Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
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Bandersnatch is available on Netflix now:
"In 1984 a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings."
"In 1984 a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings."
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The website says:Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:54 pm It'd be amazing if the chapter started with
"BASED ON A TRUE STORY"
"The people, places and actions depicted in this game are based on true events."
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I cancelled mine, but will have to do something about that. My mind's on the new Poirot in half an hour first!
I've got some catching up to do here.Rorthron wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 8:09 pm There is a downloadable .tap file (Nohzdyve). I haven't tried it yet.
https://tuckersoft.net/ealing20541/nohzdyve/
Can anyone download that? If I hover over the link, I can see a .tap at the end of it, but it's only possible to download a .html... (even with 'Save Target As')
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I have the .tap. Tapped on the link in Chrome for Android.R-Tape wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 8:29 pmI cancelled mine, but will have to do something about that. My mind's on the new Poirot in half an hour first!
I've got some catching up to do here.Rorthron wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 8:09 pm There is a downloadable .tap file (Nohzdyve). I haven't tried it yet.
https://tuckersoft.net/ealing20541/nohzdyve/
Can anyone download that? If I hover over the link, I can see a .tap at the end of it, but it's only possible to download a .html... (even with 'Save Target As')
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Now the whole Nohzdyve webpage has disappeared!
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Ta, got it via mobile.
Still there for me.
This could be an interesting ZXDB entry! If anyone can help us regarding distribution permissions could they get in touch...
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Bandersnatch will not work on Chromecast or Apple TV:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/28/181 ... es-support
The Nohzdyve Spectrum game:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/28/181 ... y-emulator
(I wasn't aware Brooker used to write for PC Zone.)
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/28/181 ... es-support
The Nohzdyve Spectrum game:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/28/181 ... y-emulator
(I wasn't aware Brooker used to write for PC Zone.)
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Have you tried it?
Back for me, too, but the Bandersnatch game page has now disappeared.
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LOLRorthron wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 8:20 pmThe website says:Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:54 pm It'd be amazing if the chapter started with
"BASED ON A TRUE STORY"
"The people, places and actions depicted in this game are based on true events."
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Now waiting for a new Black Mirror episode: Mire Mare!
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Love the fact that all these games are based on previous Black Mirror episodes:-
https://tuckersoft.net/ealing20541/history/
https://tuckersoft.net/ealing20541/history/
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Yep. It's a challenging descending game by gasman!
There's some unusual code in here, and I wonder if it relates to the black mirror episode (still need to watch it). The crafty bugger even included some rudimentary antihack measures.
Ahem :
Spoiler
Infy Lives: POKE 32885,0
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I watched it this morning and thoroughly enjoyed it. The choice system is simple but works really really well. I’m going to watch it again to make different choices.
It’s a superb nod to the speecy era and well worth a watch.
It’s a superb nod to the speecy era and well worth a watch.
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I'm back on Netflix's books, and have nearly used up my broadband for the month. It was well worth it.
I suspect that a substantial portion of the Black Mirror audience will feel alienated by the retro theme, and find it too experimental, but for the everyone else—holy ****ing sh*t! That was amazing!
I hope a 'making of' gets released.
I suspect that a substantial portion of the Black Mirror audience will feel alienated by the retro theme, and find it too experimental, but for the everyone else—holy ****ing sh*t! That was amazing!
I hope a 'making of' gets released.
Spoiler
How many Spectrums were harmed in the making of this?
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I did enjoy it, though I wasn't particularly grabbed by the 'choose your own path' novelty, it was more about the Speccy-laden nostalgia..
...If I'd known how fast BASIC seemed to be back then, I might have persevered with it a bit longer..
...If I'd known how fast BASIC seemed to be back then, I might have persevered with it a bit longer..
My Speccy site: thirdharmoniser.com
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At the end of the film Stefan puts Bandersnatch Demo datasette into his player and we hear data playback without interference of any other sounds. I'm pretty sure this is meant to be fed as datasette playback into a Spectrum. The data stream in the film is about 42 seconds long, so most likely not a large program but perhaps an easter egg message.
Now, I don't own a Spectrum, I came here to ask you guys to see for yourself and share what you discover in the data stream. I actually captured the audio data stream off the video into a .wav file and tried feeding it into Fuse emulator, but I didn't see any meaningful result. It's just cycling the datasette. Then again, I've never used it before, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Or was I suppose to slice it into several files?
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Someone already did it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBJNXzfZ4pw
Now, I don't own a Spectrum, I came here to ask you guys to see for yourself and share what you discover in the data stream. I actually captured the audio data stream off the video into a .wav file and tried feeding it into Fuse emulator, but I didn't see any meaningful result. It's just cycling the datasette. Then again, I've never used it before, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Or was I suppose to slice it into several files?
[EDIT]
Someone already did it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBJNXzfZ4pw
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Damn. How did I miss that?!
Would you be willing to make the .wav available?
[mention]Einar Saukas[/mention], can you see how Bandersnatch or this bonus material could fit in ZXDB?
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I would: Bandersnatch Extra. This is both the audio and the TZX generated from it. (The audio in the film repeats, so this is just the first part.)
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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Love how many cool Spectrum 'easter eggs' there are in the episode, like the Spectrum keyboard or the guy reading Crash, posted above. Or lots of Chuckie Egg tapes on the shelves:
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Downloaded and watched this a couple of days ago, obviously being the downloaded "movie" it didn't give me any choices.
Besides the speccy references I found it pretty dull to be honest.
Besides the speccy references I found it pretty dull to be honest.
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How did it work if there were no choices? There are numerous endings for example.
For me, most of the interest came from it being interactive.
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I wasn't 100% aware of the choices thing till after I'd seen it and read a few reviews etc of it. It just paused briefly and then continued..I know many scenes replayed when he made a bad decision...(ETA: the cereal choice didn't replay..I guess that wasn't a big deal and just got you used to the choices thing). I don't know if that was in the "movie" or a way to show the different choices but it basically rewound and then fast forwarded to the decision point so it did show several endings. I'd lost interest by then though...it was on but I wasn't really paying attention to it anymore.
If you take out the gimmick it's pretty dull (imo)
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Whole thing was about 1hr 45 mins or so long...so I guess you can tell from that if it included all/some of the decisions.beanz wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:06 pmI wasn't 100% aware of the choices thing till after I'd seen it and read a few reviews etc of it. It just paused briefly and then continued..I know many scenes replayed when he made a bad decision...(ETA: the cereal choice didn't replay..I guess that wasn't a big deal and just got you used to the choices thing). I don't know if that was in the "movie" or a way to show the different choices but it basically rewound and then fast forwarded to the decision point so it did show several endings. I'd lost interest by then though...it was on but I wasn't really paying attention to it anymore.
If you take out the gimmick it's pretty dull (imo)
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Thanks a lot! Can anyone suggest a good name for the ZXDB entry for this? Bandersnatch Extra? Bandersnatch Easter Egg? Tuckersoft QR?Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:41 am
I would: Bandersnatch Extra. This is both the audio and the TZX generated from it. (The audio in the film repeats, so this is just the first part.)
It's got this at the end of the code btw...