Archive for May, 2007

Programming Reinvented

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

How many of you have wanted to enter the Crap Games Compo but don’t want to struggle with an emulator (or worse, an actual Spectrum!) to get a game written? All that faffing around, saving .TAP files and trying to remember some keywords, and not being able to do all the things we take for […]

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This Is Still Bristol

Monday, May 28th, 2007

It’s about time you got to see more of the fine city of Bristol. Last time I left you in the city centre, looking down a miniature mall towards what we refer to as the Waterfront. Despite its picturesque name, the Waterfront is made up entirely of bars and beggars. About halfway down it […]

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Crikey Chaps, There’s Some Real News!

Monday, May 28th, 2007

That’s right folks, real news! And there’s quite a bit of it, too!
CSSCGC 2007
If you haven’t been reading the comments (and if you haven’t, you really should - they’re usually better than the articles) this year’s Crap Games Competition is now open, and hosted this year by Chris Young over at Unsatisfactory Software! Break out […]

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This Is Bristol

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Some of you, after reading my comments on Adventure In Bristol, may have been a little annoyed at my suggestion that the city is bland, uninteresting, and an all-round crappy place to live. Well, I confess that my comments were made in haste, and after the worst batch of games I’ve played in quite a […]

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The Game That Time Forgot

Friday, May 18th, 2007

You’ve all, I’m sure, heard of a little game called Elite. But how many of you have actually played it? Ah, a fair few of you. Well, you’ll have some idea then of just what a pain it is to do just about anything. Even the relatively mundane task of docking with a space […]

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The Complete Guide to Spectrum Games - Part 5

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Advanced Lawnmower Simulator - Gardensoft, 1988
Honestly, if you haven’t played this game then you haven’t lived.

Ten out of ten. It can only be downhill from here.
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