Name the Game - Part 8

[CapTVK]

A true blue Commodore owner all the way. Although I know my way other homecomputers as well. Well, I now the various stories at least. The " dodgy memory expansion that would fell off at any time"-problem was well known at the time. Some people simply GLUED it to their ZX81 to prevent it falling off.

[DrSpike]

The Spectrum 48K one wasn't much better!

[Buck Birdseed]

I (briefly) had a ZX81 before my speccy but I never had the RAM pack.

[child of Thor]

well this wasn't technically a game as we've been used to guessing

But i'll give it to standup as he was first to describe the symptoms of the term i was looking for.

What kind of became a game for the ZX81+16k rampack programmer, and the term i was looking for was the infamous 'Rampack wobble', the game was trying to avoid it happening!

And all it took was a 'wobble' of the connection for you to loose all the data, it didnt actualy need to fall right off, simply pressing the keyboard in a way the rampack didnt like( ) was fatal - and there wasn't a special technique you could use apart from glueing it to the connector with superglue.

I can only say that you have to imagine typeing a few hundred lines of code into your pc with a long stick(it really wasn't easy using the Zx81s 'touch sensitive' keyboard!). And maybe you could loose it all buy poking with your stick in the wrong way!

And thus maybe the first cases of home computer rage was born?

whats happened to duke?

[DrSpike]

/me thinks CoT needs to reread the rules.

[child of Thor]

ah.....but this was that undocumented area called the 'in between guess while duke remembers' game, and no-one scores any points for these

Like our un-written constitution, what we do in this situation isn't covered by our rules.........so i used it creatively this time to provide some other computer trivia
So shall we have some rules for these kind of situations in future?

*and i think there may only be a few years age difference between us - i'm quite a young old git *

Standup - its your go until the duke is back

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by child of Thor


*and i think there may only be a few years age difference between us - i'm quite a young old git *

[denial mode] Nah you are *way* older than me.

[Standup]

Sadly i seem to be giving quite a few years to DrSpike if your profile is accurate. Can't be long before i start using the large font size and getting a craving for Werthers Originals

Ok coming back to the modern age..well circa early 1992 this game was described in one review as "meaningless title, nice parallax".

[child of Thor]

'Uridium'?

@Dr.Spike man you are soooo old, just by the fact you are winning this game

[DrSpike]

I prefer the term knowledgeable.

[child of Thor]

yeah thats the one i meant

ahh.....i like the odd werthers myself Standup, no shame in that

'Dropzone'?

[dunk]

Paralax

[Standup]

No to all of the above.

Japanese style platformer for the Amiga.

[duke o' york]

duke's access at work has disappeared, and he can only visit a couple of times a week at the moment.

Shadow of the Beast?

[DrSpike]

Could at least have given us another clue.