C.S.C.G.C 2023 is open for entries

[Jbizzel]

What's that you say bizzel? You want more crap Etch-a-Sketch games in the competition? Wilco!

I need to remind myself of how to use my Next before I try Jim's, but Van_Dammesque's version isn't too shabby as a compact piece of code. And it doesn't exit to BASIC when you hit the edge, so points lost there...

I'm only reviewing another Etch a sketch game if it includes the peripheral I describe in my review

[firelord]

I used to have a magic board and I got one for my kid a few years ago.
You could start a side-contest with etch-a-sketch clones.

Don't worry for the non-game entries.
Using the same development techniques as the award winning "Universe Conquest", I created an entry that will bring unlimited* gaming to the contest!

I just have to make a loading screen and it will be ready to be thrown to your mailbox! Also, I know you all still waiting the sequel of the "Real adventures of Cookie man". This also need an intro screen and will be ready too.


*For practical reasons I'll have to limit the unlimited gaming of my entry.

[TMD2003]

I'm only reviewing another Etch a sketch game if it includes the peripheral I describe in my review

How about if it's for a completely different machine that very definitely isn't a Next, or a Spectrum, or a ZX81...

[Turrican]

Well... I sent my entry today.
My skills are growing

ChatGPT on ZX Spectrum!!!

[Van_Dammesque]

What's that you say bizzel? You want more crap Etch-a-Sketch games in the competition? Wilco!

I need to remind myself of how to use my Next before I try Jim's, but Van_Dammesque's version isn't too shabby as a compact piece of code. And it doesn't exit to BASIC when you hit the edge, so points lost there...

*cough* viewtopic.php?p=110009#p110009
It is a suped up version of that!

[Mpk]

The Cursed Trail - @Kweepa has been judged...

https://csscgc23.blogspot.com/2023/01/t ... weepa.html

All of this talk of Etch-a-Sketch, and we're just ignoring this?
That's 30 years in the cubes, Creeps.

It better have the Jolly Green Giant in, that's all I'm saying.

[Kweepa]

Sadly I was threatened with a lawsuit and had to cut the Jolly Green Guy. And the Burger Wars.

[Jbizzel]

Sadly I was threatened with a lawsuit and had to cut the Jolly Green Guy. And the Burger Wars.

Use for parody is legal thanks to the EU, so it's ok!

[Kweepa]

Coming soon: The Cursed Trail Uncensored.

[Mpk]

As the author of The DaVinci Code 2, I can only encourage rampant disrespect for copyright and trademark laws within the CSSCGC.

[uglifruit]

As the author of The DaVinci Code 2, I can only encourage rampant disrespect for copyright and trademark laws within the CSSCGC.

"Horace Goes Suing"

[Jbizzel]

"Horace Goes Suing"

I don't know what you have heard about Horace's tax affairs. I can only tell you he answers all questions from HRMC.

[Kweepa]

As chronicled in "Hungry Horace Meets the Taxman."

[Arcachnar]

Or in its unofficial sequel "Horace Goes Tax Evading."

[R-Tape]

rampant disrespect for copyright and trademark laws within the CSSCGC.

Edge-A-Sketch coming right up!

[firelord]

Edge-A-Sketch coming right up!

Ok. This is too much! The quality of this contest is in danger with these non-game entries!
As always "Firelord Quality Games" must and will fix this!
If you feel lucky you can try the unlimited gaming fun of my next entry!
For the next 356 years of your life you will be able to play a new game each day!

Now the ZX Spectrum can say that it has the most games than any other device!

[Jbizzel]

Fire Lord Quality Games to the rescue!!!!!

I now have a few non EAS items in my inbox.

Definitely @Kweepa s game deserves a look, it is a GAME and has some quality.

Which, as if I haven't got enough on my plate rn, has inspired me to to this...



Which is a port to the z88 of Oregon Trail. Fully playable and I'm currently finessing it. Maybe a release in next year's Comp since I can't enter my own competition. That would be like being investigated by HRMC while I was it's boss! Such things could never happen in a free and uncorrupted country such as ours.

[Jbizzel]

review in!

Get ready to test your knowledge (from @Kweepa )...

https://csscgc23.blogspot.com/2023/01/s ... weepa.html

[Morkin]

I got an embarrassing 9 out of 36.

Round 3 is like a Speccy 'Answer Smash' from House of Games. I'm going to tell Richard Osman.

[Kweepa]

Just played: score 28/36.
(I wrote it less than a week ago, and needed hints for most of the anagrams...)

Spectriv 17 also had an 'Answer Smash' type round, and that was released in 2014, three years before House of Games first aired. (It was 'borrowed' from NPR's Ask Me Another. (I had to look up the origin of the game on that other forum, and noticed that you (Morkin) got 21/36 last time!)).

[Morkin]

Spectriv 17 also had an 'Answer Smash' type round, and that was released in 2014, three years before House of Games first aired. (It was 'borrowed' from NPR's Ask Me Another. (I had to look up the origin of the game on that other forum, and noticed that you (Morkin) got 21/36 last time!)).

Cripes, did I?? Shows how much I remember...

Makes me think - I wonder if anyone turned up on Mastermind with the specialist subject of "ZX Spectrum games of the 1980s"? Pretty sure someone's already done one on Clive Sinclair before.

[Mpk]

review in!

Get ready to test your knowledge (from @Kweepa )...

https://csscgc23.blogspot.com/2023/01/s ... weepa.html

Sabre Wulf has a space in it!



Shenanigans.

[firelord]

review in!

Get ready to test your knowledge (from @Kweepa )...

https://csscgc23.blogspot.com/2023/01/s ... weepa.html

After long hours of hacking I managed to win the game!

If you type :

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5 CLS:PRINT AT 10,5;FLASH 1;"You WON!!!":STOP

and then

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RUN

(enter)
You will win the game.
I will post this to Tipshop...
.....And we have enterred the "Crap Hacking" Era!!

[Mpk]

.....And we have enterred the "Crap Hacking" Era!!

Firelord, yesterday.

[Kweepa]

Sabre Wulf has a space in it!
Shenanigans.

A thousand apologies

Patch below:

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Please go to line 750 and insert a space. No sneaky looking at the other answers!