Blankety Blank - A Spectrum prize

Y'know, other stuff, Sinclair related.
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Blankety Blank - A Spectrum prize

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Yup, guess who spent Saturday afternoon watching the Challenge TV channel? Yeah, me. I wasn't bored, just had it on in the background as I tapped away on a keyboard.
A few Blankety Blank episodes from 1984 with the late great Les Dawson. Cracking many funny jokes that we enjoy, a panel of stars from Roy Kennear, Pat Coombs, Wendy Richards, Keith Barron, Keith Harris (with the Monkey - 'I hate that duck', not Orvile), Dennis Waterman, and a very young Nicholas Lynhurst (Rodney, you plonker!).

Get to the point Mat!
Ok, prizes on this game show... phone, champange glasses, luggage cases, the usual tat and then this...


Image


Hit record button and wait... the first contestant gets some random crap, the second round winner gets 150 points
and the Spectrum appears again. Result!

Look how clear the image is on the TV.... no jail bars and no fuzzy dot crawl.


For those of you that want to recreate the scene with your piles of Make-A-Chip, Scrabble, Chequered Flag and a sealed copy of the Horizons tape.

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5 BORDER 7: CLS: BORDER 2
10 PRINT "  B L A N K E T Y   B L A N K": PRINT: GO TO 10
That's two spaces at the start and three in the middle.
Line 5 is there so that it keeps the scroll? message as it is in the picture.


Machine code users.....

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ORG 32768 ; or whatever... 
BlanketyBlankRoutine
               LD    A,16+7 ; set border to red - 2 multi by 8  then +7 ink white
               LD    (23624),A  ; border system variable
               LD    A,2 ; always print to the top area
               OUT   (254),A ; set border red
               CALL  05633  ; set top area

PrintIt        LD    BC,BlanketyBlankTextEnd-BlanketyBlankText ; number of chars to print
               LD    DE,BlanketyBlankText                      ; location of data to print
               CALL  08252                                     ; print it
               JP PrintIt                                      ; until bored....

BlanketyBlankText
DEFB "  B L A N K E T Y   B L A N K",13,13
BlanketyBlankTextEnd

Type in corner

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10 CLEAR 32767: FOR n=32768 TO 32822: READ a: POKE n,a: NEXT n
20 BORDER 7: CLS: RANDOMIZE USR 32768
30 DATA 62,23,50,72,92,62,2,211,254,205,1,22
40 DATA 1,31,0,17,24,128,205,60,32,195,12,128
50 DATA 32,32,66,32,76,32,65,32,78,32,75,32,69,32,84,32,89,32,32,32,66,32,76,32,65,32,78,32,75,13,13
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Re: Blankety Blank - A Spectrum prize

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The Spectrum +2 was a prize on a repeat of Bullseye the other night.

Look what you could have won!
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I remember a show where A C64 was first prize.

Second prize was 2 C64s! :lol:
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I just love that you spent time writing the code [mention]MatGubbins[/mention]. Excellent stuff!
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Heh, that's very authentic. Since I've never heard of the show, at first I thought the photo in your phost was made by yourself (made to look like its from the 80s).

I guess young Nicholas Lyndhurst won the CPC he later used in one of the OFAH episodes ;)
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Haha brill.

Now please can a musician have a bash at a BEEPETY-BEEP BEEPETY-BEEP BEEP BEEP ditty!
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Re: Blankety Blank - A Spectrum prize

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This is the video file of the last 4 minutes of the Blankety Blank episode to show the winning word, prize, head to head, prize, thank you, credits.
It has been shrunk to half size (304x240) the quality is still there. Otherwise it would've been about 120MB.

If anyone wants to host the video file for everyone to watch then please do so because the link to this video will die after a month.

I've put the file here...

https://www.sendspace.com/file/4cq8k1

Enjoy watching it.
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toot_toot wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2020 12:53 am The Spectrum +2 was a prize on a repeat of Bullseye the other night.

Look what you could have won!
Far better than a speedboat if you were a contestant from landlocked Leicestershire or West Yorkshire, as many of the contestants were.
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Re: Blankety Blank - A Spectrum prize

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This thread is showing our TV watching habits.. I don't feel so bad watching old repeats on ITV3 and Drama now!
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