Spectrum Computing

I liked the various columns about how titles were made, from Background Noise through to Code Blueprint, my favourite being the one on Bobby Bearing. Hewson's Helpline/How The Hell sometimes had a great article on how to produce a certain type of game or effect, e.g. the fixed 3D "isometric&quo...

Only Sinclair User made it to the shores of South Africa, except later on the odd issue of Crash would appear. Never saw Your Sinclair on the shelves at all. So I grew up with Sinclair User. Issue 48, with Movie on the cover. That opened my eyes to a scene I didn't know existed. The format of the ma...

I didn't back it, primarily because of change in lifestyle, but also burned by the Vega+. I instead bought a Just Speccy + SLAM earlier this year. Since I can fit that into a Spectrum+ case, that feels a better solution for my gaming needs. I still need to cut the Spectrum+ case I have. One day...

I wonder how Outrun would have fared if they could have used the Chase HQ engine.
But, we know how Chase HQ turned out when it used the OutRun engine (Chase HQ 2).

http://stonechatproductions.co.uk/zxgames/gameimages/SCperm.gif Here we go. Microsoft Edge. Is Microsoft Edge hiding the full domain name per-chance? (Maybe the domain in the URL bar is actually "www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk"). I noticed a few redirects earlier ending up on www. (After cli...

From memory, the releases table there isn't an id field (except entry_id as a foreign key). It has a release_seq, which I think is a sequence, that's only an arbitrary sort order column. From the docs I've seen the only safe assumption to make about this *_seq fields is that 0 is the primary release...

I think it was Saboteur, I can recall the loading screen, but it crashed while loading. It turned out there was a fault on my 48k Spectrum, so it was only happy with 16k games. I returned it to the shop and got Estimator Racer. Yeah I know, shoot me now.

There are a couple of people who seem to know what's no longer on the MIA list, but not tangled in the other site nonsense. They pop up from time to time on FB groups like Sinclair for Sale. Last person I can recall is Guy Bearman. Also might be worth posting in the Sinclair Preservation group on FB...

Another side-effect of the forum being accessed by http is that login quietly fails. In Vivaldi 1.12.955.48 at least. Just ran into that problem myself now. So switch to https if login looks like it's not working.

I love Green Beret on the ZX Spectrum as a stand-alone game. I have a Wagon-wheels syndrome about Green Beret. I'm convinced I saw it in the Sun City arcade machine alley back in the late eighties, and the main character sprite was huge... like Dark Sceptre huge. But looking at the MAME version, the...

Hi everyone, I'm Mike (some people know me online as Isofarro). Grew up with a rubber key ZX Spectrum and then a grey +2, and Sinclair User in South Africa in the eighties. Relocated back to the UK in 1999, and quickly started collecting Spectrum games, focused on games I wanted back in the day. Reg...

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