Do you remember "Skool Daze" on the ZX Spectrum from 1984

NapoleonWils0n

NapoleonWils0n

Skool Daze was a 1984 game on the ZX Spectrum

The game features the player as a schoolboy named Eric, with the objective of stealing his report card out of the staff room safe by accomplishing various tasks around the school.
The computer controls all the other characters in the game, including the headmaster, other teachers and other pupils.
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I had completely forgotten about this game it was one of my favorites as a kid,
you could fire a catapult and punch teachers, whats not to like

ill have to set up retroarch and spectrum emulator and see if i can get it working


en.wikipedia.org

Skool Daze - Wikipedia

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worldofspectrum.org

World of Spectrum - Skool Daze

Skool Daze (Microsphere)
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Still have a real speccy somewhere, in a box or drawer. Don't know if it still works though, should dig it up and try. :cool:
 
i let my mums friend borrow my Spectrum so she could play the hobbit and she broke it,
and to make matters worse she didnt even offer to give me any money to buy a new one

im still bitter about it all these years later,
and have never forgiven her
 
covacat said:
do you still have a tape player ?
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No, but I've seen some projects that simply used the audio-output of a phone, tablet or computer to play back the necessary audio. If I recall correctly it just accepts a real audio input (as opposed to the digital signal from a C64 cassette player).
 
yeah, that will work
it just has a comparator and reads high or low (like 1 bit ADC)
the original density was about 1500 baud
we had our share of spectrum clones here too
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some hardware guys at the university adapted a floppy drive that worked in PIO mode (no DMA) (was the same intel chip as the IBM XT but without DMA)
i've written a kind of "OS" that permitted to save games by using NMI so we could transfer programs and games to floppies
so you loaded a game from tape, pushed nmi and it asked for a file name and dumped the memory do the floppy disk
cool times, we could smoke in the lab while working
 
My speccy bit the dust years ago. I've still got: a Tosh HX-10 MS-X (Z80, extremely well made), a dragon-32 (6809), a couple of orics (6502), a jupiter ace (Z80, by far the worst build quality of the lot), a ZX81, a couple of sinclair calculators (cambridge, cambridge scientific). I did have a Lynx too but that broke. I sold my QL years ago. The one I never owned but wanted was an amiga. :) The other one I could never afford was a beeb, but we had labs full of them at uni. I had a lovely little epson HX-20 portable for a while that I got from my job, which was beautifully made, like a little jewel.
 
The Epson HX-20 deserves a special mention, it tends to get forgotten. It must have been one of the first true portable micros. And everything worked really well. You got a display, a high quality keyboard, full BASIC interpreter, RS232 interface, a built-in printer, carry case; all made with superb build quality. Mass-storage was micro-casette. A real work of art for the time. Japan was making some very nice high quality electronics at the time.


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I remember disassembling the HX-20 and being so impressed with the build quality compared to junk like the spectrum and oric-1 that I had around the same time. Well, the oric-1 wasn't so bad, other than the keyboard, tangerine did a better job than sinclair, but the spectrum really was junk, like most of Clive's stuff. I wish I still had that HX-20, but of course I didn't own it, I got to use it through work. I couldn't resist taking it apart though :-)
 
I had a mate from california who brought over with him a portable PC clone that had a small built-in monitor, full size hard drive, keyboard etc, all in a portable case. From memory I think it was an early taiwan clone, that would have been an 8088 most likely. Running DOS. That was probably around 1983-4 or so. I think it had something like a 5" or 6" monochrome crt built-in.
 
old spectrum games i remember

jet set willy
manic miner
lode runner
atic attack
ant attack
jetpac
knight lore
sabre wolf
chuckie egg
daly thompson decathlon
skool daze
way of the exploding fist
horris goes skiing
the hobbit
 
SirDice said:
I have an A500+A590 (2MB fastmem and 20 MB harddrive), A1200 (stock) and an A4000/030 (8 MB fastmem, 1GB IDE HD, RTG graphics card) :p
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I got to see a demo of an early immersive VR system from a company called Virtuality. They had a shop in Birmingham (england) where you could book a slot to play an immersive adventure game, it was really a demo of what they could do. A few of us went over from where I was working to try it out and then talked to the guys who created the system, it was all built on Amigas. It was years ahead of it's time. That was probably around 1990.
 
after the zx81 and the spectrum
i had an atari 520st upgraded to 1mb. my brother soldered the chips. had lots of warez / games.
then moved to pc-s.
 
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