@2Share and Enjoy of Scoopex present: The Fairlight Demo @1Once upon a time there was a computer. Not a v~ery good computer, but still it was popular. This computer was called the ZX Spectrum. And lo it came to be that several games were written for the spectrum, and one in particular shone out as a star amongst very dull looking things. This game was - @2 Fairlight @1 This demo is dedicated to @2Bo Jangeborg@1 who wrote the game. Credits for the intro: Code: @3Comrade J and Gremlin@1 Picture: @3Ozone@1 Tune: @3Digital Force (remixed by Comrade J)@1 Well Comrade J here. This shito little intro was written purely to test two things. Firstly, whether I could do a Multi-scrapper scroll without all that tedious messing around with bitplane pointers (this uses the modulo instead!) and to test out Gremlin's amazing proportional font routine. @3 Cor, this demo brings back memories! Does anyone else remember the issue of SINCLAIR USER that had the above piccy on it's cover? That was a crap magazine. All the speccy magazines went shit due to game reviews taking over. YOUR SPECTRUM was the best, until it became YOUR SINCLAIR and started all sorts of games shit and abandoned all the nice things like Z80 routines and DIY hardware. ST Amiga Format started the same way and look what's happened to that! @1 Anyway, back to the spectrum. Yes, I had a spectrum and I coded Z80A assembler on it. That was a smart chip, it ripped the piss out of the 6502. All those lovely registers, AF, BC, DE, HL, IX, IY, etc. Brings back fond memories of clearing the screen with the stack (LD SP,22528 LD HL,0 PUSH HL PUSH HL ..... PUSH HL) Anyone else remember the spectrum's weird and wacky screen format? Hey that was fun to access from machine code. I must admit I cheated most of the time and used a rom routine to convert co-ordinates into an address and bit offset. One other thing I liked about the spectrum was it's keyboard - yes that rubber thing! I learnt how to touch-type on a rubber spectrum, am I the only one who can? I have the spectrum command keys permanently etched into my fingertips. eg pe2,2 would come out like PRINT AT 2,2 on the spectrum keyboard (I would have pressed symbol shift before e). Now my spectrum is nailed to my wall as a reminder of those happy days. Oh well, this is the end of my scrolly. Press that button and see some more....