CSSCGC 2020

[catmeows]

Ha, edutainment!!! Very underrated genre. I have played Chemistry for freedom fighters, Math for banksters, Math for ministers and Fast Food Zoology recently. Still looking for MIA title Empathie für Nationalsozialisten.

I don't want to think of what kind of edutainment you're getting from those; all those titles sound quite sinister to me.

Sorry, it was not funny, I have watched Sasha Cohen's Dictator yesterday and may mood tends to be little Aladeen today. Peace.

[PROSM]

I don't want to think of what kind of edutainment you're getting from those; all those titles sound quite sinister to me.

Sorry, it was not funny, I have watched Sasha Cohen's Dictator yesterday and may mood tends to be little Aladeen today. Peace.

Ah right, now I understand. The joke's on me - I was trying to work out whether they were real games!

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We've reviewed another entry, and this time it's from CSSCGC veteran, Paul Collins (AKA Equinox Tetrachloride), who sends us Playing A Casino Game With A Spinning Counter (or alternatively, PACGWASC).

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Another entry from Paul Collins, entitled Debris Rescue.

Review and download available from: https://connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/016.html

[PROSM]

Hello all,

My computer's hard disk failed this morning, and as a consequence, I have lost most of my files. I have been making backup copies of the CSSCGC data on a flash-drive, so nothing pertaining to the competition has been destroyed. However, I will have to re-install my software and also try to recover what I can of the rest of my stuff, so if you've sent me an email recently, please bear with me for the next few days, as I won't be able to answer it straight away.

Regards,
John

[Juan F. Ramirez]

It's a God's signal. Your hard disk is doomed.

I shouldn't have sent you my last game.

Don't re-install anything, burnt the HD and forget I had sent you the game!

[8BitAG]

That's awful; hope you get it sorted.

Has just given me an idea for a crap game, though... A disc defragmentation game, were you manually have to move the blocks around on screen to get them into one long continuous block.

That sort of programming is beyond me, though... So someone else can make it.

[PROSM]

It's a God's signal. Your hard disk is doomed.

I shouldn't have sent you my last game.

Don't re-install anything, burnt the HD and forget I had sent you the game!

I knew I should've turned back once I saw the reversed demonic messages hidden in the listing!

That's awful; hope you get it sorted.

Has just given me an idea for a crap game, though... A disc defragmentation game, were you manually have to move the blocks around on screen to get them into one long continuous block.

That sort of programming is beyond me, though... So someone else can make it.

At least it's given you some inspiration! I guess every cloud has a silver lining.

[PeterJ]

That's awful; hope you get it sorted.

Has just given me an idea for a crap game, though... A disc defragmentation game, were you manually have to move the blocks around on screen to get them into one long continuous block.

I used to strangely enjoy watching disk defragmenter on Windows. Obviously in the new world of SSD drives you should not use defragmentation.

There are two main reasons. The first relates to the lack of performance benefits, which is, after all, the entire point of defragmentation. The second reason has to do with the health of your SSD. It turns out that defragging an SSD can shorten its life.

Sounds like a good game idea though.

Sorry to hear about your drive failure [mention]PROSM[/mention]

[8BitAG]

Obviously in the new world of SSD drives you should not use defragmentation.

I'm not in that world yet!

[PeterJ]

Obviously in the new world of SSD drives you should not use defragmentation.

I'm not in that world yet!

Gosh you must have some old kit Or should I say Retro!

[catmeows]

That sort of programming is beyond me, though... So someone else can make it.

Well... Put a row of color cells on the bottom od screen. Then have a vehicle affected by gravity and inertia, something like lunar lander. When you land on a non empty cell, carrying nothing, you will pick up the color. When you land on empty cell while carrying color, you drop it there. That way you can reorganize row of cells to have continuous runs of same color cells.
You could add laser gun and hidden hovering button and call it JetFrag. Or actually tow the cell like in Thrust.
On later levels, sprite of blue big F could fly over screen droping bombs that shuffle cells in proximity of impact.

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Yes, we're back at it again with a new review. [mention]TMD2003[/mention] sends us another huge game, Casio MG-777 Games!

Review at https://connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/017.html

[TMD2003]

And in case you weren't all aware, which you weren't, this compilation was in effective development hell for 16 years. Game I was originally programmed in 2004 and just needed a bit of beating into shape before its release alongside the newly-written II and III. Strange what being barricaded inside will allow me to achieve, isn't it?

You can see what a real MG-777 looks like in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zbETJmXIHU

[PROSM]

What is it with this competition and gambling? Dog Track Simulator from Tomas P. is now up for your approval!

Review and download at: https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/018.html

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[mention]Juan F. Ramirez[/mention] strikes again! This time, he's resurrected an old conversion of Mastermind!

Review and download at: https://connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/019.html

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Thanks for the inlay! Classy!



"and it’s fun to play (though that last part doesn’t really have much to do with Juan)"

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Our beloved “Uncle Clive” will become an octogenarian on the 30th of July, so in celebration, why not write a crap game about him?

To participate, send your Clive Sinclair-related entry to our email address, marking it as belonging to “Challenge No. 4”. You have until the 20th of August to submit your game. Good luck!

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The reviews keep rolling in! This time, we have a Cambridge Z88 game by Jamie Bradbury, entitled Ronaprise USS 19-2020!

Review and download at: https://connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/020.html

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[mention]uglifruit[/mention] has sent us a new game - Sarah's Garden.

Review and download at: https://connosoft.com/csscgc2020/reviews/021.html

[TMD2003]

It'd have made it into the pages of Sinclair Programs back in the day. If only it was 1982, eh?

Hopefully Sarah was considerably more chuffed with having a game named after her then she sounds from the text file...

[R-Tape]

I've fallen behind with the CGC, the next update will contain all this stuff. It'll also give me a chance to appreciate the crap (and mostly not crap actually) that I've missed.

The reviews keep rolling in! This time, we have a Cambridge Z88 game by Jamie Bradbury, entitled Ronaprise USS 19-2020!

Well done on getting this to work (something I have no intention of doing). And ZXDB will see a new machinetype in the next update!

[R-Tape]

Hopefully Sarah was considerably more chuffed with having a game named after her then she sounds from the text file...

If uglifruit's idea of gardening is deadheading every flower in sight, I suspect he's not allowed near the oleanders...

[Juan F. Ramirez]

And ZXDB will see a new machinetype in the next update!

[R-Tape]

Hehe. That's not a million miles from the Speccy I once bought on ebay.