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5MinuteRetro wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:14 pm Hyper Sports?

More like 22 minute retro, but yes, well done

Have another tree:

Airborne Ranger!

Hearing that tune again... why did Steve not sue Culture Beat for ripping off his bass line in Mr Vain six years later?

Interesting, although there are some Loriciels, Cobrah Soft and Magic Bytes games listed in there. Now, Cobrah Soft was owned by Infogrames, that's kind of understandable but I don't see how Loriciels and Magic Bytes have a connection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumpy_(video_game) Seems like the...

Hmmm, it seems @djh0ffman missed a few notes

Following on from here: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11010&start=30 and quoting my private message to @Stefan which I decided might be worth a thread instead (also, hi @TakuikaNinja ) -- not sure if I'm doing the name tagging correctly. I would be particularly interest...

MustardTiger wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:17 pm Charts for the same month from Your Sinclair, lookslike it might be Rally Driver

That's stretching the limits on "Reasonable arcade adventure with an odd theme."

Removing all entries released after October 1988 leaves:

Vampyre wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:57 pm The following all scored 78% Overall in SU. The number at the start is the ZXDB ID. I'm still none the wiser from that list.

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2204	Hades Nebula	#78, September 1988 (pg 46)

A.k.a. nothing useful

Is this a SAM emulator for DOS? Can anyone clarify? https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fjicf5b9oynx4u7uhhupx/Emulador-SAM.TZX?rlkey=pxvsah4ezzz47606ymbigbvvf&dl=0 Your tzx contains text: Emulator and Coded by Graham "TURBO" Mason / Minor Miracles 1990 Which seems to indicate that this is ...

The Renegade poster is still in active memory and directly associated with Queen, but I’d never seen the spines of all those game tapes.

Also, to TakuikaNinja: a guy in NZ North Island told me (something something) about Speccy usage in NZ, but I could never find any info about anyone, in the entire history of New Zealand, who ever had a Speccy (and I had a fairly comprehensive pen-pal list in the 90s). And my correspondent was born...

Last one I had was okay... https://i.postimg.cc/K1ZWXHKt/IMG-7808.jpg I think the RFC2047 encoding only kicks in when the subject is "too" long 'How big should new Speccy games be? 48k? Bigger? Release 2 versions?' is longer than 60 which seems to be the setting for too long in phpBBmailer.

Thunderbird 115.7.0. However, my client seems irrelevant, since you can see from the the mail headers (which are written before the mail reaches my client) that the message was corrupted. AFAIK it is your mail client's job to decode the mail headers correctly, this issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.or...

Which mail client are you using?

If I am reading https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/issues/1949 correctly, your mail client should be handling this encoding automatically.

DVDfever wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:26 pm Haven't seen this listed on here, so the gameplay and download links are below:

??? https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... rin_Sewers

As you, I would expect them to be little endian, but of the special sort that live on Endor.

This is from memory, check if it works out:
- lowest byte normal
- high byte - must remove top 2 bits (ie combined with low byte can address at most 16383 bytes)
- pages byte (how many 16K are involved)

SteveSmith wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:15 am Dunno if this is easy or hard:

Sweevo's World?

Have you looked at Ringo? https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... trum/Ringo

Source code available on GitHub https://github.com/DenisGrachev/Ringo-8

Have a nice relaxing oasis:

Too easy

Eskimo Eddie

Hayne's page says that he did his own scans. But pavero says (in previous page of this thread) that he scanned it. So who is guilty? (or whose scan do we have?) I am joking more than criticising... And there I was thinking you were just hijacking Pavero's pdf manual scan thread, since I could not f...

Right I don't even know why people are disputing this because, as I said, it was a list of routines, and the "typo" one was precisely in the place where INVERSE belongs in the character set. We know it's inverse. The only question is why someone wrote "courier". P.S. I paid for ...

The jsspeccy3 colours as used to emulate games on this site look terribly washed out to me. Maybe it is the result of years of using emulators with a saturated palette, maybe not. Gasman does not want to change jsspeccy3's colours until he is approached with a scientific palette (see github issue 17...