Spectrum Computing

According to the April issues of C&VG , ZX Computing and Your Sinclair , the Adventure Writers Handbook was sold directly by Incentive for £1.25. There doesn't appear to be any evidence of it also being supplied via the Home Computer Club - it definitely wasn't in my copy at the time. I was loo...

I had assumed mass duplication " duplitape :D ? " was merely the same as a 'tape to tape' setup but dozens of recorders/writers from one master and the audio circuitry and mechanical parts were like erm "production quality" (like you see on occasion broadcast quality AV items on...

This is really interesting. Something similar happened to the game Dominoes (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1431/ZX-Spectrum/Dominoes). For some reason, the game was credited to David H. Lawson. Looking at the tape code, there is a fragment of Arcadia's code just at the end, with the D.H.L. s...

Found another interesting one, group g377 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?group_id=377 grouping Level 9 compilations together.

Codename Mat - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... dename_MAT
Probably needs some sorting on the releases, there is a 1986 release among the 1984 ones.

This is Gothik published by Firebird (1987)

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... rum/Gothik

toot_toot wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:47 am It looks like a Players game then, maybe graphics by Paul Griffiths/Sonja Knight or "Jabba" Severn?

Jabba Severn is another great artist that worked on the latest era of the Speccy.

clebin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:16 pmCavemania?

Yep, I missed that one!!!
Is Cavemania! Sorry about that.

Not a Zeppelin or an Ocean title.

Nop to both, it is not a Mastertronic title.

Not a Codemasters game, but from another kind of prolific budget company, and I like you mention the dithering because I consider the artist one of the best on the Speccy

It's not a Dizzy game, but has something in common.

Nop. Is not Myth.

Mine!

Can be Abu Simbel's Profanation?

Edit: ops! A little late

Sorry to throw you more work, but I'm looking for a game and also checking if I see screenshots with some differences :D BTW, when in doubt, I compare the screenshots at the top with the ones listed on the "Additional File Downloads", let me know if this is not the proper method. Brian Jac...

Some more
Angle Ball https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... Angle_Ball
Stiff lip & Co https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4 ... tifflip_Co the in-game screen
Confuzion https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... /Confuzion the in-game screen

4thRock wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 3:01 pm On Manic Miner I don't see any attribute problem...

Ops! Yep, I thought one of the floor elements was different, but no, it is exactly as should be. Apologies.

Found some more Formula One https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1844/ZX-Spectrum/Formula_One Kane https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2673/ZX-Spectrum/Kane Manic Miner https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3012/ZX-Spectrum/Manic_Miner Mastertronic Compilation 7 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/en...

Do you remember if it was something 2D looking like Manic Miner, or more 3D like Pogo?

Bill the Kid (Codemasters/Virgin Mastertronic) But that advert was for Billy the Kid released by Ocean on the Atari ST and Amiga...a completely different game. See here for the full advert for the Ocean game. This is an interesting one, it is not unusual for artists to sell the art to different com...

Invasion Force (Artic): https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=2535 The displayed loading screen is from Forward Software re-release edition; the original Artic first-release should be displayed instead. I think the Forward Software screen is displayed because the original Artic re...

The page for In Search of Angels will probably need a bit of work too, at some point... The Z80 version on the page is *not* a 1984 (or even 1985) version. It has a custom font rather than the standard Spectrum font of the first release. I'm looking at all the versions stored there and almost every...

So this still wasn't a "workstation" computer above the home computer range (like the "Vax" or "VaxStation", I heard, some other developers may haved used back then.) I bet it was not that expensive for something with a proper keyboard, monitor and a hardware on were y...

In cases like this I use both fields on the database, one for country of birth and the other for residency.