Codemasters to Release new "Free-to-Play" F1 Browser Game

stko! wrote:http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-12-codemasters-announces-new-f1-game

Cool !! Good find. Reminds me of a game me and bro used to play some 27 years ago!
On the ZX Spectrum called - funnily enough - Formula One. This was before the days of copyright and paying thousands for using the license etc. And you had to do your own pit stops !

Here is a video:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAWhvnuzVOc



And this has prompted me to download the emulator and tha game for old time's sake!

You can find the emulators here: http://www.worldofspectrum.org

And the game here: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001845

Enjoy

Interesting. "Free" to play aye. What's the catch then?

Just had a play. The Spectrum rocked during the 80s! I can remember the loading sounds via tape now. I spent many an hour trying to coax my spectrum into playing a game one more time without erroring while loading! That was half the struggle with a heavily used game!

Typical settings for loading were ¾ volume, 100% treble, 0% bass. Audio filters like loudness and Dolby Noise Reduction had to be disabled, and it was not recommended to use a Hi-Fi player to load programs. There were some tape recorders built specially for digital use, such as the Timex Computer 2010 Tape Recorder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_software


Similar to Mark I remember playing Grand Prix Manager 1 & 2 back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2iUmuxqEls