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New game (conversion): AltairHello, I only want to announce this game Altair I programmed for the Spectrum 48K. Altair is a game from 1981, for arcade machines, developed by the…
... fantastic game (my favourite ever arcade game), and sadly we never ... of the other well known arcade games of the time appeared on ... -
New game (conversion): AltairHello, I only want to announce this game Altair I programmed for the Spectrum 48K. Altair is a game from 1981, for arcade machines, developed by the…
... fantastic game (my favourite ever arcade game), and sadly we never ... of the other well known arcade games of the time appeared on ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... bitmap fonts. The case for games where you just want to ... fzx is more suited for games with a lot of text ... the game loop than to arcade games.
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Gamesfaqs top 10Check out todays top ten on [url=http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/top10/1875.html]Gamefaqs[/url], somebody's went and done a top 10 Speccy games....O…
... over half of the games are ports of arcade games, so the list ... the list contains no isometric games, no wire-frame space combat ... games, no single screen platform games (yes, Bubble ... jumps, and Dizzy is an arcade adventure, so to me they ... -
C64 for the PiSomeone is writing the C64 natively for the Rasberry Pi and it looks amazing. I hope this will make someone do a ZX Spectrum too. Take a look its a…
... struggles a little with multiprocessor games (e.g. Out Run), but ... is perfectly happy with older games.
All others run ... /Atari ST/Megadrive/SNES/arcade games (and only older arcade games, that I actually ... -
The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…
... it was
- killed "by arcade games"
- killed in the ditch ... -
Best or most unusual high score tableReading the recent post about jet pac and the initials in the high score table got me wondering about the best or most unusual effect used to display…
... bad I was at most games back in the day, ... I was typical of a games player back then (I ... didn't complete many games at all), and how many ... sound).
I mean, arcade games were designed to swallow credits ... solution for a lot of games would have been to ... -
Best or most unusual high score tableReading the recent post about jet pac and the initials in the high score table got me wondering about the best or most unusual effect used to display…
... " sound).
I mean, arcade games were designed to swallow credits ... solution for a lot of games would have been to build ... until I began playing Spectrum games on emulators. Up to then ... cheat modes deliberately included in games! I suppose that on the ... -
master system 2while there's a few old game threads around...who used to have one of these? the only gaming system that I have anywhere near as much nostalgia for …
... /> Spectrum had many of those arcade games in reasonable quality (Special FX ... -
Continues in coin-op conversionsMost conversions of coin-op arcade games from after about 1987 usually had a number of "continues" the player was allowed to use. How was the number …
... difficulty curve , levels etc. some games didn't allow continue on ... being in a fair few arcade games in earlier years. -
Continues in coin-op conversionsMost conversions of coin-op arcade games from after about 1987 usually had a number of "continues" the player was allowed to use. How was the number …
Continues in Arcade games were just for the money. You would put more coins to continue a game than restart it. Psychological trick to maximize profit.
The conversion was just allowing the same for home users. -
Games you'd like to remake...but then - not really...As a coder - be that for the Spectrum, PC/OSX or other platforms - I often get ideas about what to work on, for some reason or another. One title th…
... there's some fantastic old arcade games out there that are crying ... -
Games you'd like to remake...but then - not really...As a coder - be that for the Spectrum, PC/OSX or other platforms - I often get ideas about what to work on, for some reason or another. One title th…
... there's some fantastic old arcade games out there that are crying ... is a huge list of games from the mid 80s which ... if its only about Spanish games, there is a good list ... -
Multi platform games.A bit misleading with title but here goes. I was thinking the other day about how some games are associated with a single platform despite them bein…
... lot of the early 80s arcade conversions tended to work better ... course, there are early Nintendo games like Mario Bros, Donkey Kong ... ). The Spectrum version of these games sucked.
It ... spectrum versions of these classic arcade games were [B]so so so ... -
Multi platform games.A bit misleading with title but here goes. I was thinking the other day about how some games are associated with a single platform despite them bein…
... anything else than the original arcade format?
(By the ... example?)
Speaking of arcade games, I tend to think of ... -
Anybody use MAME?Just downloaded it there and got some golden oldies working. Anybody else use it?
... surprising how many "relatively simple" arcade games weren't officially ported to ... the Spec, though. Maybe arcade firms wanted too much money ... -
What systems do you regret buying/not buying?I've never had a non-mainstream console or computer really, I've owned (in order of my buying them*): ZX Spectrum (48K, 128K, +2) Atari ST (STFM/STe…
... company to license and port arcade games to the C64 before Elite ... -
What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... masses wanted to play video games, despite his intentions.
arcade games and the spectrum was massive ... playing what appeared to be arcade games. -
What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... were designed to play the arcade games we all loved so much ... -
What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... ST when it came to games and gameplay so I dont ... clash and better handling of games when the Speccy 128 came ... to see a gulf in games quality between the ZX and ... been able to reproduce some arcade games better and had a longer ... -
What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... been able to reproduce some arcade games better and had a longer ... 128 for xmas with a games bundle and being very disappointed ... -
Retro Computers/Gaming Movies & TV ShowsThere's some really interesting retro computer/gaming related movies and TV shows out there at the moment, with some others in production. I've put t…
... break World Records on classic arcade games.
[url]http://www.imdb ... . Its like Spinal Tap of arcade machines, except real -
Dingo[QUOTE=R-Tape;576504]I know it's still Reply time for you guys, but don't forget to start a new thread in Brand New Software so I can say how good th…
... only import Japanese and American arcade machines into the country ... support the needs of the arcade owners who purchased them ... to manufacture and sell original arcade games. They became his secret ... the most famous of their arcade creations is the last, ... -
Raspberry Outselling Spectrum in UKI just read an news article that is suggesting the Raspberry PI is on course to be the best selling computer in the UK. The article is claiming that…
... I have used as Micro arcade machines running mame with very ... seems to only play the games they played in their youth ... of us have seen many arcade games that were created after the ... -
What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... ratio that it could produce arcade games without hardware assist. That's ... . The enterprise had no games and it was too late ... business machine and not a games machine.
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The Story of the Spectrum in 10 GamesIf you had the tell the story of the Spectrum in just 10 games what woukd they be? Your choices should be games that have absolutely defined the shap…
... [/B] - raised the bar for arcade games, and showed what you could ... -
Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Commodore 64I found an old oldish, but very informed and interesting article on the ole Spectrum vs. Commodore 64 argument. The article explains the technical d…
... good too. But most 80s arcade games they're trying to convert ... -
What are the Stampers doing now?Since it's been more than a decade since Microsoft bought Rare (and Rare's output quality dropped faster than the housing values when DM_Boozefreak a…
... can turn out some good games. And who knows? If their ... back when they were creating arcade games prior to the Spectrum, although ... -
What are the Stampers doing now?Since it's been more than a decade since Microsoft bought Rare (and Rare's output quality dropped faster than the housing values when DM_Boozefreak a…
... can turn out some good games. And who knows? If their ... back when they were creating arcade games prior to the Spectrum, although ... -
Do you remember the Great Gaming Crash?Assuming you were in England (well, anywhere really, except the USA) in 1983/1984, were you effected, or even aware, of the 'global games crash"? Thi…
... knows many of the actual games :)[/QUOTE]
arcade games.
I ... so. Even if every arcade I ever visited wasn ... in England at least, arcade machines are almost extinct in ... a couple of thousand arcade games that I can play ...
