Mailstrom
Reminded of this game via another thread here, I decided I would try and play it again as I never really got what it was all about back in the day, despite there being some pretty good instructions in the magazine it came with.
However, the game starts with a press of any key, and after that it doesn't respond to the keyboard at all. It's running, there are graphics moving at the top of the screen, but nothing moves my postman around or brings up the icon panel. I'm using Fuse and the original release .tzx.
Has anybody got any ideas why this is?
EDIT : I worked it out, but in case anybody has the same problem, make sure you go to joysticks and switch them all off and go to peripherals and make sure you switch all of them off too, I think having a Kempston interface selected in that screen was causing the problem.
However, the game starts with a press of any key, and after that it doesn't respond to the keyboard at all. It's running, there are graphics moving at the top of the screen, but nothing moves my postman around or brings up the icon panel. I'm using Fuse and the original release .tzx.
Has anybody got any ideas why this is?
EDIT : I worked it out, but in case anybody has the same problem, make sure you go to joysticks and switch them all off and go to peripherals and make sure you switch all of them off too, I think having a Kempston interface selected in that screen was causing the problem.
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Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
Yeah, just discovered how boring it can get and how fast :D I accidentally blew up a suitcase and quit the emulator with impatience.
Mailstrom I remember spending ages finding out how to play the game, but once I got the hang of it, it was actually quite amusing... Postman nasty... LOL. Problem was the lastibility factor soon deplenished once the humour wore off, at that point it was just an average game. Furthermore, their was no way to complete the game if I remember...
I got the same disc with my +3 along with a load of other ones with a load of mastertronic games on them, half of the games that were on the discs weren't the ones on the label.
Mind you it was second hand, I've told the story how I got the +3 in exchange for a T-Shirt on numerous occasions, but I remembered one funny thing, the guy I swapped the T-shirt to actually got the +3 from his cousin. I loaned his cousin Ghosts n' Goblins back in about 1988, and when I got the Speccy off my mate I got my game back, along with the sequel.....score.
Of course the +3 is broken and in the loft back in England in my ma's house along with all the games, and it's been up there since about 2001, maybe earlier.
ramble ramble :D