I own both. Can't get the latter to run on a Speccy, though!
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- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:54 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Longest wait between Speccy sequels?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 634
Re: Longest wait between Speccy sequels?
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Accolade: vote
- Replies: 3
- Views: 202
Re: The best Speccy game by Accolade: vote
Looks like I didn't set the poll to expire (gah!), but to take a proper check after seven days... The winner is The Duel: Test Drive 2, with four votes. Gunboat comes second, with three votes. The Cycles and Star Control are joint fourth - two votes each! We only had one proportional comment, which ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Steve Crow): vote
- Replies: 28
- Views: 579
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Steve Crow): vote
Unsurprisingly, by a huge margin, Starquake is the winner here, with 33 votes. Nearest thing to it, is Firelord, a distant second with seven votes. Factory Breakout get three votes to be in third place. Joint fourth goes to Laser Snaker and Wizard's Lair - two votes each. Similar story on the propor...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): vote
- Replies: 12
- Views: 414
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): vote
I think your editing has somewhat merged Intravoid with Mindfighter somewhere. Oops!! I forgot to close BB tag somewhere! Perhaps there's still time to edit the post. Sadly, no, but the next best thing is to post up the corrected profiles, which I'll do now! Intravoid by Delta 4 Software https://ww...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: discussion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 77
Re: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: discussion
You're an early bird today Prodge - has switching to BST messed with your biorhythms too? Naah, nothing to do with the long Easter weekend. I just sometimes go for a Saturday afternoon/evening beer binge, go home, have dinner and go to sleep early and then wake at stupid o'clock! This one is a comp...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:43 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
- Replies: 8
- Views: 454
Re: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
Playable demo (of a full price game) Phew, the first category I'm suggesting and it's a very long list! 104 entries in this proposed list: 19 Part 1: Boot Camp (playable demo) by Cascade Games Addams Family, The (playable demo) by Ocean Adidas Championship Football (playable demo) by Ocean Altered ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: discussion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 77
The best Speccy game by Tanglewood Software: discussion
Cricket Challenge Football Fever Racing Game, The Rugby Fifteen Sporting Combination Yep, another mail order software house identified from page 93 of #YS 19. I believe the above is their tangible ZX Spectrum output. Let me know if there are any errors in the above before I start the poll properly n...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:36 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
- Replies: 10
- Views: 293
Re: The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
1) Fruity. Well, it's obvious. The most recent (1987) and clearly most feature-packed. It's practically objective, isn't it? 2) Fruit 2010. Er, the second most recent and clearly an advance on the previous, which is... 3) Fruit 2000. Duh! Pretty much, I expect everyone to arrive at the same conclusi...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:34 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
- Replies: 10
- Views: 293
The best Speccy game by Rossware: vote
It's the poll everybody has been waiting for! [citation needed] Contain your excitement as we cover the software brand that everybody fondly remember [citation needed] and always talks about! [citation needed] Yep, from page 93 of YS #19, we've hit the classified ads and it's homebrew gaming before ...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): vote
- Replies: 12
- Views: 414
Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): vote
The final of this series, for now. It'll return at some point. I'm concentrating on a series of polls about covertape items , but not a retread of the Covertape Wars polls. Honest. Anyway, here is a poll about Fergus McNeil's games output for the ZX Spectrum, lots of it being Delta 4 text adventures...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: What are the speech samples saying, in Auf Wiedersehen Monty?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 595
Re: What are the speech samples saying, in Auf Wiedersehen Monty?
I always heard the main one as "Minky". I have absolutely no idea what this means and I'm almost certainly mishearing it.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Starglider being used to gunge children on telly in 1987
- Replies: 8
- Views: 234
Re: Starglider being used to gunge children on telly in 1987
They’re using the Amiga or ST version of Starglider Oof! Well, that's a spectacular clanger from me then. I clocked the Spectrum ROM font and the low amount of colours, which felt quite Spectrum-ish, especially on the blurry resolution of a VHS recording - but yes, I very much stand corrected. And ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
- Replies: 8
- Views: 454
The best YS/SU/Crash covertape item of a certain type
No, it's not actually Covertape Wars again, but I am delving back to that era. This time, I'm not portraying it as a YS vs SU vs Crash battle, but breaking it down into a 'best covertape [thing]' of a certain type. I do try to keep my polls objectively configured and there'll always be a few grey ar...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Starglider being used to gunge children on telly in 1987
- Replies: 8
- Views: 234
Starglider being used to gunge children on telly in 1987
I remember the Get Mucky segment on ITV Saturday morning show Get Fresh using Starglider in series 2, and then Xenon on some 16-bit platform for series 3. Not being a computer owner at the time, I couldn't distinguish which platform was used for Starglider, but someone's uploaded a nearly full editi...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:24 am
- Forum: Sales/Commercial
- Topic: The Horace Collection | Kickstarter
- Replies: 9
- Views: 720
Re: The Horace Collection | Kickstarter
Horace And The 10 Foot Bargepole Acting as Horace, you have to cross a busy road probably once used by a giant frog, to pick up a 10-foot bargepole. Once you are armed with it, navigate your way through a maze where cassettes from an ethically dubious 'IP rights holder' are floating about. You must...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 660
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
Using Vampyre 's prompt in Google's AI offering, Gemini, brings a result citing a shorter game list which will give you deja vu. The ZX Spectrum: A Spark That Ignited the UK Gaming Industry The arrival of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1982 wasn't just a moment in tech history, it was a revolution for ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 660
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
I'd go further and speculate that the author got AI to "write" most of it. The whole thing just seems like a lot of hot air to me. [chatGPT impersonation] The thing to remember about the popular 1980s ZX Sinclair Spectrum is that it was a captivating home microcomputer that was hugely in ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 660
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
I'd make a special case for The Hobbit. It was well known amongst kids at the time, even if they never went on to play any other adventures. "Thorin sits down and sings about gold" seems to be well known meme, you can even get it on TShirts (https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4334758-thori...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 660
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
At the end of the day, it feels like the author has gone for a list of things that - and I have to bring in television game shows here - would score you big points on Family Fortunes and get you almost nothing on Pointless, if the question was "name a ZX Spectrum game". Nothing wrong with ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 660
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
So, wait, games like Chaos (plus all the other fare from JG), Stonkers, Nether Earth, Vulcan, or Lords Of Midnight are routinely ranked as pioneering and high on best-of lists, and yet the genre is supposed to be "minor" at the same time? Not minor by any means, but there's a chasm betwee...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 660
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
*YS Not just that it never got given away with SU, Chaos was first on YS's cover tape in 1990, and again in 1993. Yes, it was a fairly obscure and underrated game around the time of its release, no doubt about that, but it achieved cult status from that first appearance on YS's covertape. That's wh...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 660
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
A quick scan through any of the main mags 1983-1988 would indicate immediately that strategy and role-playing games were minor in comparison to arcade and arcade-adventure titles. Crash had a small section devoted to Strategy (Frontlines). Articles like this with these kind of inaccuracies are both...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 660
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
DISBELIEVEbluespikey wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:03 am If we are talking about iconic rather than best, I'd remove Chaos
Eh!!?bluespikey wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:03 amI never saw it in the shops until the yellow SU coverdisk in 1991.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 172
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): discussion
For the purposes of this I would probably suggest combining the Dragonstar entries. They're really multiple parts of the same game and when I asked Fergus I seem to remember that he thought the advert that suggests he was selling them separately may have just been badly worded. (They were only ever...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 660
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
It's an article spoilt by very dodgy assertions about the Spectrum's games library. Robocop: "While that [action-focused] genre was never really the platform’s bread and butter (that would probably be strategy and role-playing games)" WTF? The software charts for the Speccy were loaded wit...