Spectrum Computing

Pegaz wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 1:53 pm Whatever happened to... Melkhior's Mansion ?
https://bobs-stuff.itch.io/melkhiors-mansion

Still in progress!

Yip, that’d be my preferred option, too. Easiest, less hassle, doesn’t affect the current model and if you do need those reports, hardly the most difficult either.

OK, I was having some further thoughts about this as a continuation from above. Since I don't have all the data, I'm guessing that a magazine having multiple publishers is the exception rather than the rule. If that's the case, then in my first option, having LABEL_ID on the magazine issues table is...

Yip, i'd follow @Andyc suggestion. I can think of a couple of ways to do it, 1 better than the other and, note, I've not looked at the ZXDB DB. Assuming there may be a detail table hanging off of the magazines table listing each issue for each publication, then simply adding the LABEL_ID to this det...

17. Run the Gauntlet

18. Chase HQ

8. N.O.M.A.D.

13. Willow Pattern

20. Bobby Bearing

I've been lucky enough to do portraits of quite a few video game related people over the past few years. Spectrum related ones include Ste Pickford and Charles Cecil. Sort of Spectrum related, I've done a couple of (now ex) Rare employees, including : Kev Bayliss, who designed the characters for Kil...

Nah, I also find the Arkanoid and Tournament Arkanoid bat controlling a bit on the tricky side. Revenge of Doh, on the other hand, I have no problems with. It's the inertia that seems to be a bit iffy on A and TA, but there's non on RoD. I'm sure with a bit of practice I'd get used to it again.

A few games by Tiertex there…video title checks out!

I'm with you all the way on this and I find it very off putting, so much so, I just won't play the game. I admit that sounds a bit over the top (LOL LIKE THE MUSIC AMIRITE?) but it just doesn't work as a whole. Not that the music is rubbish or anything - far from it! - it's just like making a nice s...

druellan The new dark mode is great, thank you! A couple of wee issues I’ve noticed: When clicking on “Mark forum as read” it displays a blank box with the dotted line in black. It may be displaying the text and is probably white on the white background When doing a mention of another user, like wh...

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 10:37 pm Are there any smileys which never get used? ("Exclamation", "Idea", "Right arrow"?) These could be switched for familiar sprites like Horace or Willy?

Y tho?

Thanks! Why yes. Yes they are!

Oh, I’d also like to redo Atic Atic…with an isometric viewpoint.

It'd have to be 2 games for me:

H.E.R.O.


Berzerk

I seem to recall something along the lines of Mastertronic asking or getting David Jones to help or give advice or something along those lines but I’m not entirely sure on that.

equinox wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 11:29 pm I don't understand, truly, I submitted this stuff ages ago, and nobody will ever listen or reply to me about it.

Oh I reckon I fully understand.

Could you play any games with two joysticks? Chase hq, one joy left and right and fire is gear, the other controls speed and brake and turbo?? :D :D Let me tell you of my Chase HQ control method. You need 2 joysticks and the keyboard - you define the keys with Up on 1st joystick as the accelerator,...

From what I’m aware you are correct. They were indeed developed by Codemasters originally for the Defender Lightgun and not released before or after by them.

They were then released by Virgin Mastertronic where they could be played using Keyboard, Joystick and the Magnum Lightphaser.

The Chronos arrangement was a bit out there - they even played the game loading, but it was absolutely fantastic. I happened to channel surf onto it midway through the performance and immediately recognised it. It was nice that it was in there amongst a lot of Japanese have music. Just a thing, thou...

@Bubu What art package in windows do you use? Photoshop? Gimp? Aseprite?

I like it so will certainly be switching to it permanently when it becomes available.
Are the main topic icons editable? They're the ones that look slightly out of place with the rest of the new styling.

See, I know what Twitter is like but it’s what you make it. You don’t have to know or follow everybody! So, for me : No politics. I don’t post about politics and anybody else they’re in a 3 strikes and they’re out. If I want any of that I go elsewhere. I use both the mute - people and words - and bl...