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A fully accurate retelling of the tragic life ( and unlife ) of our favourite boffin, via Digitiser.

XTM wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:22 pm Cool, they even offer ZX81s on their home page ...

And at £99.95, only £30 more than a real ZX81 cost !

In a similar vein, this popped up on The Socials the other day

911 TS was promoting a Dunlop tyre, and not a cheap way to get a Porsche brand tie-in. Perish the thought.

Spectrum Priority Market Checklist
1 UK done
2 Germany done
3 Belgium done
4 Swaziland
5 France
6 Italy

I like RPGs and get the urge to make a bard's tale type game for the spectrum. ... If I can't be bothered then I assume hardly anyone has played any rpg for the spectrum released after 2005? Wychweald came in 2nd in the 2023 Game of The Year vote on here, and it's exactly a Bard's Tale style RPG. S...

I'm now wondering why I ever thought Eugene's Lair was difficult. My 14-year-old tried Manic Miner a few weeks ago ( with infinite lives on) and made it as far as Eugene, as is traditional. They eventually got the last key but at the wrong time, and was aghast when Eugene blocked the way. Still tri...

Morkin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:24 pm Atic Atac - the objects in the game (other than keys) have a use, but it's just not worth bothering picking them up

I dunno, I remember being pretty thrilled when I finally got to mess with Dracula / Frankie.
Maybe not useful for a speed run or whatever, but still cool.

28420!

14160

This is surprisingly great!

I do think I saw a bug where I half-ate a power pill which disappeared but I didn't get powered up. Like I turned around while eating it at just the wrong moment? Still, great work.

TMD2003 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:13 pm How well does "Congraturation! You sucsess!" translate into Portuguese?

It doesn't even translate into English

Hootball Manager

Or, if that doesn't count, Hobbit, The

1. Bomb Jack is a killer conversion of a killer coin-op. Killer!
2. Frank Bruno, 'arry. If you know what I mean.
3. Wild West Hero, even though I've never heard of it before now, it looks like Robotron and I like Robotron.

TMD2003 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:35 am

Throwing a new name into the ring: did Richard Shepherd Software ever release anything worthwhile?

Urban Upstart is a solid gold classic.
Also continues the emerging trend of Pete Cooke saving dodgy software houses from their shame.

I got to level 2!

This is good fun. Critically, restarting is instant, and you restart on level 2, doesn't kick you back to L1.

Nice work @rothers

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:31 am I'm looking for something that's the opposite of Ultimate Play The Game.

In my mind, I think I can point to The Power House and TyneSoft as notorious proprietors of dismal digital garbage.

Thor.

Although they did publish Arc of Yesod, which might make up somewhat for the Giant's Revenge cycle.

Working on a New Year's Resolution are we?

Anyway - Zeus is a proper IDE with breakpoints and so on

https://www.desdes.com/products/oldfiles/zeus.htm

See also this thread viewtopic.php?p=126036&hilit=Zeus#p126036

Cover artist for Newsfield, replacing Oli Frey masterpieces with frankly terrible scrawls in crayon and Bic pen ink.

Spoiler

Ignore me, just adding links to the 5 voting threads :

Group One
Group Two
Group Three
Group Four

Final

hitm4n wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:54 am

Would be nice to get Sir Clive in there somewhere - maybe the sprite from A Day in the Life ?

hitm4n wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:55 am Its allowed me to re-add the stripe too, which i missed.

Yay!

Have you considered adding Game of the Year winner Seraphima?

Finally, out of the 166 entrants, you've gone and picked your top 3. In 3rd : The beautiful game has never been so frantic or so smooth as it is in Speccy Soccer Community Edition 2023 https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=zxdb/sinclair/entries/0039514/SpeccySoccerCommunityEdition2023-L...

Please stand by while votes are checked for, like, hanging chads or whatever.

Seven.FFF wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:00 pm

What's the zxdb downloader software running against? Http?
Should be possible to run a web server for that on my home PC and move files that way, right?

Of course, it'd be easier to just move my sd card around, I suppose. But I won't be happy about it.

Right - next daft question :

Is it possible to browse the network, see SMB shares etc from the Next? I dislike taking out the SD card to copy files over. Would be nice if I could grab things from a share.