The Spectrum Show EP 107

[@michaelwhite5641]

Me: "I need something to watch" TSS: "Hold my Kempston"

[@fandabidozi3191]

‘ooh-er’ - Ed

[@mrpositronia]

Saucy.

[@wobbers99]

HTML5 is just bloatware haha The Web connected Speccy looks great! The Whole show was brilliant. Thanks for the effort putting these together. I really look forward to the monthly videos. Bit like waiting for a magazine with a tape stuck to the front as a kid haha

[@BuckingTheTrend2008]

We need some clever chap to write a simple text web browser now. Like back in the WAP days.

[@SpecBASStuff]

@@BuckingTheTrend2008 - there is a guy who has just shown off an early version of such a thing, called "Channels", which works as a client/hub. It looks a lot better than I would have imagined - although it appears to require a little Python interpreter for each site you want it to work with.

[@Baekstrom]

Every episode is like taking a mini vacation.

[@Archimedes75009]

Indeed !

[@neilt591]

The feature about the Spectranet was great, and the wonderful background music gave it that something extra. Great episode as always. Thank you.

[@AmbersKnight]

Always great to see the Spectrum SHow back. Loved the feature on that Spectranet, really great add-on for any Speccy owner today. I like The Perils of Willy but I would love to see someone come along and replace the tune with an AY rendition along with the proposed extra rooms. All in all another great episode, looking forward to the next one already.

[@HappyCodingZX]

Perils of Willy plus which features AY music, extra modes and so on is available to people who donated when they bought the game, and also to my Patreon supporters.

[@AmbersKnight]

@@HappyCodingZX Is it able to be bought outright?

[@HappyCodingZX]

@@AmbersKnight not currently but as I said, if you donate when downloading I will send it out to the email you provide. I don't spam :)

[@robsretrostuff]

Excellent episode. I am thinking another use of the Spectranet would be to develop on PC and export the assembled tap to a network location and then test it on a real spectrum, tweak on PC, repeat etc

[@SpecBASStuff]

Exactly how I use mine :) - it doen't have to be just as .tap files though. Also very useful sending arbitrary chunks of binary back and forth from Speccy to PC while writing things.

[@robsretrostuff]

@@SpecBASStuff thanks for that. I have put myself on the waiting list for when more are made

[@MarkRound]

@@robsretrostuff if you want to experiment with spectranet before you get a card, the FUSE emulator comes with spectranet support. If you go to the corresponding website for my tnfs site (I can't post the url as KZbin seems to remove my comments each time) there's a guide on setting it up: tnfs dot markround dot com. And you're right, it's a great development environment, the server component is very easy to setup on Windows or Linux. I do all my development against it using fuse locally, and then running on my real spectrum for final checks/tweaks.

[@robsretrostuff]

@@MarkRound That’s great, I will give it a go

[@rossknowles5608]

chuckie egg 2 is flippin great

[@zeprfrew]

Spectranet looks like a dream come true. Incredibly impressive.

[@BuckingTheTrend2008]

I was surprised myself. Especially the BBS stuff.

[@thweasel]

@@BuckingTheTrend2008 Glad you enjoyed snapCterm, you can get the extra ESC keys by toggling the keyboard mode with Symbol Shift + Caps Shift which changes the border colour and key functions. More about it in the manual on my website, I should probably update the in app help at some point.

[@mark-andrews]

RAMPARTS, arcade game from ATARI, circa 1988?, Build a towers/ defend them, attack invaders? Might even be listed as MIA on World of Spectrum?

[@manu128k]

Great episode! 🙂

[@EvanBThompson]

Best thing on KZbin each month. Thank you.

[@robertoneill1979]

Always a treat 🤩

[@internationalcorpsoftimeke1342]

6.41 - Finally! GTA is available on the Spectrum! Also, Chuckie Egg 2 has a heavy “Panama Joe” vibe to it.

[@stevenice8320]

Thanks Paul. I love the Spectranet .

[@TruculentSheep]

BADGER RACING!?!?! - I'm sold!

[@mrpositronia]

I'm sure someone out there could mod the game with a reskin. Anyone will to give it a go?... :^D

[@8-bitsteve500]

Awesome! but I swear that 33 mins flies past in 3 mins! haha

[@BuckingTheTrend2008]

I'll do a longer episode for 110..

[@DouglasTitchmarsh]

Always a must watch. TSS rules

[@mark-andrews]

Wow, the feature, feature , is truly mind-blowing, in my humble opinion, and experiences, which go back many years of playing real ZX Spectrum games, and using real hardware- so amazed it can do all this stuff with new software, and a new 'joystick'-interface.' Not played the skateboarding game, yes, you're correct, skateboards typically work along flat trajectories only. Perils of Willy, great to see such attention to detail but games back in day, like is mentioned were chugged out and are what they are now, and this surly includes licensed, full priced arcade conversions. Like the typed-in sound-fx.

[@NeoMK27]

Great episode Paul. If you can put out of your mind that Chuckie Egg 2 is not more of the same, it a fun, charming platform game with nice sprite animation and a rare save game feature. Back in the day I managed to make one ‘Choccy Egg’ before giving up not wanting to go through it all again…nope!

[@Archimedes75009]

Excellent, as usual. Thank you.

[@retrorobbins]

great show as all was paul ,

[@Dev_olution]

Another superb episode, thanks

[@kloakovalimonada]

That network speed is very impressive. Also, "Manic Miner modding community" is ❤️

[@texmuphy68]

Oh wow that VTX5000... Hello bulletin boards back in the days.

[@frankowalker4662]

Cheers Paul, Another great episode.

[@xlcman]

Great show thank you! Could you please review the Dandanator interface and how to create a menu including for example a multiload game as Shadow of the unicorn...

[@mvl71]

I'm new to this show but I'm already a fan. And I never even owned a Spectrum! I was an MSX guy (and still am, sorry). Well, anything 8-bit really but mainly MSX. I recently got a Spectrum 128 though but I haven't hooked it up yet. Until then I'll check out the back log of your show to see what it can do.

[@-flashback-]

The amazing ZX Spectrum

[@richard-hawley]

What Professional Skateboard Simulator posits, there's such a thing as professional skateboarding.

[@hazy33]

There should be, it was fantastic at the Olympics!

[@robsretrostuff]

Is there a way to connect the spectranet to WiFi I wonder?

[@MarkRound]

Not directly, but you can get WiFi -> Ethernet adapters which you can connect to it

[@robsretrostuff]

@@MarkRound I guess wall plugins are good too

[@hazy33]

Pleasantly surprised to hear Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song on that loading screen for Perils Of Willy!

[@chessoc7799]

At last telnet on the Speccy :) Been dreaming of playing MUD games for years :)

[@geoffneil5073]

Great show as always Paul I never realized how much the Spectranet could do. I'm no fan of Chukie Egg 2 though, after Chukie Egg it was a big disappointment.

[@hazy33]

Professional Skateboard Simulator featuring Resident Evil 1 controls. That sounds a nightmare!

[@damionyates4946]

I'd describe it more like Thrust, I was a pro at thrust and had no trouble dealing with professional skateboard simulator. I loved playing that game. This channel is so ridiculously nostalgic :)

[@hazy33]

@@damionyates4946 Definitely. Like being lowered into a huge vat of 100% proof nostalgia 🙂

[@zxspectrum16KB]

Love the spectranet review think the next has gopher browser be nice if they were both ula+ compatible with text in 512x192 and graphics with interlaced timex hi colour

[@d00m4ace9]

18:37 please tell me what this game is

[@BuckingTheTrend2008]

The game is called Hell Yeah.

[@melthebell33]

ooh, never knew Winston was really called Dylan lol

[@DukeOfKidderminster]

I miss the ‘serious software’ section you used to do. I’m guessing you got negative or lacklustre feedback about it but I always find it interesting what could be done with the old thing beyond games.

[@TheButlerNZ]

I regret selling my Speccy.. I still have the original box it came in tho...

[@G1itcher]

Your videos are next level quality. You deserve to have way more views than this

[@BuckingTheTrend2008]

Thanks. Glad you appreciate them.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

8-Bit-4-EVER ! :-D

[@obregr]

chuckie egg2 is hard and good game

[@kins749]

Pro Skateboard is like one of the minigames on 720 plus a pointless vertical scroller. I loved 720, this is garbage though