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jdanddiet wrote:

neuromancer wrote:

Matt_B wrote:I believe that the following are all Spectrum exclusives:

Chaos
Micronaut One
Return Of The Things
Sky Ranger
Wheelie
Zombie Zombie

Hi Matt_B,
off topic, but is your avatar Tau Ceti?

certainly looks like it!

Indeed it is.

I believe that the following are all Spectrum exclusives:

Chaos
Micronaut One
Return Of The Things
Sky Ranger
Wheelie
Zombie Zombie

I'm normally one to stick up for the Spectrum, but if there's one genre that the C64 ought to be able to excel at it's scrolling shooters as the hardware support for scrolling and sprites gives it huge advantages. It's as much a no contest as, say, isometric games would be in the opposite direction....

Yeah, when I played Doom on a friends PC, I always played without the music which I found a bit dodgy, if memory serves. The near silence punctuated by the various sounds of growling monsters and doors etc made it a lot more atmospheric. The PS1 version had a far better ambient musical score, I tho...

Be wary you can't buy RA3 on PC though, only rent it. You can't reinstall it without EA's say so, when they turn off those servers you're screwed. Yep, don't you just love DRM? :cry: Still, at least they gave the original C&C away when it was ten years old. Perhaps they can continue to support the ...

Whats the latest with this ? I read there was an issue with the payment so you had to re-order because they changed banks or something ? Read a few people lost out to the exchange rate. Thought they were being released end of Nov ? Whats the latest date now ? I do want this to do well, i'll buy one...

Two Horace games have been entered in the comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition over the years and you can find them here:

http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk ... rch=horace

I don't think either will need to be added to the voting though.

I'll go for Horace and the Spiders. Horace Goes Skiing isn't bad though, and Hungry Horace would be OK if it wasn't for the rather poor maze designs.

The ZX81 would be my main other one. It might have been the most minimalist of all 8-bits, but it had some superb and imaginative games and also a nice version of BASIC for its time. I've also a bit of a thing for the BBC Micro; I never owned one, but I got to use them a lot at school and my mother,...

I got past the wall on Airwolf once If its the one I'm thinking of, its quite easy to get past - you just need to fly right through as soon as you get onto the screen. The wall starts to build as soon as the screen displays, but there's just enough time to sneak through without trying to shoot it a...

I mostly use Spin too.

That said Fuse, EightyOne, Spectaculator and SpecEmu are all really good as well. So, if anything even mildly irritates you about Spin, they're worth a look.

Heavy Stylus wrote:My award for best new remake (PC) goes to 3D Starstrike by Urban Interactive.

http://www.starstrike.urbaninteractive.net/

I'll second that, and yes I'd already thought of it before I read your post.

Carrier Command on the C64 reinterpreted the game in 2D. I've not played it, but apparently it still worked quite well. I suppose it's OK for what it is, and the strategic aspects are recognizably similar, but they basically turned a 3D simulator into a 2D scrolling shoot 'em up. It's like calling ...

I guess Jon Gaunt just picked the wrong person to call a Nazi.

TalkBollocks would be a better name for that channel on the whole though.

So if you can't prove your argument in debate?.....throw a hissy fit and get em sacked. Interesting that he referred to the guy as a 'Health Nazi' which would imply that Gaunt thought the guy was someone with totalitarian views on the subject who would seek to eliminate anyone who disagrees with hi...