Spectrum Computing

I think the issue with the GG conversion is that it is not the full game, and feels kind of unpolished (and let not talk about the loading screen), but the gameplay is quite close to the original, and in fact, that's the signature of the author: all his games are very playable, even conversions of 1...

Keith is one of the programmers I learned to recognize and follow as a kid. He was a freelance working on its own, and he did many of those conversations just by memory or with a VHS of someone playing the game. I was surprised when I discovered he's not better recognized in the scene, and his conve...

Hi StooB About your fixes on the SQIJ! I was thinking that on top of removing the inaccurate comment, we can give more context based on the interview on Eurogamer. I was thinking on adding two extra comments: "Jason Creighton recalls CRL reporting having sold about 250 copies." and "J...

Yeah, I was taking a look, I have no trouble excluding the Star Trek clones from the list, since the warp speed is just a way to move ships on the grid, but I really want to add the Codename Mat games, so, I was thinking to create the group as "Hyperspace/Warp" so we can add those titles.

@druellan - your turn ! I mean we need at least add enty to TAGS table, not assigning tags to individual games (is it MEMBERS table?). -- Ooops. I'm a bit late, i have lost some minutes between page refreshes. Yep! I'm getting ready the entries in the Tags table, and after that there is no need to ...

uglifruit wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:28 am Would the teleporting between doorways on "Bounty Bob Strikes Back" count?

Yes! I think so, because it is not that the character is entering and exiting the doors, it is implied that it is teleporting by the animation.

Hi! and yes, with Bedazzle and uglifruit lastest additions, I think we have a nice list. I need to create two groups for Teleportation and Hyperspace, and might be ready on a couple of releases.

Yeah, pretty sure it is the same as https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... m/Football but with the name changed, but we don't know if it has some changes internally.

Edit: turns out the z80 on that entry is from another game

Thanks for the effort! I already downloaded the images in case we can't properly preserve the inlays.

Looks like the Encore release was deleted when the original release was changed to be the Hit Pak compilation a couple of years ago. I've added it back on the preservation tools with the release date and price from the advert above. Perfect, I was waiting for your input, thanks Stoob. I can also se...

Love how it instantly feels like a classic adventure game. Giving a try for sure!

Well, that's unexpected. I've played a bootleg version La miniera abbandonata that had some weird rumbles that the child me understood as "mine sounds". It was broken soundtrack instead. (a similar issue happened to Panzadrome, in that case the sound broke the game) Similar things happene...

Right now there are only 9 titles in the database with music confirmed to be authored with Wham! I hope we can take this opportunity to expand that list. I was kind of toying with the idea, but it is hard to confirm just by ear, and specially the in-game ones that AFAIK are using an interruption ha...

worcestersource wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:31 pm The Dynamite Dans had many tunes but none looped. Controversial?

I was thinking the same, because when anyone mentions in game music, I always think in Manic Miner and Dynamite Dan. I think that qualifies.

Yes! Brian Bloodaxe and Booty both 48k ingame music. Added to the list.
Also, other titles by John F Cain like Marble Madness.

Hi! I'm pretty sure I saw a similar thread in the past (can't find it), but a list was never produced, so, I can start a new one here and see how many we can find. I don't think there are that many:

Didn't saw it mentioned, but I'm pretty sure Give My Regards to Broad Street https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2049/ZX-Spectrum/Give_My_Regards_to_Broad_Street can be finished in less than a minute just traveling right away to one of the tube stations before one of the characters can enter there...

And some of the changes in this update, we tackled several old but complex ones, my favorite: the one regarding the Shaw Brother's MCoder II games from Goodboy (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=82224#p82224) that ended up producing: 50 new games identified as compiled with MCod...

Hi! I think the error is in the "software" part of the license. Parker Brothers is the correct copyright owner, and Weddington the UK holder, both for the board game, plus, the same copyright is correctly applied to other Monopoly titles, so, I think this is not an special case, just an er...

Yeah, I can foresee a lot of confusion based on the naming. The Commodore 64 version for the Ashley Greenup release, for example, is wrong, it is the Dee-Kay version, also, bbcmicro.co.uk has Ashely Greenup as the author for the Dee-kay version.

Hi! I'm pretty sure Ashley Greenup is the author and Dee-Kay the publisher of the first entry, they both worked in very similar titles like https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/12566/ZX-Spectrum/RTC_Crewe The second entry must be the same software, but self-published by Greenup. There is an Amstrad...

Thanks! I was looking around but seems that all the tape images I can find are the same. I'm going to add a note in the entry stating that the tape image is incomplete and the game probably MIA.

marenja wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:37 pm Aquasquad overwrites copyright with some binary data.

Thanks, probably that's why I can't find the hex I'm using on the search, that is extracted from the binary immediately below the copyright text.

Hi Einar Saukas I've found more titles compiled by Super Compilatore - Softwell, I added them to the spreadsheet (near the end), just in case you are also doing the tagging once you add that particular compiler. Also, I found another local version of the MCoder II, this time from Hungary. 1984. PI-V...

Hi! Can someone with experience take a look at Planet Protector? https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/21845 The game was compiled or is a save from MCoder II. The tape image has two code blocks repeated one after the other, and they sound identical. I want to try and execute it so we can take a scr...