Spectrum Computing

Head Over Heels is an interesting debate - I personally wouldn't have rated it anywhere nearly as highly as Crash did. I agree with you. Well, I will rate HoH very highly due to its technical execution - it's big, has lots of rooms and creatures and innovative gameplay ... but I just never enjoyed ...

Some of Chris Kerry's games would look better with a lot less colour, and some shading/details instead. Agree, I've applied the "less colour" idea to Jack and the Beanstalk, but I'm confident that it'll work perfectly for Monty is Innocent, Giant's Revenge and most of his other games too ...

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 2:34 am A modern example (that looks amazing):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/916730/Gato_Roboto/

Indeed, that looks fantastic

Many years ago, I released a utility called Spectrum Graphics Editor for viewing and editing graphics in Speccy snapshot files. It's still available on the old Retrospec site, but it doesn't play nice with modern versions of Windows... I still use it. Sure it could use a bit of an improvement, but ...

StanVanman wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 12:47 am Do you live next to a waterfall?

Nice interview. I was writing with Stephen Cargill (probably) about 15 years ago, with the intention to get an interview with him into Retro Gamer Magazine, but as far as I remember - although he said "yes" he never really seemed that interested, so I never pushed the agenda further. But i...

He just won a guy with 1700 international ELO. So, what you're saying, is that he won a grown up person that he can take home with him? Can this person function as a slave, or will he only be available for playing chess? ... and since his father is okay with it, how does his mum feel about that? :l...

I would say probably Dingo . I was my first game for the Speccy and I really enjoyed re-learning Z80 and slowly (but surely) getting things working better and better. Back in the day it would obviously have to be released under the Ultimate brand and around the time of their 16K games ... and I'm su...

There is also a really good version on the C64 that I play (emulated) from time to time.

"Two more variants"?
Well, how about describing what makes them different?

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/k/KingsValley.scr&border=0 King's Valley ? Far from a perfect hit, but I do recall a poke to remove the background. Well, when you say " Far from a perfect hit " I say " That's precisely it " :) Thanks Buddy :)

I also posted this on WoS earlier today, but that hasn't given me the right answer yet, so I'll try here too. I've been meaning to play this platform game again, but I can't seem to remember its damn name. I can't remember much, but here's what I think I remember. Usually when I see a picture of it,...

redballoon wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:27 pm A Spectrum version of Advance Wars had been on my list of projects to work on at some point for well over a decade now ...

Hah, me too. I love Advance Wars on the GBA.

I've always loved Dingo, released for the arcades by Ultimate ( before the Spectrum years, IIRC). Converted by Tardis Remakes: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/27162/ZX-Spectrum/Dingo https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/d/Dingo.scr&border=0 Thank you, I'm happy, th...

I began learning Z80 in the mid 80's by hacking and cracking games. Slowly and slowly I learned more, but for a really long time I really only used that knowledge to code tools to help me hack and crack other games. It wasn't until 2011 I really started coding in assembler (Dingo).

TymoDEV wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:00 am VIDEO Buffer size: 49152

jorgegv wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:42 am VIDEO Buffer size: 6912

Well, more precisely:

Normal screen at 16384
Shadow screen at 49152

Bitmap size 6144 bytes
ATTR area 768 bytes.

I don't see the use or the point of the original question. If you're in Basic then registers and flags will change tens-of-thousands times a second as Basic is running (the program counter will change up to 70.000 times a second alone). There is absolutely no reason to even think about reading the r...

Too bad that Graham Linehan was banned from Twitter - we could've asked him if he knew.
Does anyone know if he's on Instagram or Facebook?

R-Tape wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:20 am I can't take a pic just now, but viewing it in 8 pixel chunks there is structure and pattern from the off. Could still be gobbledegook of course.

It could be leveldata, which could give it a repeatable structure, but be much harder to identify than code or graphics.

With those keys I would suggest P or SPACE, but I really hope you'll have a 'Redefine Keys' options, because I would not enjoy using the WASD keys.

Beautiful graphics by 'Lobo'! I'm not familiar with him but this is impressive! He's a great artist and has supplied gfx for 8 of my games, the first of which was a remake of the Spectrum game The Snowman back in 2009. Mostly my PC games, but he also did the graphics for my Spectrum (and arcade boa...

While you may not use any ROM routines in your code, the interrupt will still be running and that might affect the Sys Vars that are placed not much below 24000. To be absolutely sure that you can use the Sys Var area for your own purposes, you should either have interrupts disabled ALL the time OR ...

The question/idea doesn't really specify if this remake would be for the Spectrum or a more modern platform ... but I assume it would be the former. I would've loved to see Costa Panayi make an Android 3 game. Something more solid and not ATTR based - like some of his later games. It could have a mo...

I'd be happy if I was never reminded og Dizzy (spit!) again, so half of those has disqualified themselves right from the beginning