Spectrum Computing

"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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:26 pm

I see Dragon 32 colours... and from the text screen, at that. If only SCREEN 0,1 had been more useful...

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...

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...

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...

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.

At least gawp at what used to be Sinclair Research's front door opposite King's College.

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...

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.

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!

Can we have a Þ in this one? Or some Greek or Cyrillic letters?

Spectaculator can generate a new, unformatted .MDR image. That's a start.

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.

4. RZX playback: sometimes the percentage display at the bottom is wrong. Instead of gradually counting from 0 to 100%, it keeps looping rapidly 0 through 100 all the time during playback, like 10%...50%...100%...20%...40%...90%...10%... This doesn't seem to cause any problems but obviously it's no...

It looks like a Game & Watch with LCD segments in fixed places. There's been a few such conversions in recent years - and it must be one of the few occasions where the Spectrum's colour-clash cells aren't a problem as all the segments can be carefully drawn to fit inside the 8×8 cells.

Sparked by this post, I fished out the episode of "Toast" that R-Tape posted last May, and listened to that on the way to the skating rink for a Sunday afternoon weaving around small kids with zimmer frames and hopeless parents trying to supervise. It's a 21-mile drive along the back roads...

This has been a general trend in terms of media. Old material gets 'archived' on to new media - but will probably outlast it. Paper / clay lasted thousands of years, original film stock and microfiche can go on for hundreds ... To deviate slightly from the original topic, can anyone shed any light ...

The Dinamic/Mastertronic game Video Olimpic/Video Olympic has a Coke logo on the loading screen, and fake ads for "Noescafé", "Adidis", "Kode" (Kodak) and "Cocaina"! Talking of which, let's not forget Cristian Gonzalez and his "Noentiendo" brand, wh...

Ironically it's easier to have Welsh games on the ZX Spectrum. You can have a font with accents, and you have access to white for the flag! "Cyan", white and either orange or magenta for the Welsh flag if you want to draw it on the Welsh computer. Or... pretend the QL is Welsh! That comes...

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