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I've failed the 8 bit test.
256 bits are needed for each character and 8 bits make a byte? That's a lot of ones and zero's to work with on Manic Miner. |
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No a byte is 8 bits. For English that's all you need but for foreign langauges they may need more so it can be more complicated. On a spectrum it would have been 8.
What you might be getting confused about is a byte can represent 256 separate values, 2 to the power of 8. |
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This is getting far too confusing, we need to get Dianne Abbott on to explain it :)
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Eithhundredandtousandfiftymillion bytes.
Yes, that's the way I knew it, 8 bits make a byte but it takes 256 bits to make a character. You are saying it takes more than this thanks to foreign languages (bloody foreigners). I didn't know that BTW so how are accentuated languages stored? |
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No it's 8 bytes a character in the simplest method normally used. Think of it this way:
8 bytes allows 256 values. That covers 26 A-Z + 26 + a-z + 0-9 + a load of punctiuation and extra stuff like the blocky characters you would have seen on a spectrum keyboard. But say Japanese might require far more characters. They have 500 different symbols for schoolgurl knickers alone!   . |
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Shinobi And Daley Thompson Decathlon was too decent games a little later, Used to play them in the pub
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Knock yourself out hobbit fans :)
http://torinak.com/qaop#!hobbit The rendering is somewhat slower than a PS4. |
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Old fodey dodeys set in their ways
 I thought it was like an 8 bit square where each character was a dot on a square. Good to learn something new |
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Atic-Atac was superb - as were most of the Ultimate games - Sabru Wulf, Lunar Jetman, Jetpac, Knight Lore
Skool Daze was also great |
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The Amstrad 64 was the best
I had a game called classic racing, you where the trainer of horses, nothing like getting a really good horse :), think its in part what got me into horse racing. Also was a football manager game you got each player to 10/international. |
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and daley thompsons decathlon was great too, but you certainly went through a lot of joysticks playing it
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I was another Spectrum fan in the day. My favourite games included Booty, Bruce Lee and Stop the Express (and many more).
There are some links here to a load of the old spectrum magazines: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.sinclair/WvMScQe1H0w |
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Thanks for that Gin, had a look at issue 1 of Sinclair User, brought back some great memories.
Daley Thompson thumping the keyboard lol, remember it well. |
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I had a ZX81 and ZX Spectrum, one mate had a C64 and the other had an Oric. I remember we had heated discussions as to who had the best computer. The C64 was light years ahead but I still stood my ground on the good old ZX Spectrum.
Oric probably had the last laugh as it's the rarest of all 3 and a collectors item. |
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I was thinking about games yesterday and I thought of Booty too.
Pirate game only cost 2.99 from memory and I played it plenty. I looked at Fighting Warrior too....there was absolutely nothing to it Player of the year got played alot too. |
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Firebird Software! some of the games were £1.99!
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