Spectrum Computing

Booty and Boulderdash notable by their absence.

I made my own top ten list over on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Blerkotron/status/9 ... 2059983874), but a proper discussion and vote with multiple categories would be a super idea!

Probably the best Berzerk/Frenzy clone I've ever played on a home system - really excellent stuff! My only minor niggle is that it doesn't have a high score table - a weird omission in a game which is basically an endless score-attack. Well worth your time, though - especially if you can hook up a C...

Indeed, it's a great idea - the 'modern' Speccy games really don't get the attention they deserve and it'd be nice to have a list of the very best of the best to help newcomers get started. If they actually read it instead of saying "hey, who remembers Manic Miner?!" for the 438th time.

I seem to remember beating Subsunk, but I can't remember if I had any magazine help or not.

I agree - Metal Man is better than More Tea, Vicar. But I liked Magic Tokens, Magical Tower Adventure and Majikazo more than both of them. And my favourite M is Maritrini - Freelance Monster Slayer. :) While we're being argumentative (I jest, don't panic!), Doom wouldn't even be in the running for m...

Props to Action Force II, Alchemist, Anarchy and ATF as well - love all of those.

Excellent work, all - I need more time to dig into the games properly but crikey that 'Magic Nights' tune is remarkable!

Yes, Craig is @hot_piping.

I've added revealing the level to the wish list, it should be very straight-forward to do.

I've done that a few times too but just thought it was me being cack-handed. I'll put a bit of a pause in there for the next version.

Update time! I've just released v1.0 - a couple of tweaks and bugfixes, and I've also implemented the much-asked-for "can't lose on your first click" mode. Downloads are again available from my itch.io page: https://blerkotron.itch.io/minesweeper Thanks to everyone who tried the first vers...

I played it. It's everything that Minesweeper should be, nothing more, nothing less. Okay, maybe two things: 1) When you write your next game, think about adding some music. In the classic times we had mostly silence and some farts from beeper in Spectrum games but today if you want to do something...

Great game, very polished. I do like the Hero mode, a while back I wondered how to combine something like Pixel Quest with Minesweeper, but went down the pixel = mine route. This way works pretty nicely. One thing though, I went up to the hard level and medium grid and bombed first attempt about 10...

This is great and well done for your first attempt in machine code. Yup, found a bug though.... The flag counter can go from 0 to 255 if a numbered square is clicked on twice. I have a snapshot that I can email you. Oops, I knew it was worth calling it a beta! :-) I'll check that out and get back t...

I've just released a public beta of Minesweeper, which is (surprise!) a Minesweeper clone for the 16K, 48K and 128K Spectrum. The game comes as two versions - a 16K release for little Spectrums and an enhanced 48K release for its bigger brothers. The enhanced edition features an extra mode with boar...

This is excellent - really enjoying playing it so far. The difficulty level is pitched just right - not too hard as to be frustrating, but not so easy that there's no challenge. Great work!

At the time I found 'old' Sinclair User a bit dull, although I did buy it every month as well as YS and Crash. Once it started trying to ape YS it very quickly went down the toilet and I think I quit reading it regularly sometime in 1988, only picking it up when there was something on the cover tape...

Pegaz wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:19 pm btw, does it have any insider information, about release date?
Three months is not a lot of delays if the distribution of the board would start soon.

Email this evening says the 'board only' versions will start shipping November 27th.

Pixy the Microdot from Your Sinclair is one that really stands out in my memory - super fun little game, I spent far longer with this than with any other type-in I can recall.

Wait - ignore me. It's Windows 10's 'scaling for high resolution screens' being rubbish as usual. If I turn it off everything looks peachy.

Thanks, Microsoft.

Hmm... curious. The pictures certainly don't look to be scaled at 1x or 2x size for me - in fact they look a little bit weird, as you can see by looking at this shot of my screen showing Adventure A (which uses the standard Speccy font). https://image.ibb.co/ksrqTR/untitled.png My screen res is 1920...

I knocked up a quick TAP file with the option to apply the hack or run normally:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x7eapkh1xtzwy ... k.tap?dl=0

After a little conversation on Twitter this evening I was reminded of how great Tapper is on the Speccy but also how bloody awful the "music" is. As there's no way to turn it off I figured I'd try and hack it to do just that (having checked The Tipshop and come up blank). So that's what I ...

There were some really impressive entries in the ZX BASIC Jam competition earlier this year. I was particularly fond of "Tarzan" and "Killer Ducks from Outer Space" - proof that you can do successful arcade games in BASIC if you try hard enough! https://itch.io/jam/zx-spectrum-ba...

Oh, yes - sorry! I was going to DM you - I'll do that now.