Spectrum Computing

I read about The Barras market in Glasgow, which apparently was a go-to place for dodgy soft: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=96302&highlight=barras That was a great trip down memory lane, thanks for that link! I used to go to the Barras pretty much every weekend to get my games. in the l...

Current run sequence uses 4 frames but I found few memory bytes, so we can have 5 :-) http://cikryt.cz/wp-content/uploads/run-animation.gif http://cikryt.cz/wp-content/uploads/run-animation.gif I just noticed that my crude version could fit in 24x24 just by moving the head down 1 pixel in frames 1 ...

The thing that stands out to me is that for a title titled "Run", the running character looks a bit stiff and upright. I've no idea how many frames you've got to play with but here's a quick and dirty 5 frame stick man animation template (that would really need a bit more work, tbh, especi...

Codemasters seem to be listed as Code Masters when they’ve always been called “Codemasters”. Even in their own website, they’re listed as Codemasters and the wiki from wiki link within Spectrum Computing only ever lists them as “Codemasters”. The only reason I can see why it’s listed as “Code Master...

17. Toobin

26 - Aliens

@redballoon I remember you posting a .gif of your obobo ( so to speak ) some years back. Did you ever do a green version? Presumably inverted pixels? I don’t think I did! I think I may have tried a quick version by inverting the pixels inside the outline leaving the eyes as they were but I wasn’t h...

Oh hiya!

Edit: Oooft, click on the map to be taken to the actual size image

I mean, we all know that Draconus is from Zeppelin Games, right? Right?!! We’re not going to let blucey, here, get away with such misinformation, yeah?

I’m not sure what flavour of SQL you’ll be using but I’d probably write the following query select e.* from entries e ,releases r where r.entry_id = e.id and r.release_year = 2010 and e.genretype_id in (5,6) That’s just doing an inner join between the 2 tables and probably have better performance.

Wait, so ID in the ENTRIES table = ENTRY_ID in the RELEASES table?

You're not into Red Dwarf? I can only assume you've not seen any of it from the first 7 series. That’s pretty much it. I tried a couple of the “new ones” over the years and never found them funny at all. Though I have heard the latest series was good, but I’ve moved on from it. It’s just no longer ...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 12:26 pm Is there a gamer who ISN'T into Red Dwarf?

Oh hiya!

Glad you’re enjoying it, Peter! We’ve had such good feedback it’s been aces! Richard is currently looking at getting it on iOS and maybe, just maybe, there’s a small chance it could be making its way to the Nintendo Switch.

akeley wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 7:40 pm -How To Be a Complete Bas**rd should be based on a TV show. Perhaps there is a "reality TV" one these days, wouldn't be surprised at all.

Well, it's based on the book of the same name!

R-Tape wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 11:41 am I'd say the double feels right only with 2 cassettes in them.

Why, yes! Yes it does!

I've just dug out my copy and taken this

Double jewel case all the way. They took the single cassette and added to it. They’re perfect for storage, large enough to show off the beautiful inlay art, they feel right even with 2 cassettes in them - they’ve got such a right feel, y’know? - and they sound right when stacking ot storing together...

Thanks [mention]MonkZy[/mention] that looks just what I’m look for! Il give that a try later and let you know how I got in! Thanks again.

If there will be colour version for ATM-Turbo 2/ZX Evo/Pentagon 2.666LE, it will certainly take the 1st prize at the Your Game 6. Do the authors know? Sadly, I’m afraid not. We’re just trying to get the PC version finished first. As Sokurah’s already mentioned, we’re not handling the Next and 128K ...

https://twitter.com/bitglint/status/131 ... 27968?s=21

Aaaaaand the playable demo of the PC version is now available!

Morning [mention]redballoon[/mention], Assuming that you are referring to the 21 User Defined Graphics, it's easy. Please see this link to an example. Feel free to ask any questions. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=48001#p48001 Edit. Just read your post again, to print those ...

Hello

How easy is it to print out the standard Spectrum UDGs in BASIC?


It'd display a picture, say a logo, made up of the the UDGs (on the bottom line, above) and using DATA commands to control the UDGs.

Thanks.