Spectrum Computing

What? You should show some manners... Wuh? Eh? what's wrong with you? Okay, people please stop this caveman talk and everything else before some serious fight emerges. I dunno, I feel quite attacked here tbh. First I raised an issue with a game where a design decision made by the author caused the ...

Ivanzx wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 9:36 pm Amazing compo! High level of entries, for me there are 5 that are outstanding from the rest, but still need to play them properly

ZXDunny wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 3:44 pm What?

You should show some manners, as most of us are not english native speakers

Eh?

What? He means that, if you are moving down and wants to turn at the next right passage, then simply keep pressing both down and right keys. Ahhh, so in essence, "The author hasn't made this game badly, you're just not doing it right". I actually like the game - it's curiously addictive. ...

g0blinish wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 2:30 pm

ZXDunny wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 2:17 pm wuh?

if you walking up/down and want to turn right press twice uo and right.

What?

Alone in a dark maze is quite simple but has a cool soundtrack. I'm stuck at screen depth 'F' though, have come to a bit of an impasse and it's driving me crazy..! :lol: That game is not well designed, though it is nicely presented. There are two issues - firstly, you can only "see" a sho...

g0blinish wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 11:42 am if you ever play in Atari XL "Preliminary Monty 16K", you'd realize how to move: keys "up" anf "right" pressed etc.

wuh?

Alone in a dark maze is possibly my favourite, but it's very badly written. If the author had just offset the maze by one character square vertically then you'd not have to guess where you can go down. Other than that it's pretty good fun :) Needs more colour too. ...and don't play the games on the ...

Last time I tried, it worked fine on my +2A from the covertape itself. No idea why it might fail under emulation. So the +2A (and presumably the 128K too then) produce audible MIC output through the TV speaker with the Beeper bit off? The reason for the silence in SpecEmu is that it's stated in the...

There aren't many. It's likely using sampled instruments in a soundtracker-like system from the sounds of it. Seems to be an original composition at least, there's no Amiga mods that sound quite like it. I think the Bicie demo has one in a similar vein, but it's not Mike Oldfield :) I tried that de...

Is that good or bad? ;) Either way, if there were more Spectrum tunes like this, I'd love to hear it. There aren't many. It's likely using sampled instruments in a soundtracker-like system from the sounds of it. Seems to be an original composition at least, there's no Amiga mods that sound quite li...

Finally, after two months of searching I found it !!! The file is called Normal Life, I don't know anything about it, but the music is absolutely beautiful. Enjoy. :) http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=17183104842652916518 Sounds like a .mod file using samples down-sampled from ST-01 :D

It's not gigascreen, it's dependant on the progress through the level and the sprites' positions onscreen to give the impression that there's more horizontal resolution than there really is. Clever.

You're kidding. That was freakin' hilarious :D I dunno. I feel like I have to second Sokurah a little bit. This looks awfully similar to the regular Manic Miner logos and Willy. So what is it supposed to be? I expected something along the lines of Can I have Manic Miner? We have Manic Miner at home...

1. Finders Keepers
2. Kikstart 2
3. Agent X II

Christ that was a hard choice to make. Like Melbourne House, there was just so much win in their catalogue.

DEVIL FISH

A lovely little maze-chase game with fish food, expanding baddies and a cute death sequence. Would likely be a cinch in AGD.

They're two completely separate cases, dude. Octy made videos and didn't sell anything. The soft toys happened a while back and was nothing to do with Octavius. I don’t think that’s quite true, although it’s difficult to get the entire story behind this. Paul Andrews said in his statement that Retr...

Sokurah wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2019 12:49 pm

djnzx48 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2019 9:08 am This is the original it's based on.

I followed the link and now I know the idea of it, but you seem to have misunderstood the meme.
... yours just aren't funny.
Sorry.

You're kidding. That was freakin' hilarious

Hmm? Doesn't it contradict the idea that "he's fine with people using Horace and other IPs he owns, except if they’re sold commercially that the company makes a donation to charity instead of the license fee" ? Apparently this person and her assistant were also involved in making and sell...

People need to take a closer look at the Miner Willy sprite image he's trademarked. A really close look.

...do those Aliens have bows and swords?

After a small round of tiny but oh so important bugfixes.. I'm releasing yet another new version. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6gXsz43xir_eV9JbWhUZ1Rxc0k This fixes possible crashes (hopefully) associated with using the menu in the editor, fixes listing corruption in hex strings and also fixes...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6gXsz43xir_eV9JbWhUZ1Rxc0k Fixes a few occasional crashes and sorts out a few bugs in the editor. Also allows concatenated statements with the ";" character - like PRINT, but for everything: FOR x=0 TO 9;y=0 TO 19: NEXT y;x For example. Have fun, and feed...

Ok, it's time for an update, and we're at 0.970 now! New for this update: Huge amount of fixes in how numbers are printed, and how they're used in FOR NEXT loops - no more accumulated floating point errors! The main menu has now been enabled in the editor, which should make life a little easier inst...

1. Deathchase (SURPRISE!)
2. Jasper.
3. Haunted Hedges (I was young, ok?)


I always found Jasper so damned hard, but loved it. Actually one that I played because of the glowing Crash! review. I wanted to love it as much as they did, so I did. Aren't kids weird?