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- Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Out of context Spectrum games
- Replies: 334
- Views: 47731
Re: Out of context Spectrum games
I don't think this can be written off as a coincidence... https://i.discogs.com/_tzffs-EiCuEKWwRM9hAvxrnYBIC0yedsyUHA1l7hTc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMDc3/NDgyLTE0OTEyMTQ3/MjktMjU1NC5qcGVn.jpeg https://i.discogs.com/1I0D6qniRHgGrmscbWVGr4VfNWq-ktDryEr...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Derek Brewster): discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 299
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Derek Brewster): discussion
I always wondered what happened with Micromega. It seemed like one minute they were publishing quality games, mostly from Brewster and Mervyn Estcourt, and then they just seemed to vanish. "In April stalwart Micromega came up with the disappointing Day In The Life, a spoof on Sir Clive Sinclai...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:55 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Pete Cooke): vote
- Replies: 20
- Views: 632
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 8:24 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Curious eyebrow-raisers from Sinclair User's Gremlin column
- Replies: 92
- Views: 3616
Re: Curious eyebrow-raisers from Sinclair User's Gremlin column
Sinclair User #51 Jun 1986 The Amstrad era of the ZX Spectrum has just begun, and Gremlin's not happy at 'Lord Saccharin' describing Sir Clive Sinclair 's computer reliability record as "appalling", so he throws some shade at those Amstrad hi-fis with "flashy chrome knobs that fall of...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:29 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Realtime Games Software: discussion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 82
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:26 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Derek Brewster): discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 299
Devfinitive Edition (Derek Brewster): discussion
And so we move onto Derek Brewster, a major programmer for Micromega but left them just before the in-fighting and quality plummet brought them down. Derek became an adventure review for Speccy magazine Crash, while also freelancing to make games for budget labels like Mastertronic and Code Madsters...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 10:58 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Realtime Games Software: discussion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 82
The best Speccy game by Realtime Games Software: discussion
Renowned for producing Starfox, Starglider, Carrier Command and Battle Commmand on the Speccy, but none of those revered games will appear in this shortlist, because it's all about the PUBLISHED games from the brand, rather than games published on other labels (Reaktor, Firebird and Ocean in the cas...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 10:42 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Atlantis Gold: vote
- Replies: 1
- Views: 90
The best Speccy game by Atlantis Gold: vote
The two efforts that Atlantis deemed worthy of being 'premium' output. Hmm. Honestly, it's like the early days of Imagine here. No proportional vote this time round as it's only two of them, so if you've never played their output before, set aside 15 mins and let us know what you think... Nicotine N...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 10:37 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Pete Cooke): vote
- Replies: 20
- Views: 632
Devfinitive Edition (Pete Cooke): vote
Never mind the Zolyx, here's Pete Cooke! Seven days to make your choice, then we'll find out which is number (Micronaut) one! 20 Tons by Spectrum Computing https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/123/scr/20Tons.scr&border=0 https://www.spectrumcomputing.c...
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:23 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: ZX81 > ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 144
ZX81 > ZX Spectrum
This is a bit of an echo of my 48K > 128K thread where I asked for examples of 48K games being better than the 128K version. So yeah, there aren't many games that came out on the ZX81 and the ZX Spectrum, and I guess there are very very few games regarded as being better on the ZX81 than the Spectru...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:31 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Are all coders basically autistic?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1974
Re: Are all coders basically autistic?
Wow, I really underestimated how distant someone could be from normal social discourse. Those justifications for those vile childish insults truly are grim reading. I'll hold my hands up and admit to having used the ableist 'R' slur in the past, but that was decades ago as a naïve youth and not some...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:46 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: If your Spectrum ownership was with a different model...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 359
Re: If your Spectrum ownership was with a different model...
I had this envy of the 128K machines and their ability to load games in one go and their music chips, and also of the CPCs because of the music. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the music capability of the Amstrad CPC just like a 128K Speccy because it's the AY-3-8912 sound chip? I only got envio...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:04 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: If your Spectrum ownership was with a different model...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 359
If your Spectrum ownership was with a different model...
I've said before that I started out on the grey +2 in late 1987, much later than most who embraced home computing in the 1980s (a miracle anyway considering how absolutely brassic my family was), and no real regrets about it. I have often wondered how my computer-owning history would be in those par...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:50 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Mike Lamb): vote
- Replies: 30
- Views: 569
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Mike Lamb): vote
The correct game wins this, it's Target: Renegade with 19 votes right at the top! And yeah, the nearly-as-good one in the Renegade series, that'll be Renegade, is justifiably is in the second place - 12 votes. Robocop is third placed, 7 votes. WEC Le Mans is fourth, 6 votes. Batman: The Movie is six...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:35 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Audiogenic: vote
- Replies: 6
- Views: 210
Re: The best Speccy game by Audiogenic: vote
Quite rightly, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer - which is the best football game on the Spectrum ever - tops this poll. (And don't go near Emlyn Hughes Arcade Quiz, which... is by the far worst game Audiogenic made and one of the worst games of all time.) 9 votes! Joint second place: Lone Wolf - T...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:30 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Atlantis Gold: discussion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 29
The best Speccy game by Atlantis Gold: discussion
The very short-lived 'premium budget' label set up by Atlantis Software that seems to have issued just these two games at £2.99 each: Nicotine Nightmare Self Destruct I can't say they exactly look worthy of the 'premium' level, but anyway, I think that's the entire output of tangible ZX Spectrum gam...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:27 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Atlantis Software: vote
- Replies: 13
- Views: 353
The best Speccy game by Atlantis Software: vote
Pick yer favourite, if you're shaw of it! Alpine Games https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/a/scr/AlpineGames.scr&border=0 https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/a/AlpineGames.scr&border=0 Aquasquad https://www.spectrumcom...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:16 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Pete Cooke): discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 181
Devfinitive Edition (Pete Cooke): discussion
Over to the quirky output of Pete Cooke, who certainly had a distinct style... 20 Tons by Spectrum Computing 3D Maze by Spectrum Computing 3D Noughts And Crosses Academy by CRL Artificial Intelligence by Sinclair User (type-in listing) Brainstorm by Firebird Chopper Chase by Spectrum Computing Codeb...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:13 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Mike Singleton) vote
- Replies: 10
- Views: 333
Devfinitive Edition (Mike Singleton) vote
Rather late with this, again, it's the social life disrupting my usual Sunday morning routines. Anyways, let's all see what wins this... 3 Deep Space by Postern https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=pub/sinclair/screens/load/123/scr/3DeepSpace.scr&border=0 https://www.spectrumco...
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 7:39 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Are all coders basically autistic?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1974
Re: Are all coders basically autistic?
I'd be curious to see your reaction to the SAM Coupé's output via RF... on a 4:3 display, I played on one quite regularly in 1992-93 at friend's house, so yeah, it was Chaos with the wizards and creatures looking like they've just had Christmas dinner. The MSX output is quite similar. Spectrum port...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:22 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Are all coders basically autistic?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1974
Re: Are all coders basically autistic?
If anything, my autistic nature is very much against awful interfaces and other terrible practices in technology. One thing that really winds me up is the recent propensity for filming things on phones in portrait mode, which looks shockingly bad in landscape (the natural view of pretty much all hum...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:35 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Atlantis Software: discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 221
Re: The best Speccy game by Atlantis Software: discussion
Aw, so it is the cartoonist that worked for Words And Pictures (Mastertronic's choice of graphic agency)! I pretty much bought almost any Mastertronic game with that style of artwork on it (Curse Of Sherwood, Feud, 180, etc) but rarely ever saw Atlantis games in the shops.
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:34 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Are all coders basically autistic?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1974
Re: Are all coders basically autistic?
Agreed. Aside from the negative connotations it seems intended to invoke, what would poor key choice (or poor UI design generally) have to do with autism? I have to echo the sentiments here, and I was diagnosed as autistic ten years ago. I wouldn't choose those key choices and that's nothing to do ...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:43 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Atlantis Software: discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 221
Re: The best Speccy game by Atlantis Software: discussion
I was sure that my favourite Atlantis game was going to Mrs Mopp and wondered why it wasn't on the list but now I see that it was originally released by one game company Compuserve and then rereleased by Atlantis to the public It's actually Computasolve ! But I like the idea of a dial-up-era ISP pu...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 8:45 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Curious eyebrow-raisers from Sinclair User's Gremlin column
- Replies: 92
- Views: 3616
Re: Curious eyebrow-raisers from Sinclair User's Gremlin column
Sinclair User #50 May 1986 It's 12 months since Street Hawk was advertised in SU by Ocean , so Gremlin recounts the numerous Scooby awards the label has picked up ( Supertest , Knight Rider , Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Superbowl ). Accepting a Scooby on behalf of the software label's David Ward ,...