- Thats neat, never come across anything like that before.
- I remember seeing this a while ago, and my memory was jogged when reading this thread about Timex / Sinclair printers on the ZX World forums.
- The Wikipedia article states, “The Sentinel has no ending sequence; upon completion of the last level, the player is looped back to level 1. When questioned about this, Crammond said he never thought anyone would go so far as to finish the game”
That’s a fun reward!
- I played it on my Spectrum and Amiga. It’s one of those games that has a particular feeling, it always struck me as lonely and a little weird. TIL it was written originally for the Beeb. Also I didn’t know it was released as “The Sentry” in the US.
There’s some download links for the C64 on this page at the very bottom, scroll down quickly to avoid gameplay spoilers! Looks like there are other remakes linked there too.
- That’s pretty cool, I might have a go at that.
There’s also a mod for the Jaaaag for Tempest.
- @nickt : you should submit this article, its a fascinating hack in its own right
- Some games you need a spinner knob. Tempest with a joystick or D-Pad is just hard, not fun. I have often contemplated what Asteroids or Star Castle might be like with a spinner knob.
- LGR did a vid:
- The NECs are great, but my vote for best CRT would be the Eizo F56 or T57. Subjectively, I don’t think there’s a lot between the picture quality-wise, but we had fewer issues with the Eizos back in 1996. I fact, I liked them so much I bought 1200 of them! They had power saving features that meant they paid for themselves in about a year… Also, the degauss packed a real punch!
- Fantastic story. Very tempting!
- I have a couple of the Memotech keyboards, and for the time they were excellent [1]. I picked up one of David’s ZX key keyboards a couple of years ago and it’s also great. He has a fun read about the adventure of building this keyboard [2].
[1] https://www.timexsinclair.com/product/memotech-keyboard/ [2] https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/2019/02/zx-key-externa...
- Ha! I couldn’t get DROP TABLE; either!
- More
one of those obscure pieces of hardware around before the internet and apart from a few photos on auction sites doesn't exist online.
https://www.tzsupplies.com/modular-technology-mt25-iv-interf.../
and a 1 page pdf of the manual. https://docs.rs-online.com/e9af/0900766b8001aeab.pdf