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When did multiloads start?Hullo, again. Long time reader, rare topic starter! In the mid 80s, when Elite grabbed the rights to the likes of Commando, Bomb Jack and Ghosts N' …
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;371072]Wasn't 'Never Ending ... -
WizballI finished this years back on the *ahem* 64 but not on the speccy, does anyone know why there is a huge alien head in the spectrum code? well obviou…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;376158]And Steve Watson left ... -
Mark Haigh-Hutchinson RIPJust saw [url=http://kotaku.com/345834/retro-studios-loses-one-of-its-own-to-cancer]this story[/url] posted on Kotaku that former Speccy programmer M…
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Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade - 1989 ... games as a kid that Mark programmed :-( -
New Spectrum game appears in the printed press...It's probably been years since news about a new Speccy game has appeared in the general press... but today it happened. In the Basque Country edition…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;380829]That screenshot is not ... -
Remake WIZBALL on the SpeccySeeing as all my graphics are available why not re-make it to include all the stuff that wasn't used? I made graphics for the Ying and Yang wiz and t…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;386132]...My mockups were used in the Sinclair User review,compare them to what you actually got and you'll see the difference.[/QUOTE]
So, Crash's "Unclear User" parody was true then? :lol: -
Remake WIZBALL on the SpeccySeeing as all my graphics are available why not re-make it to include all the stuff that wasn't used? I made graphics for the Ying and Yang wiz and t…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;386521]Aye thats right, I did ALL the graphics but half of them were left out! Grrrr![/QUOTE]
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Best Speccy Loading Screen??Ok Chaps! Which game do you think had the best loading screen??? Graphics, colour etc.....
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;386586]Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy![/QUOTE]
Did you do the screen for NOMAD as well, Mark? It always had me in awe when it used to load up. "Who could have thought those designs up?" I used to wonder! Now I know. :) -
Best Speccy Loading Screen??Ok Chaps! Which game do you think had the best loading screen??? Graphics, colour etc.....
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;386642]No, it was Simon ... -
Super Sprint (missing artist ?)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005045"]Super Sprint[/URL] Lower left MAK ... might be Tony Mack (already credited) Mark R.…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;389428]No sorry, nothing to do with me.[/QUOTE]
Hehehe, sorry ... A and not R! -
Everyone's a Wally (missing artist(or not?))[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001677"]Everyone's a Wally[/URL] RL (rather than AL?) in the upper right. But I also see a …
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;390273]The C is a copyright[/QUOTE]
I know [I]that[/I] :-P
What I meant was the (C)opyright there to honour the original artist, and if so is that artist's name RL or AL? -
Best Speccy Loading Screen??Ok Chaps! Which game do you think had the best loading screen??? Graphics, colour etc.....
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;386840]I must say, I ... -
Named and Sham.... salutedDear all, Floating around these forums for the last 5 years or so, every now and then, someone mentions a published game they were involved with, or…
Mark R. Jones hangs around here sporadically enough to be named as one of the Usual Suspects.
Let's not forget our very own Jonathan Egghead Cauldwell!!! -
Differences in game demosGame demos on mag tapes sometimes offered a glimpse of a game before it was fully finished (as they had to be put together early to tie-in with the m…
... who did the wizball graphics (Mark R Jones) said half of what ... -
Ultimate & Automata collections + othersI've decided that I might sell my Ultimate and Automata collections. I have a handful of other titles too that I'll sell. PM me with serious offers…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;393825]Now now ladies, handbags at dawn? :)[/QUOTE]
He's doing my head in ! -
Cyclone Vs TLLWhich did/do you prefer? My vote goes for Cyclone as I enjoyed the precision element to it.
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;395672]Cyclone, rescuing the people ... -
Head Over Heels (Amstrad PCW version)Not strictly Speccy related, but I know a lot of the game's fans are on here :) I've been playing the PCW version of Head Over Heels recently, and w…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;396409]The english on that web page is AWFUL though![/QUOTE]
It is still good enough to be easily understandable and if you disregard the grammar, more sophisticated than the English of your average chav. -
Head Over Heels (Amstrad PCW version)Not strictly Speccy related, but I know a lot of the game's fans are on here :) I've been playing the PCW version of Head Over Heels recently, and w…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;396409]The english on that web page is AWFUL though![/QUOTE]
Did Colin Porche do that conversion? You might know. -
Loading screen easter eggs[url]http://equ.in/ox/spectrum/eggs/screens.php[/url] maybe it's mentioned here before.. also it shows some credits that were uncredited before..e.g…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;402202]I had all that black space to fill! :)[/QUOTE]
Was it ever meant to be seen by anyone or was that kind of "hidden messages" just something fun to to during the screen creation? -
Obscure great games......Having recently received an old PC, I've transferred all my Speccy roms over to it off of my mums PC where they were previously stored, and have been…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;403588]Nebulus[/QUOTE]
This is one I do know about. I used to play it for hours on my mate's Atari ST, even though I never made it past the first few platforms of the tower....Still, good shout! Keep 'em coming..... -
Obscure great games......Having recently received an old PC, I've transferred all my Speccy roms over to it off of my mums PC where they were previously stored, and have been…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;403588]Nebulus[/QUOTE]
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Really neat pictures you have taken.For Christmas this year I got from a wife a Lumix Z28 camera. It's a SLR style (note not an SLR) camera with a 18x optical zoom and wide angle lens a…
... to be picked up by Mark R Jones at Oxford Road railway ... -
Have always wondered...Why are there two black rectangles in the into screen of Manic Miner? [IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4UmWAVsInu8/SyTYn6p5NsI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Ij9d2fbYehQ…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;408219]Surely the 2 black rectangles are supposed to be the wall in front of the house, with an entrance.[/QUOTE]
No it's what obo said. -
Mire MareI've mentioned on these boards a few times that I had an old friend who was rumoured to have joined Rare in the early 90's but I've never been able t…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;408626]It was never advertised ... -
Have you ever looked back and gone 'Why on EARTH did I.....buy that game??' I look back now at some of the games I bought in my youth. When I worked 8 hours a week at the Co-Op and got paid just ?10. Out o…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;409405]Yes, me, in the 1st post! ;p[/QUOTE]
I also admitted to owning Zoids..
I owned Double Dragon and thought it was crap. Luckly, my copy was just a copy... -
Obligatory Speccy Christmas Games Thread 2009Mainly because I can't be bothered trying to find one of the old "Best Speccy Games to play at Christmas" type threads, I thought I'd start the inevi…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;410900]'Art Studio' came with a lenslock.[/QUOTE]
Yeah! Thats the one! 'Art Studio by Rainbird'. Thanks Mark -
Mire MareI've mentioned on these boards a few times that I had an old friend who was rumoured to have joined Rare in the early 90's but I've never been able t…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;412091]It's only a ... -
Mire MareI've mentioned on these boards a few times that I had an old friend who was rumoured to have joined Rare in the early 90's but I've never been able t…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;412095]But surely it wouldn't BE a re-make, cos the original was never made![/QUOTE]
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Have you ever looked back and gone 'Why on EARTH did I.....buy that game??' I look back now at some of the games I bought in my youth. When I worked 8 hours a week at the Co-Op and got paid just ?10. Out o…
[QUOTE=Mark R Jones;412326]When I was at Ocean they had SO many Super Soccer's sent back, cos of all the bugs![/QUOTE]
if youd kept em all you could be a very rich man
ooh errrrrrrrrrm i mean
