Spectrum Computing

namco wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:46 pm Clue: Written by a Spectrum YouTuber in 2010.

That’ll be Kid Cadet, then, by Paul Jenkinson.

(Edited cos I messed up!)

namco wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:46 pm Clue: Written by a Spectrum YouTuber in 2010.

That’ll be Maze, then, by Paul Jenkinson.

Grongy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:52 am Thanks! UriS recently did SPECScii art, his work is more impressive imo:

These are indeed spectacular. And the disco one is hilarious!

Maybe this one? Jumping Cross. Thanks, but no. It's the right year (1984... 85/86 at the *very latest*) but the game I'm trying to recall was purely top-to-bottom scrolling. I recall the mud being quite the obstacle, and it could properly slow you down. The game felt like a challenging 'slog', rath...

Did Macsen ever produce anything even halfway decent? I’m not sure it did.

Thanks, but sadly not. Again, similar — but there were no pseudo 3D bits in the game I’m trying to recall.

I found Rally Bike, which looks kinda similar to what I remember but this is 1988, so definitely not it. It’s also way faster than the game I’m trying to recall…

There are probably more relevant forums on which to ask this but I’m not a member of any of those… So, today I walked past a cafe that, back in about 1985, was home to a solitary arcade game that swallowed many of the 10p pieces meant for my bus ride to and from school (I generally walked, so I coul...

Grongy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:08 pm

Almost everything you produce impresses me but this one, wow -- you've surpassed yourself! It just seems impossible to pack so much detail into so few pixels.

On a similar subject, there seems to be hardly any interviews/videos/blogs about or from the people who worked on the magazines. You can pretty much find an interview with any developer from back in the day, but nothing from old journo's. It's a bit scattergun in both content and style, not to ment...

If you could go back in time to be a writer on your favourite computer magazine, what kind of era and what section/genre would you like to write in? 100% Crash. 100% 1984-85. 100% reviews (because what teenager didn't want to be an influencer, even if we didn't call it that back then?). As it happe...

Surely School Daze. Throw something at it to see what happens. I think you misunderstood. The shield is Skool Daze, yes, (and I think you’re the first to get that one) but the vortex thing reminds me both of TV show The Adventure Game *and* a Spectrum game — the name of which my mind will not conju...

Turrican or Turrican 2?

Skip to 19m51s on Part Four of this episode to hear it: https://chartmusiccouk.wordpress.com/2024/01/06/chart-music-73-march-4th-1993-frank-bald/ I love throwaway anecdotes like the one aired here: they bring to life what as a (much) younger person I fantasised it'd be like working for the likes of...

4-3 - Journey’s End.

worcestersource wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:21 am The Adventure Game.

And yes, looks like a certain isometric futuristic game whose name I cannot quite place.

Yeah, that’s the TV show. Still can’t think of the game.

There was also this, which admittedly actually reminded me of a geeky 1980s TV show than a ZX Spectrum game. I think it also reminds me of a Spectrum game, but I can’t remember which one!

So I’m just back from a bit of a Christmas sing-song at our local cathedral. All the way through my eye was caught by this, just above where I was crooning. Obviously, it reminded me of…?

PeterJ wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:55 am Some people would be offended by (and I know I give this example a lot), a game where the object is to hunt and kill homosexuals.

Honestly not trying to make light of any of this but… does this describe a real Spectrum game?!

It’s worth looking back at the Atari 2600 in 1980. That would be £99 to you (£523 today) with the games clocking in at £20+ (£105 today!). While your essential point is sound the inflation calculations seem a little overblown. The Bank of England reckons £99 is about £406 today — so I imagine the r...

Marcus-Berkmann, one of the many Your Sinclair writers, about gettimg old and invisible.... Not badly written but a bit of a hack piece, IMHO (I'm an ex-hack, and responsible for plenty of hack pieces myself, so I don't feel too bad about identifying the same). That aside, I struggled with both the...

Stefan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:11 pm Have another beautiful landscape:

Just me or Is this image not visible?

R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 12:40 pm Not 100% sure but I think it was discussed before @5MinuteRetro , and IIRC mornings had the edge.

For my part I have a slight preference for morning. Good for quick Friday skive or brew.

Fair enough. I’ll stand down.

This morning, I noticed the eggs in my fridge were a bit out of date. I was going to scramble them for breakfast, but decided it wasn't worth the whisk. Before I get my coat, I'll very quickly let you all know about a quiz. So, there's a quiz, it's happening this Friday, at around 0900 hours. Pop a...

So I could be wrong but I'm guessing this isn't a logo but a decoration. Sure… all good reasoning. I suspect ‘logo’ was the wrong choice of word on my part. Perhaps it is just some generic decoration… but I’m still curious if anyone recognises it. (I fear a lot of my clothes shopping back then was ...