Be Excellent To Each Other

its a rubbish return though, he was at th emost working at 1 pound an hour to win that 500 quid.

Anyway to keep everyone on their toes, 1535

my hi-code is MHGR if you dont believe me.

I've updated the first post in the thread so hopefully it has all the rules and league tables. I've rewritten it totally from scratch just to make it clear in case anyone thinks I've gone all Uncle Joe on you.

Final Scores for last week and the league table!


1 - Runcle - 14180
2- Zaphod79 - 10710
3 - Chinny - 9980
4 - Jon - 4860
5= - Dimrill - 3620
5= - Doctor GlyNadolig - 3620
7 - Rev Owen - 3480
8 - Gazchap - 3410
9 - Devilsnowman - 3010
10 - Malc - 2510


League Table
Week 4 of 12

Rank Name Pts
1 - Chinnyhill10 - 28
2 - Zaphod79 - 26
3 - Runcle - 10
4 - Dimrill - 7
5 - Sheepeh - 6
5 - Jon - 6
7 - Devilssnowman - 4
8 - Sistersanta - 2
9= - Craster - 1
9= - Lave - 1
9= - Doctor GlyNadolig - 1

I have been meaning to do this, but don't know which emulator(s) work best on XP, any hints?

You can play without installing anything by following the Java links from World of Spectrum , if you want to download it and play it on your machine i'd suggest either :

ZXSpin :

http://www.zxspin.com/

Or

Speculator :

http://www.spectaculator.com/

There are plenty of others but I've found those two pretty much play everything and are configurable enough to allow for normal keyboard settings even when the game itself does not.

875

1855

2075

I see your 2075 and raise you 2095 !

2045

Man it ramps up when your get to level 3. I hate those red switchy killer things.

Better get my arse in gear as if you beat me again this week I will lose my league position!

Scores updated and I've done a more reasonable 1390.

I've never heard of these before. Do you have to sit in a room and attempt to tie your shoelaces while not knowing your own name?

After a few plays over lunchtime my new high is 2410 - screenie to follow tonight

1860.

Level 3 is a bitch. Not so much a difficulty curve as a cliff.

Advert for the 'win a vcr' :

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag. ... 800085.jpg

The games are :

The Mountains of Ket :

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Mountains+of+Ket$&pub=^Incentive+Software+Ltd$&loadpics=1

The Temple of Vran :

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Temple+of+Vran$&pub=^Incentive+Software+Ltd$&loadpics=1

And The Final Mission :

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Final+Mission%2c+The$&pub=^Incentive+Software+Ltd$&loadpics=1

None of which are suitable for league play :-)

Mountains of Ket, eh? *scratches chin*

1,320 - this is a bloody fun game, are there any modern equivalents?

There is a bit of luck here for the way the screen moves , if it goes the right way you can just keep on hoovering up the points , if it goes the wrong way you can get stuck in edges or never actually get close enough to the points.

The other main scoring hint i can give is after you scroll off the screen when you come back everything is there to be collected again including the invisible grass - so knowing where that is makes a difference there are small sections if it scrolls you around the right way you can really make big scores on the first two levels before it gets that fast.

One thing I cant work out is the bonus score - I typically get either 110 or 105 , but have had 300 once and as low as 80 at other times ?

3195

2310
Ooh, that level 4 is nasty

I tried looking online for an explanation of this, but alas I couldn't find one.

Cheers for the tips. My main problem is still surviving level 3!

Another slight improvement and catching Dimmers - also during this game i managed to scroll quite far up and saw a long row of the spikey things which had what looked like a very long row of plums above it - loads of points if it actually gets on screen


2905

Right better score and some frustration.

Heres the instructions screen :



And it shows the stuff you can and cannot touch - so what about 'red' walls ? , not on the list - I thought they would be similar to black ones but oh no , they kill you straight off - and i found the extra life as well (although didnt collect it)



3875

Still that &"$^ing level 4!
But I'm quite chuffed with this 3,840
The bonus gets doubled if you end in the 'start space' for the next stage (i.e. where you start if you die)

2515


DAMN THAT MR DOM!

*rude things* to that Mr Zaphod, who wasnt there when I posted and was after I did.
So I had to go and do another - 4805, level 5 - Muhahahahaaaa!

Right - got to level 5 (although a lower score than this one) - what the **** do you do with the big multicolour barrier ?

Can you only cross a specific colour ? , I tried yellow and got splatted on my last life.

5135

Green = happy shiny goodness
Purple might do, but until I get there with a life in hand Im not experimenting

If anyone wants to see what the whole map looks like :

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sincl ... plat_2.gif

And some other information about the winning prize for this and other games :

http://www.adamdawes.com/retrogaming/rg ... towin.html

Final score: 2810 (GNIN)

The scrolling is causing headaches, so I don't think I'll be touching it again.

1,795 (MILR)is the best I can do.

I'm off for a week, so wont be able to try again *sob*
I'll just have to see how many thousand people beat my score in the next week

Good! I just did 2995

Playing it directly on the laptop keyboard and screen vastly helped. The Apple wireless keyboard and Dell monitor were too laggy. I can see why FPS fans get so worked up about delays.

Giggity giggity goo!

5870.

Who's the Daddy? Woo!

A missed opportunity here - you could've used the SAM version.

Not really, the competition rules state CPC, Spectrum and C64 only. Reason is that it keeps the number of emulators to a minimum and many people won't need to download anything. With the Spectrum (and possibly the CPC although I need to investigate it) you can even play in your browser.

damn, i want to join this, have reinstalled speccy ds opn my fresh new ds flashcard, so hopefully news soon

rick

You still have a day and a quarter.

thought the deadline was tuesdays at 6pm?

this afternoon my xmas holidayis starts until the 5th,
it was the 66th game in the speccy top 100, so i discovered in on my ds, yeah, and playing now at work

on 575 now, so not really worth a screen shot yet

edit: 1525

6pm Wednesday. THOSE ARE THE RULES!

Remember kids, this closes at 6pm today.

Blast it, I win. I was actually hoping someone would make a last minute dash for it. Despite trying I couldn't get anywhere near the score I achieved for a second time!

I'll keep it simple. This weeks game is...



Bubble Bobble on the Speccy. Play online here:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000722

Sorry it's another Speccy game but not much time for me to sort another format out. Will sort the scores + the league table when I can.

Just to bump this as it got buried over Christmas. Bubble Bobble is this weeks game. Get your scores in. Note it's a really good week to catch me this week and next as I'm away from Monday and may not have a net connection! If I do it will be GPRS.

I've also updated the league table and no places have changed!


The Excellent 8 Bit League (sponsored by Amsoft):

Week 5 of 12

Rank Name Pts
1 - Chinnyhill10 - 38
2 - Zaphod79 - 32
3 - Runcle - 10
4 - Dimrill - 9
5 - Sheepeh - 6
5 - Jon - 6
7 - Mr Dom - 4
7 - Devilssnowman - 4
8 - Sistersanta - 2
9= - Craster - 1
9= - Lave - 1
9= - Doctor GlyNadolig - 1
9= Mr Dave 1

Ok. 481120.

A lowly 258660 for me.

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I thought busting a bubble gave you 10 ?