A ZX Spectrum game where Cthulhu must be punished for waking you from a well-deserved hangover. · By
No worries! The Spectrum was a British home computer that rivaled the Commodore 64 back in the 80's, and played a huge part in the UK game dev scene; game devs that started on the Speccy went on to make Lemmings, Tomb Raider and GTA, so it played a pretty significant part in video game history. Unfortunately it tends to get ignored by retrogame streamers in favour of the NES. Worth looking into it's history!
As Monster's Legs explained, the Spectrum was an home computer that had huge diffusion not only in UK but also in other european countries. For example, I am Italian and I was (and I still am) a Spectrum user. A proud one!
Enjoy and, if you need any info, don't hesitate to ask. There are literally TONS of excellent Spectrum games available on the web.
If you will understand how big were the machine limitations you will understand why the games are so amazing: coders did their best to avoid the problems or to overcome them to create wonderful stuff. They still do: just take a look on Savage Princess and you'll understand what I mean.
okay, I'm too dumb for this :-(
first downloaded zx spin but that royally screwed with screen resolution :-/
so tried fuse. but cant get further than the first room.
like i even pressed 4 in the main menu and set the keys to wasd kj.
but none of the other 3 did anything.
1 and 3 ("keys qaopm gh" and "sinclair") got me to the sleeping princess where no key press did anything.
2 ("kempston") did also open the princess, room, princess stands up and right back to main menu, all within like a second.
so yeah, I'm too stupid for this :-)
Perhaps just understanding some terms could be useful.
You aren't stupid at all, you just don't know the Specrum, that's all!
"Kempston" and "Sinclair" were two joystick standards used at that time.
My advice is to try again with the "QAOP" option and you should be able to move the princess around.
Q= up
A= down
O= left
P= right
I don't remember if the trigger button is SPACE or M, I must verify that.
