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Hooray..! I was considering releasing a game starting with a $ symbol...

So I've just worked out what these icons mean.



I'm so clever.

...Though at first I did think the fire one might be "flame war occurring"..

I reckon so - it's icon driven so you don't have to go snaffling for synonyms (good name for a prog band).

I remember dying in the game but it wasn't common, and if you use snapshots you should be OK.

Kobyashi Naru - That's the only one that I can remember finishing back in the day without using hints from magazines etc. I finished Lords of Time but had to look up one single hint when I got stuck near the end. I was a bit annoyed with myself about that. There are newer offerings that I've finish...

Not my favourite beat-em-up at the time, but not a bad one. As Alessandro mentioned it was quite easy, I managed to complete it mainly through random button mashing. One of its features I found interesting was the different opponents, a lot of beat-em ups around at the same time just had you fightin...

Hang on, a 5 page discussion about copyright, no-one's been banned and the thread hasn't been locked..??

You guys aren't doing this right..

Nice one. <drums fingers on table and waits for Zynaps>

Hang on a sec...

Stormlord..?! Your favourite Hewson game..? You loon!

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:32 pm Perhaps change the title to "Your second-best Costa Panayi game".

In that case - I vote for Cyclone..!

Yep, pretty cool game considering its limitations of character movement.

Felt a bit flickery at times. Liked the way you could fly behind the clouds.

T.L.L. is the best of that lot. Ace.

Looks cool...! The backgrounds are nice and the gameplay looks fast and slick.

Look forward to giving it a go.

Argh, so I finally got fed up with wading through Amazon dross and failing to buy any Xmas pressies, and finally got round to trying this. Very amusing Mr Typoid, nice work..! I managed to get 4 of Rorthron's clues - might have got a few more if I was less impatient. Flippin' eck, the Christmas Pud ...

Nice screens, I like the way that some are for games that didn't have loading screens originally.

My favourites are probably 3D Tunnel and Styx. The Pyramid looks pretty cool too.

11 - Robocop?

No. I built an Excel spreadsheet for the whole screen, manually input each pixel as a 1 or 0 and used formulae to convert these into a string of values for 0x4000 and beyond (I hope I got that right). Oof! I did something similar for the attributes. I'm struggling to visualise this (I get the pixel...

I always found the toughest part of Robin of the Wood was the map.

Having a wraparound map that you could be teleported around meant I was permanently lost.

Hope nobody said anything nasty about Highlander..

I'm going to be a Berk forever at this rate..!

Devils of the Deep.

Flippin' eck, makes Transylvanian Tower look like a world beater.

...And the "Out of left field" choice:

Pimania.

Forgetting the whole rigmarole about the prize, not sure if there was anything actually resembling a game in there.

Namedropping Speccy programmers FTW..!

Next time someone goes on about meeting some film star, I'll just recount the time I got my copy of Ant Attack signed by Sandy White..

Rorthron wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:16 am
I especially hated Match Day, but that might be because I can still rember Morkin beating me 96-1! (My goal came from a direct throw.)

I should have called for a video replay...

Would be happy to but I'd have to dig it out from a mass of files and I'm not even sure if I still have it... Will have a look, but no promises..! :| If it helps, I used the two routines in chapter one (p6-8) of the Advanced Spectrum Machine Language book: http://zxinfo.dk/details/2000025 One for th...

I've tended to use Spin 0.666 and its assembler, as it seems a bit more stable than 0.7. Only thing is that the beeper in 0.666 didn't seem to work when it's in 48k mode, but I always found it great apart from that. I found Jonathan's guide really useful, but I didn't attempt to follow along with cr...

I think probably Sir Fred.

The movement and action is a bit of a learning curve, but I used to love playing it.