Spectrum Computing

QAOP, Thirty Three!

Commodore's law, Sixty Four!

Looks like the delights of Bingo never made it to the shores of Poland or Spain. According to Wikipedia it stated in Italy.

Beepety Beep, Sixty Six.

Rorthron wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:34 pm Short reviews would also be nice.

(Actually R-Tape did this for the 2014 poll. Any chance of a repeat?)

Happy to, probably no time until Sat or Sun though. There's still a few I haven't played yet.

Rorthron wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:56 am MR WIMPY

I couldn't find a working download of this game from SC or WoS and I didn't want to use any sites which might not have proper permission to distribute. So this one has to go in the did-not-start/finish category.

Trust me on this one, it's safe at the bottom.

There's a nice touch in that there's a multi-colour engine that throws more than two colours into certain character cells. This is evident in the game, and highly evident in the menu system. A superb game that has the Speccy punching above its weight. It is based on the homebrew Atari ST game of th...

75% homebrew, 25% classic. The very best of modern homebrew (Sword of IANNA, Buzzsaw, Brunilda, Suvivisection, Mole Rat) is right up there with the very best of the classics IMO, but they appear once a year if we're lucky. The dev tools are so much better these days, and don't forget AGD, so we have...

Neat. Any chance of a zipped download also? The link you provide opens as a page of gobbledook (I think it's a user windows 10 setting for a lot of people).

Fixed.

Oh yes that's weird. It's just Race 'n' Chase though isn't it?

Benny Hill's Madcap chase!
Supertrolley

I tried filling the screen then putting a solid white box inside, nope.

I can see Hikaru's makes a blue box, but I still need to work out how it's doing it...

Nice.

That last INC HL could be INC L, saving you 2 errrr T-states

I've been talking to Peter about assembly routines, one of which was to draw a blue attribute box around the limit of the screen . Just wondering if the code wizards here can scare the hell out of him by showing the minimum number of bytes it takes :mrgreen: My first example, can definitely be impro...

I think that's the Gauntlet clones exhausted. I'm going to need a bloody big clue on this one!

1 isn't Dandy is it? I can't find the jewel on the map but the clue fits, wondered if you'd been crafty and not taken it from there.

Is there a list anywhere, or can anyone summarise the likely final features of the Next? (Hardware sprites, SID etc)

Aye Sam Spade is a much better Panic clone. Not that it redeems the game but Digger Dan has the coolest inlay art.

I asked Alcoholics Anonymous for word wrap and he created it for me: https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54917/z88dk-terminals/p1 this is code that is tied in with the terminals demo in z88dk though, so I dont know if it will be useful. EDIT- oh you were looking for assembly, sorry! (...

The released FZX drivers don't have word wrapping as far as I know. Has anyone created their own that they wouldn't mind sharing?

(Assembly snippets would be best)

Comics Watchmen - there's an open goal, although creator Alan Moore obviously was never keen on the story being recreated in any other medium than a comic book (I see his point). Ooh there's a good call. It might have been too close to a cult following to warrant a big release, and it would have be...

Rorthron wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2017 8:04 am DNF - Chinese Juggler

Nay DNS?

One thing about collect-em-ups is that I don't find infinite lives helpful when the game resets the objects on a screen after you lose a life. I accepted it with Manic Miner but nowadays I like to feel that I'm progressing, even if a game is hard. When I did Stamp Quest I reset the objects on scree...

I think most games will work equally well on hardware and emulator. I can only think of the typing game 'Utter Tripe' that should have a separate rubber keys version, and people that play Speccy games on smartphones are lunatics that should never be catered to :mrgreen: It all depends on the type of...

Rorthron wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2017 12:16 pm Every minute spent on it was a lost minute of Manic Miner time.

Heh but that went for nearly every game in my case.