Spectrum Computing

None of those :p

Clue: The picture shows an enemy ship, not the ship you control in the game

Sorry, none of those

First game that came to mind when I saw this topic was Darius+ https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1254/ZX-Spectrum/Darius The first time I saw the screenshots was a preview in the Spanish magazine Microhobby: https://microhobby.speccy.cz/mhf/207/MH207_17.jpg I was disappointed when I played the g...

Little bump. Based on the routine below, could someone adapt it or write something similar but make it save the data to RAM instead of displaying characters? I know graphics won't look right if we don't know exactly where to load them in the screen area, but if we could import the data into into Spe...

None of those

Probably too easy...

I've always been fascinated with digitised pictures on the Speccy. I remember seeing an ad in British magazines for the Videoface. I think there were two screenshots, Spock and a banana. :D Nowadays it actually saddens me to see digitised pictures in new games' loading screens. They are usually lazy...

Your work deserves more exposure. Maybe a slideshow on YouTube at some point?

Van_Dammesque wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 11:28 am Couldn't resist: http s://i.imgur.com/YOzEPrV.jpg

In that case:

Although I don't remember how it was done, I used to have a TS2068 that had a strange mod. The "switch" was a magnet on top of the TS2068. Moving the magnet left or right (before turning on the TS2068) would select the standard TS2068 or the 48K Spectrum one. It worked well but I have no i...

It's been years, but I think there were at least a dozen games that used this trick. Now I have to check Stop The Express to see if it's one of them.

I still watch that little Double Dragon test video on YouTube once in a while... Remakes work better then they're not announced.

Yeah, those are good choices. I'd definitely love to see a disassembly of Chaos - for some reason I might have thought someone would've done it by now. I'm sure I remember reading about a Chaos disassembly, but it might have been years ago on c.s.s. IIRC, they discovered some unused spells and crea...

US Gold released Flak in 1984. Flak loading screen https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/pub/sinclair/screens/load/f/scr/Flak.scr One year after, they released Raid Over Moscow. It seems they made the most of the Flak screen to made this: Raid Over Moscow loading screen https://spectr...

Thank you. I'm not familiar with bitstream extraction or what it means :) After capturing the audio from the DVD I opened the waveform in Audacity, zoomed in, cleared the voice parts and left just the Speccy audio bits with a few seconds of silence between each one. Because of the need to work in se...

Looks like I did have a Twitter account but hadn’t used it in years. Question sent! Now I’m going to sit down and wait for an answer, like Scott waited for the package in the movie.

I suspect he wouldn’t be able to say, even if he knew. I just noticed some of the samples can be amplified further without clipping. May or may not be needed. And I’m not on Twitter.

I have the archive on my computer, so if you don't want to download it, I can do the search If the offer's still available, please do the search. I extracted the audio, saved as 16-bit PCM mono, and kept only the tape loading noise. I was very careful not to cut anything important :) https://drive....

This is fantastic. You have a talent for this.

Ha! I completely forgot I created a topic about that routine on Speccy.org 14 years ago :mrgreen: I also forgot it loads the code as characters, not screen data... 10 ORG 40000 20 DI 30 LD HL,#53F 40 PUSH HL 50 LD DE,#4000 60 LBYTE LD A,#7F 70 IN A,(#FE) 80 RRA 90 RET NC 100 NBYTE LD L,1 110 LD BC,#...

Horror movies are not my cup of tea, but it's always nice to hear the familiar loading noise and see the Sinclair font. Screenshots taken from the trailer of "Choose or Die" on YouTube. Definitely reminds us of the old text adventures. https://i.postimg.cc/4KFYLKxy/Netflix-Choose-Or-Die-Sp...

I'm going to get the uncompressed audio but everything else that was mentioned here is beyond my capabilities. Should have the audio ready in a few days. Many years ago the Spanish Microhobby magazine provided a utility that could read Spectrum tape data from any part of the code block, no need to r...

When the movie Scott Pilgrim vs The World was released years ago, I immediately recognized the loading noise used in the two coffee shop scenes. We also know the director, Edgar Wright, is a Spectrum fan. Back in 2010 I asked WOS members for help identifying the loading screen that was used in the m...

There's a video of it on YouTube. Maybe the uploader has preserved it?