Thread 12103498

lmao at Britfags. Does this bullshit even have sound? Imagine actually playing this.

ZX Spectrum thread. Why the hype from bongs?

>>12103498 (OP)
Luv me speccy. 'ate islarm. Not racist, just don't like 'em. Simple as.

>>12103505
This, but unironically.

This board is gonna make me buy a speccy one day
This is the only grassroots marketing campaign on this site that's actually working

i loike the speccy, even as a mutt. got some fun little games on it. but i prefer the amiga.

>>12103498 (OP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOsYykqvghY

It's the end of the working week
And I'm rushing back home quick
I'm bored lad
Me computer you know
Has less memory than a brick
I need simple games without the fuss
Played on a chicklet keyboard that just bloody sucks
I said I'm sorry love, I want ZX Speccy

Me Speccy, me Speccy
Sinclair ZX Speccy
But you keep giving me consoles
They don't agree with me
I don't want Super Mario
or Final Fantasy
I'm a gaming man from Lancashire
And I play ZX Speccy

It's dark when I run the loading screen
It's dark when I can the start the game
And I all I want is simple fun
Not plots that are insane

The manual is longer than a book
Am I playing it?
Am I f...
It's friday night
And i want ZX Speccy

Me Speccy, me Speccy
Sinclair ZX Speccy
But you keep giving me consoles
They don't agree with me
I don't want posh Amiger
or Amstrad CPC
It's friday night, I'm within me rights
And I want ZX Speccy

>And in the Yank game room William just bought proprietary cartridge with a bunch of Wog plumbers jumping on top of turtles or some nonce shite like that for twenty five dollars
>And in the Lancashire game room Bernard's brought back from the corner shop Manic Miner, Horace, and a bunch of other games on cassettes programmed by me mates in their bedrooms all for four quid haha

Me Speccy, me Speccy
Sinclair ZX Speccy
But you keep giving me consoles
They don't agree with me
I don't want Sonic the Hedgehog
No Street Fighter for me
I'm a gaming man from Lancashire
And I wants ZX Speccy

In Monty you drive a C5
In Manic Miner you fall in pits
You keep giving me games in 3D
And I just want eight bits!

I don't care if it's one of Kojima's
I think that's a funny name for a geeza
I'M NOT PLAYING IT
I want ZX Speccy
One last time
Me Speccy, me Speccy
Sinclair ZX Speccy
But you keep giving me consoles
They don't agree with me
You can keep your Super Mario
And Final Fantasy
I'm a gaming man from Lancashire
And I wants ZX Speccy

>>12103512
>This board is gonna make me buy a speccy one day
Which one?
Spectrum 16K Rubber keys
Spectrum 48K Rubber keys (the classic)
Spectrum + 48K with keyboard
Spectrum 128K 'Toastrack"
Specrtum 128K +2 with Datacorder
Spectrum 128K +3 with disk drive
Spectrum Next
Retrogames 'The Spectrum'

>>12103498 (OP)
>even have sound?
The rubber keyed wonder just had a tiny speaker but was extended with everything from drum machines to speech synthesisers to midi controllers and sound chips, the most common sound chip was the AY-3-8912, all the 128k models had it built in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdD34TOrFUM

>>12103498 (OP)
>Why the hype from bongs?
It was the only thing they could afford

>>12103701
Your mom's got a nice Spectrum

>>12104342
You're on the Spectrum, you little bitch

>>12104342
>>12104369
Your mum while I shag her: OI ME SPECCY!

>>12103498 (OP)
>Does this bullshit even have sound?
So you're shitting on something you know nothing about?

>>12103498 (OP)
No one cares about Britians catch up game to the Commodore 64

>>12103498 (OP)
Lmao at your insecurities

>>12103498 (OP)
SORRY MUM I CAN'T COME OUT FOR FAGGOTS RIGHT NOW I'M ON THE SPECTRUM

Why create a thread about a system you don't like?

>>12105178
Because the 4chan shitpost meta for the past 15 years has been being the most obnoxious retard on the board.

>>12103498 (OP)
Its like a gameboy only better. Not hard to grasp

I remember playing the Young Ones on the speccy. You could collect bogies from the bog. My dad didn't like it though because it was called the "WC" which is a Yank term. He always hated Yanks because they're faggots. And he was right.

I respect it but get filtered by the sound. The graphics don't even bother me but god the sound.

>>12105969
Later models used a ubiquitous and more robust sound chip.

>>12103701
>Spectrum 128K +3 with disk drive
this. just for the Commdore 64 tier soundchip

>>12106105
>Commodore 64 tier soundchip
Holy lol. Then the Intellivision and half of 80s microcomputers had a C64 tier soundchip.

>>12106118
embarrassing. you thought I was talking about the Spectrum 48k.
here you go.
https://youtu.be/zKddFaqRzc0?si=ABFgcGavOqep5aey

>>12106128
No, he's talking about the AY-3-8914 sound chip which the Intellivision, among many others, also had.

As much as I love AY music, the SID chip is objectively better.

>>12106128
No, the 48k had the beeper. The 128k used the same General Instruments chip as the Intellivision and countless other microcomputers of the era. Not a unique feature whatsoever.

>>12106139
>>12106142
and the music video I posted provided proof that the 128k audio is as good as a C64. move those goalposts if it will help you feel smug

>>12103806
We were programming turtles on the BBC micro before you were even born

You ever play Trap Door? One of the earliest games I played

>>12106147
Dude, as I've told you, I love AY music:
https://youtu.be/cGfx5k4eYek

But the SID is a much more complex device that can make sound that's impossible to achieve with the AY:
https://youtu.be/8FSEplnYeqs

>>12106150
>We were programming turtles on the BBC micro in 1968
Sure you were nonbinary kiddo. Imagine being too poor to be able to afford not humiliating yourself with such a retarded underage larp.

Anyone seen the movie about Sinclair and Acorn and the rivalry between Clive and Chris Curry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM

I quite enjoyed it though I read Clive didn't like it lol

Did this ever have online capabilities? Could you like surf BBSes with it?

>>12106487
Yup

>>12106542
Can I surf the Internet using this somehow?

>>12106154
I played Popeye which was another Don Priestley game. It had huge colourful sprites but was slow as hell and cryptic as fuck.

>>12103498 (OP)
Anyone got that British guy meme with the Luv Me Speccy shit? I can't find it lmao

>>12107061
Outside of the meme the guy is actually American btw

>>12107067
I know but some motherfuckin Anon on here had the funniest fuckin ZX Spectrum meme with this bs and I wish I fuckin saved it.

>>12106108
Down unironically looks better.

>>12106108
nice self own

>>12106108
???

the game boy eats the speccy for breakfast

>>12106694
it would be extremely slow

>>12106694
No, for TCP/IP access you'd need a modern addon like the spectranet.

>>12107336
I wouldn't be so sure
https://youtu.be/ouBcvnKPTXg

>>12106694
No. You'd need to be extremely knowledgeable an even more autistic to manage that. Also, it would be mind numbingly slow. Slower even than a zoomer brain.

>>12107061
OI HERD U WAS TALKIN BUNK BOUT ME SPECCY

>>12108603
Nah mate it's gottta be the fat guy one with the footy

>>12103498 (OP)
>Does this bullshit even have sound?
I wish it didn't

https://youtu.be/F7khL9Ms4ow

>>12109359
Even the humble beeper could pull some interesting stuff (1 bit music, baby!).
Back then:
https://youtu.be/j6MmtyN36bE

And now:
https://youtu.be/1eW39C1hQgU

>>12103498 (OP)
It has lots of extremely interesting games in terms of gameplay despite the absurdly shit hardware.
>>12109359
Manic Miner's rendition of In The Hall of the Mountain King really is one of the worst of all time.
Compare on Atari 2600, a console not exactly known for stellar sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdLUAFuLIRo&t=148s

>>12110458
>Atari 2600, a console not exactly known for stellar sound
From the music thread:
https://youtu.be/Wz-RuCT_mQg

>>12109359
If you press enter it shuts up and the game also runs faster because the speccy has to stop everything to play sound.
>>12110448
Yes, yes, but enough about amateurs, let David Whittaker show how it's done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiXST3haeFE

>>12110464
I think one of the sticking point's for Americans with the Speccy is that Atari and Commodore's hardware was so good at the things that the ZX Spectrum was bad at that it's hard to take seriously. The Spectrum had 3x the processing power of the 2600 and Commodore 64, but the limited color and sound capabilities make that not matter much.

>>12106108
>deflecting to nintendo out of nowhere
auster?

>>12103498 (OP)
>lmao at Britfags.
The biggest spectrum museum is in Portugal
https://loadzx.com/en/
>>12107747
>No, for TCP/IP access you'd need a modern addon like the spectranet.
The Spectrum next has a gopher client. Quite tempted by the spectranet

>>12110493
NTA but you could not post about old home computers on this board for years without some faggot trying to hijack the thread to spam about tenious bing shit like mario and zelda. Tendies dug their own grave with everyone else by being utterly obnoxius and retarded for too long.

>>12106108
12.5fps vs 60fps.

>>12110574
The refrest rate on a CRT on a spectrum is 50 fps although there were rare NTSC ones and Timexes and clones that did NTSC I'm not knowledagebale on them. There were about 40 million clones of the spectrum made but only about five milliion spectrum 16/48/48+/tosatrack sold by sinclair, I don;t know how many of the +2, +2a, +3 amstrad sold but it must have been quite a bit another few millions. The mazing thing about the spectrum was its longevity, it released in 1982 but there were still versions on sale and clones being develped in the 90s and software being written for it for a solid decade.

>>12110472
There is no

>the sticking point's for Americans
Only if you are talking about normies. All the US people I knew who were working on writing games and making harwdare knew about it, in fact it was the ZX80/81 that innspired Jack Tramiel to make the ViC 20 when he saw it breaking to the home market on a visit to the UK on the flip side Clive Sinclair was inspired by chips he saw in the US. We all considered people like Bushnell and Decuir, Wozniak, Curry and Gates (yes Gates, he was a gifted coder) Sir Clive as genuises and did not give a fuck where they were from. It was a very international community back in those days, what really mattered was which processor you knew assembly for the Z80 or 6502. The spectrum has a lot of strenght in its hackability the commodore was more a finished product but it cost a LOT more and was a less elegant PCB.

>>12110569
based, nintendo bad

I literally check out the spectrum library and there's nothing worthy of emulating.

>>12110716
Fucking tendie!

>>12110720
Prove me wrong. Four games that are worth playing in 2025 and if multiplatform the spectrum has the netter version.

>>12110697
I dunno if Nintedo is bad or if it was just a troll culture based round it but their fanboys seem fucking awful and pig ignorant about old systems or retro gaming pure braindead tribalist shit packed full of retards all 80s systems and games are massively interconnected and cross linked all over the place just by the chips used people often wrote stuff on one system with the same CPU and then ported the assemply across using hardare tacks onto others and tweaked it. The old school guys started soldering together their own machines, all of them and were always interested is what was going on with other systems. I have a few nintedo bits but they are just one piece inn a massive jigsaw of innovation and creation and pretty irrelevent in the early 80s and a lot of places. That to one aise even in arcades I always thought donkey kong sucked though and put my coins in other machines. The Japanese and UK games industries were massively interconnected in the 80s and 90s and tendie fanboys just don;t seem to have the knowledge or understanding to appreciate that. Zelda bores the shit out of me. It's like someone endelessly posting only about monty mole and that alone. The spectrum really wa sthe home of the platformer for years, there were hundreds of great platfromers written for it and I don't give a shit about mario, it was not original or fresh when it game out and it was never anything that special. (Now tetris...that was special)

>>12110716
I literally check your posts but find there is never anything worthwile in them because you don't have a fucking clue about retro games or systems
>>12110734
I'm not here to wipe your obnoxious tarded ass and you probably don't have the braincells to play something like doomdarks revenge or a level nine adventure or a CCS strategy game because the emulated bing noises have destoyed too many neurons in your skull.

>>12110736
>nintendo fans are the ones obsessed! not me!

>>12110747
If you like we can all just stop posting about actual retro system and leave you hear to rot with 8 schitzo threads on zedla and a dead board filled with people who fap to pokemon cards. Then you might feel safe at last from nasty actual retro games and systems

>>12103512
it already did for me, I'm waitin on a Next from the most recent kicksharter

>>12105920
I dunno if I agree, GB could do better visuals

>>12110753
One day, DOS Gamers, Amiga Gamers, 8-bit PC Gamers, JP PC Gamers, PC Engine Gamers, Sega Gamers, Sony Gamers, and Xbox Gamers will rise up, band together, and confront the tendies with the reality that they deserve, but unfortunately, that day has not yeet come, and we will continue to suffer this reality where people pretend Nintendo innovated things an no other platforms exist.

The only thing I like is using audio cassetes as data tapes. Especially considering how magnetic tapes had such a long history as backup storage for servers into the 2000s.

Also if you didn't have a video camera that recorded on audio cassettes your childhood kinda sucked. Even VHS has extra personality because you can visually see how much is spooled to the left or right, like pages of a book.

>>12110814
>Also if you didn't have a video camera that recorded on audio cassettes
That's not a thing.
Maybe you're confusing it with one of the many smaller video cassette formats for portable cameras

>>12110772
one day, auster.
one day...

>>12110818
No retard. Literally a black and white video camera that recorded on audio cassette. This is what I had.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL2000

>>12110574
Here, have a butter smooth shmup:
https://youtu.be/JvbYRxtoXT4
Or if you want a more equivalent comparison.
Castlevania on the GB:
https://youtu.be/xgGcNWhRv24
Castlevania on the speccy
https://youtu.be/PoHrWiL2wgM

>>12110823
>a children's toy that records GB Camera tier footage
Yeah, that's why you don't use audio cassettes for video.

>>12110472
>one of the sticking point's for Americans
The opinion of Americans is irrelevant on the spectrum is irrelevant. The speccy is the domain of the Brits, the Spaniards and the Russians.
>The Spectrum had 3x the processing power of the Commodore 64
Yeah, probably the only type of game where you could categorically state that the speccy was better than the c64 is 3D games, due to its raw horsepower and higher resolution.
Castle master on the c64:
https://youtu.be/4o9kIQ3CIfM
And on the ZX (the framerate is better, but not good, mind):
https://youtu.be/hbjiW6iW_fY
And it fascinates me that homebrewers can do stuff like this:
https://youtu.be/EvmzFiRkY5c

>>12110472
>one of the sticking point's for Americans
The opinion of Americans on the spectrum is irrelevant. The speccy is the domain of the Brits, the Spaniards and the Russians.
>The Spectrum had 3x the processing power of the Commodore 64
Yeah, probably the only type of game where you could categorically state that the speccy was better than the c64 is 3D games, due to its raw horsepower and higher resolution.
Castle master on the c64:
https://youtu.be/4o9kIQ3CIfM
And on the ZX (the framerate is better, but not good, mind):
https://youtu.be/hbjiW6iW_fY
And it fascinates me that homebrewers can do stuff like this:
https://youtu.be/EvmzFiRkY5c

did the zx have rpg games? It seems the majority of the library are single screen games

>>12111062
Some, but keep in mind that CRPGs weren't an established genre a the time of the spectrum launch, so you get a lot of games with RPG elements (or proto-RPGs) that you wouldn't categorize as full fledged CRPGs.

>>12106108
whoever made this picture is legit retarded and knows nothing about the gameboy

>>12106128
>comparing SID
>to spectrum's door bell AY chip
lol
>>12106147
> is as good as a C64.
nowhere fucking near it. sid is hundreds of millions of light years ahead of any of this fucking cancer. you must be tripping, faggot.

>>12111081
wizardry and ultima were released before the zx though, and the japs had no issue using these in their games. the rpg genere was already taking shape in other parts of the world. the c64 had lots of rpg, but the spec only had bloodwych? a game released 8 years after the computer came out?

>>12111107
Is The Lords of Midnight an RPG?
Check the CRPGaddict master list for ZX Spectrum games, it's probably as authoritative a list as you're going to get (can't link due to the spam filter).
There's also some recent cool homebrew stuff like wycheweald:
https://redzebra.itch.io/wycheweald

>>12103567
Feed this into an AI song generator!

>>12110736
The funny thing about this schizoid ramble is that he's not doing it ironically.

>>12103567
>>12111138
Look mum, I tried
https://aisonggenerator.io/share/6e304691-c704-468b-b14c-86b6abd1eda4
https://aisonggenerator.io/share/a136241b-cb6a-408e-9d94-dfef7fcabff1

>>12111138
'ate AI

Simple as

>>12111123
Yes it is, pretty much the only real RPG on Speccy and its quite the marvel for the Speccy

It lives again!

>>12111107
For classics like that I can think of The Bard's Tale.

>>12111107
There are a ton of great RPGs on the spectrum the standout for me is stuff like dun daragh, the pawn or dark sceptre but there are loads of others, if you like RPGs you should not miss the three I've named, they really are fantastic stuff.

>>12110814
Strange but true I all the cassettes I have acquired still work. I get a kick out of loading them, the proplems are not the tapes, you need to clean the heads on the old tape players with isoproply and a cotton bud as well as the capstains although many people just plug in an SD card reader and have done I like loading them up, its part of the experience

>>12111096
Take your meds rage troll I like both

>>12111062
>It seems the majority of the library are single screen games
That's just false. Why donlt you actually go and look at it instead of making shit up

>>12110767
>GB could do better visuals
It released a decade later and was monochrome with a tiny fucking screen you numpty

The speccy has some great games, it's very limited but so is the Atari 2600, I just don't get why it makes some people so mad. You can have a lot of fun emulating it with modern conveniences like you can beat Batman with saves and a map and you can give yourself infinite chances on Manic Miner and It's still going to be a steep uphill battle but with a lot of charm in its simplicity. And it has a fuck ton of text adventures that you can play with zero loading time.

>>12107336
>>12107328
>>12107232
>>12111093
NTA, but legit delulu nintendies. This is why people think you're all mentally retarded manchildren. Spectrum obviously looks better. Higher resolution, more colors, and more ambitious games.

>"Most Americans aren't really familiar with it but the Sinclair ZX Spectrum is probably the most underrated microcomputer in history. What is lacked in raw power and graphics it more than made up for in heart and soul. Plus if one was a good enough programmer, you could get performance equal to or better than not only Commodore 64 but also the NES, despite graphical limitations. This opened the foot for some truly special gameplay and unique titles. John Romero used to program on a Spectrum as a kid when his father waa stationed in England and I am told Tim Sweeney somehow got his hands on one as a kid as well."
-John Carmack, programmer of Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM and Quake, interview 1996

>>12106154
Played it, loved it. The TV series was oddly amusing too.
I liked how the main character's name is Cockney rhyming slang for "cunt."

>>12114473
I've beaten Manic Miner without cheating. It's easier than it looks, you should try. Very satisfying when you finally get it right. In the end it's just memorisation.

>>12111123
It's more of a strategic wargame. It doesn't really have the features you'd normally associate with RPG's like experience points or levels.

>>12115216
I've been playing the android version recently and the closest I can compare it too is like a first-person Warlords (Lords of Midnight was one of Fawkner's favorite games too) but there's really nothing quite like it. I love the whole "Gondor calls for aid"/recruiting-allies gameplay in Singleton's games.

>>12115293
It's kind of a distant relative of Japanese SRPG games like Shining Force and Fire Emblem. Those even have the 'recruiting allies' part, sort of, but usually in a more scripted way. You could trace the origin of the genre to Lords of Midnight though I'm unsure if the Nip developers ever played it. They're all kinda inspired by tabletop anyway, even D&D started out as more of a war game than adventure game.

>>12115024
>knows nothing about gameboy hardware
cringe

>>12115039
absolutely embarrassing cringe

bump against flooder

>>12116104
>knows nothing about gameboy hardware

I know that it has lower resolution and less colors than the Spectrum, retard.

>>12103701
I now realize the inspiration for the music arist of VVVVVV.

>>12116104
Yes your post is emba]rrasing cringe,we know.
>>12115039
based

>>12115216
Its a first person tantasy wargame, doomdarks revenge is excellent too

>>12115293
>Night has fallen, do you want a (you) Y/N
Glad you are enjoying it, I remember talking to you about it before.
"Lord Utarg
He stands on the plains of the /vr/ looking north to the speccy thread.
He Thinks...
It is dawn and Lord Utarg is is utterly invigorated The tendies stench is quite strong. He is utterly bold"

>>12116104
He's a nice warm cup of fuck off you are wrong to warm your cold lying tendie heart.
colour>monchrome
big screen>tiny screen

>>12113798
I will check them out, thanks.

>>12117560
>>12117797
>>12117827
> he really has no idea how it works
anon was right about everything. i can ever imagine being this much of a fucking spastic where you truly believe spectrum graphics, that uses software blitting - no hardware sprites, no scrolling, and drawing at 5fps a second (depending on who coded the graphics routines!), is better than a gameboy. lmao. did the british government poison your water supply with lead or something? the mere fact of a japanese toy by nintendo outperforming a $50 british computer for poor people, has mentally broken you.

>>12117560
>>12117797
>>12117827
> he really has no idea how it works
anon was right about everything. i can't ever imagine being this much of a fucking spastic where you truly believe spectrum graphics, that uses software blitting - no hardware sprites, no scrolling, and drawing at 5fps a second (depending on who coded the graphics routines!), is better than a gameboy. lmao. did the british government poison your water supply with lead or something? the mere fact of a japanese toy by nintendo outperforming a $50 british computer for poor people, has mentally broken you.

>>12119018
see
>>12110826

>>12119019
see
>>12110826

>>12119021
what a fucking trash conversion. my sides. they cannot take much more laughter.
gameboy still wins, even in the absolutely obscured video you linked to. embarrassing. say hi to jimmy savile for me.

>>12119032
NTA but Why was the post you are 'replying' to deleted?

Are you trying to brigade threads about non tendiesop to spam lies? Do you have any grasp of why anons think tenies are despicable worthless lying cunts in a cult yet? No a monochome machine with a tiny screen is not better than a colour machine with a big screen with the same CPU you worthless fuckup. Then again in your cult 2+2=5

>>12119036
The deletion thing wasn't in bad faith. He posted twice, I replied to the first post, he deleted it, I deleted my reply, and replied to the remaining post, he replied to my now deleted post. 4chan isn't made for real time shitposting

>>12119019
More discord brigaded vomit from the tendies

>No muh monochome anally insertable handheld with a screen size of just under two inckes square is better than a machine with a keyboard full size screen and colour so lets spam a wall of text.
You're a shower of fucking retards you nintendo WANKERS replete with the usual dab or trite xenobobia to show you really have not washed your arse in a decade. Maybe if the spectums had a two inch screen you might have a fucking point but you don't you sad lying sack of puke.

>>12119032
>Speccy:
>better graphics
>better music
>smoother controls
>far more complex levels
Such a sad sight, when an ameritarded granny can't afford her meds

>>12119041
Wht are you even trying to compare a machine that is offtopic (gameboy) and came out a decade after the vastly superior spectrum (colour full size screen and keyboard) anyway? Just being a stupid cunt and it's the only thing you ever post about is tendieslop so just don't fucking GET IT? Or are you just trolling because durr hurr lets fucking derail everything into conversations about your brandslop corpration and your cult of tards?

>>12119051
I'm the anon defending the cool speccy castlevania homebrew, you rabid moron!

>>12119057
OK thought you were te tendie cunt shitting up the thread with is faeces stained handheld. Excuse me while I go and pick out gameboy and apply a hammer to it. If cunts like that are into them, it must fucking die.

>>12119019
It can be, in the hands of the right programmer, better than NES as well. On your bike, Billy-no-mates you fuckin nonce

>>12119081
based

>>12103498 (OP)

Hi. I'm Kari self proclaimed "entrepreneur". Shut up and watch me pretend to fix old computers in videos with conveniently timed jump cuts to avoid showing me doing anything a person knowledgeable on the subject would instantly recognize as bullshit, while I read the script Grok wrote.

And based on that you should buy a speccy. Also my Only Fans needs a lenslok!

>>12121236
I would put it in her Speccy if you know what I mean

>>12121236
would

>>12106150
Yes, at school. At home, you were lucky if your family could afford a Dragon 32 with a LOGO cart. For most, even that machine was too expensive.

>>12119081
>It can be, in the hands of the right programmer, better than NES
It can't, because it's PAL garbage. It's capped at 50fps no matter what.

>>12121236
She's sweet, hot and likes retro tech. Total nerd girlfriend material, if she were attracted to nerds that is. With that body shes probably chad-hopping nightly.

>>12121390
Wehn I said would I meant the spectrum next. I'm happily married.

>>12121362
Stick you your gameboy in another thread and go have a wank to zelda to calm yourself that people like other things you gimp

>>12103567
FUCKING. BASED.

Any hoppe of the strategy games for theSpectrum getting a make over on the Spectrum Next? They are excellent and still hold up
Who owns these now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cases_Computer_Simulations

>>12121578
There were a lot of genres on the Spectrum that were far better than they had any right to be. I remember dumping loads of hours into War in Middle Earth which was surprisingly tactical.

>>12121926
great game that but those old CSS games were amazing subk endkless days into stuff like arhnem and vulcan especially

>>12121926
>There were a lot of genres on the Spectrum that were far better than they had any right to be.
It has an epic text adventure library too

>>12116104
>nintendofaggo shitting on based Carmack
Still salty that he shit hard on the SNES hardware?

>>12122201
>t. actual skitzo talking to himself off topic again.

Go away nutter.

>>12116078
And it all goes ultimately to Tolkien. Gygax was a war gamer who thought it would be cool to make a war game with Tolkien type shit (Chainmail) and then decided to do it with small bands of heroes (D&D)

>>12122218
Fair
>>12116078
Nah singleton who wrote it was a massive play by post gamer, that's when people used play multiplayer strategy games by snail mail. That's it's origins. Its always been a really unique game because of its sucessfully doing a FPV wargame.Singleton was also a genius coder

Those feels when you have your forces massed at the Citadel at Xajorkith and the Ice fear is stong and you see the flags of numberous armies of the witchking appearing to the north waching down from the plains of Dawn

What a fucking game. It and Doomdarks Revenge are their own little lost genre, You could say there is the slightest echo of it in the civil war in skyrim (not retro) but not really.

>>12122234
>FPV wargame
How tf does that even work? Like moving around on a Fire Emblem map but in FPV?

>>12122243
Battlezone 98
Urban Assault
That command and conquer rambo game
ARMA commander mode
Dungeon Keeper possession spell
Carrier Command

>>12122243
https://youtu.be/Igjkc9TlCOw
Lords of Midnight seems interesting

>>12122243
You can recuit people and swich between characters, you start with four each has personal characteristics and can have riders and men that move with the around the map. They can reciot additional men from keeps and citidels so you can move resources form character to character.The enemy pours down from the North, as inspired from the armies pourig from mordor by Toklien. As the characters move accross the landscape they can enoughter a variety of places and wildlife and search them but also see the enemies armies in the distance (or even right beside them when you can attack them or they attack you!). There are citadels and keeps and in them you can station men and enter and charachers and armies at them to create strong points. You take your turn and move each character and take their actions as they pass accross the landscape and delcare night during night battles are resolved and the witchkings forces move

there is also a solo quest run solution akin to frodo taking the ring to mount doom. The sequel doomdarks revenge ups the complexity, factions and character count along with map size and graphics quality (they change depending on the time of day). Give it a go. The original came with a keyboard overlay, map and mini novel.

The game mechanic is outstanding. It would be great if a modern game was made using the mechanics. Mike SIngleton sadly died and his family holds copyright.

>>12103498 (OP)
OI ME SPECCY

>>12122292
Don't forget Machines: Wired for War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYQGi4OcyXM

>>12103509
in this economy i'd kill for that room

>>12119041
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>>12119046
>>12122201
>when you're destroyed so badly by a japanese toy with 4 different shades of green, all that's left is trashing the thread and having a severe mental breakdown
nice work, jimmy savile. remember how the spectrum was so good that it sold over one 111 million of them? oh wait. no. that was the gameboy. lmao.

>Americans always banging on about the videogame crash of 1983
>tiny, squidgy-key Spectrum holds the whole UK games industry up on its shoulders to weather the storm
We should be more humble.

>>12123113
Americans and most other cultured parts of the world were using the C64 during that time.

>>12123121
That explains a lot. No fun, just function.

>>12122797
What's that one? Kidding.

Were there any games that actually took advantage of the 128K? I remember some games had extra levels but that seemed to be about as far as it went.

>>12123534
Hundreds.Go to spectrumcomputing and search for 128k only.
Also pretty much anything using the AY soundchip, since the addon for the 48k wasn't commonplace.

>>12123635
This

>>12123034
You're off topic again skitzo tard. No one gives a fuck about your monochome buttplug handheld, you are in the wrong thread.

>>12106128
That song playing over the tit monster with the guns is really good.

>>12122864
comfy as fuck tee bee haich. needs more mushy peas and sardines though

>>12121236
Who hurt you?

>>12126431
>You hurt me

>>12108603
Should be Ashens

>>12110716
>he hasn't played the absolute classic Zniggy series

>And in the Lancashire game room Bernard's brought back from the corner shop Manic Miner, Horace, and a bunch of other games on cassettes programmed by me mates in their bedrooms all for four quid haha

The best part.