Spectrum Computing

Okay, this one's gonna be the final Devfinitive Edition for a while. That's not to say it's not coming back, it certainly will, but heading into Spring, I'm going to turn attention for my Sunday poll over to something I have heavily covered before, but it'll be in a format different enough to be wor...

Thanks to those in the discussion phase this past week who weeded out the games I assigned to Steve Crow but turned out to be rather tenuous. I guess you could say you guys were the Eliminator! Get it? Eliminator. Because you elimin... um... and Eliminator itself was eliminated... er... well... *tap...

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:44 pm As to Giana Sisters, it even got a Crash Smash!

Um... yeah... and the guy who gave it that, later admitted he was pressured by the software company AND Crash's advertising department to do so. Which has tainted Crash's legacy somewhat!

While you could do it, the thing is, it's the era's magazines, adverts and catalogues out there that won't exactly back up your fake history. Now sure, you could point out it's an obscure game. A REALLY obscure game. Something that did the rounds in your town and all the magazines missed out on. Pro...

The last (and well, only) time I was in the Baron Of Beef, it was quite dull, albeit there was a barman in drag, what with it being Halloween weekend. Thankfully, it didn't feel like a soulless chain pub, but it certainly wasn't a stand-out 'must see' place. Just a very generic old pub that I visite...

Captain Blood easily won this, with 20 votes.

Purple Saturn Day gained four.

Turbo Esprit is the winner here, with 20 votes. It's followed by Scuba Dive, which is second with 13 votes. Then we have Thanatos in third place, with ten votes. Right then, down a bit and we're looking at joint fourth place with three votes each for Combat Lynx and Harrier Attack! Then there's two ...

If you look further down on the page you see his role, loading screen, on both. https://i.postimg.cc/qtZbPWPv/image.png D'oh! Right, so this has become like the Clive Townsend debacle today! The refreshed list: Factory Breakout by Poppy Soft Firelord by Hewson Laser Snaker by Poppy Soft Starquake b...

Exactly. Firelord was the last game Steve worked on. From then on he focused on graphics for Hewson, Probe and others to this day. Okay, Firelord came out on 29th Oct 1986 according to ZXDB. Eliminating all games from 1987 onwards gives us: Factory Breakout by Poppy Soft Firelord by Hewson Laser Sn...

Cheers R-Tape . I will try to discount the eliminated games - of course a loading screen isn't enough to be considered a game author (hey, I did a great one for Total Recall back in the day, where's my ZXDB credit? Oh yeah, literally nobody but me and my family and friends saw it, from a C90 of artw...

I believe Stephen J Crow has done these ZX Spectrum games... Eliminator by Hewson Factory Breakout by Poppy Soft Firelord by Hewson Hewvy Metal by US Gold Laser Snaker by Poppy Soft Netherworld by Hewson Starquake by Bubble Bus Uridium by Hewson Uridium Plus by Hewson Wizard's Lair by Bubble Bus Zyn...

I'm still wrapped up in the complexity of ERE Informatique/Infogrames/Atari. Here's Accolade (purchased by Infogrames well after the Speccy's commercial life, in 1999) and it felt like a high end software label with what it put out for the Speccy. (It also had a bit of an Icarus moment with its deci...

Sept jours pour choisir votre préféré. Androide https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/a/scr/Androide.scr&border=0 https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/a/Androide.scr&border=0 Awari https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRt...

An eye-opening collection of the old and the relatively new! But you know I'm going for Saboteur anyway... Carga de Profundidade by Micro Sistemas https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=zxdb/sinclair/entries/0036987/0036987-open-1.scr&border=0 https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/...

Anyone fancy a pilgrimage ? It would kill an hour or so before heading to Cambridge where there's actually stuff to do. Heh, my employment for a Bedford-based IT company came to an end around this time last year. I had a lovely time working for them, for around five years but the grim reaper of red...

This is an odd one. A legend of the commercial era, due to creating and doing much of the Saboteur series. Then there's a LOT of homebrew stuff here, some of it still for sale: Carga de Profundidade by Micro Sistemas Garfield - Winter's Tail by The Edge Jam! by Teknamic Software Lil' Ninja by Joesof...

Rigel looks like a ZX81 game to me, are we putting zx81 games in the votes now? Oops! It is a ZX81 game, that's my mistake. As the title says, it's the best Speccy game, so no, I can't allow in ZX81 (or Sam Coupe and probably not Next) games. Thanks for spotting it! It'll be weeded out before I sta...

Still digging into the connections from Infogrames and Exxos, and I come across this label. I guess it has to be these thirteen games: Androide Awari Don Juans Et Dragueurs Intercepteur Cobalt Lombrix Macadam Bumper Manager Le Millionnaire Objectif Elysee Othello Painting Joe Panique Rigel ...but le...

Here's a two-horse race, 'cos it's Exxos! Captain Blood https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/c/scr/CaptainBlood.scr&border=0 https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/c/CaptainBlood.scr&border=0 Purple Saturn Day https://www....

Yeah, I'm a bit late in launching the polls this Sunday but to be fair, I was in Poland this morning and I've just got back. Anyways, here are lots of games from a Durell coder: Combat Lynx by Durell https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/c/scr/CombatLynx.sc...

Sim City has swept the board here, getting 15 votes. In joint second place, we have Hostages and Vera Cruz, with six votes each. The Light Corridor and North & South have three votes each to be in joint third place. Mandragore and Sidewalk are joint fourth, with two votes each. Finally, someone ...

Commando has lobbed a grenade at its competition to easily win this one, with 28 votes. In a distant second place, we have Ghosts N Goblins, on eight votes. Marauder gained four votes to be third. Space Harrier is in fifth place, with four votes. Joint sixth, with two votes each, Gilligan's Gold and...

With Enduro Racer, they've not bothered with sprite masking - the pixels are just plonked on whatever's there, so that makes the graphics easier shift in a fast way.

Mpk wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:01 am Spectrum Priority Market Checklist
1 UK done
2 Germany done
3 Belgium done
4 Swaziland
5 France
6 Italy

Only West Germany, mind. You could try flinging some Speccy games over the Berlin Wall, but not sure how compatible it would be with their VEB Robotrons.

StooB wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:32 am Yes he does.

Wow, so the qualifications clearly aren't remotely related to typography or graphic design.