Spectrum Computing

p13z wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 7:21 pm 19
(boot camp)

Correct! Your turn

MatGubbins wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 9:20 pm Something....

Clue:
Th...Th...Th...The song was released first

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 11:00 am (Still, at least it's not as embarrassing as Morkin thinking that Bristol Parkway had its own powerbox)

It does, I've seen the photo of it... it runs from five 9V batteries in a shoebox with a tangle of wires and a couple of light switches.

Something....

tolls wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 8:22 am Next one!

The Plot

https://i.imgflip.com/63hcgh.jpg Sittingbourne powerbox does come with bonus features of shopping trolly on the line, idiots parking cars on the crossing, feral kids and adults playing on the tracks, overhigh lorries getting stuck under the bridge thus knocking that bit of cable out of the socket a...

Daley Thompson's Supertest 128 has a cycling event

Is there a Pro A-Bike simulator?

Thanks for the many updates! HiSoft_COLT_Compiler https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/8254/ZX-Spectrum/HiSoft_COLT_Compiler For some strange reason it has the 'Authored with: ' tag linking to my Nightshade - The Map Editor. https://i.postimg.cc/RWwH3jwj/hisoft1.jpg It should be in the list below.....

Brian Bloodaxe

Following on from the other two pictures.......





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XLWEjN9eI

Ah, just the new ones for this time, he's got a lot more to think about now....and just done a search, there's Carlisle... Doncaster... Edinburgh... Leeds... Newcastle Upon Tyne... Peterborough... and Reading. That's enough to keep someone happy for a week or so. Here ya go..... https://i.postimg.cc...

Thank you Andre! The great H.U.R.G demonstration took place in London yesterday, dozens of people from all around the UK gathered to protest against the use of HURG software on the ZX Spectrum. https://i.postimg.cc/zGQvCqft/demo3s.jpg There was a burning of H.U.R.G. cassette tapes from the protester...

Microdeal poster at 00:47 is "Lands Of Havoc"
Rainbird poster is "Legend of the Sword"

StooB wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:39 am

MatGubbins wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:08 pm

Critical Mass?

It most certainly is, in all those fuzzy youtube pixels it's a rock from Critical Mass!

Every effect I switch off, if it can't then I don't use that emulator. Hell, I even switch off all text smoothing within Windows and all the web browsers that I use - I want to see those pixels as they are and not smudged fuzzy-o-vision, and it's a damn sight easier to read. Meanwhile, in the SCREE...

I get the impression MatGubbins didn't read the opening post. Yup, I did read the opening post, understand and share your frustration of the uneven pixels in the video/screen grabs, I've added a list of the things that I find annoying in emulators, youtube vids/screen grabs in wrong screen ratio. A...

Just add it to the long list of stupidly annoying things that users want... Unevenly scaled pixels Blurrrrr effects with dot crawl. 16:9 stretched Spectrum screens. Scan lines and curved CRT effects in emulators Every effect I switch off, if it can't then I don't use that emulator. Hell, I even swit...

Street Hassle

Hades Nebula is correct. Your turn.

That Lunar Jetman Saturn sprite is beautiful to watch. The animation is amazing.

Number 5, your time is up.....

p13z wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:59 pm Hows about this then:

Lunar Jetman

Thanks Dave, you've done it proud (as the kids of today say) with those matches and the steely hard stare of a box-ticking testing QA person.

Ian Botham Tests Matches.... (sponsored by Swan Vesta) Yep, that one works... Yep, that one works... Yep, that one works... Yep, that one works... Yep, that one works... Hang on, I'll try it again.. Yep, that one works... Yep, that one works... Yep, that one works... Yep, that one works... Yep, that...