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And you leave it set to 'Kempston Joystick' in the dropdown?

Dunno.. I used an emulator too. I'd be tempted to turn that off if possible or switch it to Sinclair if that's also in the dropdown.

As it's now lunchtime, I've nipped on to WoS to try both Java versions and it looks pretty broken as the ball is meant to auto-launch after a few seconds so it suggests its locking up.

Just pretend you scored 100 points or something.

I played with an emulator but used the default keys , if your using the java one make sure your selecting 48k spectrum as the type as it gave me weird results with the 128k machine

Keys I used were

z = left
m = right
a = fire / launch

And isnt there a spectrum emulator for your phone or something ?

I cant try these but there are plenty of other java emulators online

Hob :

http://www.twinbee.org/hob/

JX Speccy

http://www.ciunga.it/jxspeccy/

Yeah!

oh, cool. I got 23450ish. About 4 times. I got to level 3 with no warps (and no lives left!)

50380

Feck, that was close. I thought I'd never got to level 5 before but turns out I had.

Final Scores

(Arkenoid)

Joans - 95530 - 10 points
Devilman - 91,950 - 8 points
Itia - 50380 - 6 points
Zaphod - 44910 - 4 points
Chinny - 37590 - 2 points
Bobbyaro - 23450 - 1 point
Grim.. - 9890


League Table (Week 4 of 9)

1 - Zaphod - 32 points
2 - Devilman - 24 points
3 - Joans - 20 points
4 - Itia - 17 points
5 - Malc - 15 points
6 - Chinny - 14 points
7= - Rev Owen - 1 point
7= - Bobbyaro - 1 point

Jack The Nipper 2:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002566

I don't recall testing this one. [pulls unsure face]

Instructions:
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/j/JackTheNipperII-InCoconutCapers.txt

Wrong scores - L/Itia got a 50k which pushes me down to 4th :-(



And its one of the games i checked - i loaded it up , and got a score which if i remember stays on screen until you restart - although i have *no* idea how to play it :-)

<cry>I got 50000, man</cry>

Admittedly it was 4 mins before the end but this was the only time I had to have another go.

Also, Jack the Nipper 2 - I never played this properly back in the day, I used to just mess about in a GTA stylee. Any rules against looking at walkthoughs and maps?

Lovely, lovely graphics. Looks just as nice now as it did then. Apart from the colour clash, obviously, but that's kept to a minimum.

Apologies. Missed it as it was the last post of the page and you got in with minutes to go. The scores on the first post of this thread are now corrected for the error.

Yay! Cheers, dude.

boo!

you've moved me down to 15 points when I was on 17 points after week3!



Malc

and boo again, I was too ill to play this week!



Malc

Rescored:

1 - Zaphod - 30 points
2 - Devilman - 24 points
3 - Joans - 20 points
4= - Malc - 17 points
4= - Itia - 17 points
6 - Chinny - 14 points
7 = - Rev Owen - 1 point
7 = - Bobbyaro - 1 point

Cock up occurred due to me not rescoring from scratch when I added that last minute score in. I would apologise but frankly you should have come to expect it by now.

5320

Hard to believe I used to play this a lot as a kid - some of the level design and enemy placement is hateful.

5,050

1200

I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with this one , the instructions say weapons but i cant fire or do anything other than walk and pick things up ?

Ignore me - got it now :-)

3390

It sadly doesn't seem to make much sense as a game. The original one was better, there seemed to be an objective. This is style over substance.

Still, there are positions on the scoreboard to be had.

As a kid, I preferred the the sequel (I always liked games where you could swing around on ropes, Jet Set Willy II, Hunchback and the like) but I suspect that if I played the original now, I'd prefer that.

Reading some of the reviews and tips on WOS there are some objectives but they are not that clear and seem to be of no pratical use (i.e. in one of my games i found the mouse , i should now take it to the elephant at the opposite end of the map ...... so it frightens it off ......so what ?)

I wasn't sure if you just had to get that naughtyometer or whatever it's called filled up to complete the game?

Thankfully only a few more hours of this old toot before we get to play the utterly superb CHASE HQ!

Jack The Nipper 2 - Proving that democracy isn't always a good thing.

When I was about 10, I was faced with the choice of buying this or Combat School. I still regret buying this.
I keep forgetting about this as I've had a really busy week, but I finally got round to downloading it last night, so hopefully I can get a couple of games in before the deadline.

Now there's a game for a future challenge

Bugger. Missed that one completely.

Jack The Nipper 2, a game so terrible only 3 people took part.

Final scores:

Chinny - 5320 - 10 points
Devilman - 5050 - 8 points
Zaphod - 3390 - 6 points



League Table (Week 5 of 9)

1 - Zaphod - 36 points
2 - Devilman - 32 points
3 - Chinny - 24 points
4 - Joans - 20 points
5= - Malc - 17 points
5= - Itia - 17 points
7 = - Rev Owen - 1 point
7 = - Bobbyaro - 1 point

Let's Go Mr Driver!





Yes it's Chase HQ on the CPC.

Different rules from usual and this is important. You can use all the continues the game makes available to you.


http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/filedetail.php?recid=173

Ensure you select the 128k version when loading for the sampled speech. Also ensure you don't select the various cheat modes.

Hold on man!

3567848

Never played this version before. Much harder than the speccy version - the blockyness (sorry Chinny) makes it a bit difficult to see what's going on. Other than that it's the speccy version in colour, which is as it should be. The c64 version was hilariously bad. Note to programmers - don't use the high res mode in a car game if you only have a 1 Mhz cpu.

Turbo Charge on the c64 is also excellent, though. I might nominate that next time as it's relatively unknown.

If you keep messing around like this, your time is going to run out!

Reached stage 4 but didn't beat Itia's score. Bah!

Yeah the graphics are a little blocky but the emulators don't do them any favours. Looked far better on a proper CPC monitor. On modern LCD's with all the scaling all CPC graphocs tend to look blocky when in actual fact on a Amstrad monitor they looked great.

Next time we do the 8 Bit Challange we need to play Burnin' Rubber on the GX4000 for sure.

Bah. It's just been one of those weeks I'm afraid.
Because I'm some sort of masochist I had a quick go on Jack the Nipper, but I only managed around 2000 points and didn't really remember much about the game (although I did remember the keyboard controls straight away )

Do ensure you play Chase HQ, I really enjoyed picking it up again. Doesn't have quite the "just one more go" appeal of Pang but a good conversion. RG rated the CPC version the top home conversion a few months back which was nice. Interestingly they slated the ST and Amiga versions when all the mags were wetting themselves over them back at the time.

C64 version was dire. My mate got it for his 64 and man did that give me some ammo in the CPC v C64 wars.

Hmph.. the game messed up just as level five was starting. Fortunately, I'd been taking screenshots as I went.


Did it do this for anyone else?



4,397,092. Not too shabby for my first go.

7615610

No problem with level 5 here - other than the fact that it's fecking hard. Breezed through the first 4 without using a continue and lost them all on level 5.

Edit - I'm using Win Ape 2.0 Alpha 17 on Vista with the file Chinny linked to.

Using the same emulator and file here. I'm wondering if it glitched because I finished level 4 with 0 time remaining. In fact, once it had showed the bonus score at the end of the level, it let me start accelerating again in the background!

14123849

I actually had around 9 million, but you get a huge bonus after the end sequence, so it's worth waiting for that. It's only by chance that I left the thing running whilst messing about with photobucket.

You completed it? Well done!

my first go of this , i can hit the baddies car lots of times but cant kill it (yet)



224512

I played that Jack the Nipper game, I ran around for about 10 minutes, got to a slope I couldn't climb up, died a few times and my score was 0. I gave up after that, it was terrible! I shall play this tonight, although I doubt I shall be beating ltia's score!

I'm pretty sure I've never done it before despite playing the speccy version an awful lot years ago. My brain must have been thinking about it for the last 15 years.

I think the best approach it to save all your turbos until you reach the baddie, unless you're about to run out of time.

An improvement, but I can't be the last level.

5,888,622

Oh and we had the hotter Nancy on the Speccy, despite the jaundiced skin and blood-stained face.

Need to find more time to give it another blast. Without turbos its very hard to get all the hits required.