Spectrum Computing

Extremely sad news, my thoughts are with his family and friends at this time.

I really enjoyed reading this write up of the event from your perspective!

It was an amazing day and I'd recommend it to anyone as it's a lot of fun, and the ticket price is extremely good value considering how much there is to see and do.

Legally speaking, that wouldn't make a blind bit of difference. Yeah, I've seen enough episodes of The Good Wife to know that, while it might 'speak to intent', the law is the law. I think the idea is it just looks better, and it's pretty much the only thing I can do in this situation. Glad you lik...

Thanks to everyone who play tested the Retcon 2024 Arkanoid 2 demo, there was a lot of useful feedback and I'm sorry I didn't have time to get much of it implemented. I had some really stupid graphic glitches to sort out in the final week or so and it took up all my time despite not even getting the...

What about copyrights? I'd like to port some games from Amiga to ZX Spectrum Next just for fun not profit, but copyright issues, especially regarding to graphics, discourage me. I wrote an email to Peter Johnson telling him that I'd been having a go at making a Sam version using his ST graphics and...

HEXdidnt wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 10:28 am Wouldn't that have been The Lower Caverns rather than MM? It'd be hilarious to see TLC converted to the Spectrum at some point in the future!

Ah ok, my bad! I didn't realise there had been so many versions, including for the DS!

This looks amazing! I was lucky enough to get to play the Sam version at RetCon last year and was very impressed, it's very cool to see the Sam logo on a spectrum screen! Are there any plans to make a version of the full game to work on the Sam? As a 128k game it will need some help to get it runnin...

flatduckrecords wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 4:33 pm If you go back to postlmg.cc and grab the "direct" link from the Share menu, you get a useful link to the original image which can be embedded here:

Thanks so much for this, that looks much better!

https://i.postimg.cc/sMnm6y0Z/arkdemo.gif I'm sorry for the delay, I've finally had a bit of time to get this into a more working state. There's still plenty to do but I thought it was good enough for a quick teaser showing what it's looking like. I'm not sure why the image came out so small here, ...

May have to buy a mouse interface as mine got misplaced during a move. Could be worth it though Definitely! I put it off for a long time but it's really useful to have, and not just for the games that make use of it. I used it for my Arkanoid level editor and also my sound FX editor and now I could...

flatduckrecords wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 3:45 pm I'd be happy to take a look! I do have a mouse.

Thanks, I'll send you a PM when it's good to go!

Maybe like in modern versions of Arkanoid: Eternal Battle: Well, that's very interesting! Thanks for the heads up, I'd never heard of this before. I've had a quick look at the gameplay on youtube and my initial thought is that the modern game looks considerably easier than the old versions, so the ...

Oh - this may be an obvious question, but Keyboard is ok as well as mouse? I'm afraid not! This is mouse only and I really can't see how you'd make keyboard or joystick input work for Arkanoid. You need to be able to get from one side of the screen to the other instantly to have any kind of a chanc...

There’s also Master of Magic, although I can’t remember if it’s randomly generated dungeons and the playing area is absolutely tiny I loved Master of Magic BITD! The dungeon isn't randomly generated but it has a really nice 'real-time' feel that made it very compelling. I still play it on the Sam o...

Thanks to Gordon for posting about this here, I lurked for a bit and now I've made an account. What a great forum! :D Everything is going well so far, but I have a couple of backup plans just in case the Sam starts to struggle with the large sprites from the Atari ST version. I'm only using the HEXD...