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Level 18! This thing is a time vampire.

Finally did 13 with only one life lost, straight through 14, floundered on 15.

KarateEd wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 09, 2019 6:39 am

..and got to the funky 'stick' level. Almost got it done

That's what I thought!

Still level 13. I can do the hard bit, but not the really hard bit.

I can't figure out how to get the tripod and still finish level 11, but I can get all the horseshoes now. 12 was OK, 13 requires a great deal of precision. Which I failed at.

Level 11 is fiendish. It seems to have two things that need to be done last.

I wasn't going to play again today but then I was waiting for my dinner to cook...

Level 10: 120,560

I had this back in the day but it never appealed. Liking it so far though.

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Only a small bump. I've been trying a different playing style - only shooting the attackers - and it's taken me a week to beat my old score.

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I got to level 4 but only 4,840. I guess flying ones score more?

No, Apache can do content-type for you. You just need to tell it that ssd files have mime type application/vnd.acorn.disc-image.ssd (or application/octet-stream if you prefer). I haven't used Apache in years but a quick Google suggests you need to add this to a config file: AddType application/vnd.a...

On Windows 10 it works fine for me in Firefox but Edge is guessing the type because the response doesn't have a content-type header. The generic content-type for "this is a binary blob so don't try to display it" is "application/octet-stream". Alternatively, Tom Seddon is using "application/vnd.acor...

Cheers. For me it was actually the first screen the second time through. I'd had an absolutely blinding run hitting loads of enemies with fruit and then I threw it all away! I've completed that level once before but my score was nowhere near as good.

fwibbler wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:01 pm

Had an amazingly good run (by my standards) and then lost all my lives(about 3) on the same level!

Ditto. I also thought this will give me a clear lead over fwibbler...

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Level 1!

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I decided to have just one more go...

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Level 3!

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I didn't know this was a thing on the beeb. It's a bit tricky.

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It's worth remembering that this is a dispute in America governed by American law. The law is different in the UK. For example, "fair use" is not a thing, but the use of a trade mark in an educational video is not a protected use anyway. Of course, if you post content on American sites you can't ign...

Thank you! It is a useful reference.

Another random guess using only reads: a read of &BExx latches xx, then a read of &BFyy writes yy to cmos address xx. Stephen's method does look simpler though.

That is good news. An upgrade from such an old version could have been a royal pain in the bum. Losing the theme is a shame but I'd rather have the content. Thanks again.

I always use ffmpeg to convert beebem's avi output to mp4. The files are much smaller, are widely supported, and I've never noticed a problem with the audio/video sync. And ffmpeg is free.

Thank you for fixing this. I started scraping the site with a view to making a static copy of the forum but unfortunately there are quite a lot of posts in the forum threads that appear blank. For example, in here , here , here and here . From the context it appears to be any post with a code block ...

Nearly completed level 4 but I fumbled with only a couple of squares left.

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Consolidating my fifth place with another small bump...

Also a short video of another bug (only 120K). I've no idea what caused it.

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Finally finished level 3. Also found another bug. On level two it will sometimes fill two squares together even when you haven't quite completed the border of one of them. If you come back later and fill in the tiny bit of missed border the square is cleared out again! However, I don't know if this ...

Slight improvement. (Sorry about the screenshot quality.)

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Isn't it just random to actually hit the banana? I've only hit it once and that was on a rather lowish score? I'm not sure. You get to choose the starting point (by hitting enter). There's possibly an initial left/right random choice but after that the thing seems to move deterministically. So if e...

Missed the first banana again but got the second one. My new technique is to close my eyes. I don't get the banana any less often but I don't feel as bad when I miss.

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