Spectrum Computing

BASIC games being sold at full price from 1986-88? Ah, it's a mail order sports management outfit! Pick yer fave from these four: Cricket Challenge https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/c/CricketChallenge.scr&border=0[/fimg [url=https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entr...

How come Trantor: The last stormtrooper isn’t on the list? This was one of my all time favourite playable demo’s even if it was just to watch the intro sequence with the amazing tune. It's not a playable demo, it's a rolling demo - ie: unplayable! (The worst type of item on a covertape if you ask m...

Has to be Lemmings for me. I don't think I even got the full game though, which would have been a strange decision... 1) Lemmings 2) Hero Quest 3) Rex Bubbling under, in any old order: Switchblade; Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - The Coin-Op; Hammerfist; Cybernoid II; Batman: The Movie and The Bard's ...

Here's a massive poll - every playable demo (of full price games) that featured on a magazine covertape given away with the three major British Speccy mags. Ideally, I'd have you take the actual demo into consideration, but in an age of online abundance where you can freely get ~99% of all ZX Spectr...

For 14th March 2024: Playable demo (of a budget game) More Tea, Vicar? (playable demo) by Cronosoft Sensitive (playable demo) by Peter Gordon Motorbike Madness (playable demo) by Mastertronic F14 Tomcat (playable demo) by Players Shanghai Warriors (playable demo) by Players Street Cred' Football (pl...

Well, at least we have #2 and #6 who have appeared officially on the ZX Spectrum.

I already know which one of these I'm going to vote for... Putting up a selection of playable demos for a vote is mostly going to mean fans of a game will vote for it, unsurprisingly. I mean, if such a thing as a Chaos playable demo existed, of course I will go for it immediately over anything else...

Eg. Dustin was originally released in Spain as a Spanish-language game; the only English-language release it got was on a YS cover tape. So it’s technically a re-release of a game, but it’s kind of an exclusive version too. You're right that it's technically a re-release of a game. I've categorised...

bluespikey wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:37 am Chaos was 1985 and Chaos Reborn was 2015.

I own both. Can't get the latter to run on a Speccy, though!

Looks like I didn't set the poll to expire (gah!), but to take a proper check after seven days... The winner is The Duel: Test Drive 2, with four votes. Gunboat comes second, with three votes. The Cycles and Star Control are joint fourth - two votes each! We only had one proportional comment, which ...

Unsurprisingly, by a huge margin, Starquake is the winner here, with 33 votes. Nearest thing to it, is Firelord, a distant second with seven votes. Factory Breakout get three votes to be in third place. Joint fourth goes to Laser Snaker and Wizard's Lair - two votes each. Similar story on the propor...

I think your editing has somewhat merged Intravoid with Mindfighter somewhere. Oops!! I forgot to close BB tag somewhere! Perhaps there's still time to edit the post. Sadly, no, but the next best thing is to post up the corrected profiles, which I'll do now! Intravoid by Delta 4 Software https://ww...

You're an early bird today Prodge - has switching to BST messed with your biorhythms too? Naah, nothing to do with the long Easter weekend. I just sometimes go for a Saturday afternoon/evening beer binge, go home, have dinner and go to sleep early and then wake at stupid o'clock! This one is a comp...

Playable demo (of a full price game) Phew, the first category I'm suggesting and it's a very long list! 104 entries in this proposed list: 19 Part 1: Boot Camp (playable demo) by Cascade Games Addams Family, The (playable demo) by Ocean Adidas Championship Football (playable demo) by Ocean Altered ...

Cricket Challenge Football Fever Racing Game, The Rugby Fifteen Sporting Combination Yep, another mail order software house identified from page 93 of #YS 19. I believe the above is their tangible ZX Spectrum output. Let me know if there are any errors in the above before I start the poll properly n...

1) Fruity. Well, it's obvious. The most recent (1987) and clearly most feature-packed. It's practically objective, isn't it? 2) Fruit 2010. Er, the second most recent and clearly an advance on the previous, which is... 3) Fruit 2000. Duh! Pretty much, I expect everyone to arrive at the same conclusi...

It's the poll everybody has been waiting for! [citation needed] Contain your excitement as we cover the software brand that everybody fondly remember [citation needed] and always talks about! [citation needed] Yep, from page 93 of YS #19, we've hit the classified ads and it's homebrew gaming before ...

The final of this series, for now. It'll return at some point. I'm concentrating on a series of polls about covertape items , but not a retread of the Covertape Wars polls. Honest. Anyway, here is a poll about Fergus McNeil's games output for the ZX Spectrum, lots of it being Delta 4 text adventures...

I always heard the main one as "Minky". I have absolutely no idea what this means and I'm almost certainly mishearing it.

They’re using the Amiga or ST version of Starglider Oof! Well, that's a spectacular clanger from me then. I clocked the Spectrum ROM font and the low amount of colours, which felt quite Spectrum-ish, especially on the blurry resolution of a VHS recording - but yes, I very much stand corrected. And ...

No, it's not actually Covertape Wars again, but I am delving back to that era. This time, I'm not portraying it as a YS vs SU vs Crash battle, but breaking it down into a 'best covertape [thing]' of a certain type. I do try to keep my polls objectively configured and there'll always be a few grey ar...

I remember the Get Mucky segment on ITV Saturday morning show Get Fresh using Starglider in series 2, and then Xenon on some 16-bit platform for series 3. Not being a computer owner at the time, I couldn't distinguish which platform was used for Starglider, but someone's uploaded a nearly full editi...

Horace And The 10 Foot Bargepole Acting as Horace, you have to cross a busy road probably once used by a giant frog, to pick up a 10-foot bargepole. Once you are armed with it, navigate your way through a maze where cassettes from an ethically dubious 'IP rights holder' are floating about. You must...

Using Vampyre 's prompt in Google's AI offering, Gemini, brings a result citing a shorter game list which will give you deja vu. The ZX Spectrum: A Spark That Ignited the UK Gaming Industry The arrival of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1982 wasn't just a moment in tech history, it was a revolution for ...

I'd go further and speculate that the author got AI to "write" most of it. The whole thing just seems like a lot of hot air to me. [chatGPT impersonation] The thing to remember about the popular 1980s ZX Sinclair Spectrum is that it was a captivating home microcomputer that was hugely in ...