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by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:09 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2319

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...
by Rorthron
Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:02 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Friday Quiz: Christmas MegaQuiz 2023
Replies: 124
Views: 2319

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.)
by Rorthron
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?
by Rorthron
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
by Rorthron
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
by Rorthron
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.
by Rorthron
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

ParadigmShifter wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:37 am EDIT: Also "canonised pigs lacking one roman numeral" which you credited to someone else, tsk.
I remember the clue. What do you mean about the credit, though?
by Rorthron
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

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.
Yes. It's near impossible. I've never quite managed it.
by Rorthron
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.
by Rorthron
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!)
by Rorthron
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. ;)
by Rorthron
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
by Rorthron
Mon Dec 18, 2023 9:06 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
Replies: 24
Views: 1036

Re: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985

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.
HATE was 1989. Highway Encounter was 1985, but does not scroll.
by Rorthron
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
by Rorthron
Mon Nov 27, 2023 12:43 pm
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: Re: Cover Artists 2
Replies: 337
Views: 48474

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 ...
by Rorthron
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...
by Rorthron
Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:51 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Colour Beyond Time 2
Replies: 10
Views: 339

Re: Colour Beyond Time 2

Jbizzel wrote: Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:40 pm Image
A scan of Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son?
by Rorthron
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....

Image

It's not quite the Sinclair font, though.
by Rorthron
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...
by Rorthron
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

PeterJ wrote: Thu Nov 16, 2023 5:43 pm L'Avventura dei tuoi sogni has a price of ₤30000.00 :o

Also, the screens don't look like Spectrum colours.
I suspect £ in this case means lire.

The screen seems to be a photograph of a CRT screen, which perhaps explains the off colours.
by Rorthron
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.
by Rorthron
Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:57 pm
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: Chain Reaction - Durrell or Elite as publisher?
Replies: 85
Views: 1129

Re: Chain Reaction - Durrell or Elite as publisher?

StooB wrote: Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:32 pm I don't need to explain or cite sources.
No, you don't. but if you can't or won't justify your claims, you cannot expect to be taken seriously.

Anyway, enough of this nonsense. That's the last time I suggest a database correction!
by Rorthron
Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:18 pm
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: Chain Reaction - Durrell or Elite as publisher?
Replies: 85
Views: 1129

Re: Chain Reaction - Durrell or Elite as publisher?

StooB wrote: Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:59 pm You identified these changes using flawed logic that says all these situations are the same when they're clearly not.
Well, for one thing, I didn't identify them all! But if the logic is flawed, please explain why, citing sources to support your claims.
by Rorthron
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...
by Rorthron
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...