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Finished games thanks to save optionsYou can finish a game or go further easier if you play it on an emulator and use the [I]save option[/I]. So that's the way I made progress with many…
[QUOTE=Bluce_Ree;230481]Dracula, the end-of-level boss on Rainbow Islands![/QUOTE]
I see. :)
Dracula from CRL was pretty hard too. Luckily you could save directly on the Spectrum.. -
OpenZXRom v2007-12-31 releasedI've just put out a new release of OpenZXRom, the freely licensed replacement for the Spectrum ROM rewritten from scratch with no Amstrad code: [url…
... - Unsupported BASIC command: 0xf5
Rainbow Islands - Unsupported BASIC command: 0xf1
Charts dataBefore I do anything myself... has anyone extracted the charts data (month/game/position) from the various Spectrum magazines and has made it/can mak…
For what it's worth, the games which have spent longest on the charts (with the data I currently have) are Paperboy, Chase H.Q. and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (all at 10 months), Out Run (11), Rainbow Islands (15) and RoboCop (21!)Your top 5 Spectrum gamesWe've a Spectrum Special lined up for next issue of Retro Gamer, so we'd love to know what your top five games on the system are :)
Ooh lordy - just five, eh? Well here are the ones that spring to mind right now, but I'll probably spend the rest of the evening going "Doh! I forgot that one!"
Head Over Heels
Chaos
Rainbow Islands
The Beast
R-TypeFavourite Speccy MomentsOk, just for fun (and for my own curiosity), what are everyone's favourite (or most satisfying) Spectrum moments? For example, the swot in [I]Skool D…
... /> Also, being able to buy Rainbow Islands on tape, after a number ...New ZXDS releaseHello, new ZXDS version is ready and will appear on [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz"]the site[/URL] in few hours time, so make sure you check back befor…
... running something quite intensive like Rainbow Islands) faster/smoother with the + keyboard ...Your top 5 Spectrum gamesWe've a Spectrum Special lined up for next issue of Retro Gamer, so we'd love to know what your top five games on the system are :)
... ) Chase HQ and
2) Rainbow Islands for the really good arcade ...Playability and Technical ExpertiseWhat Spectrum games were both very playable and fun yet pushed the Spectrum to its limits graphically and/or sonically. I know many of the highly po…
Rainbow Islands for me. The rainbow physics on it are exactly ... only time I ever saw Rainbow Islands in a cabinet was in ...Your top 5 Spectrum gamesWe've a Spectrum Special lined up for next issue of Retro Gamer, so we'd love to know what your top five games on the system are :)
... - Fun arcade shooter
2) Rainbow Islands - Between this and Chase HQ ...multiloadersWhich were the worst games for disruptive multiloaders? These games came on the scene after I had stuck my Speccy in the loft, so I missed them. I …
... Wolf / Thunderbolt, Batman the Movie, Rainbow Islands, Midnight Resistance), plus a fair ...Calculating how many pixels each mapper has created - for Skarpo especially :)Pavel Plíva : 2992717027 pixels Ladderman : 2058908818 pixels Sherwin Robb : 411890200 pixels Viktor Drozd : 266748605 pixels Victor Daulichen :…
... , some maps are entirely pointless. Rainbow Islands for example, you just keep ...What was the last commercially released game you bought?What was the last commercially released speccy game you bought? Mines was in 1994 when our WH Smith was selling off all of its 8 bit software really…
... " when released on budget, or "Rainbow Islands", again budget re-release. I ...CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... . I've just been playing Rainbow Islands on it.
It ...3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
... to the likes of Chaos, Rainbow Islands and so on it lacks ...three seperate top lists?as shown in another thread recently, top lists are a tricky stuff altogether - there are too many diferent possible criteria... could you put down th…
... Drivin'
R-Type
Rainbow Islands
personal loves ...three seperate top lists?as shown in another thread recently, top lists are a tricky stuff altogether - there are too many diferent possible criteria... could you put down th…
Top 3 Computer Tunes Of All TimeCan be any format, from any era, but preferably from the time when the computer actually made the music, rather than playing an MP3 or WAV file in th…
Rainbow Islands (128k) (sorry if it's started playing in your head too)
Robocop (128k)
Chronos (48k)Top 3 Computer Tunes Of All TimeCan be any format, from any era, but preferably from the time when the computer actually made the music, rather than playing an MP3 or WAV file in th…
[QUOTE=SnakeOilSteve;255069]Rainbow Islands (128k) (sorry if it's ...Bandersnatch ... what if.I just watched [strike][U][COLOR="Blue"]Commercial Breaks[/COLOR][/U][/strike] (again :rolleyes: ) and am wondering how it might have changed or revo…
... [b][i]4[/i][/b]. Rainbow Islands would have melted their brains ...That game so difficult...What Speccy game(s) have you never been able to complete (but always wanted to)? Off the top of my head: [I]Rockstar Ate My Hamster[/I] (could only…
R-Type
Rainbow Islands
New Zealand Story (mainly due to data corruption on the tape, IIRC)That game so difficult...What Speccy game(s) have you never been able to complete (but always wanted to)? Off the top of my head: [I]Rockstar Ate My Hamster[/I] (could only…
... =NickH;258884]R-Type
Rainbow Islands
New Zealand Story (mainly ...swansongs that weren't worth itAfter reading the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20237"]Don Priestley thread[/URL] I tried his other games. I was very …
... Turner followed it up with Rainbow Islands. One of the best conversions ...most graphically impressive....?...probably a re-post of some sort but I been here a year and not seen this thread, so... *not talking about gameplay...only graphics... I reckon t…
The usual suspects:
Rainbow Islands
Savage
R-Type
Mythmost graphically impressive....?...probably a re-post of some sort but I been here a year and not seen this thread, so... *not talking about gameplay...only graphics... I reckon t…
Hostages
Rainbow Islands
Mortadelo y filemon 2
Rodland
Extreme
Dan Dare 3
maybe worth to mention also:
Ironlord
Golden Axe
Batman the movieThat game so difficult...What Speccy game(s) have you never been able to complete (but always wanted to)? Off the top of my head: [I]Rockstar Ate My Hamster[/I] (could only…
... with relative ease.
Rainbow Islands??? Well I can say something ...swansongs that weren't worth itAfter reading the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20237"]Don Priestley thread[/URL] I tried his other games. I was very …
... Turner followed it up with Rainbow Islands. One of the best conversions ... />
Did Steve Turner program Rainbow Islands? He is not mentioned in ...swansongs that weren't worth itAfter reading the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20237"]Don Priestley thread[/URL] I tried his other games. I was very …
... Turner followed it up with Rainbow Islands. One of the best conversions ...
