersehen Monty?
Minty, Minted, money. All I know is that the RZX video is painful to watch as the person playing it keeps pausing on a platform for a few seconds, walks around in circles and goes backwards and forwards over and over again. Fairly sure it was Daren who did that, and it might have been a really earl...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
- Replies: 103
- Views: 5449
Re: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
Good news, everyone! Ed has mushed, and there's a review . Also, for those who have to add this to ZXDB, it's "Advanced Orb Pondering Simulator", as opposed to anything else you might see in the review title. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49PUEJxWj-L8i6WWh_7XL...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Fake history
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1183
Re: Fake history
Freddie Lakers Airline Capers - backstory, from the other forum, is here That's the first thing I thought of. Even so, it still came as a surprise that it was Phil Ruston who had done it; I'd only known him from the three Giddy games - two on the Amiga, one for early-2000s PCs - which are all worth...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 756
Re: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
I don't think I've been in the Baron of Beef since my student days, and most likely when the year still started with 19. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it's been "updated" for MODERN AUDIENCES.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 756
Re: Sinclair-related Cambridge sights?
At least gawp at what used to be Sinclair Research's front door opposite King's College.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: C5 cautionary tale
- Replies: 9
- Views: 824
Re: C5 cautionary tale
I finally listened to the Tim Harford podcast yesterday and it covered a lot more ground than Toast did. Now, does anyone want to complete the trilogy? Released barely four hours ago, Ruaridh MacVeigh has turned his "Motion History" series to the C5. He's a "plains, trains and automob...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Alphabet Quiz 4
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1878
Re: Friday Quiz: Alphabet Quiz 4
Nobody's got A yet? That's Advanced Pinball Simulator. And I'd have got that instantly if I'd remembered that it was Friday and there was a quiz this morning.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
- Replies: 103
- Views: 5449
Re: C.S.S.C.G.C 2024 is/will be/has open/ing/ed
Oi! @EdToo! Wake up! I've just solved two of your latest mysteries. Also, review my last entry, there's barely even a kilobyte of it. Mush!
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Alphabet Quiz 4
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1878
Re: Friday Quiz: Alphabet Quiz 4
Can we have a Þ in this one? Or some Greek or Cyrillic letters?
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: .MDR Editor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 575
Re: .MDR Editor
Spectaculator can generate a new, unformatted .MDR image. That's a start.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum memes
- Replies: 1240
- Views: 209439
Re: Spectrum memes
It's been done with ULAplus, obviously.
Bright red ink on non-bright red paper? You got it. Orange? You got it. Commodore brown? Actually, no, but some rusty-red will do.
Bright red ink on non-bright red paper? You got it. Orange? You got it. Commodore brown? Actually, no, but some rusty-red will do.