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- Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Game Of The Year 2023 Final Vote
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4578
Re: Game Of The Year 2023 Final Vote
Seraphima looks great, and I love the way there are several different parallax effects for different areas. But it has some very poor jumping - particularly for a character with such obvious wings, poor level design with too many downward leaps of faith, and a lot of pointless wandering in and out ...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Best game music/sound
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1924
Re: Best game music/sound
I'm still impressed by Fairlight . That Special FX player has a bit of an off-putting buzz to it (possibly because it uses interrupts to control the drum effects, which puts the note timing off a bit). And the old Wham! Music Box that did 2-channel music just sounds like 2 crude beeper notes at the ...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The World's Greatest Computer Games with Chris Tarrant (UK 1984)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 676
Re: The World's Greatest Computer Games with Chris Tarrant (UK 1984)
The production company, TV Choice Ltd, still exists, though now sticks to educational/corporate videos, a lot of them have titles like the things Alan Partridge would present for businesses: https://web.archive.org/web/20231128100117/http://www.tvchoice.uk.com/ There is a hint of Partridge about it...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: Showcase your work!
- Topic: "Go-Go BunnyGun", first screen grabs.
- Replies: 140
- Views: 43163
Re: "Go-Go BunnyGun", first screen grabs.
Just noticed the '2020' at the bottom of the title screen and thought I'd been working on this for a while. Then came here and noticed that first screenshot was dated 2018!!!
And I've done four other games since then...
And I've done four other games since then...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:02 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: The World's Greatest Computer Games with Chris Tarrant (UK 1984)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 676
Re: The World's Greatest Computer Games with Chris Tarrant (UK 1984)
I assume this was some sort of promotional thing for retailers, rather than ever actually broadcast on TV. It doesn't appear to be part of any known broadcast program.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Some gigascreen game prototype: need input
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1594
Re: Some gigascreen game prototype: need input
I've done a game that will only work if you've got an external video interface to generate a second screen, so I can't complain if you have a game where you say it's best played in an emulator with 'gigascreen' smoothing turned on! I was kind of surprised how the flicker when objects appear in my la...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: 3D Anaglyph, Spectrum-style
- Replies: 1
- Views: 202
Re: 3D Anaglyph, Spectrum-style
The game Wanderer came with 3d glasses, but it really didn't work. It used vector graphics drawn in red and cyan, but the attribute squares let it down. That and TV's don't actually give very pure red / green / blue light colour separation from the phosphor dots, so the separation in the glasses is ...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Ian Morrison): vote
- Replies: 15
- Views: 874
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Ian Morrison): vote
Chase HQ II looks like it's squeezed everything down to run in the tiniest share of the bottom few lines of the screen, and still can't manage a playable frame rate. I'm assuming it's the same terribly slow code from Out Run and Turbo Out Run in there. And there seems to be hardly any point in call...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: 2023 Game of The Year : Group Four voting
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2097
Re: 2023 Game of The Year : Group Four voting
Did I mention all* votes for Parsley Sage and the 7 Bins of Sunak win a £3.4 billion government contract and a peerage? No pressure.
*some, probably.
*some, probably.
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: getting sound effects out of the beeper
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1093
Re: getting sound effects out of the beeper
I vaguely remember an explanation from Joffa about how the sound works in Green Beret , Cobra etc. The game is carefully written so that it always updates within 2 frames of the TV picture (i.e. take less than 1/25 second to execute one cycle of the main game program loop). If it finishes that cycle...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Announcing : Spectrum Computing Game of The Year Awards 2023
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1794
Re: Announcing : Spectrum Computing Game of The Year Awards 2023
Should be "Parsley Sage and the 7 Bins of Sunak"
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 11:30 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
- Replies: 72
- Views: 3004
Re: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
Just had two big bugs show up out of nowhere last night. I suddenly realised I'd never seen a particular one of a set of randomised objects appear ever, and when I fixed that so that it did show up, and I got a hit on it in the game, random graphics started appearing all over the screen! :o (That is...
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
- Replies: 72
- Views: 3004
Re: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
Some elves are still particularly busy right now...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 11:41 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
- Replies: 72
- Views: 3004
Re: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
OK, got some more done last night. You can now win, lose, move on levels, and run out of lives. Beeper sound effects are working well, despite being incredibly simple in how they're generated. I put a byte like 01010101 or 00001111 in a spare register, then after each row of the main drawing functio...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:54 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
- Replies: 72
- Views: 3004
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
- Replies: 72
- Views: 3004
Re: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
Going to be tricky. I have to work this week so only got Wednesday and Thursday evenings to work on it. We might all get sent home Friday afternoon but I'm not sure.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:58 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
- Replies: 72
- Views: 3004
Re: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
Nearly there. More fancy titles, added a background, got the things to lob things at moving round, and colliding with the player. Got a couple of sound FX in too. Now need to make the things know when they're shot and make some more noises and scores.
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:53 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: What game was the Spectrum's Half Life?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 622
Re: What game was the Spectrum's Half Life?
I'd agree Fairlight is a good comparison. It took the 'Isometric 3D' genre and completely re-wrote it. No more blocks on a grid; no more identical backgrounds. Each room was a custom layout and drawing, with larger open areas to walk around, and no limit on moving objects (or guard helmets) from roo...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:00 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Colour clash query
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1646
Re: Colour clash query
FLASH is a waste from a games point of view. As a feature of a text terminal, to be able to flash an attention-getter like that with no programming overhead at all, is quite a bonus. Although arguably Teletext did it neater - flashing the pixels on/off, or you could view it as periodically setting t...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:44 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Computing Today
- Replies: 6
- Views: 197
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:00 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Computing Today
- Replies: 6
- Views: 197
Re: Computing Today
Blimey, those copies of 'Games Computing' are fun to look over. I like the DSS software listing in the first few pages of the May issue - for 'Pimble Wizard' on the VIC 20 :lol: Some sort of dictation error there, I think. Anyone any idea what 'Omertron' (Software Projects, Spectrum) might be? The c...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:50 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Noon30 Shovel Duck
- Replies: 4
- Views: 350
Re: Noon30 Shovel Duck
I love the animations of the duck and the movement on the diagonal stairs, and all the hints. Shame the duck has to turn red when on the same row as a red enemy. Is that an AGD thing?
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:55 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Colour clash query
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1646
Re: Colour clash query
Cost-cutting meant keeping the size of the ULA down. Adding alternate screen modes would have needed a bigger ULA chip, so one fixed mode made things a lot cheaper. These modern expansion devices monitor the expansion ports and can detect when data is written to the screen memory. They then keep the...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:28 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
- Replies: 72
- Views: 3004
Re: Woot 2023 - Submissions wanted
Bit more progress. More graphics, title screen, can move around and lob things.
Need to add things to lob things at.
Need to add things to lob things at.
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 3:53 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Fairytale of new York - few notes in BEEPER?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 577
Re: Fairytale of new York - few notes in BEEPER?
For short bits of music I find this site useful: https://musescore.com/sheetmusic?text=fairytale%20of%20new%20york You usually find lots of user-contributed versions of music scores, varying in complexity from simple one-note-at-a-time melodies to multiple part scores. Even without signing up you ca...