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Sir Clive’s In There (that coffin)

Started by Huxleys Babkins, September 16, 2021, 06:50:33 PM

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Pranet

Quote from: seepage on September 17, 2021, 08:07:56 AM
Yes, Chaos & Laser Squad were fab.

Wasted far too much time on Annals of Rome and Encyclopaedia Of War: Ancient Battles

Is the second one the RT Smith one? Loved that. Even if it basically boiled down to two armies running at each other in a mass. Good manual. I wondered about mentioning RT Smith. After the Julian Gollop games, played his probably second most.

I wanted Annals of Rome at the time but never got it. I think I tried it on a emulator but didn't have the patience these days to work out how to play it.

Just remembered Codename MAT.

kalowski


Catalogue of ills

He called his children Crispin and Bartholomew. In short, a monster.

Uncle TechTip

You could make decent music with a spectrum if you tried -anyone remember Dollar Power? https://youtu.be/p3ekkZkfYQE

Pranet

Quote from: Uncle TechTip on September 17, 2021, 07:33:33 PM
You could make decent music with a spectrum if you tried -anyone remember Dollar Power? https://youtu.be/p3ekkZkfYQE

Ah cool. Yes I do now.

Norton Canes


Pinball

I'm confused by the nurse animation. How does rotating your right leg slightly make your breasts bounce up and down? Asking for a friend.

JesusAndYourBush

Quote from: Uncle TechTip on September 17, 2021, 07:33:33 PM
You could make decent music with a spectrum if you tried -anyone remember Dollar Power? https://youtu.be/p3ekkZkfYQE

Although most of the individual sounds are made by the Spectrum, I'm pretty sure that's been done with a sequencer, and I don't believe that's a Spectrum making the drum sounds.  I recognise the speech, it's being made with a Currah Micro Speech, I had one of those.

The Spectrum could definitely do more than just beep though.  I remember being amazed first time I heard this...
Future Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orEXKOBIv_8


Blumf

Robocop on the 128K had a nice chilled theme tune by Jonathan Dunn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os57CXh6COw

Appeared on other ports too.

Somehow reused in an ad for Ariston (Gameboy version I believe):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUVs7vXNZiw

Which nicked it's central idea from Tango (1981) by Zbigniew Rybczynski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo8O8lYDzIU

Uncle TechTip

This was my favourite, Milk Race. It starts well executed but standard, at about 1:00 it gets really funky with a searing bassline. https://youtu.be/Wy_rwGqBUb0

seepage

Quote from: Pranet on September 17, 2021, 05:10:50 PM
Is the second one the RT Smith one? Loved that. Even if it basically boiled down to two armies running at each other in a mass. Good manual. I wondered about mentioning RT Smith. After the Julian Gollop games, played his probably second most.

I wanted Annals of Rome at the time but never got it. I think I tried it on a emulator but didn't have the patience these days to work out how to play it.

Yes, RT Smith. Probably wouldn't stand up to scrutiny now but still infinitely better than Universal Military Simulator for the Atari ST etc. which was very self-important but was complete nonsense. 

I think was Annals of Rome was written in BASIC rather than machine language, which surprised me.

Pranet

Ancient Battles was great, had endless fun fiddling around with the editor, creating the map and the armies.