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Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:27 pm
by R-Tape
Rorthron wrote: Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:57 pm Many thanks for all your work on this. It's great fun.

The chart of Spectrum games is a little sad (especially if you focus on the blue section). Here's to things getting better in 2018.
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Not sure. One thing that hasn't really changed over time is the number of standout A+++ games (mainly handcoded). The large proportion of blue 10 years back has a significant number of UDG clones and borderline CGC entries. AGD games seem to have replaced those, and the AGD authors are generally striving to innovate rather than churn out the same stuff.

I would still like to see a bit more blue though. (Matron!)

I should have made room for ^this^ in the mag!

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:46 pm
by Blerkotron
Excellent work, all - I need more time to dig into the games properly but crikey that 'Magic Nights' tune is remarkable!

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:00 pm
by Ralf
I disagree that 2017 has been a stinker of a year for the Speccy.
It was a mixed bag.

The bad: dirty bad fight around Vega projects and quite recently several marketing lies reaveled. Community deeply split into followers and haters. Old WOS, may now better called World of Lee going down with each day.

The Nice: people still do a lot of games of different technologies and qualities but even the worse ones can be fun for some moment,

Amd some of games really kick ass. Sword of Ianna already and might Finag Fight probably soon
There is also very high chance to see Zx Next sooon, I can feel it deeply tat it will be a succcess and machnies will go to buyers;

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:11 pm
by MatGubbins
SokobXXX, oh my! Straight into the adult section, no ifs, no buts. They maybe tiny little pixels, but they are dirty little pixels.
M.Whitehouse.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:15 pm
by bob_fossil
Mr Gubbins, you're an unstoppable puzzle solving machine! :)

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:55 pm
by Ivanzx
Woot!!!! Downloading now :o :)

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:13 pm
by hikoki
Merry Chusma!!! I laugh out loud in pain on the radioactive universe. The numbers on 2017 I think don't reflect two Basic compos to celebrate the 35th aniversary, more than 35 coded by hand games off your victorian radar.
Now to the games. I fear to bump into many UDG graphics which were always my favoUrite

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:56 am
by R-Tape
bob_fossil wrote: Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:15 pm Mr Gubbins, you're an unstoppable puzzle solving machine! :)
And the Bugfinder General.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:58 am
by R-Tape
hikoki wrote: Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:13 pm The numbers on 2017 I think don't reflect two Basic compos to celebrate the 35th aniversary, more than 35 coded by hand games off your victorian radar.
I've been statbusted! I just used the ZXDB SC search.

The year isn't over either, the games on this tape aren't included, so we can add at least 4 coded, 3 designer to the total.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:49 am
by Einar Saukas
Wow! R-Tape's great sense of humor at its finest!

Good work!!! :)

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:01 pm
by Einar Saukas
R-Tape wrote: Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:37 amIt's not available from SC yet as I need to have a crack with Peter if SokobXXX is allowed or not (NSFW after 8 levels), also there may be one more game to add.
That's easy. We will have an entry for the magazine itself, then separate entries for each included demo or game. Like this:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=30342

Except one of these included games will be marked as "x-rated" thus sites like SC can optionally block that file only.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:12 pm
by Ralf
Please people, don't remove adult titles from Spectrum Computing. 99% of us are old men in 30s, 40s and 50s and we all know how a naked human body looks like ;)

If some lost kid would come here then it would be enough to put some warning, maybe require clicking that he accepts watching and downloading adult content.

(yet I suppose that if someone is lost in Internet he'll find his way to Redtube much easier anyway than to Spectrum Computing ;) )

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:27 pm
by R-Tape
Peter needs to be more careful than most in his line of work, so I've no problem with my pervy puzzle game being excluded from the main archive :-) . I don't think anything is finalised anyway, just that adult titles will not be in the openly accessed main archive (same as WoS).

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:44 pm
by Spud
Gave the magazine a good read and tried out the games and demos last night. Great editorial content and some really terrific quality games. Thanks for producing this again this year.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:41 pm
by Einar Saukas
Ralf wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:12 pm Please people, don't remove adult titles from Spectrum Computing. 99% of us are old men in 30s, 40s and 50s and we all know how a naked human body looks like ;)

If some lost kid would come here then it would be enough to put some warning, maybe require clicking that he accepts watching and downloading adult content.

(yet I suppose that if someone is lost in Internet he'll find his way to Redtube much easier anyway than to Spectrum Computing ;) )
In original WoS, there's an opt-in config option for logged users to see x-rated titles, otherwise they are hidden from searches. It's a great solution, I suggest that SC does the same!

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:25 pm
by R-Tape
Anybody manage Rorthron's cryptic clues? I found them all manageable, after reading the answers...

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:03 pm
by bob_fossil
R-Tape wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:25 pm Anybody manage Rorthron's cryptic clues? I found them all manageable, after reading the answers...
I managed to work out clue no. 2 (and I think that was because I couldn't think of another Spectrum game beginning with Ken off the top of my head). The rest were a bust.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:04 pm
by MatGubbins
From the Express letters page,

Dear Sir/Madam,
Being a complete nutcase and a fan of Youtube unboxing videos. I'm offended that in the SokobXXX game, I selected the crates, but when I completed a level. the planks of wood were not removed from each crate so I could not peek inside.
Lady Diana, we love you!! Ooohh!!! bubblewrap and sellotape......
A.Fruitcake, Moanington-on-the-Weird, Berks

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:11 pm
by R-Tape
Dear Sir/Madman,

After an invigorating sojourn to John Menzies in the high street, and buying a copy of Christmas Crapmas for £14.99, I am severely displeased to discover that the rigorously challenging first level was followed by a literally impossible second. There is a white enemy at the bottom right that moves one char every twenty minutes, which impedes progress on a level with a time limit of a mere 14 CGD units.

I would like to complain in the strongest terms, ask for a full refund, and call the author a bellend.

Felicitations

Desmond Gruntled, also Berks.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:53 pm
by R-Tape
Egad! Christmas Pudding attack is actually playable.

The key response and speed seems impossible to begin with, but it benefits from a non constant frame rate - so the more things that explode, the slower the game. I'm still amazed Text Voyage thought the caps shift speed up option necessary tho.

An unbeatable hiscore of 640.

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Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:17 pm
by Spud
R-Tape wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:11 pm Dear Sir/Madman,

After an invigorating sojourn to John Menzies in the high street, and buying a copy of Christmas Crapmas for £14.99, I am severely displeased to discover that the rigorously challenging first level was followed by a literally impossible second. There is a white enemy at the bottom right that moves one char every twenty minutes, which impedes progress on a level with a time limit of a mere 14 CGD units.

I would like to complain in the strongest terms, ask for a full refund, and call the author a bellend.

Felicitations

Desmond Gruntled, also Berks.
That''s because you're doing it wrong.

Regards,

A. Bellend.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:57 pm
by R-Tape
Spud wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:17 pm
That''s because you're doing it wrong.

Regards,

A. Bellend.
Ah. Oops. If you're quick enough to turn on the block rather than past it you don't get trapped.

"I'm bad", as the kids say.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:14 pm
by MatGubbins
R-Tape wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:57 pm
Spud wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:17 pm
That''s because you're doing it wrong.

Regards,

A. Bellend.
Ah. Oops. If you're quick enough to turn on the block rather than past it you don't get trapped.

"I'm bad", as the kids say.
You are Michael Jackson and I claim my £10.

I thought the challenge of the game was to load it.... but once it is loaded the challenge is to control santa and collect prezzies. Piece of P?s?, as I said to the doctor, handing over a fresh, warm sample.


Gubscroll fixed...

Has a few features to play with as you read the text.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/fb8hh1

Available for about 28 days, then it will be deleted by the hosting site.
So... get it now (if you can)

Think of it being similar to a DVD release: now with deleted scenes, added commentary, new graphics and an alternative ending.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:55 pm
by Morkin
Argh, so I finally got fed up with wading through Amazon dross and failing to buy any Xmas pressies, and finally got round to trying this.

Very amusing Mr Typoid, nice work..! I managed to get 4 of Rorthron's clues - might have got a few more if I was less impatient.

Flippin' eck, the Christmas Pud game has a touch of the Rally Drivers about it.. Talk about twitch central.. :lol:

Am enjoying the advent calendar game, have done up to the 12th and will try to continue with one a day.

Not sure what else is on the tape, I have a day off work tomorrow so may have a look when I get back from the pub.

Re: Woot! ZXMAS Tape Magazine 2017

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:40 pm
by Ivanzx
Woooot! I loved Duddlebug! I had to play it until completing it, addictive and infuriating :lol: was shorter than than I thought but super fun 15 minutes! ;)