Spectrum Computing

I imagine it would be a doddle to design the aliens so they bridge two rows of attributes, so you could then have, say, the top 2/3 of an alien one colour and their lower few pixel rows and dangly bits another colour? Cheap effect without any multicolour hacking.

Damnit, I read that as ' Lemmings on the Net '. I was expecting some massive multi-player on-line Lemmings where the level is one massive scrollable browser window with thousands of people working away on random little corners of it making Lemming tunnels and bridges to bring them all closer to one ...

ZXDunny wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 10:34 am Whence == "From where" so you don't need that "from" leading to it Not that I'm dsitracting from the question :p

Edited to '...from when and whence...' then. Better?
Although I hope no-one's further distracted by your spelling of 'distracting'...

That's not my understanding of what happened. However I would rather avoid this discussion since none of us have all the facts... Well I can present the bank statement from when and whence my money departed, if that would help anyone understand (or investigate) my position! :lol: But this is a dist...

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 4:01 pmLet's be fair. AFAIK Paul Andrews never prevented free distribution of anything.

True. Many of us had actually paid a hundred odd quid for the stuff he prevented distribution of.

Have to stress this, that is NOT EVIDENCE. It's a statement of an opinion; a statement of one person's side of an argument, and one that can not even remotely be considered a 'legal' opinion.

You're right, you can't just say someone owes you a fee. But you're example isn't quite the same thing. If it were the case that you demand I answer your post, then I'm quite at liberty to say "I'll only answer that for 47p and a packet of Rolos. If you ask again I shall assume you agree to the...

Tricky thing with the likes of Skyroads is the raised sections. When the surface is flat, as in Trailblazer and Roger the Pangolin , it's easy to present it in a pseudo-3D appearance. If you start from an overhead 2D view, really you're just distorting the view; squeezing and stretching it so it loo...

OK, let's take that document though, and since it refers to two separate IPs, examine them separately: In relation to JSW, Mr Smith’s assertion of joint proprietorship with Mr Barton makes little sense at all in that he created JSW whilst with Software Projects Ltd, and in the absence of any evidenc...

Those trademarks are useless. You'd have to be an idiot to actually use those as they appear as they're a complete mess, and using something that looks like a fragment of a trademark isn't a violation.

One could always ask to see the assessment of the value of said intellectual property as declared for inheritance tax purposes when it transferred to the widow of the holder, since it's so valuable.

Catch 23 , The Eidolon . You could say anything like Battlezone was an open-world FPS. The underground sections of Mercenary were probably the closest thing, although there was nothing to shoot at. The limitation was rendering the 3D environment. Aliens was a really good alternative to 90° movement...

What's sad about that document is it's written by a paralegal. Not a solicitor. It carries no weight whatsoever. Look it up. A 'paralegal' is a solicitor's secretary. Unless they work for a law firm with actual solicitors behind them, a letter from one means no more than from an angry meddler down y...

In case anyone hasn't figured it out yet, the bit in The Haunting of Waterbelle End where you can take a shovel, dig up a corpse from its grave, and end up with a roll of printer paper granting you the rights to Harry S. Price's back-catalogue... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X-cGCu4azEog1bml5J6z...

The 'legal response' is pathetic - it basically admits there's no evidence whatsoever to either support or contradict their statement of the history of the rights, so they're just going to side with whoever paid them. And they're not even a lawyer, just a paralegal.

How (T.F.) is that algorithm working then? The Boulderdash title panel is mostly blue with a few cyan pixels, yet that thing's rendered it all in cyan. Superkid 's head has all gone black except for one character in white. And yet the title has all gone red. It's not simply using the INK or PAPER fo...

Nope, not a clue. Always too late to these. Thanks, job.
Utterly convinced 16 was Penetrator, but it evidently isn't. It's not even going to be a cockpit view down a tunnel, is it?

I'll call Transmuter crap if you like, but then that's largely because it really is crap! :lol: Mind you, Speccy Nemesis isn't exactly a miracle, so I'll concede that the relative crapness is questionable, but it is still distinctly downwards. At least in Nemesis when you blow up a mini-base, a flee...

Dara O'Briain has a brilliant take on this. He points out that, from a scientific and statistical point if view, if you really must take everyone in the world, divide them up into arbitrary groups based entirely on the circumstances of their birth (i.e. nothing they themselves have any control over)...

Err - can you perhaps photoshop one more brick into that image and re-post it?

I was amused by the link at the bottom to a piece on "the genesis of Super Mario" - interesting choice of words!!!

Well this bit of the show is obvious: As for The Adventure Game , clearly not entirely obvious, they're still trying to work it out! Looks like it's RED or PENTAGON this week! :lol: Now that's from an early series, before the vortex grid. You had to get across that token board without setting off t...

Well this bit of the show is obvious: https://cdn.mobygames.com/screenshots/16006700-puzznic-zx-spectrum-loading-screen.png I added the arcade version of this to my RetroPie setup and was quite taken aback when I gave it a try recently! :shock: If you've ever wondered why the playing area sometimes...

A friend of mine built two gigantic wooden ones, with the screens driven by Gamecubes emulating GameBoys, linked together to play Tetris!

The Spectrum ROM puts the stack wherever the system variable RAMTOP points, which indicates the memory that the ROM and the BASIC interpreter is free to use. When you do a CLEAR, you move that pointer down, to tell the ROM to leave the memory above it alone (you can still POKE the memory above that ...