The Spectrum Show EP 138

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@gabrieleamore3081969 9 ай бұрын

Great episode as always and tnx so much for the nice comments on my BomberBot. Coming from the man who taught me how to use AGD is even more special❤

@chrishill7797 9 ай бұрын

Yes! That’s my Sunday sorted!

@mattelectro78 9 ай бұрын

Exactly my reaction! 😀

@melthebell33 9 ай бұрын

Love Magic Meanies, me and mi Dad (R.I.P) played it for hours daily for years lol

@simonbailey8728 9 ай бұрын

Great Show As always , I wish to thank you for demonstrating the AY Interface Helped me greatley . I had a sound issue with my 2A , The AY sound from it was distorted hard to listen to . Bought the AY Interface and now crisp sound from my 2A . Excellent imformation that pointed me In a cheap and simple reapair . Thank You .

@frankowalker4662 9 ай бұрын

The circus game looks and sounds great. Another wonderful episode Paul.

@kins749 9 ай бұрын

Great show. Just to correct though that Magic Meanies is a clone of Mr Do!, even plays the same music

@stevebryce 9 ай бұрын

Yes was just going to say the same. In particular that layout of the first level is very distinctive. It's a strange character, whereas every other level the pre-dug tunnels are basically the last digit of the number of the level (so the number 3 for levels 3, 13, 23, etc.). It would have been interesting to see if the levels of this game followed the same pattern.

@scyphe 9 ай бұрын

Nothing beats Tim Follin's Chronos and Agent-X soundtracks on the 48K.

@seraphinberktold7087 8 ай бұрын

Vectron features the best ZX Spectrum beeper tune IMHO. Composed and programmed by Tim Follin, too.

@ReiverBlue1971 9 ай бұрын

Great stuff! I don't know if anyone else experiences this but, after 33 years I still get excited by game type in listings (my heart rate actually goes up ;P)! A free game plus the joy at finally getting it working due to typing errors (or even misprints which gave you a buzz by getting it right when the mag didn't). Mind you, it'd often turn out to be pants so...move on to the next type in ;)

@gregoryoakman8639 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the episode Paul.

@EvanBThompson 9 ай бұрын

Always feel happy when I see there is a new episode released. One of the few KZbin shows that I like to watch on the TV. Quite the sight to see all the spectrum Roms in one shot

@roberthazelby4424 9 ай бұрын

Exolon, Cybernoid and Plotting all have AY music on 48k machines.

@JimmyCall 9 ай бұрын

Fiendish Freddy looked fantastic.

@darkfalzx 9 ай бұрын

Many 48k games have AY sound, but it ends up disabled because the game, rather lazily, only checks if the machine has 128k by flipping a memory page, but never for the chip itself. If I remember correctly, most Hewson, System 3, Dinamic and OperaSoft games can have their AY music enabled on a 48k machine with a POKE or two. As far as games that have AY music enabled even on a 48k machine - Pulsoid, Bosconian and maybe Motos come to mind. In Chronos, if you listen to the intro track, AY adds another percussion channel.

@BuckingTheTrend2008 9 ай бұрын

Ah.. that would make sense then. Is there a list of such pokes?

@kennethgibson456 9 ай бұрын

Great show as always. Its so wierd the ST had the same sound chip! Talk about penny pinching!

@TygonBC 9 ай бұрын

Love the Fiendish Freddy's review. Tons of character in those graphics and animations.

@AmbersKnight 9 ай бұрын

Great to see another episode :) I am constantly amazed by all the great work in recreating old hardware with a new twist, if they work out the incompatability issues that Interface 2 replacement would be great. With regards to the ZX-AY, Defenda by Interstellar software is something that might work with it. I know under emulation you can run the game on the 48K model with AY enabled and the AY sounds play so it might work with the ZX-AY. Magic Meanies looked like fun. I do always try to find Mr Do clones on the Spectrum as the original arcade is a favourite and the fan made Mr Do for the Spectrum is one I often play.

@robm8809 9 ай бұрын

Thanks again, Paul.

@TheWobblyCameraGuy 9 ай бұрын

Always look forward to a new episode! 👍👍

@TRONMAGNUM2099 7 ай бұрын

Excellent!

@LuciferStarr 9 ай бұрын

6:10 Jetpac with an uptempo version of the Robocop theme?? Not what I'd have gone with, but...

@billybollockhead5628 9 ай бұрын

Im surprised fiendish freddy looked so good on the speccy. My local computer shop always had the amiga version running on demo mode to show off it's capabilities, i always just assumed the spec version would look now like it.

@craigwalker3194 9 ай бұрын

I used to have Fiendish Freddy's Big top o'fun for the Spectrum on tape. It seemed to take Ages to load. It looked nice & sounded nice but i only played it once.

@raithrover1976 9 ай бұрын

I bought it after playing on my friend's Amiga. It was decent but not a patch on classic multi-event games like Daley Thompson's Decathlon / Super Test and Hyper Sports

@mr.y.mysterious.video1 9 ай бұрын

I owned that circus game at the time as a 128k multiload it was horrendous. many minutes between each attempt. a plus 3 version would have made all the difference

@onkelnb 9 ай бұрын

Adding just a single joystick port to the recreated Interface 2 would not have been a luxury.

@KovesVids 9 ай бұрын

I've never been able to get the Robocop AY Intro tune out my head.

@vidarlystadjohansen9829 9 ай бұрын

Such a great channel

@alanreader4815 9 ай бұрын

Great Show goinh to download Bomber Bot see if loads.

@gabrieleamore3081969 9 ай бұрын

make sure you use a 128k model (or emulator)

@jexthegamer 9 ай бұрын

I see the type-in from this episode on your website. And the one from Episode 137. Thanks for that. However, I'm still waiting for the ones from Episode 136. Can you please add those to your website too?

@BuckingTheTrend2008 9 ай бұрын

The ones from 136 (Quizimodo, Bricks and Bridge Builder) were already available (on Type Fantastic), and as I didn't type them out, there are not on my site.

@SwainyAtRetroAsylum 9 ай бұрын

Only the disc version of Mr Heli had the AY music included.

@BuckingTheTrend2008 9 ай бұрын

OK Cheers... should have looked a bit harder 🙂

@SwainyAtRetroAsylum 9 ай бұрын

@@BuckingTheTrend2008 It seems that a few publishers only added AY stuff to the disc versions at times.Thunderblade was another.

@marasmusine 9 ай бұрын

Okay, I think I recognized the music as Zzoom, Manic Miner and Midnight Resistance?

@marasmusine 9 ай бұрын

Magic Meanies was one of the first games I had! So I played it a whole bunch. I found out recently that CDS were based in Doncaster, where I live.

@BuckingTheTrend2008 9 ай бұрын

Yep, plus a demo and Atom Ant.

@seraphinberktold7087 8 ай бұрын

Such a shame that games like Fiendish Freddie's Big Top of Fun only port graphics directly over from another system without adaptation to the ZX Spectrum's colour graphics layout. Careful adaptation could yield excellent results beyond monochrome graphics. But this takes time and effort to do including tweaks to the game's mechanics so it was often omitted.