Spectrum Computing

In Psion's sorta-classic Space Raiders , if you fire a bullet, then press and hold SPACE and B together, your bullet stops and hangs in midair until you release the keys, at which point it carries on. This makes it a lot easier to pick off spaceships or the last, fast moving invaders. Hi! Can I add...

And the fixes on this release :) Kudos to R-Tape, for the amazing work on the recovery of the CSSCGC Crap Games Contest 2010 titles! https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?group_id=2064 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=44457#p44457 by 8bitag https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums...

I love to see the disassemblies, I usually learn curious things about the code and the author, and to learn a little detail you didn't know about a game you played for so long, make my day. If I could peek a title to work in, might be Xcel https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/5781/ZX-Spectrum/Xcel ...

Oh, thanks @8BitAG seems that the magazine I was checking in does not have the supplement. Great, we can fix it without touching anything regarding the author.

I have been typing in a few of the magazine MIA titles and noticed this reference to a program called Cats . The magazine reference (Sinclair User, 1982/9 Page 4) takes you to an advert for Melbourne House. The same reference is in 'The Type Fantastic' which is I guess where we got our data from. I...

The bookzine cover appears twice in the listing Treasure Island and book pack published by Boots. Look at additional downloads. One is on archive.org the other is local. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry.php?id=2001369 I see that the one hosted by SC is really low quality (https://spectrumcompu...

That's a really lovely letter! R-Tape's fix is ready to land on the next release

Thanks @iron_chip for the changes.

@druellan - I could not do ^this^ one using Pav's form. The original publisher needs to be changed to Iron Chip. Nothing else. Can you do this?

Sure. Just to be clear, the rest of the changes are going to be added using the Pav's tool, right?

Oh I'd not complain as such about language issues like that, because I know a lot of people for whom English is their secondary or tertiary language. :) I'm still trying (badly) to learn two as well :oops: I was about to open a thread on the forum about exactly this. Because there are some very bad...

Sorry, it was not my intent to seem pushy. I know things take time. I was just giving feedback on my part. This double-checks are really useful, sometimes small fixes like this one get mixed into another complex discussion and never land. I'm checking this one to be sure it is included in the next ...

I remember Circuit Board Scramble from back in the day on my Timex. The idea is interesting, but in the end it is just a Pac Man clone with an intermission were the ULA instructs you to check the status of a chip. We might label it as educational, since it's kind of teaching basic computer component...

I do know -exactly- what you mean with this and I've lost numerous lines over the years due to it. Just pressing zero on its own however usually will on the ZX version delete a single character (iirc) but habits mean you tend to automatically press delete or CS+0 I know! :lol: Exactly that! We neve...

Hello! Me again. :) Just wondering - those that loaded the code, or attempting to, how long did you spend doing it? Minutes/Hours/Days? I spent a few minutes. Got the WAV file using a site that extracts audio from YT videos and then dropped the file directly into the emulator (Fuse). I later decide...

Nice investigation and testing!
Quick question. One particular thing on the ZX Spectrum versión is that the backspace deletes the entire line instead of one char. Is this the same on other versions?

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=34&p=16957#p16959 by @ 8bitag https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=16959#p16959 by @ 8bitag This has not been processed correctly... or is not showing as correct currently? Space Odyssey, part 5 was on issue 7. A Special C...

And some of the fixes on this release. let us know of any errors or improvements we can do on those, and as always, thanks to all that contributed. In this release we also started a new group "Keyboard Overlay", so we can start grouping games that included some kind of overlay to place ove...

Thanks DAV83 , this is exactly the place to comment this things, so, feel free to add anything you find here or in this forum section. About the report, I can see Stephen Corry mentioned in the SPOT/SPEX entry, right? And on the ZXDB Nick Thomson is mentioned as author, so the error is in SPOT/SPEX.

Looks like something Richard Stevenson put together, but I don't know the title...

4). The Prayer of the Warrior . As you probably know, this was an unreleased game by Zigurat that was released by its authors in 2004 or so as a downloadable game. Several years later "1985 Alternativo" did a crowdfunding to release a proper version that I missed at the time. In the meant...

Thanks for these informations @Audionautas Do you think you can contact Javier, if he could provide scans of both boxes (front+reverse side) in 300dpi at least? And can you please give me (via PM) Felipe's e-mail or any other contact? Hi @pavero PM already sent! Audionautas . Did Javi provided the ...

Oh, that's an interesting point. Right now we have a note type "preservation" we can use when we need to point out something is not right or missing.

Hi! The idea is to preserve everything in TZX format, even software that does not have any custom loader, since the format preserves also pauses and other things in the tape. It's not as good as a pure WAV but it is considered a good compromise. TAP is considered a legacy format for devices that doe...

I really like the animals on Jasper!, the animations are so good. https://i.postimg.cc/K1Cs1QCW/jasper-bear.gif https://i.postimg.cc/ppStBfgf/jasper-cat.gif The bear reminds me of the one on Skimmo Eddie, but I suppose there are not some many ways to rotoscope a bear ;) https://i.postimg.cc/1ndKdzPj...

But even they absolutely respect the masterpiece that is Chaos. Never officially released on any other platform than the ZX Spectrum. I'm picturing of creating another tag group for "ZX Spectrum Exclusives": games that back in the day didn't have any conversion to any other system. It is ...

I must confess I was not as active as usual around here, because I was busy playing truly classic games like The Last Ninja, Armalyte and Paradroid.