crappy roasted pea for compo

sorry
a work collegue of mine was working on this www.sp1der.co.uk/blar/Dizzy/

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( hubare originator of "NEAR THE TOP", Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:22, archived)

ha ha ha!
look out! Rain drops!

*dies*
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:23, archived)

:D
How soul destroying!
It was a right gip in the later ones where you lost energy for falling from too high a drop :(
( Droog is too orangey for crows, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:44, archived)

hahahaha
woo

edit: I remember that if you went to the top of one of the huts, then removed the window, there was a copy of sinclair user that he could pick up, but I never found out if it was used in any of the puzzles
/didn't finish treasure island dizzy blog
( swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:23, archived)

i don't think i ever completed it
or any of the sequels

i got quite far though....
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:27, archived)

fantasy world dizzy was quite easy
and prince of the yolk folk, but the first 2 were very hard.
( swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:28, archived)

i had an emu version i tried to play recently
i think i gave up after one too many pixel perfect jumps let me down....

we have it too easy these days
i must be spoilt
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:31, archived)

hahahahahahahhahah
*been there*
*knows pain*
( hubare originator of "NEAR THE TOP", Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:32, archived)

arf
how did you define your keys?

I used to use
LEFT = O
RIGHT = P
UP = A
DOWN = Z
JUMP = SPACE

*accidentally selectes kempston joystick*
*has to rewind and reload tape*
( swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:35, archived)

i always used the kempston joystick config
but never used the joystick

0-fire
8 n 9 - up n down
6 n 7 - left n right
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:36, archived)

I never met anyone who had a kempston joystick

( swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:38, archived)

neither did i actually
but the 6,7,8,9,0 key config just always worked for me :)
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:38, archived)

I HAD A KEMPSTON!
and with the newer zx 128 you had to have a huge dongle thing poking out of the back of the machine. /mis remembers
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:39, archived)

i just looked it up
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempston_Interface
( swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:41, archived)

haha
excellent!
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:47, archived)

oh my!
*misty eyes*
( Droog is too orangey for crows, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 10:11, archived)

I used to have one
it had a weird interface that it plugged into
( mugatu what the deuce?, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:40, archived)

I shall now call you
"Kempston Buddy"
Hi Kempston Buddy!
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:41, archived)

oooooooh kempston town
the place i long to be....
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:45, archived)

the kempston races sing this song
doo-dahh
doo-daah
the kempston dongle's really long
oh the doo-dah day!
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:49, archived)

ha ha ha!!
you said dongle
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:50, archived)

Needed the Kempston interface to use the CD loader
Oodles of games on that CD.
( The Blue Aardvark Unavoidably detained by reality, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:46, archived)

I had a box set called 1001 games for the spectrum
the box took up most of my wardrobe because of all of the tapes
( swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:52, archived)

I always used
LEFT: I
RIGHT: P
UP: Q
DOWN: Z
JUMP: N
( The Blue Aardvark Unavoidably detained by reality, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:48, archived)

not as hard as Lunar Belming Jetman
christ on a bike
( Mighty Nibus who dares gins, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:31, archived)

or Rasputin the Rapscallion
although i've never met anyone else
who ever played this game :(
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:34, archived)

Treasure Island Dizzy!
*dances*

Woo!
( 4dam party, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:23, archived)

hahaha
great band ;)
( mr horrible put his trousers on really angrily on, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:23, archived)

I LOVE DIZZY
/does not tarnish childhood memories by replaying them
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:23, archived)

29 COINS!!!! ARRGGGHHH! 29 fucking coins!!!!!!!
i had to do a walkthrough last year to finally sleep at night!
( hubare originator of "NEAR THE TOP", Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:25, archived)

you should have used a poke

( swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:28, archived)

ANDREW!!!!
you can go straight to bed without any tea for cheating!
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:29, archived)

but it was in sinclair user
*writes to Andrew Hewson, author of Hints & Tips for the ZX-80 for help*
( swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:33, archived)

Poke??
if i remember correctly was a piece of BASIC that you run before the game?... i never used them (was proper gamer) unlike you bumhead!*


/refluffs
( hubare originator of "NEAR THE TOP", Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:31, archived)

try getting past level 1 of red heat on the spectrum without a poke
it's damn near impossible
( swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:37, archived)

YES! Best Dizzy game ever
woo
( mugatu what the deuce?, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:24, archived)

the first dizzy game was also excellent

( swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:27, archived)

I never played this game
But I wish I had now
( Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:25, archived)

you can't be in our gang now

( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:29, archived)

I don't care - I have my own gang over here and we're playing D&D
/sad true life blog
( Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:30, archived)

FINE!!
*continues playing Dizzy*

*wishes he could be in the D&D gang*

:(
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:35, archived)

Woo!
And indeed Hoo!

God I miss Dizzy, the games of my youth. I can't remember how many hours I wasted on those games... I even used to draw my own Dizzy comics...

*sigh*
( bruised_blood has no bruises, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:30, archived)

who remembers "seymour goes to hollywood?"

( hubare originator of "NEAR THE TOP", Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:33, archived)

Seymour Butts?

( Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:33, archived)

Hahaha!
Fab!
( Afinkawan, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 9:35, archived)

HAd to be the ST version for me
Is that COLOUR CLASH on that palm tree, on the C64? hahahahaha.
( joefish Are we human - Or are we denser?, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 10:05, archived)