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Here's my season 10 selection - includes some I suggested before but weren't chosen to play (I hope this is OK?):

Vertigo (Superior Software)
Road Runner (Superior Software)
The Mine (Micro Power)

This is great! A while ago I started annotating some of the source code. Will dig out my notes and see if I can contribute anything.

This is a bit better... 57,870

Never played this one before. A strange boxing game where you can't box your opponent... It's a cute game though. Best so far: 25,560

Its kind of a frustrating game, but I might now be getting better at it ... 12,599

BeebEm 4.15b1, although still not perfect.

Not quite got the hang of this yet. But it's good to play this after Frenzy, interesting to see how they compare.

A small improvement... 7840

A few first attempts. Best so far: 7048

I had a such a good time at ABUG South, can I put my name down to come along for the whole weekend?

Getting better... this is higher than my best score last time round. 813,738

Yes! Great game, this. Here's my first couple of attempts... 301,692

Thanks everyone for a great day, sorry I had to leave early... So nice to meet everyone and share projects and ideas and advice See you next time!

A small improvements, still only getting as far as level 2... 17,880

This is a tough game, hope to improve on my score from last time... 14,070

Not much time for games recently, shame as this is pretty good... 87,155

Completed the game, so now trying to optimise the score. You need to get at least 3 tanks through to the final level to defeat it, but you can use any remaining ones to improve your score... feel free to leave this score out of the HSC if this is not strictly allowed. 129,600

Uh, I didn't expect this... I just completed the game (on skill level 1). I assumed it would keep going after you get to the big gun at the end, but no, the game just ends. Anyway, here's a score to aim at: 115,000

I'm now up to level 3, but not figured out how to do it yet. I cleared level 1 at the first attempt, but needed to restart level 2 a couple of times. Maybe there's a way to adjust the HSC points calculation so that reaching higher levels is given more weight? :-k My best so far: 9589 perplexity2.jpg

Nice game... Just getting started, up to level 2 so far. 4544

I'm currently maintaining BeebEm. The latest version is v4.15 beta 1, available here, which may fix the video capture issue. Please give it a try and let us know if it works for you.

tricky wrote:I spent Monday writing a new program to grab scramble maps in software scrolling friendly layout with mode 1 friendly colours

I do like where this is heading...

Such sad news, I'm sorry. I certainly will be thinking of you.

Almost to the top of level 2 ... 3726

Never played this before, I like it, good choice! Got past the first screen at least... 2738.

I'm enjoying this game a lot ... 28,454

A new high score ... 17,291

Excellent game... I'm up to 11,201 after a few attempts

That's odd - I thought B-Em would be closer to a BBC than BeebEm is. Sadly cannot ditch the Emulator detector as it only detects if BeebEm is there (or not) and not B-em. One thing I have done is alter the code that slows the game down to make it JSR its original routine &18A8 first then do the slo...

A little better ... 2715

Here's my first attempt - I got to near the end of level 3, those colours ... 1850