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Designing an icon-driven adventure: looking for adviceHi fellas, after the release of Funky Fungus, I am currently contemplating the possibility of designing an icon-driven adventure with location graph…
... =Alessandro Grussu;693506]A screen compressor like RCS-ZX7 could be ... -
Designing an icon-driven adventure: looking for adviceHi fellas, after the release of Funky Fungus, I am currently contemplating the possibility of designing an icon-driven adventure with location graph…
... the rest empty, a screen compressor will happily reduce that entire ... screen with a regular memory compressor.
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Designing an icon-driven adventure: looking for adviceHi fellas, after the release of Funky Fungus, I am currently contemplating the possibility of designing an icon-driven adventure with location graph…
... the rest empty, a screen compressor will happily reduce that entire ... screen with a regular memory compressor.[/QUOTE]
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What type of game is 'Pippo'?What category would you put [URL=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003733""]Pippo[/URL] in? Are there any other Pippo style block co…
... ?regexp=^Maze+Mania$&pub=^Hewson+Consultants+Ltd$"]Maze Mania[/URL ... -
Best game ever?Not sure the best way to do this, thinking top 10s with a sliding scale of 10 points awarded to the game you vote 'best' down to 1 point for your 10t…
... Heels (Ocean)
4. Quazatron (Hewson)
5. Fairlight (The Edge ... /> 8. Ranarama (Hewson)
9. Firelord (Hewson)
10. Uridium (Hewson)
Avalon and DragontorcAlways wandered why these games are so highly rated. I never liked them - never had the time and patience to get involved. This morning I was going t…
... /> I always planned a trliogy .. Hewson didnt reckon it would sell ...Paradroid for C-64, why not in the Spectrum?Reading the special 30th anniversary Retro Gamer, I came across this game which was considered to be the best game for the C-64, and it does not look…
... mentioned it as the quintessential Hewson game in the Spectrumpedia (the ...Avalon and DragontorcAlways wandered why these games are so highly rated. I never liked them - never had the time and patience to get involved. This morning I was going t…
Welcome to the forum, Steve!
I have very fond memories of your games, and Hewson is among my favourite software houses of that time. Also I think your articles on programming in ZX Computing were very helpful.Paradroid for C-64, why not in the Spectrum?Reading the special 30th anniversary Retro Gamer, I came across this game which was considered to be the best game for the C-64, and it does not look…
... mentioned it as the quintessential Hewson game in the Spectrumpedia (the ...What's your favourite Steve Turner Spectrum game?To celebrate Steve Turner joining us here at WOS I thought we'd see what your favourite game by him is. [URL=http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mlucifer…
... :P. Quazatron was published by Hewson. Magnetron was (iirc) the first ... kerfuffle at the time between Hewson and Telecomsoft, a brief summary ... /Pages/Crash4600015.jpg]Magnetron[/url] - Hewson's pre-release advert
What's your favourite Steve Turner Spectrum game?To celebrate Steve Turner joining us here at WOS I thought we'd see what your favourite game by him is. [URL=http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mlucifer…
... "War Of The Worlds" until Hewson got a phone call from ...What's your favourite Steve Turner Spectrum game?To celebrate Steve Turner joining us here at WOS I thought we'd see what your favourite game by him is. [URL=http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mlucifer…
... in years! I always wanted Hewson to put Avalon in a ...What's your favourite Steve Turner Spectrum game?To celebrate Steve Turner joining us here at WOS I thought we'd see what your favourite game by him is. [URL=http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mlucifer…
... "War Of The Worlds" until Hewson got a phone call from ...Bad Loading screens.All this Avalon and Dragontorc talk got me thinking about 'Sorcery' that was on the Softaid compilation. Then I had a glance at 'The Pyramid' [img]h…
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I had a "compressor" in the old days, which ...Z80 internal compressionThis isn't exactly a ZX Spectrum problem, but since WOS probably has some of the best Z80 coders in the world, I thought I might ask anyway. For my …
... ? Given how similar your current compressor is to it, even a ...Z80 internal compressionThis isn't exactly a ZX Spectrum problem, but since WOS probably has some of the best Z80 coders in the world, I thought I might ask anyway. For my …
... finished my work on that compressor, so this was definitely a ... was not the best available compressor at the time either, so ...which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
[QUOTE=MattLamb;3764]A lot of the Hewson games were great - Exolon is probably my favourite Spectrum game of all time.[/QUOTE]
I agree with this guy.which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
... , I'd have to say Hewson :smile:which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
Hewson and Gremlin were my favourites at the time, although Ocean/Imagine and Elite had their moments.
I like Mirrorsoft too (if only for their unusual loaders) even though I don't think I owned any of their games at the time.which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
[QUOTE=zx1;700070]Why are all these ancient threads being resurrected, there's a lot of it about these days!:grin:[/QUOTE]
It's the new Rickrolling :)
Anyway, the answer is Hewson.which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
[QUOTE=Vampyre;700036]I still think it's Ultimate ;-)[/QUOTE]
Me too! :-)
Ocean/Imagine & Hewson in a second place.which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
Mine are Hewson, Gargoyle Games, Ultimate and Quicksilva (before the Argus takeover!)which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
... picture from beginning to end, Hewson does have to feature very ...which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
Durell and Hewson are up there. So were Ocean when they stayed away from Arnie films!which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
... was always impressed with Hewson too (and Andrew Hewson was very insightful ... a Retro Gamer article about Hewson a few years ago), but ...Z80 internal compressionThis isn't exactly a ZX Spectrum problem, but since WOS probably has some of the best Z80 coders in the world, I thought I might ask anyway. For my …
... make longer tones. Ideally the compressor would try various methods, but ... me to figure out a compressor from that, sadly :oops ...Z80 internal compressionThis isn't exactly a ZX Spectrum problem, but since WOS probably has some of the best Z80 coders in the world, I thought I might ask anyway. For my …
... /> I'm afraid a Z80 compressor for Exomizer, MegaLZ, and ZX7 ... are planning to implement a compressor yourself, IMHO your best choice ... would be studying Bitbuster C++ compressor (it's fairly easy to ...which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
... /> However, I can see how Hewson would be more appreciated by ...which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
... Pong Robocop, Batman...
Hewson put out a lot of ...Speccy Tape AppThis could be in any Forum so I have gone here. This morning I received this video of a new iPhone App [youtube]auR2CmrSnoU[/youtube] and downloa…
... such as Gremlin, Firebird and Hewson), and around 800 individual developers ...
