Boom & Popcorn

[PeterJ]

Hi all,

I'm making some screenshots for [mention]R-Tape[/mention] for the TRD format games in the latest update. Battle City was fine, and I have sent the screens to [mention]R-Tape[/mention], but i'm having trouble with Boom & Popcorn and can't get them to load. I just the following screens with the mouse pointer frozen. I'm using Spectaculator 8 and have tried both Pentagon and Scorpion emulation.

Boom

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34806

Popcorn

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34807

Any help appreciated.

[Ast A. Moore]

Make sure the Kempston Joystick interface is enabled and you’ll be fine. The emulated machine doesn’t have to be a Russian clone, either.

[PeterJ]

Make sure the Kempston Joystick interface is enabled and you’ll be fine. The emulated machine doesn’t have to be a Russian clone, either.

Thanks. I will try that. On the boot screen I can operate the mouse with the keyboard, so assumed it would be the same in-game.

[Ast A. Moore]

Make sure the Kempston Joystick interface is enabled and you’ll be fine. The emulated machine doesn’t have to be a Russian clone, either.

Thanks. I will try that. On the boot screen I can operate the mouse with the keyboard, so assumed it would be the same in-game.

In Boom, you simply press the letters on the keyboard (I still have no idea what that’s supposed to represent). In Popcorn, however, I was unable to move the paddle with the keyboard or the emulated Kempston joystick. But both games ran fine for me in Fuse (emulating the 128K Toastrack).

[PeterJ]

Thanks very much for testing.

[djnzx48]

They're both BASIC games, so you can just break into them and look at the keys. For Popcorn:

1: select tune 1
2: select tune 2
Z: move paddle left
X: move paddle right

The boot screen is unrelated to the game itself, it's just there to make the game easier to start.

[Ast A. Moore]

Hmm. I figured out the “1” and “2” keys, but I’m pretty sure I tried smashing “Z” and “X” to no avail. I guess I wasn’t patient enough.