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END OF WEEK 5: And I've had an eventful week. Test Cricket is back on terrestrial TV, and I've had a medical scare which will hopefully be resolved in my favour by the time I come to make the seventh or eighth of these weekly round-ups. And my constant cracking of the whip has paid off - elsewhere,...

END OF WEEK 4: NOTHING to add! Not a sausage, or indeed, a crap game about sausages. Nada. Zilch. Neddily-diddly-doodly-ding-dong squat. To fill up the time, I went back to Minecraft for the first time in a year and a half and once that takes me I can be gone for weeks. It was five years , first ti...

END OF WEEK 3: So far, a 100% success rate in posting these weekly reports! Only 45 to go, probably, and some tying up of loose ends in December. At this rate, with one submission a week, I'll almost get to 50, but of course I WANT MORE. We are now up to three entries: on 19th January, CSSCGC veter...

END OF WEEK 2: We're up to two entries, so it's one per week so far. 13th January saw Mr. Don't! by Dave Hughes added to the Spectrum pile. Still there is no sign of any entry for Sir Clive's wonderful rectangular business machine, either from here or from adventurous Spectrum programmers who want ...

END OF WEEK 1: Just the one game so far. The 2020 competition had three by now. Obviously there are none for the pre-Spectrum machines. The UK is now crushed underneath yet another lockdown, that I predict to last until the end of March, thus providing extra time in front of a computer. Under those...

I was thinking of doing a ZX81 game, but it would require the sz81 emulator. As far as I know, it is the only one that supports saving zx81 memory to/from disk. But the rules only mention using EightyOne, so scratch that idea. EightyOne is the emulator I'd test it on. As long as the final program i...

Crikey! Never mind the end of the competition, how's this for fast? Alexandre Colella has sent P.P.S. - Pixel Perfect Shot for the 16K Spectrum... on the first day of the competition! And to think that my original plan was to open it in February . I wasn't going to post reviews every time they come ...

Jools Holland has called it. THE COMPETITION IS OPEN! Get your entries in! You do the programming, I'll do the rest, I'll even work out this QLPAK malarkey if I have to. Make this the best year for the QL there has ever been in the CSSCGC! I know that's not exactly difficult, but I'm counting on you...

There a few days of the year to run, but one thing has been abundantly clear since May : for 2021, I will be running the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition. I have officially launched the "preview" on Spectrum Computing (and on World of Spectrum, which gets less attention these days)...

Hails... again! There were a few problems for some of you viewing images that I was hosting from my webspace, previously - but I've sorted out SSL for it, though I'll have to go through that rigmarole every 90 days until I'm a bit more financially solvent (which I might be by the end of the decade, ...