Another great show as always. It's interesting for the Bezerk game that Jason is using Binary instead of Decimal for the sprites. I used decimal and I made a small BASIC program to add up each row. Basically on a typical 8x8 grid the value of each cell in a row would be: 128, 64, 32 16, 8, 4, 2, 1 and whatever cell you wanted to fill in a given row then you would add the value and the total would go in your DATA statement for example if you filled an entire row then the value would be 255.Watching the progress of the Berzerk game brings back some happy programming memories. I can't wait to see the finished product.
Absolutely brilliant, I really appreciate the serious software corner of the show. Thank you for that part, now I can say that the Spectrum Show is the el facto of spectrum users :) great article as always (I would have love to have that portable spectrum) the games and reviews are excellent :) great work all around. :)
Battlezone is my favourite Coin-op, so was fantastic to see the actual machine in action again. Great episode as usual Paul, keep em coming, was great to hear about the first official version of the game, must try that.
I had Mini Office for the Amiga and like the one shown here it was pretty bare bones but did the job well enough for my needs. The one for the Speccy looks not bad for what it is trying to do.
Hi Paul loving this show! informative, educating and fun! By the way, I'm a member of the facebook group, Spectrum 4 ever, feel free to join us, its a friendly group! we discuss games, hardware and tech issues! :)
Increasing your emulator machine speed to 7MHz makes any wireframe Speccy game a whole lot smoother. Back in the day, if you had the opportunity to upgrade your Spectrum with a piece of kit to make it run at 7MHz at the flick of a switch, you probably would, yes? This is how I justify using such an option in Spectaculator.
Best Spectrum related video on TH-cam!!!
ckl01442 Cheers. Thanks for watching
Totally awesome
Another great show as always.
It's interesting for the Bezerk game that Jason is using Binary instead of Decimal for the sprites. I used decimal and I made a small BASIC program to add up each row. Basically on a typical 8x8 grid the value of each cell in a row would be: 128, 64, 32 16, 8, 4, 2, 1 and whatever cell you wanted to fill in a given row then you would add the value and the total would go in your DATA statement for example if you filled an entire row then the value would be 255.Watching the progress of the Berzerk game brings back some happy programming memories. I can't wait to see the finished product.
I can't get enough of The Spectrum Show!
Cheers!
Fine Episode, Oh how I remember playing those Battlezone clones, well not all of them but a few anyway :)
There is a remake of Split Personalities for the PC. Its called "Picture Mixer" by Alex Tkach.
Langford Productions has also made a remake.
Another fantastic episode, Paul, but I was amazed to see you didn't like Ghosts n Goblins on the Spectrum. It's a cracking conversion.
+Robert Hazelby Agreed. Played that game to death, loved it.
Gem of a show Paul! Great stuff and thoroughly enjoyable.
lactobacillusprime cheers.
This series is amazing. Many thanks for all of your hard work. I love watching.
Thanks for watching.
AnalogueInQatar I agree, terrific series!!!
Such a fascinating series. Please keep it up!
Absolutely brilliant, I really appreciate the serious software corner of the show. Thank you for that part, now I can say that the Spectrum Show is the el facto of spectrum users :) great article as always (I would have love to have that portable spectrum) the games and reviews are excellent :) great work all around. :)
Stephane Richard Thanks. Any new section is a gamble, but glad to know it's appreciated.
Thank you very much. Another great episode.
***** Thanks for watching.
Great episode! The only Battle Zone clone I have not seen so far was that official one. ;-)
VectrexRoli And it is a fine game too.
Battlezone is my favourite Coin-op, so was fantastic to see the actual machine in action again.
Great episode as usual Paul, keep em coming, was great to hear about the first official version of the game, must try that.
Paul Pollington Yes, it's a good game, and finally a decent clone!
Well, good work - as usual.
I had Mini Office for the Amiga and like the one shown here it was pretty bare bones but did the job well enough for my needs. The one for the Speccy looks not bad for what it is trying to do.
There's a sam version now too that's pacman defender sprint pang all great arcade conversions not to mention bubble ghost and Rick dangerous!
Good one as always.
Wasnt Tau-Ceti a kind of Battlefield clone?
Hi Paul loving this show! informative, educating and fun! By the way, I'm a member of the facebook group, Spectrum 4 ever, feel free to join us, its a friendly group! we discuss games, hardware and tech issues! :)
Doo-mark? What? It's Doh-mark. The name comes from the guys who started Domark, Dominc and Mark. We don't say Doo-monic do we? :)
I was just scrolling down to see if anyone else was going to mention this. Not D'mark, or Doo-mark, but Doe-mark. Also, PentgrAm, not "pentagrum" :)
Cool stuff man!
Worth playing the licence fee for. 😉
Tobo Bobo Maybe I should start charging ;-)
Argghhhh! Need help guys. I went to find X=Y=Z and the link on the rzxarchive page doesnt work. Does anyone have an alternative?
+Ronnie Bradley Try www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/ its linked from his ZX Spectrum page.
Paul Jenkinson Thank you that one worked. :)
Increasing your emulator machine speed to 7MHz makes any wireframe Speccy game a whole lot smoother. Back in the day, if you had the opportunity to upgrade your Spectrum with a piece of kit to make it run at 7MHz at the flick of a switch, you probably would, yes? This is how I justify using such an option in Spectaculator.
OMG what’s with the Doo-mark, both of you???
Wasn't 'Red Scorpion' a (bad) film.
Great episode as always Paul !