Spectrum Computing

Wow, that must be one of the more obscure titles I've seen mentioned round these parts. Any idea roughly how many copies might have been made/sold? No idea about the game I'm afraid but good luck with the search - this possibly beats the search for that decades-long obscure Finnish Golf game (that w...

stupidget wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:26 pm I'm officially old. I had to google what FTFY stood for

Lol..! ROFL..! LMAO smh brb

Vampyre wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:08 amHijack?

Nope.

Try this one:

Grumpy Gumphrey?

Got that similar blue/black paper colour scheme.

Atic Atac - the objects in the game (other than keys) have a use, but it's just not worth bothering picking them up as you only have three item slots and keys are infinitely more useful. Knight Lore (and a whole load of other games!) - the time limit. There's no need for it. After a while it become...

Skaepoy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:09 pmCOCK' IN

Tee hee.

Wonder if that was deliberately named based on the rooster's activity in the game.

rothers wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:02 pm Ah don't worry, the physics were just my best guess at sonic/mario mash up. I know it plays a bit like you're on ice, but it's just a demo.

Thanks for your kind comments everyone, I'm glad you like the idea.

Looking forward to playing the game when it's out..!

This is ace..! Perfect game to have with my weekend morning coffee...

14,320. Gets a bit frenzied after a while.

Looks cool - 4-pixel scroll is very smooth-looking. 8-) Only thing I found is that it feels like Sonic style momentum (and style) but the level I played seems to require Mario-style precision. It looks good but I found the controls a bit tricky. I had about 10 goes and couldn't get past the tube/wat...

I got an email the other day saying that Andrew was about to start a Kickstarter to produce a book containing all those articles. Ah yes I recall seeing something on Twitter about a Kickstarter from Mr Hewson, though I don't tend to pay much attention to Kickstarters. Also I've been trying to reduc...

Ah cool, a while back I was actually wondering the same thing.

For example didn't Andrew Hewson do a regular column for SU for a bit? I was always wondering whether there was a compilation of any of this sort of magazine articles without having to trawl through the contents of each issue.

Ba dum tish..

Heh - could've been done as a text adventure.

> MOVE RIGHT

The dungeoneer moves left. They have fallen down a chasm. What a fool.

Spellcasting..... D-I-S-M-I-S-S....

At 8 am on 17 September 2008, to the surprise of John Humphrys, the day's main presenter on the Today programme, and Johnnie Walker, who was standing in for Terry Wogan on Radio 2, the pips went "adrift" by six seconds, and broadcast seven pips rather than six. This was traced to a proble...

Perhaps the best metric isn't 3 minutes, or 5 minutes, but "can you complete it in less time than it took to load?" Additionally, Bugaboo has an intro sequence (over a minute) after loading, and at the start of each game you have to wait about 20 seconds for the flea to fall into the cave...

Ah cool, I recall ages ago Steve was doing an online version of Chaos.

I didn't realise that one had been released and now there's two

1. Tapper
2. Bomb Jack
3. Grand National

- Dont make comments like "Decrease A register by one" . It's a useless comment. If you have a DEC A command then it's obvious. Haha, when I first started learning z80 my code was littered with comments like this, before I realised it was all totally useless :lol: For writing z80 code, my...

Haha, nice username... Someone had to take it at some point

Looks like ace fun, would love to go but I doubt I'd realistically have time to get up there that weekend

Cool, love challenges like this - you'll have to give us some progress updates. 8-) I don't think I ever got very far, one of the issues is that you lose your power ups after dying, which makes it harder. I got pretty frustrated with it. Even with POKEs I think I only got to the big spaceship level ...

Just as an aside, and in case anyone hadn't seen it, there's a cool mod of Fred in which it runs a bit faster.

It looks and feels better without making the gameplay harder IMO.

Info here:

viewtopic.php?t=9511

...Cue SC members going to their other half with this pic saying "See? My collection's nothing compared to this...!"

One of the mysteries of the universe, I guess.

I'm now waiting for someone to start up a project to count how many games in the archive are PAPER 6.

Woohoo..! Though I'm sure someone's posted that apple before, with a chunk bitten out of it...

I don't have a new one to hand so anyone feel free to jump in.