Spectrum Computing

Ralf wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 7:34 pmI get some Defender of the Crown vibe here.

The inspiration source can be described as a sort of "thinking man's Defender Of The Crown" in fact.

I first saw one of these at the VIGAMUS in Rome. This is a photo I took of it in 2012 for an article for the gamesark.it website:

Part 3: The Meeting In The Hall



https://itch.io/blog/652976/new-game-un ... n-the-hall

I bought some from Data Serve Retro years ago: https://www.dataserve-retro.co.uk/contents/en-uk/p2175_Sinclair-ZX-Spectrum-16K-_-48K-_Rubber-Key_-Keyboard-Membrane.html They are of very good quality. However the website says that "The website shop is currently closed due to illness and you will...

Ralf wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 7:15 pm Now I'm lost. I was going to believe it's some war simulation but now I'm not so certain

It will be that as well Political management, diplomacy, espionage and turn-based combat, all rolled into one.

Part 2: Praying In The Woods



https://itch.io/blog/652495/new-game-un ... -the-woods

In Sir Fred and Sophia II, the main sprite changes when the character is swimming.

In Herbert's Dummy Run, Herbert uses a rudimentary parachute if he walks through the elevator door at the wrong floor.

Hi, I made a TZX file out of both for my personal archive that loads the first course (didn't check the other, honest) with Spectaculator and SpecEmu.

Maybe you could try it and see if it works for you.

http://www.alessandrogrussu.it/zx/Lbfcotwv1.zip

Jbizzel wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2023 10:52 pm Agree with @SaNchez I know nothing of these machines and it seems such a shame.

May I suggest you to read the Spectrumpedia, Vol. 2 ?

Part 1: A Victory In The Sun



https://itch.io/blog/651896/new-game-un ... in-the-sun

Hi @8BitSC,

I tried to create a working TAP file myself but was unable to make it.

To my experience, it is better to save a SNA snapshot file under your favorite emulator upon loading and use that instead. Sorry (for that and for the late reply as well).

Yes, I also noticed that lately. If Julian cannot provide a final executable, the best you can do is to download libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll and libstdc++-6.dll from an external source and place them in the executable's directory, or in a directory placed under the PATH system variable. By the way, sorry for...

The files do exist, you can download them from the official web page at https://zanklesoft.itch.io/apulija-13

They should be added to the archive then.

P.S. Sorry for the late reply

I have an earlier model of the EnJoy, the one with the four jumpers on the side, and it supports Bob Fossil's browser, with the BIN and SYS folders taken from the "No_MMC_Memory" set as the interface has no such feature.

Therefore I think the newer model should support it as well.

In the summer of 1998 I discovered that there were programs that could emulate the working of a Spectrum on a PC. And this was not the first taste of emulation I experienced; I began with MAME about two years earlier. At the same time I subscribed to WoS, then before the great system crash of 2001 w...

1024MAK wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 11:49 am...I don’t know if anyone has tried to get an original SID to work with a Z80 based system.

Yes.

https://zxbyte.ru/sid_blaster_en.htm

However the project has not gone further since 2012.

I remember I hacked the program and managed to conquer every territory while exterminating all of the enemy populations

Alessandro wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:02 pm N.B. I assume that, as for the other thread, "update" is meant as irony and not in the literal meaning.

Sorry I meant "upgrade" not "update". Just for clarity.

Would it be fair to say that the Speccy was more user-friendly and accessible? I was into writing Basic programs pretty much from day-1 on my Speccy, but for the breif time I had a C64, I don't remember even thinking about it. More than fair if you ask me! One of the funniest recollections of my ea...

Sorry Ale I haven't just invented a new asm instuction! I mean 'loaded'. I haven't checked out the sprite draw routine, but it's clearly not using OR, XOR or masking. It seems to print sprites directly one on top of another by using some sort of priority; check the playing character's sprite in par...

N.B. I assume that, as for the other thread, "update" is meant as irony and not in the literal meaning. When I was gifted my 48K in June 1984, the Spectrum was the most popular 8-bit computer in Italy. Software, magazines and books for it were easy to find and, like in other countries, the...

It was fun for a while, but after 10 minutes you had seen all there was to see and it became very repetitive. Not bad for its time though! I'm sure the woke generation would have a field day with this game :D Well at least it was not an epithome of bad taste like that Custer "game" on the ...

R-Tape wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 1:53 pmLDd

Eh??

Pizza with pineapple is considered blasphemy here. I had the misfortune of experiencing it myself at a self-service eatery in Finland. I mistook the little yellow bits for potatoes. I can say it was one of the most disgusting things I ate during my travels abroad, second only to marmite (the horror,...

The colour clash like it is shown in the Wally Week series is just horrible. A good amount of Spanish games suffer from this, too. I find it much less offensive when the sprites take on the colours of the background instead. Again, I was never bothered that much by it back in the day, and continue ...