Spectrum Computing

Hello again! Just me, talking to myself as usual ;) Doesn't sound like it... :D Well, the bundle is now over, and our grand total at the end was $6310 We'll do this all again in 10 years time, eh? And if you make games, that should be enough notice to get something done for that ;) Yess! In fact, a...

The litmus test of course, is whether Crusher has Primary Imbalance™. Unfortunately only Charles Bystram would know.

Yeah surely that's Brian Bloodaxe's Charles Bystram? I know the world's been rather bonkers of late, but given the coincidence of style, date and (AFAIK) rare surname, it would be excessively bonkers for them not to be one and the same? If Charles Bystram or anyone that knows him is reading, please ...

Interesting. I'm surprised this wasn't noticed back in 2013. The scene was less spread out then, and with Utopian as the coder it would have been a big deal on the Spanish scene at the very least. Is the other author this Javier Moreno ? It looks like it reuses Tapper 's code in fact. The album on S...

Ace game. I too missed it first time around. It's got great music, plays more lively than JSW, and has Speccy references galore - perfect combination! Are all your games authored with MPAGD? It would be good to add this detail onto our database. Sloany's other games are marked as such - looks like I...

Nice onnnne! Ta for this GC. Saving this for later. Not looking at the answers.

Slowly getting there. I've beat Clive once, and that was even when a key fudge lost me a straight. On that note (unless you've finished with it totally) I'd recommend adding a wait for no key before the key press check. Quite a few times I've toggled the 'keep' arrive or (fewer times) missed a chance.

Ralf wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:43 pm @R-Tape
After clicking at the link I get: The requested page could not be found.
In fact he's very mysterious, hiding like a ninja in the shadows

How did he make that happen?! Ta Ralf - fixed.

Purchased, and it seems nicely put together. It's taking me ages to work out how to play it, despite the instructions and video . I think if you're familiar with Click or Yahzee, then it makes sense (unfortunately I'm neither!).

Wow. The mysterious MMJSW modmaster Vidar Eriksen returns. This is a departure from his usual stuff.

I feel like Dynamite Dan should get a mention somewhere in this thread. Dynamite Dan.

With 1290M you've gone proper oldschool with the keys too.

Love it. Each level being a UDG based nod to the classics is a nice tribute, and a hook to keep you playing.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/a/AufWiedersehenPet.gif Auf Wiedersehen Pet . Maybe not set on home turf, but with Geordies, a Scouser, a Brummie and a Cock-an-knee, the characters couldn't be more English. It's a shame the game is more cassette 50 material than the qui...

Wanted Monty Mole . There are so many classic era games that I've filed under 'no chance', but seeing RoseTinted's stream reminded me that you can complete the old games* if you apply yourself. A couple of hours play over the weekend has got me just over halfway. This is a game I knew about from ad...

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Well, I suppose there wouldn't be a direct conversion to other platforms, it's literally Spectrum-centric! Does a Comventure or an Amsventure exist? Not with those titles by the looks of it. I'd like to know too - surely there must be 'wander round the internal workings of the C64 / CPC' games. I'v...

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/s/Specventure.gif Specventure . You play a machine code instruction having to collect bytes in the Spectrum's inner workings. It's single screens, and while it's not an accurate map of the circuit board, it does use the hardware words. Gr...

zx64 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 24, 2022 1:46 am Nothing from google this year? 10 years ago they had this
https://www.google.com/doodles/st-georg ... x-spectrum

Aye shame. We'll have to wait 10 more years. Eek.

Does anyone have the original image of this as a .tap or .scr? And do we know who did it?

I wonder if a youngster sees the world fast enough to be able to play that bloody Thumbs up/down minigame in FireFly. Actually I wonder if a fruit fly sees the world fast enough for it, though granted they'd need a special set up to be able to play it.

Great idea that Prodge. That guy's 10-year-old daughter had a go, obviously she had no idea what a ZX Spectrum was, definitely never seen Daley Thompson's Decathlon or any other button masher before. She's into Fortnite, but yeah, we handed the keyboard and tablet over to her and she did very well, ...

Indeed, not to get too post-modern about it, but we've been running this compo for more than 20 years, and there's always the paradoxical question "what is a GOOD crap game?". I'm not keen on the really lazy ones that are a gag or hot topic and a just couple of lines code (and I don't mea...

Not looking. I'm still getting phone reminders every day at 10am to climb this mountain myself.

40 Years already! Still going strong! To the next 40 years. :) (Also an excuse to join this forum. Haven't do much lately Speccy-wise, but perhaps I will have more time one day.) Great to see you Timmy. You reminded me that I had your Flappy bird on cassette and I had to fire it up on my +2 (I've h...

TheShich wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 9:02 pm Let's celebrate it the right way!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TnWsOR3MSc

Nice! Can someone provide a working TAP please - this can go into the TheShich's softography.