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- Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:09 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
It's definitely more Daily Star level than Times/Guardian anyway ;) I'm sure a 15x15 symmetric grid would be possible if we included BASIC keywords/tokens, peripherals, hardware terms, Z80 opcodes etc. It's just really hard with games only. The closest I got was this one, though the grid image is n...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:02 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
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Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
7D Skool Daze
10D The Birds and the Bees
20D Hungry Horace (Oddly I was thinking of your clue before you mentioned it.)
10D The Birds and the Bees
20D Hungry Horace (Oddly I was thinking of your clue before you mentioned it.)
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:59 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2319
Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Should 26D be 8 letters?
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:57 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2319
Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
42A Terra Cresta?
46A Airwolf
47A Viz
46A Airwolf
47A Viz
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:52 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2319
Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
22A Rambo
27A Game Over
44A Finders Keepers
27A Game Over
44A Finders Keepers
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:47 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2319
Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
OK. Sorry if I got it wrong.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:41 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2319
Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
I remember the clue. What do you mean about the credit, though?ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:37 am EDIT: Also "canonised pigs lacking one roman numeral" which you credited to someone else, tsk.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:40 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2319
Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Yes. It's near impossible. I've never quite managed it.ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:37 am It's difficult doing a proper crossword (rotational symmetry and proper crossers so defo no more than 3 non-crossing letters in a row - I'm looking at you Metro cryptic crossword) themed on speccy games though.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:18 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2319
Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
There's an error in the grid. 1D needs an extra space on top.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:06 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2319
Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
29A Ace of Aces
31A Imagine
33A Jet Set Willy (No, he wasn't; that was the fictional Micro Men version!)
31A Imagine
33A Jet Set Willy (No, he wasn't; that was the fictional Micro Men version!)
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:46 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2319
Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
15A Tai-Pan
16A Monty Mole
17A Starglider
No rotational symmetry. Tsk.
16A Monty Mole
17A Starglider
No rotational symmetry. Tsk.
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:36 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2319
Re: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
2A Gunrunner
6A Spy vs Spy
8A RoboCop
6A Spy vs Spy
8A RoboCop
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:06 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
- Replies: 24
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Re: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
HATE was 1989. Highway Encounter was 1985, but does not scroll.zup wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 6:07 am H.A.T.E., and Highway Encounter demonstrates that isometric scroll may be done, and the first is also a 1985 game.
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:39 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 5
- Replies: 41
- Views: 487
Re: Friday Quiz: SCRambled 5
9. 10th Frame
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 12:43 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Re: Cover Artists 2
- Replies: 337
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Re: Cover Artists 2
The first two letters look like S and C, consistent with the initials on the other games. I'm not sure about the next few letters. The first looks a bit like W, but that makes no sense. Maybe it's a U. There might be an R next, or maybe another letter and an E. The last couple of letters look to me ...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:32 am
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Little bugs in the database 6
- Replies: 131
- Views: 5084
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Update: but I see that according to wikipedia this is a made up symbol since there is no official symbol! Yes, I checked Wikipedia before posting. It seems the one-bar/two-bar distinction was an arbitrary invention of the Unicode system to give different names to the symbols and has never been foll...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:51 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Colour Beyond Time 2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 339
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:45 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: New forum game -- Spectrum graphics in the real world?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 4874
Re: New forum game -- Spectrum graphics in the real world?
I'm not sure if this is in the right thread (I've lost track of the different ones), but I saw this on an advert for Paramount+. It reminded me of something....
It's not quite the Sinclair font, though.
It's not quite the Sinclair font, though.
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:19 am
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Little bugs in the database 6
- Replies: 131
- Views: 5084
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Yes, it's a screenshot from a magazine scan. ...which confirms the 30,000-lira price. I recall this was discussed before, but it would be (more than) useful if the archive could properly distinguish between pounds and lire. The failure to do so here is extremely confusing. I've suggested before usi...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 6:14 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Little bugs in the database 6
- Replies: 131
- Views: 5084
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
I suspect £ in this case means lire.PeterJ wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 5:43 pm L'Avventura dei tuoi sogni has a price of ₤30000.00
Also, the screens don't look like Spectrum colours.
The screen seems to be a photograph of a CRT screen, which perhaps explains the off colours.
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:17 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Which year did you get your first Spectrum?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1145
Re: Which year did you get your first Spectrum?
1982, UK, 48K via mail order from Sinclair.
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:57 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Chain Reaction - Durrell or Elite as publisher?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 1129
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:18 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Chain Reaction - Durrell or Elite as publisher?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 1129
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:18 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Chain Reaction - Durrell or Elite as publisher?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 1129
Re: Chain Reaction - Durrell or Elite as publisher?
Yes it is! https://i.ibb.co/cQCVNCf/elites.png Fair enough. It's microscopic and buried away, but it is there. It doesn't alter the analysis, though (I already acknowledged an equally microscopic note on the tape). Your "multiple benefits" require changing the entries for numerous MicroPr...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 12:37 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Chain Reaction - Durrell or Elite as publisher?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 1129
Re: Chain Reaction - Durrell or Elite as publisher?
Both Bounty Bob and Silent Service state that they are manufactured under licence by US Gold somewhere in the packaging. But you're saying Bounty Bob is published by US Gold because their logo, name and address are on the the back of the cover (despite the massive Big Five logo on the front), but C...