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Just before Christmas.

I strongly take issue with excluding "WOOT" from these polls. It's all I seem to release lately. I get it that what games ship with it are of varying quality, but so are plenty of other releases. You've got four versions of Snake in the first poll already! Comes across as someone saying th...

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It already has an audio out socket, equivalent to MIC. If you want to add an EAR socket for input from tape you'll need to replicate a bit of the input circuitry from the toastrack. You can't simply plug in to the ear pin in the header where the tape player connects. Also note that the end result is...

Transformers, rather obviously!

And I think the thing in Jet Set Willy is supposed to be a flying pig.
I don't see why Antiriad shouldn't count. Stepping into the suit doesn't seem to me as any different to changing outfit in Exolon or The Great Escape.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:54 pm We don't have those in the UK

Tell me you've never been in a middle-class overpriced garden centre in December without telling me you've never been in a middle-class overpriced garden centre in December!

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The whole flying thing is a mess, in terms of who could and couldn't fly. In the early cartoons most of them could fly, unless the story needed them to fall into a pit or dangle off a ledge. It was later suggested that Megatron started his uprising with a group of robots who had figured out flight, ...

Have we had the turkey yet?

That full-colour open-world 3D style that started with Android 2 and improved with TLL and Cyclone was brilliant. I'd have loved to see more of that. Maybe the ability to get out of a vehicle and walk around in a zoomed-in version to give you more ways to interact, either to battle with enemies or a...

OK, little bit of progress on a game. I now have a main sprite moving around, animating, and some scenic graphics done. I wanted to try an Ultimate-like thing with inertia and XOR-Redraw, which was a bit of faff to get working. Need to add things to shoot with and things to shoot at.

Santa needed a black outline, but the inner is 8x8:

Mpk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:20 am Does David Braben and/or Ian Bell count?

I think they can. I heard they can do really hard sums as well.

Mike Singleton? Mike Singleton wrote for 8-bit machines other than the Speccy, and went on to write stuff like Midwinter on the ST and Amiga, and later games for the PC and consoles too. Far more than just Lords of Midnight and its sequels. Matthew Smith did sod all outside a couple of Speccy games...

The " I'm sure I've seen this before " bit... 8-) Strictly Come Dancing - The Computer Game (Domark) Advanced Dancing Simulator (CodeMasters) Strictly Dumb Prancing (Players) Trump Tower Willy (Software Projects) Celebrities vs. Predator (Tynesoft) turns out to be a blatant Operation Wolf ...

Legend of the Amazon Silent Service - approach a house, drop off a load of parcels on a Saturday afternoon and drive away without alerting anyone in the house to your presence in any way.

It's a lovely bit of kit! :dance I did go in and tweak the 'interlace' setting on the video output on the one I was shown. I did notice some comb artifacts in a couple of games. Looks like it updates alternate lines of the display by default from the ULA PAL output, which is probably to keep it chee...

I remember going to a 16-bit one in London with my brother and friend from school; I can't remember if we took the train or if he was driving by then. I don't know which fair it was though. There weren't any consoles, it was just STs and Amiga, and the major magazines and big game labels weren't the...

And that's assuming the interface uses 0V as the common and +5V on the switch lines. Some are the other way round! I know at least that dual-port DK'Tronics uses 0V as common on one side and +5V on the other. It's because one side is Sinclair / Keyboard, and the other side is Kempston, so the 'on' b...

Does anybody know of any joysticks that could be used to test, guess 2 buttons would've been a luxury back in day! TomD Not really. You could always make one! Microswitched arcade joystick modules are common as muck these days, and you can still get 9-pin joystick extension leads, which are fully p...

Clue? That green might be a zombie hand, but from the white I'm thinking some sort of cockpit view like Penetrator or Raid Over Moscow (which it clearly isn't).

Could maybe have started with a shorter list! FIFA ' YY Plenty of footie games out there. None that seem to turn up endlessly again and again, although wasn't there one game that got re-hashed and re-branded? Call Of Duty - Into the Eagle's Nest Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - 720° Castlevania - Underwurld...

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