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by Ersh
Tue Sep 28, 2021 11:41 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Wednesday Night Quiz: Toilets!
Replies: 92
Views: 2872

Re: Wednesday Night Quiz: Toilets!

Bloody well done—how the hell did you get that?! I'm familiar with the game, but close up, the toilet looks rough and ready, quite incongruous with the rest of the game. Modern game, decent size bowl, black ink on white paper and on screen all of the time. :) It does look a bit rough doesn't it. I ...
by Ersh
Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:00 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Wednesday Night Quiz: Toilets!
Replies: 92
Views: 2872

Re: Wednesday Night Quiz: Toilets!

Lee Bee wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 8:57 pm Toilet C is from a very modern game, perhaps a little obscure. The toilet features prominently in it.
Scuttle Butt
by Ersh
Mon Sep 27, 2021 3:20 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: London on the ZX Spectrum
Replies: 30
Views: 1269

Re: London on the ZX Spectrum

Sol_HSA wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 8:30 pm... Do name a game or two placed in, say, Lithuania or Finland..
Uuno Turhapuro Muuttaa Maalle ja Painterboy.

En tiedä Liettuasta mutta Suomi on tosi yliedustettu.. :P
by Ersh
Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:51 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Elite - Joystick Club version not working on real hardware
Replies: 61
Views: 2481

Re: Elite - Joystick Club version not working on real hardware

How difficult is it to convert elite.tzx from here (48K tape side B, with Adder) into a TAP file? Do you have to reverse engineer the turboloader, or are there tools that will recognise it? I can't find any automated method that would do the trick. One wouldn't necessarily need to reverse engineer ...
by Ersh
Mon Sep 06, 2021 9:14 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Elite - Joystick Club version not working on real hardware
Replies: 61
Views: 2481

Re: Elite - Joystick Club version not working on real hardware

I did a quick key swap poke: Nkeyswap M 8 65384 4 1 M 8 65385 16 32 M 8 65432 1 4 Z 8 65433 32 16 Y This will swap the B-key with the symbol-shift-key. Since the B-key was only used to re-center while looking at the map it shouldn't matter if it's symbol-shift now instead and a bit out of the way. (...
by Ersh
Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:40 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Elite - Joystick Club version not working on real hardware
Replies: 61
Views: 2481

Re: Elite - Joystick Club version not working on real hardware

@ersh have you hacked Elite apart enough to be able to create a poke to replace "Symbol Shift" with "." for improving the flight controls on a Plus/128K keyboard? Or is it horrible because technically it's a combo (Sym+M) rather than a single keypress? I had a quick look. If I u...
by Ersh
Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:02 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Sweet! I'll pass this time, anyone else?
by Ersh
Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:46 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

The Simpsons?
by Ersh
Sat Aug 28, 2021 7:32 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Alessandro wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 7:01 pm I am not so sure, but anyway: North And South.
Correct! You're up. :)
by Ersh
Sat Aug 28, 2021 6:29 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Pobulous wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:18 pm Phileas Fogg's Balloon Battles?
Nope!

Right, time for some clues. It's a later release, a multi-load Amiga/ST port that mixes genres a bit.
by Ersh
Sat Aug 28, 2021 12:26 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Nay.
by Ersh
Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:55 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Nopes.
by Ersh
Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:01 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Not Druid, no.
by Ersh
Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:57 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Sorry, no. :)
by Ersh
Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:43 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Luzie wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:24 pmCritical Mass?
GreenCard wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:41 pmGauntlet III?
Neither.
by Ersh
Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:00 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Luzie wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:00 pm Road Runner (US Gold)?
Nope!
by Ersh
Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:51 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Yay! :) How about this one then...
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by Ersh
Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:24 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Red Heat?
by Ersh
Wed Aug 11, 2021 12:16 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Juan, you may post another one if you'd like. :)
by Ersh
Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:36 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Guess the screen$
Replies: 7700
Views: 232677

Re: Guess the screen$

Ersh wrote: Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:22 pm
bluespikey wrote: Wed Mar 10, 2021 2:44 pm Image
Bravestarr.
We already had that one. :)
by Ersh
Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:00 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Why is the screen-memory, the way it is?
Replies: 11
Views: 625

Re: Why is the screen-memory, the way it is?

The closest graphics mode on the c64 is the standard bitmap mode 320x200 (also referred to hires) and it's not linear either. The bitmap stores each 8x8 character as 8 consecutive bytes, it then has an area of screen memory that handles the colour, much like the Spectrum attributes.
by Ersh
Thu Aug 05, 2021 6:46 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Where any NES games ever ported to the Speccy 'Officially' ?
Replies: 15
Views: 659

Re: Where any NES games ever ported to the Speccy 'Officially' ?

That's absolutely right, forgot about that Simpsons game. It also saw numerous ports on the home micros.
by Ersh
Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:20 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Where any NES games ever ported to the Speccy 'Officially' ?
Replies: 15
Views: 659

Re: Where any NES games ever ported to the Speccy 'Officially' ?

The available on other platforms for the Batman game needs NES removing if that is the case. The only thing in common between Ocean's Batman and Sunsoft's NES version is the movie license. But maybe that's enough to warrant a mention in the database, I don't know. :? Looking at the NES maps ( http:...
by Ersh
Thu Aug 05, 2021 2:49 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Where any NES games ever ported to the Speccy 'Officially' ?
Replies: 15
Views: 659

Re: Where any NES games ever ported to the Speccy 'Officially' ?

Ocean's Batman has nothing to do with the NES games. Ghost and Goblins, Bionic Commando and Bubble Bobble are ports of the arcade games not of the NES versions.
by Ersh
Thu Aug 05, 2021 1:37 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Where any NES games ever ported to the Speccy 'Officially' ?
Replies: 15
Views: 659

Re: Where any NES games ever ported to the Speccy 'Officially' ?

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles was ported from the NES to various home computers, including the Spectrum. Can't think of any other ports that originated on the NES.