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Converting modern games to speccyThe speccy is like a childhood friend we dont want to die. I can think of tons of modern games id LOVE to see converted, in any way, to the speccy,(r…
I want to see Pete Cooke make [B]Tomb Raider[/B]! ... -
Julian Todd (Fat Worm Blows A Sparky) - insight and possible challenge?I recently spoke to Julian Todd about his days at Durell (for Retro Gamer), and he emailed me his thoughts on Fat Worm. I only had space to include a…
... ,) I thought it was a Pete Cooke game! I really don't ... -
Favourite previously unreleased magazine covertape game?sorry it's favourites time again... I suspect many of you, like me, got sucked into buying the mags in the late eighties with the tapes on. Whilst …
I'll go for A Whole New Ball Game.
I always liked Pete Cooke's games, even the cheap and cheerful ones he did for Spectrum Computing, but this one's really on a par with some of his full-price commercial efforts. -
Speccy ProgrammersI compiled a list of great programmers on our beloved speccy at [URL="http://hubpages.com/hub/ZX-Spectrum-Programmers"]ZX Spectrum Programmers[/URL] …
[QUOTE=Retrobrothers;449247]Pete could be on there.
... Urban Upstart.
Also, Cooke was one of the most ... .worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Pete+Cooke$ -
Budget Game World Cup qualifier thread!In anticipation of the cup final I thought of an idea that may be a little awkward to set up but could be quite fun, and may decide the definitive bu…
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Agent X
Brainstorm (pete cooke one)
Thrust
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Speccy Full-Price World Cup: Group DTop 2 games go through to next round. Voting lasts for 1 week.
Adventure games written in basic (commercial)This thread partly got me thinking > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31141[/url] But I'd like to know about adventure ga…
Pete Cooke's other adventures, Invincible Island and The Inferno, appear to be at least partly written in BASIC.
Velnor's Lair is another old favourite. I actually preferred it to it's machine code sequel Kentilla.Why are speccy games so ****ing cool?I grew up with a spectrum and fell in love with it from a young age, so I may be slightly biased, but it seems to me that the look and feel of games …
... /> Yeah, totally. Can you imagine Pete Cooke being able to release [I ...Freescape GamesI have always LOVED the Freescape games (Driller, Dark Side, Total Eclipse and Castle Master). They really were IMHO a huge leap forward in games cre…
... . Then there are some of Pete Cooke's games, particularly Micronaut One ...?Masters of Yore making new retro games?[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33293"]RedBalloon's thread got me thinking.[/URL] What if teams from the 80s were to get…
Oh yeah, following on from above comments, I want another train-sim (rural routes this time) and another Seiddab bash from Hewson... And Pete Cooke must do a, [I]Micronaut Two[/I].Which Spectrum Game Pushed The Machine To It's Limits? 128kWhere Time Stood Still? Chase HQ? Robocop? Suggestions?
... /> We are now waiting for Pete Cooke.50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... people dissected the works of Pete Cooke, Jon Ritman and Ian Oliver ...Games Where The Sequel Outshone The OriginalAs the title says , what game for you was the one that outshone the original the best? In many cases with movies , the original is the best , but for…
I had thought of Academy over Tau Ceti, but although technically better (Pete Cooke optimising his 'engine'), it lacked the scope of the first game and I still prefer the original.games that sold off the backs of other formats..obvious things like elite I guess.. never saw the fuss, sorry but I noticed I got shedloads of speccy kikstart 2 tapes , was that because the c64 ve…
... so disappointing. Especially considering that Pete Cooke did the conversion. (years later ...WIMP systemsimple WIMP system with 'input field' and kempston mouse/joystick support. dox in russian, sorry. just in case anyone interested. there is a '.tap' d…
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…
Just finished and uploaded an RZX of the speccy game Earthlight, by Pete Cooke.
I expected a pretty garbage congratulations message at the end, and I wasn't surprised!It's Tau DayI was avidly reading my Daily Mail when I espied an article on tau, the number 6.28 - twice pi which is 3.14 roughly. [url]http://www.dailymail.co.u…
I thought this was going to be a celebration of Pete Cooke's finest :-(It's Tau DayI was avidly reading my Daily Mail when I espied an article on tau, the number 6.28 - twice pi which is 3.14 roughly. [url]http://www.dailymail.co.u…
[QUOTE=jdanddiet;546334]I thought this was going to be a celebration of Pete Cooke's finest :-([/QUOTE]
Funnily enough so did I.
What a letdown...New game: Dex[b]DEX - A painty-maze game for the 48K/128K Spectrum.[/b] [IMG]http://i52.tinypic.com/ip5zeu.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/euqyv6.png[/IMG]…
... game, this reminds me of Pete Cooke's [url=http://www.worldofspectrum ...My favourite Pete Cooke Speccy game is...big fan of all of his games post '85. Suspect most will hold Academy in the highest regard, but who knows...? Edit: according to the archive, he pr…
... 'm a huge fan of Pete Cooke and it was a bit ...My favourite Pete Cooke Speccy game is...big fan of all of his games post '85. Suspect most will hold Academy in the highest regard, but who knows...? Edit: according to the archive, he pr…
Brainstorm for me.
Pete Cooke's stuff was incredibly impressive technically but not always that much fun to play. Brainstorm was the complete opposite.
I liked Zolyx also.My favourite Pete Cooke Speccy game is...big fan of all of his games post '85. Suspect most will hold Academy in the highest regard, but who knows...? Edit: according to the archive, he pr…
... of his games are outstanding. Pete Cooke is one of my favourite ...Unique Spectrum games?What Spectrum games are unique? Unique as in there's no other game like it on the Spectrum? It doesn't matter if there's a million games like it on a…
... was also Room Ten by Pete Cooke; better than anything Dudley Moore ...Budget classicsWhich budget titles can be considered as true classics? Speed King 2 in my opinion is a true classic predecessor of Lotus series on Amiga and many o…
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brainstorm (pete cooke)
iball
draconus and ...Most annoying user interfaceThis has to go to Slaine. Actions flying across the screen in word form, in various speeds, and you had to point a bloody hand at them. I never did…
Pete Cooke's games had that cool arrow interface. It is definitely cool to see it for first time, but then it just starts to annoy, because it is much slower than a simple set of hotkeys.What book are you reading?I'm currently reading Sun Tzus The Art of War. Soon I shall be unstoppable in Laser Squad! I've also got a couple of Z80 Machine Code books on the g…
The Untold Life of Peter Cook by his wife. Always fascinating reading about people from another angle. That's Peter Cook not Pete Cooke.
