Spectrum Computing

I did wonder whether I'd made the screens too difficult. Back to the drawing board I guess based on the feedback so far. :) I give up. Can’t jump out of the little space between two magenta spikes on the second screen. http://www.thefossilrecord.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/zx/frumpy-room2.mp4 If you d...

I'm hitting a wall with the games. I think two weeks might just be the right time for a round. Lots of time to improve, but frustration hasn't set in yet.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 4:51 pm Nohzdyve 1320.

There comes a point when you get in the zone and everything seems to slow down. Then you glance up at the score, and if it's anywhere near your personal best then it suddenly becomes a jittery nightmare.

I did that. I looked at my score and died as I lost the zone.

Wow! Just played with this over a coffee and its impressive. Just built a really simple bassline and some drums and a drum fill. Really good fun and easy to use.

Until the link is fixed... its the top story on his blog, linked in his footer.

Nohzdyve : 1220 https://i.ibb.co/GCrXmjm/Nohzdyve.png The game is growing on me. It's trippy but you can get into a really zen state where you disconnect your brain from the process and just let your fingers react to what you see, zero cognitive load. Almost like juggling, you have to stop thinking ...

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 8:11 pm People who get more than 1,000 points in Nohzdyve... what do you eat for breakfast???

More importantly. How is your brain coping with all that scrolling. It's a very trippy game when played at any length.

I'll set a target then (a low one...)

Nohzdvye: 460

Bomb Jack: 258900



Pretty pleased with that, but still room to improve.

Jesus Christ. So much for the old farts with Real Life etc, who can't spend 5 hrs per day gaming, like we used to back in the day There's a constant flow of scores each day and we're barely past half the first week. Is the weather so horrible there, that you don't feel like lazing on the beach or h...

Crikey, I better get back to it... I've been concentrating on Penetrator (and not getting very far!) since I posted last.

Am wondering whether to stage an assault on @smurphboy's 178k Bomb Jack score, but like @R-Tape, the more I play it the worse I seem to get. It is definitely reachable. My strategy isn't to go deep into the game but to maximise the score on each sheet. So I'm taking more risks to get the maximum bo...

I'm curious, are people playing on keys, joystick on real hardware or emulated?

I've been using my Next for Bomb Jack with a joystick but been playing Penetrator on an emulator (does Penetrator support joystick?) and my keyboard is not very good.

I seem to be getting worse at Bomb Jack the harder I try. I can relate to that feeling... you just need to let it flow. So I'm at 178550 for Bomb Jack, but I've hit a wall today. There is more to come here but I'll leave the top two to the million plus scores! https://i.postimg.cc/vBkP4C3n/BombJack...

Try this link . It is referring to the GBA conversion of the CPC version but the scoring logic is correct for the Speccy too. Hope this helps. I think Tip Shop has a map of the order of the sparking bombs too which helps. Of course, eventually you memorise them and still remember them 30 years later!

Flippin 'eck, you guys are good at Bomb Jack..! Either that or I'm crap at it... Or both. Though at first I completely forgot about the boosted jumps - shows how long it's been since I've played it :oops: Here are my top scores so far, after quite a pleasant Sunday evening of Speccy games playing: ...

Bomb Jack is a decent game. Nice backgrounds. Plays nicely. It's a shame there is no define keys option, but the QAXNM default is just about ok. The sprites could be a bit better though—I thought the flying alien thing was a grand piano! My score so far (I'll post a screenshot when I get something ...

As per 5), game-related thread-derails are most welcome. Talking about these games is most encouraged (share tricks, strategies, trivia, tell us why you love or can't stand the particular title, etc...) and is one of the main aims of this HSC. Now the pressure is on. I've got the Bomb Jack muscle m...

Thanks, I'll see if I can replicate it and isolate the problem. I suppose it's due to the ZX-BASIC memory space for variables being overwritten, or with the calculations for the pilot to mark as injured/dead. Will do some tweaks and let you know. This time it crashed rather than returned to BASIC. ...

I'm getting a crash when a manned mission fails on the launch pad. It drops out to BASIC. Could you give me more details? E.g. was it at the time of engine start or after taking off? Did the rocket explode? Does the computer reset or return to BASIC with an OK message? Was it with every manned miss...

I'm getting a crash when a manned mission fails on the launch pad. It drops out to BASIC.

My five picks would be:

1. Bomb Jack
2. Green Beret
3. Laser Snaker
4. Chuckie Egg
5. TLL

I'm in. Always a good way to play old games I love or games I missed the first time around.

Cannonball first then?

I've used mine most weekends and many weeknights when I've got the time. My mix of time has been about 10% setting up and configuring, 40% playing old classics, 30% going though the manual and playing with the examples on the SD card, 20% playing new games. Got myself a nice gamepad and the 8Bit do ...