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The Endorian ForestSeeing good old Manic Miner again, I remembered how stunned I was when I saw Return of the Jedi and realized one of Manic Miner's levels, The Endoria…
... to earth. I was 3 in 1979 but I remember it ... game. I remember a feature in Sinclair User in about 1986-ish that traced ... lots of the game mechanics in Manic Miner seem very original ... as the beams of light in the solar power generator, the ... -
Q. for Mr. Cauldwell.I was reading Crash iss. 73 and I have a question about the name you use(d) for selling your games. Quote from the mag: "Jonathan has been writing …
... I've seen it spelled in a variety of other ways ... with a shared lineage advertisement in Sinclair User, and continued until 1998 by ... like looking for a needle in a haystack. -
GUI in sinclair basic.Can anyone point me to any existing subroutines or functions or library to be called whithin sinclair basic to create visual command like messageboxe…
Wasn't there a clone of GEM released (or at least being developed) for the Spectrum? I seem to remember reading something about in Sinclair User a long time ago.
Necros. -
Komplex CityLo lo all.. Ive just noticed that both the .tzx and .tap file for this game , look as if they are in fact "Komplex" , the 1st in the games by legend…
... articles about Komplex City in the mags in the autumn of 1985 ... , but the only review was in Sinclair User (Oct'85, p.22). However ... animated graphics are monochrome in Komplex and colour in Komplex City; also ... -
Myth - History in the makingHi to everybody! I'm trying to play this game, after reading some positive reviews, but... I'm having problems! :D Well, I define keys, Q A I O Sp…
... was designed with a Spectrum in mind. Around that time a ... technical dicussion by the authors in Sinclair User which explains how they developed ... -
There is a better original game for every conversion?[QUOTE=Matt_B]My contention would be that for any good conversion, I could name a better original Spectrum game in a similar format. As such, there a…
... a feature on this in Sinclair User or Your Sinclair, as I seem to ... remember. Or maybe it was in ... -
Questions and answers...I'm bored (downloading some Unreal Tournament levels, when they've finished I'm off to scoff my tea), so I thought I'd create this topic with some Ea…
... the Speccy (as evidenced in his regular columns in Sinclair User), he's never ... -
Magnetic Moon?Stuckstuckstuckstuck!!!! I never had tryed Magnetic Moon before...And only had a 48k. I'm playing the 128 port. Anyone finished it, or can help me …
... diferent, room, help, etc) published in Sinclair User #126, but that exacly puzzle ... -
HATE is such a strong wordSo, I've been toying with an idea for a isometric shmup set in the future where you control a jeep and have enemy flying machines, ground enemies and…
Paperboy also was in a quite small window for ... design/making of it located in Sinclair User, located here :-
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Unlisted MIAsI'm working through back issues of Sinclair User from 1982. As mentioned (in my first ever WOS post!) there are a lot of pretty obscure games which …
That doesn't seem to duplicate what I'm planning to to do, so I'll post the first set of MIAs soon. Just at a rough estimate there's probably about 30 or so MIAs alone in Sinclair User from 1982. -
Early screenshots which differ from the final productI thought it would be interesting to try and list games that looked different in the previews/reviews to the final product. I'll start off with an ea…
Preview of Pyracurse in Crash showed the game in oblique projection and
the release was in isometric projection.
The screen shots of Heartland in Sinclair User had knight graphics wandering around the village. -
Passing off games as your ownWe ran into a rather interesting case over the past day: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011821"]Jukebox[/URL], which appeare…
... Ground Attack by Sandy MacLennan in the 13.Sep'83 issue ... ;VG Aug'83 and then in Sinclair User Mar'84 - and Time Switch ... -
The best magazineHere it is folks, the battle of the titans. Which was the best magazine for us Spec-chums? As I'm not entirely unbiased, let's have a poll :)
... very close thing between Your Sinclair and Crash though, YS was ... to love the BluePrint section in Sinclair User when they were covering Myth ... -
25 years of gamesWith the anniversary fast approaching I wanted to start some discussions about the last 25 years of the Spectrum firstly of course comes game Which…
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a deathbreaking game unprecedented in many respects, full of originality ... programmer at the moment, saying in (Sinclair User-)interview: "Anyone can write a ... a commercial product in fact, not flawless, underrated in magazines, never being ... -
Spectrum designers drawing board on Ebay1 day left if any ones interested
... boxes that spectrum's came in ;)[/QUOTE]
Well the ... same drawing board that appeared in Sinclair User Issue 5 nearly 25 years ... ]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/SinclairUser/Issue005/Pages/SinclairUser00500055 ... -
Who made the crap ULTIMATE games?Martionoids? Bubbler? Was it the Stampers or someone else? If so who was it? Was Pentagram or Cyberun the last game the Stampers wrote?
... ultimate released some crap games in it´s late times, ...
btw, the ratings in crash listed in the interview linked above ... rating practice of this mag, in my view.
58% ... (martianoids got 5/5 in sinclair user ("ultimate´s back in the game"), personally ... -
Looking for type in game (platform)Ok my memory is a bit vague (!) But i remember there were two of these at least (in a series) , same author, poss printed a month after each other o…
... Benny Bunny series ? :???: Are they in a different magazine ? :) (dont ... />
They are all in Sinclair Programs
Firefighter ... p52 & Goldrush on p22 in that issue
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Very large platform game on SpectrumFor everyone that helped me find it, I can now advise that the game was TANTALUS !!!!!!!!!!!! I have just had a quick go on the Spectrum Emulator an…
... actual map was one printed in Sinclair User (I think it was this ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... /> We started off with 146 in-game screen shots needed. By ... Tuner (Your Sinclair) - Arcade Game Development Tool - Type-in
Sinclair 128K to 8056 ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... Tuner (Your Sinclair) - Arcade Game Development Tool - Type-in
Sinclair 128K to ... at complie time. (Saved in "blocked" format, rather than ... the tuner is a BASIC type-in that uses LOAD "rockdata" ... .
Sinclair 128K to 8056 Serial Printer ... -
games likes you and ppl dislikes???Hi there, which games you think are good meanwhile magazines and ppl gaves them bad reviews?? to me Is speccy version of Salamander. Ok, its not a …
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CRASH: 70%
Your Sinclair: 5/10
that ... re-issue got 85% in YS and 92% in Sinclair User. so it was ... apparently only sold one painting in his life. -
Best Panic for Speccy?I remember a panic game that had spiders like out of horace and the spiders, but can't find it or remember its name. Panic games never seemed too po…
Perhaps "[B]Spec-Panic[/B]" is the best of them all? :smile:
See this [URL="http://www.rickardberglind.se/zx/su-oct-83.jpg"]advertisment[/URL] from October 1983 in Sinclair User. Unfortunately it seems to be lost forever.. -
How games were coded?Are there any sites around which discuss how the coding progressed while coding a game? Something like a developers diary? I'm very curious and int…
There were the brilliant Blueprint sections in Sinclair User from the late 80's, used to mention the difficulty's that programmers had to overcome to get decent framerates etc etc... always a good read, keep meaning to do a links page for all the issues. -
Your claim to fameBeen meaning to make this thread for a while. Basically what have you done either spectrum related or non related thats made you well known. IE progr…
Photo in Sinclair User
[URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/SinclairUser ... 30[/URL] Top right, prat in the SU T-Shirt.
Your claim to fameBeen meaning to make this thread for a while. Basically what have you done either spectrum related or non related thats made you well known. IE progr…
[QUOTE=frood42;260528]Photo in Sinclair User
[URL="ftp://ftp. ... worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/SinclairUser/SinclairUserViewer.html"]Issue ... 30[/URL] Top right, prat in the SU T-Shirt.
Your claim to fameBeen meaning to make this thread for a while. Basically what have you done either spectrum related or non related thats made you well known. IE progr…
... C4 stuff. Desert Island Discs in Sinclair User. Interviews in Retro Gamer, Micro Mart ... Computer, etc, etc, stuff in Your Sinclair and all the mags - ... really spooky one (or more) in the EDGE - predicting my ... demise and being quoted in the same sentence with ...Punch up! Bruce Everiss mauled by the internet over why Imagine collapsed.I couldn't see this posted here so I thought I would post it. It kept me amused for at least half an hour. Bruce Everiss on his blog claims piracy br…
... . I spotted this priceless quote in Sinclair User, from Steve Cain:
QL 25th Anniversary TODAYJust saw this on CSS: Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:36:53 +0100 From: Urs Koenig Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday On…
Nice find, remember when the QL came out back in the day, remember reading about it in Sinclair User. Did look cool at the time but as it seemed to be a business machine i wasnt so interested as a 12 year old !
Doesnt time fly though !How many of you are game programmers?So, how many of you programmed a ZX Spectrum game? Was it released commercially? :)
... 16/48 Tape Magazine but in the end they decided against ... .
Fontograph was advertised in Sinclair User and was sold and dispatched ... showing how to program adventures in BASIC (and still get quick ...Tank, no magazine reviewsHi, Ive seen that Tank from Snk/Ocean has not reviews from english magazines, it has a Microhobby review, but no Crash, SinclairUser, YourSinclair..…
... far as I can remember, in Sinclair User August 1987 issue. It resurfaced ...
