Spectrum Computing

The 2 head graphics ring a bell for me. They look familiar, but I’m unable to recollect where! It’s definitely a WIP (or mock-up) that never saw a release. I’ll try and remember or figure it out.

If I remember correctly, Greg Follis and Roy Carter just aren’t interested about discussing their old games. At all. So I doubt we’ll ever find out directly from them, I’m afraid.

Oh sweet Moses!

https://youtu.be/tRVx5An5ZUQ

Ivanzx wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 4:03 pm It would be great if one day you can participate making the graphics of a game of the compo, Craig!

Maybe one day! I “unofficially” retired from doing Spectrum graphics...but I do miss doing them.

I would’ve liked to but I just not taking in anymore stuff, sadly, due to various reasons. Another time, maybe.

Oh it’s all there in the book. Mind I only did the loading screen the in-game mock-up screen. I’ve not got the book to hand to clarify my memory, but The Last Ninja was started on the Soectrum, but it wasn’t quite working out and the original developer left. Mevlut Dinc picked it up and I think star...

PeterJ wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:15 pm I can provide a list of anyone wants to help.

Fire them my way!

I must admit, I find the 2 options; ZX Spectrum 16K/48K and ZX Spectrum 48K/128K slightly confusing when you've got the separate options for ZX Spectrum 16K , ZX Spectrum 48K and ZX Spectrum 128K . So, for example, if you select ZX Spectrum 48K only, should it only 48K only software or all software ...

Cool no worries. You can mibbees see where I’m going with this.

I have a few solutions that spring to mind based on the known details and they may need to be altered depending on details provided by either [mention]Vampyre[/mention] or [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention].

Ah, I see, but it’s always a number out of a number?

That makes sense. What magazine scores aren’t stored as a number?

I very rarely play games these days, too, but I have my Next permanently plugged into and under the television in my living room for when I do anything Spectrum related and displayed in the natural non-widescreen aspect ratio ;) . I also still load games from cassette just because I do enjoy that wh...

Yeah, looks like the score is stored as text and not as a number - is the % stored on the database?

Yeah I think that’s what I saw before now, but after @patters’s comment about The Simpsons I can’t not see two eyes. On Willy too, under the brim of his hat, the negative space looks like an eye? No, the 2 black pixels separated with the white pixel have always been eyes on both Willy and Maria. Th...

Nose and the 2 pixels below the nose are her mouth,

Ah, I see! Does the form just build up the INSERTs in an sql (or txt) file when it’s submitted? Yes, how you can see it here (Filename column). https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/add/public/history_entries.php Thanks, interesting to see! Application Development with database back-end (Oracle) is ...

The 2nd Kickstarter for the Next is due in August this year...at least I think it’s August. There may be some that become available on their website, like fairly recently (but they’re all gone now). You might be able to buy one on eBay.

Ah, I see! Does the form just build up the INSERTs in an sql (or txt) file when it’s submitted?

Surely it’s just going to be sql UPDATE, DELETE and possibly INSERT statements into the ZXDB tables.

A wee SQL query on the ZXDB database and you should get some results. I think [mention]R-Tape[/mention]’s your man for that!

Says redballoon...

Some author names are clearly pseudonyms. Are they not liked? Is it preferred to write names as they themselves like to write them? e.g. Oscar BraindeaD (capital D on end of name), or is it preferable to just leave the author name blank if its clearly not his real name (or her) ;) This makes me chu...

Important decisions to be made on the 128K version!
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Apologies, won’t get a chance to do a new one so someone else can post a new one.

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