The inspiration source can be described as a sort of "thinking man's Defender Of The Crown" in fact.
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- Wed Dec 20, 2023 10:09 am
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: New game under development - working title "Calais"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 597
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Magnavox Odyssey, - The first ever games console
- Replies: 1
- Views: 178
Re: Magnavox Odyssey, - The first ever games console
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:
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:00 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: New game under development - working title "Calais"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 597
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:59 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Keyboard membrane problem on issue 2 16K Spectrum
- Replies: 6
- Views: 282
Re: Keyboard membrane problem on issue 2 16K Spectrum
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...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 7:34 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: New game under development - working title "Calais"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 597
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 6:11 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: New game under development - working title "Calais"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 597
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 7:10 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games where the main sprite changes
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1225
Re: Games where the main sprite changes
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.
In Herbert's Dummy Run, Herbert uses a rudimentary parachute if he walks through the elevator door at the wrong floor.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:52 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Speccy golf - a good computer spoiled
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1203
Re: Speccy golf - a good computer spoiled
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
Maybe you could try it and see if it works for you.
http://www.alessandrogrussu.it/zx/Lbfcotwv1.zip
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 2:20 pm
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: street fighter trd files
- Replies: 8
- Views: 586
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 2:08 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: New game under development - working title "Calais"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 597
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: TAP files for DivIDE/DivMMC
- Replies: 99
- Views: 9208
Re: TAP files for DivIDE/DivMMC
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).
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).
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 2:01 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Pasmo 0.5.5
- Replies: 6
- Views: 560
Re: Pasmo 0.5.5
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...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 1:53 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Apulija-13 - missing tapes?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 101
Re: Apulija-13 - missing tapes?
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
They should be added to the archive then.
P.S. Sorry for the late reply
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 10:55 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: DIVMMC Enjoy Pro support Bob Fossil's long filename browser?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 127
Re: DIVMMC Enjoy Pro support Bob Fossil's long filename browser?
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.
Therefore I think the newer model should support it as well.
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: How long have you been part of the Speccy Retro Scene?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1053
Re: How long have you been part of the Speccy Retro Scene?
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...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 2:01 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Why did you NOT upgrade to a C64 in the 80s?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1403
Re: Why did you NOT upgrade to a C64 in the 80s?
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:40 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Fall of Rome
- Replies: 4
- Views: 129
Re: Fall of Rome
I remember I hacked the program and managed to conquer every territory while exterminating all of the enemy populations
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:38 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Why did you NOT upgrade to a C64 in the 80s?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1403
Re: Why did you NOT upgrade to a C64 in the 80s?
Sorry I meant "upgrade" not "update". Just for clarity.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.
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:36 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Why did you NOT upgrade to a C64 in the 80s?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1403
Re: Why did you NOT upgrade to a C64 in the 80s?
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...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Hopman
- Replies: 10
- Views: 694
Re: Hopman
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...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:02 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Why did you NOT upgrade to a C64 in the 80s?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1403
Re: Why did you NOT upgrade to a C64 in the 80s?
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...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 5:35 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: B.C. Bill by Imagine, what a great game!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 184
Re: B.C. Bill by Imagine, what a great game!
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 ...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 5:24 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Hopman
- Replies: 10
- Views: 694
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:49 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Why did you NOT upgrade to a CPC in the 80s?
- Replies: 142
- Views: 3167
Re: Why did you NOT upgrade to a CPC in the 80s?
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,...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:40 pm
- Forum: Design/Ideas
- Topic: decolourizing games
- Replies: 53
- Views: 1719
Re: decolourizing games
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 ...