Sunday, 26 April 2015

The Spectrum Show 40

Welcome to The Spectrum Show episode 40.

This is the last in the current series, and we’re going out with a bang. This entire episode takes a look at the magazines of the 8 bit era, from the very beginnings in 1978 up to the end of the Spectrum’s commercial life and beyond.


As well as the usual favourites like Crash and Sinclair User, there are a few you might not have heard about.

It took a long time to put this episode together, around five months on and off, so I hope you enjoy it.

I will be taking a short break but will be back with the new series shortly.

Friday, 17 April 2015

General Update

Hello World!
This is just a quick update of all things in general, keeping you in the loop about what is going on, what is to come and what is about to happen!

The last episode of the series is currently being put together and it's causing me no end of late nights and headaches. It won't be a normal episode, and the amount of work that has gone into it is difficult to describe. The idea has been in my mind for many months and work began on it around November, so you can imagine the struggle I have had.

There have been times when I genuinely wanted to quit because of setbacks, technical problems and numerous re-writes, but rest assured, it is all under control (hopefully) and the final finished product, I hope, will be worth it.

Looking forward to the next series, and I am already planning the format. Sadly, type-in-corner has been a casualty and will not be part of the show. There simply was not enough type-ins to make every episode, but the ones I have will form the basis of a feature for one of the episodes.

Also gone is Playing Tips and Demo Of The Month. Geof will be back with a new section, and another new segment will replace the demo.

My interest in producing new games has taken a bit of a back seat because of the show, but I hope to be able to release at least one game this year. I have three in-progress, so I really want to complete at least one of them!

Back to the show, which seems to be taking a lot of my time, and I have a lot of new hardware to review, and have content for the next ten episodes, which will take us up to episode 50, hopefully released in early 2016. So you can see how much work is left and how far we have to go. After that, I cannot say - it's simply too far away to make any decisions.

Thanks for watching the shows, and for your continued support.

I am going now to get very drunk, watch some old episodes, play a few games and try to avoid spending too much on eBay.


Sunday, 29 March 2015

The Spectrum Show 39

Welcome to Episode 39 of The Spectrum Show.

This episode we get all the news and top selling games from April 1986.

I put the RAMWRITE / RAMPRINT interface through its paces.

I review Dungeons,  Buck Rogers and Penetrator.

I take alook at a new game, Sunbucket.

There is the usual type-in-corner, Playing Tips and Demo of the Month.

The end of series special is in the making, and has been for a while now, its hopefully going to be great, but it is a lot of hard work.

I am also starting to plan the next series... but I think I will take a break after this one!


Thursday, 12 March 2015

Baldy Long Play

While on a long trawl of the interweb, I happened to notice a video on YouTube featuring one of my old Amiga games. This is something of a rarity so it came as a pleasant surprise, and what's more it contains all of the levels.

The game in question is Baldy, a PD game written and released in 1992 by myself. It was written using AMOS and initially distributed through 17Bit Software.

You can find out more about it here.

To watch the full play through you can view it here on youtube.

Thanks to to uploader for playing through all of the levels.

It's a long time since I have seen all of the levels, and some of them look really hard, but all credit to whoever played the game.


Saturday, 28 February 2015

The Spectrum Show 38

Welcome to Episode 38 of The Spectrum Show.

This episode we get all the Sinclair news and top selling games from March 1986.

I check out a Spectrum emulator for my mobile phone.

I review Super Hang-On, Frank N Stein, Blue Thunder and Sea Dragon.

There is also a new type-in game, some playing tips and the demo of the month.

Enjoy

Friday, 6 February 2015

TSS Magazine Issue 4

It wasn't long ago since I put out issue 3, but having the festive season and a short holiday from work meant I had a lot more time to work on the various things that are going on, one being this magazine.

There is the usual game reviews and features as well as material that isn't in the video show.

You can download it by going to the Magazine section of this blog. (link top right).

It would be nice to get some material from other sources, so if you fancy helping out, get in touch. It could be just a game review, or your favourite Spectrum related story, or your memories, anything. Go on... you know you want to...

 
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