Spectrum Computing

That's awesome! However, "do something clever" is not a very detailed algorithm :) I would try a 32x24 map of direction (0-7) and speed (0-31) for each map which would fit in 768 bytes, then for each character turn towards the ideal direction, and thrust if slower than the ideal speed. You...

I would make the group Berzerk-style games (which Shamus clearly is).
Berzerk inspired Shamus inspired Pluggit, by the looks of it.

Rorthron wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 10:55 pm Thanks for trying to help, but I was trying to put together a crossword, so it was important able to search for specific character combinations.

PM sent.

When I was putting together a crossword generator, Einar helpfully gave me a dump of all games in the database.
If he approves I can upload that somewhere for you.

PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 6:27 pm Or if you only want to see crap titles:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... ake&crap=1

Yes! <3

If you wanted to optimize it some, you could get the first letter in, say, A, then RESTORE 1000+10*A so you only have to search through words with the same first letter. [EDIT] Looking at the code, you'd be much better off just having each country on a single line: 100 DATA "Afghanistan", ...

AAh, that's why I got 'plank' (I'm from the capital of NI)!
Everyone else was playing with an advantage.

Yes, he's done a good job of minimizing colour clash when scrolling.
But the name... oof.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 11:15 am I took this list

Spoilers!

Oh god, I suck.
I am a "plank".

To extract fonts from all(-ish) games:

• Download TOSEC from archive.org.

• Download source to Fuse and recompile it so that it dumps out the 96x8 bytes at (23606) after those bytes change.

• Write a script to run Fuse for each TOSEC entry.

• ...

• Profit.

And 14?

The font ripping project sounds pretty cool.
It could be done automatically for all the Quill/Paw adventures.
Einar(?) ripped 65 from a bunch of major games for ZX-ALFA.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... id=0025283
(Then there are all the other 8 bit computer platforms...)

Thanks for the pointers!

Speaking of FZX, I'm working on a crap game and I tried for several hours to get the latest Z88DK (1.99B and the nightly) to link and use FZX fonts. I remember it was pretty easy 5 years ago, but now that they are built in to Z88DK it seems to be more complicated. The example project has a bunch of ...

Who are you trying to fool?
You are clearly a VIC-20 spy with that handle!

This is awesome!
One minor niggle is that if you choose JJSpeccy in a wide browser window it clips off the bottom of the screen. (It can be fixed by narrowing the browser window (or running the QAOP version, which scales so that the screen fits on both x and y).)

Some more thought... Spectrum uses RNG that produces a sequence that runs through 0-65535, which RND just divides by 65536. You can see this by running the program: 10 print 65536*rnd:goto10 Therefore the max that RND can produce is 65535/65536=0.999984 (calc done on spectrum) When you multiply, for...

if you really want to bulletproof your code, then perhaps def fn r(x)=int(rnd*(x+0.9999)) let p=fn r(186) Or, if you can't abide the last number being marginally less probable, let p=int(rnd*187): let p=p*(p<>187) which will set p=0 if it ever hits 187. I don't think these are necessary though. Sadl...

So... still 10 & 20 to get?
Is the Star Wars speak a clue?

I thought for a second that #5 was The Blood Of Bogmole, but alas, no.

As it is it's more sophisticated than half the csscgc entries, so just submit it!
Shaun is waiting for text adventures!

14. Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh
10. Jonah Barrington's Squash (found by searching for different sports in the database, since there seems to be a theme!)

1. Gazza's Super Soccer
2. Humpty Dumpty in the Garden
3. Saint and Greavsie

Morkin wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:41 pm Anyway, better go, it's time for me to wander round Kweepa's house to watch something on the new telly...

Can you bring a 9v battery? This fancy remote control thingy didn't come with one.