Spectrum Computing

SteveSmith wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 6:32 pm I don't know if it's just nostalgia, but for an early game, I thought the intro to Bugaboo created a great atmosphere.

Yeah, it really did. Good call.

Evil Genius wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 6:26 pm Mercenary has a pretty good one

https://youtu.be/47PfAI18eTc

Good, but Trantor remains on the lead, I’d say.

RWAC wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 6:30 pmWriggler?

Nope.

Inspired by just winning the latest post on the Guess the screen$ thread, I wonder... what's the best opening sequence of any ZX Spectrum game? I'll kick off with Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper , if only because it's the only one I can think of right now (and it *is* awesome!): https://www.youtube.c...

Right, next!

Stefan wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 4:08 pm ATF.

One minute... that must be a new record

Here's the next one:

Trantor.

tolls wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 4:42 pm Ace! Here's a new one...

Sir Fred?

On some Spectrum-related Facebook post earlier I noted in passing that the 48K Speccy version of Scrabble has a dictionary of 11,000+ words. That got me wondering how that was possible? The average length of English words is about five characters, so that 11,000-word dictionary equates to about 55,0...

Pobulous wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 1:53 pm Yep, knew that one instantly.

Easy if you know it:

Ghosts 'n' Goblins?

I don't know a great deal about this magazine. Was there only issue 0-4? Yep, it was quite the overreach for Newsfield, seems to be the distillation of the LM farrago. Shame, because it was only a handful of years before the UK’s lad-mag revolution — and my feeling is that LM wasn’t a million miles...

Link below ( uploaded them today) https://archive.org/details/lm-lifestyle-magazine-newsfield-lm-lifestyle-magazine-newsfield I've seen these scans before and they made me wonder why there was ever any debate over the meaning of 'LM', a contention that remains today on the LM Wikipedia page : "...

Pretty sure A Day in the Life was based on Clive's travels to the palace to be knighted by Her Maj...

No, but my if the author doesn’t look like the result of a liaison between Stephen Mulhern and Robbie Williams!

I'm still struggling to get my head around this, but it does makes a little more sense this way. I do like the idea of a 3D representation, though: I suspect that would indeed make the layout properly clear.

18. Zzoom?

Can't recall where I stumbled on this recently but thought it might interest some dwellers here - a 1980s doco about the duo who created the SpecDrum interface, and what they did next: https://youtu.be/RVLOeINDN-Q

777 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:55 am ok. its a budget title and it has something to do with space

The colour scheme makes me want to say Zub, but I don’t actually think it’s that.

+3code wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 1:21 pm The Sprinter and some other Russian clones, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinter_(computer)

Thanks. That wasn't on my radar at all. Doesn't really give me the 'feels' though. Probably a bit too Russian.

Does the Amstrad e-mailer come under that remit? Allegedly it could load Spectrum games, somehow, though it was on a black and white LCD screen so I can't see how it would have worked... Off the wall but yeah, bang on - I’d completely forgotten about that. Pretty sure I secured the first review of ...

So I was flicking through some old copies of Computeractive magazine, circa 1998, when I stumbled on this little story in the News section: https://i.postimg.cc/CZgJJbHV/D7-D317-D7-22-AB-4-FA5-AD55-BA07-E8-E6-B60-A.jpg Now, I worked on this magazine back then but have only minimal recollection of th...

It seems today, 9th february, is the International Pizza Day . I can't remember now any pizza appearing in games... anyone? ... and happy pizza day, BTW! ;) I might be wrong but I don’t recall pizza delivery being much of a thing in the early 1980s, at least. Heck, the first Domino’s didn’t open in...

I mean, there were like a bajillion of these. Many were literal one-button control.

Thanks all. Let's just say that last night's "a bit drunk" became this morning's "OMFG, my head!". And on a school night, too.

Yes, I really should know better. But heck, I'm not new around these parts and I figure you can all take one for this particular a-bit-drunk member of the team. Yes I've Googled but... SpecEmu is leading me nowhere currently. I'm not averse to paying but I try to avoid a-bit-drunk purchases. So, ple...

I just managed to get a copy of Wriggler which has been on my wish list for a while. The inlay contains screenshots that aren't really screenshots. Wriggler is really interesting to me. There was some or other magazine advert that featured those same hand-drawn screens, and I used to pore over them...