Okay i 'think' this is the final scores on the doors, any probs then email me...
Graeme - 53 reviews + 8 extra mini ones (Boozefreaks games) plus an extra one for the interview with Rob Pearmain = 62 = 31 quid
Boozefreak 40 (Including the final one hes doing) = 20 quid
Mark Hancock 14 = 7 quid
Dudley 1 = 50p
Zeropolis 2 = ?1
Alex Ross 5 = ?2.50
Ivan 5 = ?2.50
Jumping Stack 14 = ?7.00
Colin Woodcock 6 = ?3.00
Uglifruit 1 = 50p
If you dont agree with the numbers above and think you've written more (or less !) reviews then email me and i'll do a double check. Graeme - was difficult judging yours, the boozefreak piece isnt just one review, i've counted it as 1 for the interview then 8 more for the smaller reviews of his gams so 9 in total. Same for Bip Boi, counted that as 2.
Usual scenario, if you want the money then I need your paypal address, charity (www.bleakholt.org) let me know, free (!) let me know.
Everyones got my email address who needs it.
I'll send out emails soon to everyone but due to losing all my email in 2009 (Wasnt backed up) then its easier if you could email me
I'll get everyone paid this week, i'll do the final 'thanks everyone....' post in a few days time once i've uploaded this final book to lulu
sounds fine...so the book's basically written by boozy and me? :smile:
Yeah you two did a ton of them, Michael also has many from his website which are in there. I hardly did any this time, just copying/pasting and adding screenshots all the time.
Its an excellent Thrust/Cybernoid-ish game, needs a review for sure.
If anyone wants to do it can you reply here (so other people wont do the review), i'll be offline for most of tonight so wont see any emails saying 'i'll do it'. Please put your name here so you can reserve it and do the review tonight/early morning
Well its all done now. The contents/index page is giving me hassle though ! Couldnt get it done at lunchtime.
Tonight i'll hopefully finish it and then upload it to lulu, the covers are done, i have to battle with their import engine but hopefully will get it done.
I've added the front cover to the website (theres no link at the moment) so the second its published i'll update the site with it.
270 pages ?9.95. Features over 200 game reviews of some classic homebrew games (And some bad ones !). Features most of Jonathan Cauldwells catalogue of games, CEZ/Mojo Twins (Excellent Spanish programmers), Bob Smith and many more.
We started back in Dec 2007 and now 2 years later its all over.
Thanks to EVERYONE who has reviewed games for the book (Notably Paul.S, Graeme.M, Mark.H, Zero and Boozefreak) and all the others who helped contribute. I still love flicking through the books and getting a rose tinted memory when i see a screenshot or read a review reminding me of a classic game.
Raised a good amount for the local charity near to where I live so I'll go round this weekend with the final amount of money. People have written tons of reviews ! Big thank you to Michael.F as well who has gone through all the reviews with his fine toothcomb and must be sick and tired of seeing anymore !
It's all over ! Hope you like the book, granted many of you will prefer the games 'back in the day' but theres a lot of very very good 'new' Speccy games for you to look at, many are of an excellent quality and long may it continue !
(We have a review of Miles Mad Mission !, the latest Bob Smith game and the latest game from Binman!, An interview with Boozefreak about his many JSW games and reviews of them, also reviews of some of Andrew Broads games, Rob Pearmains Bip Boi (and interview) and manyyyy other games). To see a list of the games reviewed in the book (Its mostly up to date !) have a look here...
well done! I'm not surprised at you not wanting to see Word again! I haven't the money right now...but someday I hope to buy your books :)
Cheers, well when you can get one and see what you think, Book 1 is the best seller as it brings back a ton of memories of all those old games, Book 2 has a lot of my favourites in though
Ivan - Been trying to email you about your payment for your reviews, please email me with your paypal address
Also pretty please (!), could you promote the book on the most popular Spanish forums please ? If you could mention it on the CEZ/Mojo Twins forum as it features many of their games
270 pages ?9.95. Features over 200 game reviews of some classic homebrew games (And some bad ones !). Features most of Jonathan Cauldwells catalogue of games, CEZ/Mojo Twins (Excellent Spanish programmers), Bob Smith and many more.
We started back in Dec 2007 and now 2 years later its all over.
Thanks to EVERYONE who has reviewed games for the book (Notably Paul.S, Graeme.M, Mark.H, Zero and Boozefreak) and all the others who helped contribute. I still love flicking through the books and getting a rose tinted memory when i see a screenshot or read a review reminding me of a classic game.
Raised a good amount for the local charity near to where I live so I'll go round this weekend with the final amount of money. People have written tons of reviews ! Big thank you to Michael.F as well who has gone through all the reviews with his fine toothcomb and must be sick and tired of seeing anymore !
It's all over ! Hope you like the book, granted many of you will prefer the games 'back in the day' but theres a lot of very very good 'new' Speccy games for you to look at, many are of an excellent quality and long may it continue !
(We have a review of Miles Mad Mission !, the latest Bob Smith game and the latest game from Binman!, An interview with Boozefreak about his many JSW games and reviews of them, also reviews of some of Andrew Broads games, Rob Pearmains Bip Boi (and interview) and manyyyy other games). To see a list of the games reviewed in the book (Its mostly up to date !) have a look here...
(This feels like the Oscars), so many people to say thanks to for their reviews, Jumping Stack, uglifruit, Jason Compton and many others. Cheers lads.
Cheers
And well done to you Paul. Take a bow, fantastic the way you made this happen.
One last request from me, please get the colour one up ASAP, would love to get it ordered for the holiday season.
Yep, well done for seeing this mammoth task through to the end. Just ordered mine, looking forward to reading the last installment! Will you be uploading a colour edition at some stage? I would probably be compelled to snap that up too just to complete the collection :)
Do you think that at some stage down the line you might be persuaded to go back and do another volume - lets say of a selection of games that were missed from previous volumes? Just a thought :D Feel free to put me down for Technician Ted if you do lol.
Well, my niece will be buying a copy and a friend of mine will be too.
I do a lot of writing with Microsoft Word and I also get to the point where I never want to see it again - in fact, I felt that way after writing Book 3 or 4's reviews...
I felt bad during Book 3 or 4's production (the one printed September 2008) because due to sabotage by vandals (they blew up the local exchange box) our internet went down and I couldn't send the last four/five reviews.
But in all, despite the fact I had problems with my Book 6 reviews and the aforementioned problems, I really enjoyed writing the reviews for all but book 1 - revisited a lot of old favourites.
My main memories include convincing a fellow reviewer to let me have Switchblade, Lemmings and Turrican 2... I also remember writing a review of Famous Five for Book 4, then finding out I had to write one for Book 5 - I'd forgotten about Book 4's review at the time and thought nothing of it but I remember reading two different reviews in the books later on... I stand by my views that the camp song from the 70's TV series would have had no place in it (there was no sound in the game).
If Paul decides to compile another book, I'll be on hand to write something for it (providing it's a topic I can write about).
It's good that the final book is now here, gonna order it sometime in the next day or so.
....but now I feel like I need to fill a big void in my life, I'd gotten quite used to using game reviews as a means of passing the time, and even though I think I've burnt myself out for a while, it's gonna be weird having none to actually do anymore.
It's a strange mixture of happiness for the books being finished, and a strange feeling of sadness for the limbo my poisoned pen is going to be in from now on :lol:
It's probably going to feel weird playing a Speccy game now fullstop, because I'm going to have the urge to pause it, minimise SPIN, and take notes on the graphics, sound, and gameplay using wordpad :D
It's good that the final book is now here, gonna order it sometime in the next day or so.
....but now I feel like I need to fill a big void in my life, I'd gotten quite used to using game reviews as a means of passing the time, and even though I think I've burnt myself out for a while, it's gonna be weird having none to actually do anymore.
It's a strange mixture of happiness for the books being finished, and a strange feeling of sadness for the limbo my poisoned pen is going to be in from now on :lol:
It's probably going to feel weird playing a Speccy game now fullstop, because I'm going to have the urge to pause it, minimise SPIN, and take notes on the graphics, sound, and gameplay using wordpad :D
I alternated between using either my PDA or pen and paper to make notes..
And well done to you Paul. Take a bow, fantastic the way you made this happen.
One last request from me, please get the colour one up ASAP, would love to get it ordered for the holiday season.
Cheers fella, but well done to Michael as well. Poor lad had to sit through review after review double checking them, i'm the noddy copy/paste guy !
To be fair it should say on the front 'By a cast of many' instead of my name and Michaels.
I will get the colour one uploaded tonight or early tomorrow, hopefully the price wont be 'too' severe !
Do you think that at some stage down the line you might be persuaded to go back and do another volume - lets say of a selection of games that were missed from previous volumes? Just a thought :D Feel free to put me down for Technician Ted if you do lol.
Yeah thought how we could do it in the future, i would like a lot more games from the 1982-1984 era as looking at the book its a bit thin for those years (and thats the best seller). A compilation book might be an idea or some sort of 'extra' book with missed reviews and others (And yeah missing Technician Ted was criminal ! Oh well !)
It's a strange mixture of happiness for the books being finished, and a strange feeling of sadness for the limbo my poisoned pen is going to be in from now on :lol:
I know what you mean, i was like a kid at Xmas when i ordered the first book and when it arrived i was happy as anything with it. Will be weird no more reviews and no more chasing up people ;)
Congratulations!!! You got six books done in the time it took me to do just one!
Andrew
Cheers fella, like i say your book was the inspiration to it, got a great mix of reviews in all 6 books, my reviews arent great at all but theres a fair few people who are excellent at it.
Is there any chance that u put some books on ebay.co.uk (that's where I bought Book#1 and #2) because buying from USA is not my cup of tea?
thanx
I used to do that but then i realised i made no profit. On an 8.95 book for example we make about 2 quid, if i put the book up on ebay at 8.95 plus postage then the starting fee/final fee bites into that small amount we make.
I would have to put them up and charge an extra quid or so to cover the ebay costs. I dont believe they're all sent from the US though, i thought lulu had a printing place in Spain ? (They have one in the US as well though). When I order lulu books myself it never comes with a customs thing from the US. I'm getting some this week (or next week) so i'll see what it says on the postage form.
Anyway hope you like the last book, the idea obviously was to feature the different Speccys on the front cover so we started off with the rubber keyed original, then the 128k, the Speccy +, the +2, +3 and the idea was for the 'non commercical' years in the final book have a laptop with an emulator displayed.
Of course you should charge a bit more on ebay.co.uk!
My problems are:
the customs
and that I would prefer to pay via PayPal and not share billing informations with Lulu. Anyhow, do you know if Lulu accepts PayPal?
Thanx in advance and congratulatiosn for this excelent series!
Comments
Graeme - 53 reviews + 8 extra mini ones (Boozefreaks games) plus an extra one for the interview with Rob Pearmain = 62 = 31 quid
Boozefreak 40 (Including the final one hes doing) = 20 quid
Mark Hancock 14 = 7 quid
Dudley 1 = 50p
Zeropolis 2 = ?1
Alex Ross 5 = ?2.50
Ivan 5 = ?2.50
Jumping Stack 14 = ?7.00
Colin Woodcock 6 = ?3.00
Uglifruit 1 = 50p
If you dont agree with the numbers above and think you've written more (or less !) reviews then email me and i'll do a double check. Graeme - was difficult judging yours, the boozefreak piece isnt just one review, i've counted it as 1 for the interview then 8 more for the smaller reviews of his gams so 9 in total. Same for Bip Boi, counted that as 2.
Usual scenario, if you want the money then I need your paypal address, charity (www.bleakholt.org) let me know, free (!) let me know.
Everyones got my email address who needs it.
I'll send out emails soon to everyone but due to losing all my email in 2009 (Wasnt backed up) then its easier if you could email me
I'll get everyone paid this week, i'll do the final 'thanks everyone....' post in a few days time once i've uploaded this final book to lulu
Jamie
Yep please send it to me again, dont seem to have it, perhaps you sent it very early on !
Yeah you two did a ton of them, Michael also has many from his website which are in there. I hardly did any this time, just copying/pasting and adding screenshots all the time.
Bugger me! I know I'd done a few but I didn't realise it was that many :lol:
....and JD 53 reviews, you're just showing off now :p
(And don't worry about payment).
I am looking forward to reading it.
Cheers. I normally run through every page noting down who did what review but as 95% are done by 3 people i had a quick scan and must have missed it.
Just had a look, yeah had you down as 'uglfruit' for GameX so thats why my search didnt find it. Oops ! Has been amended
Cheers
I'd say I have written about 11 reviews for this volume...
Sorry i'm having a 'mare ! Searching for your name you've done 14, just emailing you now
BUT realised one review is missing !
Slubberdegullion
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0023828
Can anyone do this tonight (for tomorrow morning) ?
Theres a free one level demo at Jonathans website which you can download...
http://members.fortunecity.com/jonathan6/egghead/id7.html
Its an excellent Thrust/Cybernoid-ish game, needs a review for sure.
If anyone wants to do it can you reply here (so other people wont do the review), i'll be offline for most of tonight so wont see any emails saying 'i'll do it'. Please put your name here so you can reserve it and do the review tonight/early morning
Thanks ! So nearly there !!
So I couldn't get it done til at least 8am here tomorrow, which is 2pm there.
So I'm not really a good candidate for the final review ;)
Tonight i'll hopefully finish it and then upload it to lulu, the covers are done, i have to battle with their import engine but hopefully will get it done.
I've added the front cover to the website (theres no link at the moment) so the second its published i'll update the site with it.
Book 6 (1994-200x) is finally finished and I dont ever want to see Microsoft Word again !
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-b ... 0x/8022671
270 pages ?9.95. Features over 200 game reviews of some classic homebrew games (And some bad ones !). Features most of Jonathan Cauldwells catalogue of games, CEZ/Mojo Twins (Excellent Spanish programmers), Bob Smith and many more.
We started back in Dec 2007 and now 2 years later its all over.
Thanks to EVERYONE who has reviewed games for the book (Notably Paul.S, Graeme.M, Mark.H, Zero and Boozefreak) and all the others who helped contribute. I still love flicking through the books and getting a rose tinted memory when i see a screenshot or read a review reminding me of a classic game.
Raised a good amount for the local charity near to where I live so I'll go round this weekend with the final amount of money. People have written tons of reviews ! Big thank you to Michael.F as well who has gone through all the reviews with his fine toothcomb and must be sick and tired of seeing anymore !
It's all over ! Hope you like the book, granted many of you will prefer the games 'back in the day' but theres a lot of very very good 'new' Speccy games for you to look at, many are of an excellent quality and long may it continue !
(We have a review of Miles Mad Mission !, the latest Bob Smith game and the latest game from Binman!, An interview with Boozefreak about his many JSW games and reviews of them, also reviews of some of Andrew Broads games, Rob Pearmains Bip Boi (and interview) and manyyyy other games). To see a list of the games reviewed in the book (Its mostly up to date !) have a look here...
http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/book6.htm
(This feels like the Oscars), so many people to say thanks to for their reviews, Jumping Stack, uglifruit, Jason Compton and many others. Cheers lads.
Cheers
Cheers, well when you can get one and see what you think, Book 1 is the best seller as it brings back a ton of memories of all those old games, Book 2 has a lot of my favourites in though
Also pretty please (!), could you promote the book on the most popular Spanish forums please ? If you could mention it on the CEZ/Mojo Twins forum as it features many of their games
Thanks !
By the way,don't worry about the money, I intend to use it to buy the book for when I have a bit more money.
Thanks!
And well done to you Paul. Take a bow, fantastic the way you made this happen.
One last request from me, please get the colour one up ASAP, would love to get it ordered for the holiday season.
Do you think that at some stage down the line you might be persuaded to go back and do another volume - lets say of a selection of games that were missed from previous volumes? Just a thought :D Feel free to put me down for Technician Ted if you do lol.
All the best,
Jamie
I do a lot of writing with Microsoft Word and I also get to the point where I never want to see it again - in fact, I felt that way after writing Book 3 or 4's reviews...
I felt bad during Book 3 or 4's production (the one printed September 2008) because due to sabotage by vandals (they blew up the local exchange box) our internet went down and I couldn't send the last four/five reviews.
But in all, despite the fact I had problems with my Book 6 reviews and the aforementioned problems, I really enjoyed writing the reviews for all but book 1 - revisited a lot of old favourites.
My main memories include convincing a fellow reviewer to let me have Switchblade, Lemmings and Turrican 2... I also remember writing a review of Famous Five for Book 4, then finding out I had to write one for Book 5 - I'd forgotten about Book 4's review at the time and thought nothing of it but I remember reading two different reviews in the books later on... I stand by my views that the camp song from the 70's TV series would have had no place in it (there was no sound in the game).
If Paul decides to compile another book, I'll be on hand to write something for it (providing it's a topic I can write about).
....but now I feel like I need to fill a big void in my life, I'd gotten quite used to using game reviews as a means of passing the time, and even though I think I've burnt myself out for a while, it's gonna be weird having none to actually do anymore.
It's a strange mixture of happiness for the books being finished, and a strange feeling of sadness for the limbo my poisoned pen is going to be in from now on :lol:
It's probably going to feel weird playing a Speccy game now fullstop, because I'm going to have the urge to pause it, minimise SPIN, and take notes on the graphics, sound, and gameplay using wordpad :D
Andrew
I alternated between using either my PDA or pen and paper to make notes..
thanx
Cheers fella, but well done to Michael as well. Poor lad had to sit through review after review double checking them, i'm the noddy copy/paste guy !
To be fair it should say on the front 'By a cast of many' instead of my name and Michaels.
I will get the colour one uploaded tonight or early tomorrow, hopefully the price wont be 'too' severe !
Yeah thought how we could do it in the future, i would like a lot more games from the 1982-1984 era as looking at the book its a bit thin for those years (and thats the best seller). A compilation book might be an idea or some sort of 'extra' book with missed reviews and others (And yeah missing Technician Ted was criminal ! Oh well !)
I know what you mean, i was like a kid at Xmas when i ordered the first book and when it arrived i was happy as anything with it. Will be weird no more reviews and no more chasing up people ;)
Cheers fella, like i say your book was the inspiration to it, got a great mix of reviews in all 6 books, my reviews arent great at all but theres a fair few people who are excellent at it.
I used to do that but then i realised i made no profit. On an 8.95 book for example we make about 2 quid, if i put the book up on ebay at 8.95 plus postage then the starting fee/final fee bites into that small amount we make.
I would have to put them up and charge an extra quid or so to cover the ebay costs. I dont believe they're all sent from the US though, i thought lulu had a printing place in Spain ? (They have one in the US as well though). When I order lulu books myself it never comes with a customs thing from the US. I'm getting some this week (or next week) so i'll see what it says on the postage form.
Anyway hope you like the last book, the idea obviously was to feature the different Speccys on the front cover so we started off with the rubber keyed original, then the 128k, the Speccy +, the +2, +3 and the idea was for the 'non commercical' years in the final book have a laptop with an emulator displayed.
Well done, I raise my glass to you. (From which I drink deeply, then replace upon it's rubber beer mat).
My problems are:
the customs
and that I would prefer to pay via PayPal and not share billing informations with Lulu. Anyhow, do you know if Lulu accepts PayPal?
Thanx in advance and congratulatiosn for this excelent series!