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- Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:07 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Development Environments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6087
Re: Development Environments
That looks like some distressingly organised and well-commented code... :o Partly because I do code for a living and partly because it helps greatly while I'm learning. Quite often I come back to routines weeks later and can't remember for the life of me why I did something a certain way, so leavin...
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:49 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Development Environments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6087
Re: Development Environments
Here's my setup: Microsoft's ' Visual Studio Code ' for editing (it has a plug-in for Pasmo/Z80 highlighting which should also work for most assemblers). Pasmo for assembling. SpecEmu for debugging. BitBucket for source control. VS Code makes for an excellent Z80 editor, it's not just for modern lan...
- Fri Mar 16, 2018 10:18 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: What is this game????!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3391
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with G: discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7952
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with G: discussion
I'd second adding Gyroscope, and also Gryzor - an excellent conversion.
And it's never going to win, but I have a real soft spot for Sinclair User's cover-tape exclusive, Go Bear Go!
And it's never going to win, but I have a real soft spot for Sinclair User's cover-tape exclusive, Go Bear Go!
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 9:35 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: vote
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7081
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with F: vote
Blimey, this was the toughest one yet - loads of great games and no 'clear' winner. Eventually went with Fairlight, although I feel a bit guilty for Fred and Frank N Stein. And Feud. And Firelord. And Firefly. And Frankie. Oh no!
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 10:05 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Mr Do coming soon to Spectrum
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6958
Re: Mr Do coming soon to Spectrum
This is one of my all-time favourite arcade games! I wanted a Speccy conversion so much back in the day but alas it was never to be. And yet somehow, here it is - 36 years late, granted, but better late than never.
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:54 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Worst arcade conversion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7837
Re: Worst arcade conversion
US Gold's "Breakthru" conversion was absolutely dismal - borderline unplayable, lengthy pauses for no apparent reason, joystick options which flat-out don't work. And you could complete the entire game without dying by just holding jump down because your car would bounce over absolutely an...
- Sun Feb 25, 2018 3:33 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Calling all ZX Spectrum Devs
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4729
Re: Calling all ZX Spectrum Devs
Happy for any of my games to be considered providing credit is given and it's all free, Morcar:
https://blerkotron.itch.io/
https://blerkotron.itch.io/
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 10:16 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Poll: Best game of 2017
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3979
Re: Poll: Best game of 2017
Sword of Ianna, Crystal Kingdom Dizzy and the game I spent the most time on in 2017 - Pixel Quest 2000.
Thanks to whoever voted for Break/Space.
Thanks to whoever voted for Break/Space.
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 10:12 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with E: discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7438
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with E: discussion
If we're discounting 'the' from titles then I'd like to suggest "The Eidolon", which I spent many a happy hour playing back in the day.
Otherwise I'll wait for 'T'.
Otherwise I'll wait for 'T'.
- Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:52 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with D: vote
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7091
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with D: vote
Dan Dare for me. Beautiful, smooth, great fun to play - I lost days to that and still love a game even now.
Decathlon would've been my second choice - can't quite forgive it for breaking my keyboard membrane.
Decathlon would've been my second choice - can't quite forgive it for breaking my keyboard membrane.
- Sat Feb 03, 2018 8:02 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: New TOSEC of ZXSpectrum (Nov 2017)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11685
Re: New TOSEC of ZXSpectrum (Nov 2017)
Is there a way to download this all in one go? Unusually for archive.org I only seem to be able to browse the files individually, there's no massive zip file. Or I didn't see one if there is. Very comprehensive collection, and a lot of effort put into naming and tagging everything properly, too. Edi...
- Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:36 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Poll: The last Ultimate games (1986/1987)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1898
Re: Poll: The last Ultimate games (1986/1987)
Cyberun isn't great, but it's easily the best of the bunch. Pentagram is just dead boring, the other two are genuinely awful.
Cyberun's main problem is that it's just too damned hard, but I played a lot of it back in the day with a bunch of POKEs added.
Cyberun's main problem is that it's just too damned hard, but I played a lot of it back in the day with a bunch of POKEs added.
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:37 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with C: vote
- Replies: 64
- Views: 12601
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with C: vote
I so wanted to love Sam Cruise like I did the Skool games, but I just found it impossibly difficult without a cheat and impossibly cryptic without a solution.
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:10 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with C: vote
- Replies: 64
- Views: 12601
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with C: vote
Voted for Chaos. Chuckie Egg is also blisteringly good, but Chaos has that old 'infinite replayability' bonus so I think it wins.
Chase HQ.... I realise it's really polished and an amazing conversion, but I never really found it much fun to play. Possibly because I'm crap at it.
Chase HQ.... I realise it's really polished and an amazing conversion, but I never really found it much fun to play. Possibly because I'm crap at it.
- Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:23 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Your top 5 Ultimate games
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3780
Re: Your top 5 Ultimate games
1. Atic Atac
2. Jetpac
3. Cookie
4. Pssst
5. Alien 8
Controversial! Maybe.
2. Jetpac
3. Cookie
4. Pssst
5. Alien 8
Controversial! Maybe.
- Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:57 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with C: discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5214
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with C: discussion
Slimmer pickings for C and most of my ideas have already been listed, but I would like to suggest Cabal - a most excellent arcade port.
- Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:54 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with B: vote
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6268
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with B: vote
Not my choice, but a very worthy winner!
Do we vote for an overall winner once you have one for each letter?
Do we vote for an overall winner once you have one for each letter?
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:54 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Sound libraries, any examples.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6100
Re: Sound libraries, any examples.
I used Shiru's "BeepFX" to generate sound effects for my last couple of projects, it's great fun to play around with and makes some super beeps and farts. It even has a randomize button that you can keep hitting if you don't really know what you want. The assembly code it generates is pret...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:08 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with B: vote
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6268
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with B: vote
This is much harder than the 'a' vote was. I can see the love for Bomb Jack because I absolutely love it myself, but in terms of sheer time spent playing I think Back to Skool just nudges it for me, and has the added bonus of being a Speccy original.
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:15 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with B: discussion
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4839
Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with B: discussion
Booty and Boulderdash notable by their absence.
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:31 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Golden Rubber Keyboard Awards
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6803
Re: Golden Rubber Keyboard Awards
I made my own top ten list over on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Blerkotron/status/9 ... 2059983874), but a proper discussion and vote with multiple categories would be a super idea!
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 8:30 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Horace & The Robots
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3810
Re: Horace & The Robots
Probably the best Berzerk/Frenzy clone I've ever played on a home system - really excellent stuff! My only minor niggle is that it doesn't have a high score table - a weird omission in a game which is basically an endless score-attack. Well worth your time, though - especially if you can hook up a C...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:07 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The A-Z of the best Speccy games (modern: post-1993)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 11213
Re: The A-Z of the best Speccy games (modern: post-1993)
Indeed, it's a great idea - the 'modern' Speccy games really don't get the attention they deserve and it'd be nice to have a list of the very best of the best to help newcomers get started. If they actually read it instead of saying "hey, who remembers Manic Miner?!" for the 438th time.
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 9:48 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Have you ever completed a text adventure?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 12192
Re: Have you ever completed a text adventure?
I seem to remember beating Subsunk, but I can't remember if I had any magazine help or not.