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  • Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…

    ... are generally at their best on the machines they were ... the machines they're best on. If you feel that ... is creditable)
    Heavy on the Magick - CPC (better ... are nice though)
    Manic Miner - Spectrum (most ports just ... CPC are technically the best 8-bits by ...
    Matt_B Matt_B December 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…

    ... ports are nice though)
    Manic Miner - Spectrum (most ports just don ... and CPC are technically the best 8-bits by any ... every games couldnt be tested on all machines, (Academy, Atic ... Atac, Chaos, Heavy on the Magick, Vulcan, Quazatron, Metroid ...
    Pegaz Pegaz December 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games where you can't get off the first screenPlayed a couple of games tonight where I couldn't get past the first screen. Last Ninja 2 Mystery of the Nile With Last Ninja 2, a combination of p…

    ... the first screen of Manic Miner. I don't ... Platoon either, the best i managed was finding ... on....but i am struggling to understand the difficulty with Manic Miner ... still make The Menagerie on my first go.
    on my brain!)
    < ...
    absinthe_boy absinthe_boy December 2011 Games
  • Recommend some late era Spectrum classics.My era is the 1983 to end 1987 era. Come 1987 I was working at Ocean so didn't play that many games as I working on a Spectrum in the day. I used to …

    ... years 1988-1992 were the best Spectrium years, game wise, contrary ... />
    But it all depends on when you got your Spectrum ... on will often prefer the earlier classics (such as Jet Pac, Manic Miner ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain February 2012 Games
  • Newbie QuestionsI have just purchased my first Speccy! It should be shipped to me (in the U.S.A.) very soon. I'm a ZX newbie & I have some questions :-D First of al…

    ... place, may I congratulate you on your purchase!

    Manic Miner :-). There's plenty ... stuff in Brand New Software on this forum.

    on eBay & the " ... I picked up a "Best Amiga Tips & Secrets ...
    zolli zolli February 2012 Hardware
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    Pippo on a 128k spectrum +, trying out ... of the best of its era. Its up there with Manic Miner, Booty ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk March 2012 Chit chat
  • Scrimpy screensHere's a question - how small a window can you get away with as a playing area for an arcade/action game before anyone notices? From the very earlie…

    ... of the screen is horizontal score panel, I have to say ... , and decided to centre it on the screen. I can put ... subtle effect there, like [I]Manic Miner[/I], where the title acts ... the play area and the score panel, so the panel itself ...
    joefish joefish March 2012 Development
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    [QUOTE=Scottie_uk;612191]Pippo on a 128k spectrum +, trying out ... of the best of its era. Its up there with Manic Miner, Booty ... />
    Pippo is possibly the best budget game ever? Every single ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2012 Chit chat
  • How was JetSetWilly made?Dear all, Can any help explain how games like JetSetWilly are put together? In a programming environment (rather than a GameMkier one), how were ro…

    ... , two of those games were Manic Miner and JSW :smile: but surely ... more? Is he the George Best of the Spectrum scene? Were ... . I remember buying Manic Miner and having the Speccy on for over eight ...
    bobs bobs April 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpiffyBecause there aren't enough emulators already... [url=https://github.com/ec429/spiffy]Spiffy[/url] is my 48k Spectrum emulator, for Linux. Right no…

    ... ]

    Running in X11 on OS X. It only gets ... about half speed on a 2.4GHz C2D which ... also about a double free on exit. Manic Miner tzx loaded, but with a ...
    JamesW JamesW April 2012 Emulators
  • Limboanyone played Limbo on PSN? [youtube]GCA79zPaQe0[/youtube] I would image a game like this would work really well on the speccy

    ... ; sprites left and right, selected Manic Miner controls in the Events Menu ... time lol. Stats and score were left on as I don't ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie April 2012 New game ideas
  • Platform games you *must* play?I've finally gotten around to buying Braid on XBox Live!, I played the demo years back on the PC and meant to buy it, but my backlog is so huge that …

    ... probably the two best JSW tributes I've played on any platform ... .

    Sam Coupe:

    [I]Manic Miner ...
    Zagreb Zagreb June 2012 Chit chat
  • Platform games you *must* play?I've finally gotten around to buying Braid on XBox Live!, I played the demo years back on the PC and meant to buy it, but my backlog is so huge that …

    ... Pockets was fun too, also on the ST?), Super Mario All ... I'd have tried SAM Manic Miner (via emulation, as I' ... , as there's one on the ST with a similar ... has some of the best graphics and sound on the 48K Spectrum ... ve been away from work on and off for the past ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2012 Chit chat
  • Another deadly accurate best games listSince it's getting on for five minutes now since a "Best ever games" list divided us up, heres [URL="http://www.g4tv.com/top-100/"]G4's Top 100 video…

    ... Quake game there, and so on, and each would be right ... discussions over which is the best Zelda game, and it's ... the "Best game of the last decade poll on any machine" on Gamefaqs ... as Skooldaze, Dynamite Dan, and Manic Miner. There'd be no mention ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2012 Chit chat
  • Another deadly accurate best games listSince it's getting on for five minutes now since a "Best ever games" list divided us up, heres [URL="http://www.g4tv.com/top-100/"]G4's Top 100 video…

    ... Mortal Kombat = Deception is the best one. Dark Alliance is good ... the Tentacle. So where's Manic Miner then?
    58. Ultimata ... Pac-Man = YES, another spot-on choice!
    17. StarCraft = ... Yakzee!
    4. Asteroids = On the money!
    3. Bioshock ...
    Graz Graz June 2012 Chit chat
  • Spectrum 128 toaster and divide incompatibility problems with some demos and games.Okay so I got this thing now. It?s my first Spectrum ever. [img]http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/2016/speccyl.jpg[/img] [url]http://img824.image…

    ... -Amstrad 128s were crap. Your best bet is to get a ... cable correctly connected because both manic miner and jet set willy do ... see if it's running on a 128 which fails in ...
    chev chev August 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Gameboy advance Speccy emulation?I have heard , but can not find clear / understandable info on emulating the spectrum on a Gameboy Advance... but it is apparently possible? Using '…

    ... timing, so games that relied on TV raster timing or multicolour ... screen. So for example [I]Manic Miner[/I] can have full-height ... -height for the bottom third score area. Or, you can scale ...
    joefish joefish October 2012 Emulators
  • Best platformers?What do you guys think are the best platformers for the Spectrum?

    The 3 best platformers of all time (imho) ... and Manic Miner.

    Of those 3, although PoP came out on ... Speccy it isn't anywhere near the best version ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley October 2012 Games
  • Best platformers?What do you guys think are the best platformers for the Spectrum?

    ... =Dwayne Dibley;660131]The 3 best platformers of all time (imho ... and Manic Miner.

    Of those 3, although PoP came out on ... Speccy it isn't anywhere near the best version ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek October 2012 Games
  • Best platformers?What do you guys think are the best platformers for the Spectrum?

    ... =Dwayne Dibley;660131]The 3 best platformers of all time (imho ... and Manic Miner.

    Of those 3, although PoP came out on ... Speccy it isn't anywhere near the best version ...
    Pegaz Pegaz October 2012 Games
  • Best platformers?What do you guys think are the best platformers for the Spectrum?

    ... =Dwayne Dibley;660131]The 3 best platformers of all time (imho ... and Manic Miner.

    Of those 3, although PoP came out on ... Speccy it isn't anywhere near the best version ... have become one of the best spectrum games ever.
    Ivanzx Ivanzx October 2012 Games
  • Best platformers?What do you guys think are the best platformers for the Spectrum?

    ... =Dwayne Dibley;660131]The 3 best platformers of all time (imho ... and Manic Miner.

    Of those 3, although PoP came out on ... Speccy it isn't anywhere near the best version ... games but no list of best platformers can be complete without ...
    kilauea kilauea October 2012 Games
  • Best platformers?What do you guys think are the best platformers for the Spectrum?

    ... from the famous ones (JSW, Manic Miner, Bomb Jack, ...), I'd like ... [/URL], by Mikro-Gen, based on a cool arcade. Simple idea ... />
    I'm with you on the Panic games in addition ... offer Sam Spade as the best of these.

    [IMG ...
    R-Tape R-Tape November 2012 Games
  • Best games for playing on Android Emu?I've been playing some games using Marvin, which seems pretty good. Unfortunately, the size of the screen and the control methods means a lot of gam…

    ... nowhere near the best actual emulation. Xpectroid is based on FUSE so ... hardly anything on MAME I can play. But [I]Manic Miner[/I], [I ...
    joefish joefish November 2012 Games
  • What other systems to try, and why?Just for the fun of it: Suppose, by some weird force of nature you've become bored with the ZX Spectrum :lol: AND still have some free time left, wh…

    ... retro... there's a Manic Miner update and a weird, ... with... and plays nice on the GBA[/QUOTE]
    ... 2D not polygon models on a 2D playing field. ... : Guy is by far the Best SNES version).

    Never really liked Fighters on handhelds either, but the GBA ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek November 2012 Chit chat
  • BASIC games on GameBoy Advance emulators? Possible ???Does anyone know is there any way to make ZXAdvance or FOON play BASIC games ? The game I want to convert is my own game which I quickly reprogramme…

    ... can meddle with the scaling on ZXAdvance. Each third of the ... of its best modes is pre-set for [I]Manic Miner[/I], where ...
    joefish joefish December 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... how much use the [I]Manic Miner[/I] editor gets. I was ... /> The toolsets could all run on a PC and compile into ... guess 128K compatibility would be best, but I'd be at ... music. Though I remember SEUCK on the ST had a simple ...
    joefish joefish January 2013 New game ideas
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... If you want to draw on the other screen, you ... is best avoided with game code. In fact, the knock-on ... versions. So it's best to work out which ones ... resides. Ever noticed how [I]Manic Miner[/I], [I]Jet Set ... RANDOMIZE USR 32768? Even on a 48K Spectrum, that' ...
    joefish joefish January 2013 New game ideas
  • Game Of The Year 1989 (MULTIPLE CHOICE)re-loading.

    ... based on nostalgia and many of them still prefer, eg, Manic Miner over ... was the beginning of the best, when the machine was taken ... ones mentioned before, and later on Rainbow ISlands, Shadow of the ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx February 2013 Games
  • Game Of The Year 1994-1999 (MULTIPLE CHOICE)jesus help me. loading. lost votes: +1 eugene - lord of the bathroom (def chris)

    ... Of Suburbia is the best Manic Miner clone IMO so that gets ... 10 of the other games on that list though

    def chris def chris March 2013 Games
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