Welcome & Credits — WOOT! 2022

Welcome & Credits — WOOT! 2022

Welcome to WOOT fellow joystick wagglers! Only a short text follows due to memory constraints and the coder being well and truly fried... Well, it's been another good year for the Spectrum, and another topsy turvy year for the rest of the world, not to mention a hard year for plenty.

Unfortunately time ran out on me, so I never got to realise a lot of my ideas, including the POWERBOX Megademo that never got finished, but perhaps that's a good thing as we may have reached peak POWERBOX banter. As usual, the huge number of quality games are not reflected in the reviews.

Massive thanks to everyone that submitted stuff to Woot, and chips in on the SC forum, whether it's forum chat or preservation stuff. As usual, special thanks to PeterJ, Einar, Pavero and Andre for everything.

Looking forward to Planeta Sinclair's end of year GOTY, and seeing who wins this year's CGC! (my money's on Flatduckrecords :-). Well done Andy on a great competition. Enjoy the rest of the mag (REM keys O&P to page back and forth) and all the submissions, and have a happy ZXMas everyone. WOOOT!

That's all folks. Thanks for reading.

So, following on from the intro message... in no particular order, what's been happening?

No more lockdowns!
The death of HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
Russia invades Ukraine.
The UK sees 3 Prime Ministers in 1 year.
Orwellian covid rules in China, Canada and the Antipodes.
The cost of living goes through the roof.
First 40C summer in GB.
Winter's been on the chilly side.
The coronation of King Charles, meaning that surely it's time for Don Priestley to release FLUNKY II.
England women win the EUROS (Kevin Toms we need you!).
England cricket revitalised and playing exciting cricket.
POWERBOX!
Energy crisis.
Something about twitter.
Recession and concomitant industrial action.

That'all I can think of for now. I no longer know if everything or nothing makes sense anymore. So to use a cliche, maybe it's best to think "where does my power lie?", and right now, this ZXMas, Woot will be trying to relax, playing some familiar and unfamiliar Speccy games, playing some new daring Speccy games, but there's nothing wrong with some new safe and comfortable Speccy games. Treat yourself to a tipple and a well-fed slice of xmas cake, and enjoy the moment.

Thanks again to the usual crew at SC and around for keeping the ATTR FLASHing :)