Spectrum Computing

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:36 pm I remember suggesting something similar in games ideas thread some time ago. My dream came true!

Top stuff that doesn't deserve to be in the CSCGC comp!

Glad to hear you got your wish, Juan! If you run it through the HiSoft compiler, you might get it at a decent speed too!

PROSM wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:12 pm Another entry, and this time it's a port of a more modern game. It's Internetless by @Manu128k!

Review and download available from ConnoSoft.

I'm just loving that Windows XP mock-up!!

I only see a negative point in the game:



IE??? tsk, tsk, ...

That was the default browser for that Windows XP 8 bits ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:06 pm I only see a negative point in the game:



IE??? tsk, tsk, ...

NETSCAPE OR BUST!

You can now play all of the entries in your browser, via the Qaop/JS emulator! Just click the "play online" link on an entry's review page to try it without downloading.

More details at ConnoSoft.

Our latest entry is Social Distancing, a topical puzzle game by Chris Young!

Review and download available from ConnoSoft.

[mention]TMD2003[/mention] sends us our latest entry, D.N.A Dilemma!

Review and download at ConnoSoft.

A new entry, this time from [mention]8BitAG[/mention], called Mirror Mirror! I think he might have entered the wrong competition, as this game certainly isn't crap!

Review and download available from the usual place.

[mention]TMD2003[/mention]'s new YUGE game, Corona Capers, has been reviewed and is now available for download here!

"I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message. Make the Zee-X Spectrum Great Again!"

Anyone who can have a tenth as much fun playing this game as I did writing and programming it (even the really frustrating bits that didn't work first, second, third, fourth or fifth time round), you're doing well. You have been warned about the crap bits already!

Now... it looks like I may have eight months to plan how I'm going to host CSSCGC21, at this rate. I have ideas...

Yes, we've got another entry, and this time it's a ZX80 program! Click to see [mention]TMD2003[/mention]'s new game, Complex Maths... WITH DRAGONS!

PROSM wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 12:20 pm Yes, we've got another entry, and this time it's a ZX80 program! Click to see @TMD2003's new game, Complex Maths... WITH DRAGONS!

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.

Download this game for the backstory, if nothing else. I was going to say it took longer to write than the game itself, but that would be an utter lie.

What took the longest was bolting all three programs together into the 4K RAM Pack Super Deluxe Edition and making it work properly! (For various parameters of "properly", since this is a ZX80 we're talking about.)

catmeows wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 12:43 pm

PROSM wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 12:20 pm Yes, we've got another entry, and this time it's a ZX80 program! Click to see @TMD2003's new game, Complex Maths... WITH DRAGONS!

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.

PROSM wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 8:10 pm

catmeows wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 12:43 pm 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.

catmeows wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 11:21 pm

PROSM wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 8:10 pm 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!

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).

Another entry from Paul Collins, entitled Debris Rescue.

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

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

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!

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.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:08 am 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!

8BitAG wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:09 am 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.

8BitAG wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:09 am 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]

PeterJ wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:44 am Obviously in the new world of SSD drives you should not use defragmentation.

I'm not in that world yet!