I'm sure you'll find it a great place to be! Any questions about anything regarding your return to the Speccy, just ask on the forums and someone should be able to help....
A big, hearty Hello! to the Cookie Monster ... you are welcome to leave yer crumbs with us, but not crumby comments ... err ... what I mean is this: Welcome to WoS!
Great site, brings back many happy memories from the 80's.
I'm the guy who wrote Escape from Devils Island that is hosted on this site. I remember writing it on a Sunday morning and sending it in to HCW but then realising it had a bug so you couldn't escape. I sent them a corrected programme but they still printed the old version.
They were supposed to pay me ?30 for it but when the cheque eventually arrived it was for ?50. As it took 2 months to get the money I assume it was extra for the inconvenience :smile:
Great site, brings back many happy memories from the 80's.
I'm the guy who wrote Escape from Devils Island that is hosted on this site. I remember writing it on a Sunday morning and sending it in to HCW but then realising it had a bug so you couldn't escape. I sent them a corrected programme but they still printed the old version.
They were supposed to pay me ?30 for it but when the cheque eventually arrived it was for ?50. As it took 2 months to get the money I assume it was extra for the inconvenience :smile:
Anyway, great days.
Simon
tbh i dont know that game but welcome, its always good to see the people who actually created the stuff we played and used joining up :)
Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
The ZX81 was the first computer I ever used. This was followed up by an Amstrad CPC and a 48k ZX Spectrum. After those I picked up an Amiga 500 and I've been an Amiga spod ever since.
I've always held a soft spot for the Speccy (and the CPC, which was essentially a Speccy in a party frock) and I've been playing games in emulators for years.
Recently, I got an urge to pick up some hardware, as my old 48k died many years ago. I managed to find a lovely +3 on eBay, which only needed the floppy ribbon replaced. I've been having a lot of fun with it so far, but I'm thinking of picking up a divIDE and some other bits soon.
The ZX81 was the first computer I ever used. This was followed up by an Amstrad CPC and a 48k ZX Spectrum. After those I picked up an Amiga 500 and I've been an Amiga spod ever since.
I've always held a soft spot for the Speccy (and the CPC, which was essentially a Speccy in a party frock) and I've been playing games in emulators for years.
Recently, I got an urge to pick up some hardware, as my old 48k died many years ago. I managed to find a lovely +3 on eBay, which only needed the floppy ribbon replaced. I've been having a lot of fun with it so far, but I'm thinking of picking up a divIDE and some other bits soon.
I'm the guy who wrote Escape from Devils Island that is hosted on this site. I remember writing it on a Sunday morning and sending it in to HCW but then realising it had a bug so you couldn't escape. I sent them a corrected programme but they still printed the old version.
Is the version WOS has the the one with the bug or the corrected one? :)
Hi I'm Nick. loved my 128k toaster back in the day before moving onto Amiga and snes.
Bought an untested +2a on a whim from ebay (8.50 plus shipping with loads of games) 3 weeks ago and not only found it came with classics like spy hunter and emlyn hughes international soccer but also worked fine after a clean and head adjustment. does crash occasionally which is annoying.
Now really enjoying this site and hooked enough to get a toaster or +3 next (my first post was to place a wanted ad).
also very much enjoying the excellent zxds emulator. too addictive and too many memories...
now mid thirties so maybe this renewed and fanatical interest is an early mid life crisis? based in bristol though a part of my heart will always be in wolverhampton. software city was where I got my speccy games from.
Hi I'm Jim (duh), so old that I should know better.
I've owned a VIC 20, 48k Speccy (rubber-keyed) and an Amiga A500.
Don't have any of them any more, the spectrum suffered that common problem of the heatsink softening the glue holding the face-plate on which then came away and then the power cable snapped. Didn't get it fixed as computing was moving into the 16bit era so I thought that was that.
Now I wish I still had my speccy stuff so now have to make do with emulators :cry: .
Hi I'm Jim (duh), so old that I should know better.
I've owned a VIC 20, 48k Speccy (rubber-keyed) and an Amiga A500.
Don't have any of them any more, the spectrum suffered that common problem of the heatsink softening the glue holding the face-plate on which then came away and then the power cable snapped. Didn't get it fixed as computing was moving into the 16bit era so I thought that was that.
Now I wish I still had my speccy stuff so now have to make do with emulators :cry: .
Programming??? never got beyond this
10 PRINT "your name"
20 GOTO 10
:-P:-P:-P
How do Jimmo! Welcome aboard old boy...I'm sure if you rummage around here long enough, you can get yourself a variety of speccies to re-live the old days.
As for programming, I've been a professional Developer for 12 years and I'm not much better at writing code to be honest!! :grin:
My name, as you might be able to figure out, is Steve. I used to post on comp.sys.sinclair under much this same name, and now I post here, because it has a similar atmosphere and a pleasing amount of the same people. I'm 31 years old, I used to live in Cheshire, then I lived in Perth, Scotland, and now I live in California's Silicon Valley. (Interesting side note: I used to frequently drive past the Zilog factory where they probably made the same Z80s that went into Speccies, but it doesn't seem to be there any more. That wasn't that interesting, actually). I live with my wife of four years, my brother-in-law, five cats, a fish and a parrot. Everyone I live with has a healthy love of retrogaming, except possibly one of the cats, but we're working on her. I work as a court runner, which mostly involves driving around a bit and having things stamped by clerks. A bit like real life, only you get paid. But really, I'm a musician, although I still haven't had that transatlantic Number One album. I'm working on it though.
I first got 'in' to video games when I was about six and spent an extraordinary amount of time playing arcade machines in New Brighton. I can't remember exactly which games I played, although I'm fairly sure Pole Position was one of them. Then it turned out one of my friends had a Commode 64 (hngh), so we'd go around to his house and play games. I remember playing a lot of Emlyn Hughes's International Football. It was strange, you see. We spent most of our time playing football in the park, you know, the proper way, jumpers for goalposts and all that, then when we decided it was too cold/wet/etc to play anymore we would go inside and play a football computer game.
Anyway, other friends had computers as well, including two who had Speccies, and I decided I wanted a home video game system of my very own. So my dad agreed to this and came back home one night with a second-hand Atari 2600. Which wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but it was fun nonetheless. After I got bored of that, I asked my parents if they would at least consider getting me a proper computer, and, after considering a C64, we went over to someone's house to look at the ZX Spectrum +2 they were selling for 80 quid.
About a year later, during a particularly vigorous game of two-player Gauntlet, I spilled some Tizer into my Speccy, and it died, peacefully, at the age of probably 4. My parents offered to buy me a new computer, and they seriously considered an Amstrad CPC, because they thought it would be 'better for schoolwork', but I protested, and was then bought a new Speccy, which in this case was a +2A.
Since then, I've also owned a Master System, at least two Gameboys, an Amiga 500, several PCs, a Sega Genesis (we got it after I moved to the US, so it's not called a Mega Drive like it should be), a PlayStation (briefly), a Gameboy Colour, a Nintendo 64, two or three Gameboy Advances, a Wii and three Nintendo DSs (four if you count replacing the one that got broken).
I realise that I made the majority of this post about which video games systems I've had throughout my life, but there you go.
My name, as you might be able to figure out, is Steve. I used to post on comp.sys.sinclair under much this same name, and now I post here, because it has a similar atmosphere and a pleasing amount of the same people. I'm 31 years old, I used to live in Cheshire, then I lived in Perth, Scotland, and now I live in California's Silicon Valley. (Interesting side note: I used to frequently drive past the Zilog factory where they probably made the same Z80s that went into Speccies, but it doesn't seem to be there any more. That wasn't that interesting, actually). I live with my wife of four years, my brother-in-law, five cats, a fish and a parrot. Everyone I live with has a healthy love of retrogaming, except possibly one of the cats, but we're working on her. I work as a court runner, which mostly involves driving around a bit and having things stamped by clerks. A bit like real life, only you get paid. But really, I'm a musician, although I still haven't had that transatlantic Number One album. I'm working on it though.
I first got 'in' to video games when I was about six and spent an extraordinary amount of time playing arcade machines in New Brighton. I can't remember exactly which games I played, although I'm fairly sure Pole Position was one of them. Then it turned out one of my friends had a Commode 64 (hngh), so we'd go around to his house and play games. I remember playing a lot of Emlyn Hughes's International Football. It was strange, you see. We spent most of our time playing football in the park, you know, the proper way, jumpers for goalposts and all that, then when we decided it was too cold/wet/etc to play anymore we would go inside and play a football computer game.
Anyway, other friends had computers as well, including two who had Speccies, and I decided I wanted a home video game system of my very own. So my dad agreed to this and came back home one night with a second-hand Atari 2600. Which wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but it was fun nonetheless. After I got bored of that, I asked my parents if they would at least consider getting me a proper computer, and, after considering a C64, we went over to someone's house to look at the ZX Spectrum +2 they were selling for 80 quid.
About a year later, during a particularly vigorous game of two-player Gauntlet, I spilled some Tizer into my Speccy, and it died, peacefully, at the age of probably 4. My parents offered to buy me a new computer, and they seriously considered an Amstrad CPC, because they thought it would be 'better for schoolwork', but I protested, and was then bought a new Speccy, which in this case was a +2A.
Since then, I've also owned a Master System, at least two Gameboys, an Amiga 500, several PCs, a Sega Genesis (we got it after I moved to the US, so it's not called a Mega Drive like it should be), a PlayStation (briefly), a Gameboy Colour, a Nintendo 64, two or three Gameboy Advances, a Wii and three Nintendo DSs (four if you count replacing the one that got broken).
I realise that I made the majority of this post about which video games systems I've had throughout my life, but there you go.
welcome aboard steve
Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
And I suspect Steve would've kicked your arse in CSS had you quoted his entire post and added three words of new content. Suppose you didn't top-post though :P
And I suspect Steve would've kicked your arse in CSS had you quoted his entire post and added three words of new content. Suppose you didn't top-post though :P
And hello Steve!
**** css
:P
Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
I first got 'in' to video games when I was about six and spent an extraordinary amount of time playing arcade machines in New Brighton. I can't remember exactly which games I played, although I'm fairly sure Pole Position was one of them.
Haha, so did I. That takes me back. :D Yes indeed, they did seem to have the Japanese version of Pole Position in New Brighton at one point.
Played Space Harrier for the first time ever in one of the arcades there. I was blown away by it.
My all time favourite though was the two-player game of Lucky and Wild, although that might have been in Rhyl, not New Brighton.
I liked the way many of the games were only 10p in the New Brighton arcades.
I'm Andrew and I write for a living. You've probably enjoyed at least one Speccy thing that I had something to do with. I'm currently trying to raise at least ?1,000 for the Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal. If 100 people sign up I will release an open source version of the Spectrum ROM (which will make it easier to distribute legal clones, and enable emulators to be distributed with certain Linux distributions thus saving people the bother of having to build them from source). If you use Linux you will certainly benefit from the latter. I am currently 28 pledges short of the target total of 100 pledges. Last week went by without a single pledge. I would really appreciate it if those of you who have yet to pledge could see your way clear to making sure this pledgebank appeal doesn't fail. The code is all written, tested and ready to go, so there's really no reason to wait to donate. Please make a difference.
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I'm sure you'll find it a great place to be! Any questions about anything regarding your return to the Speccy, just ask on the forums and someone should be able to help....
Welcome ;)
Great site, brings back many happy memories from the 80's.
I'm the guy who wrote Escape from Devils Island that is hosted on this site. I remember writing it on a Sunday morning and sending it in to HCW but then realising it had a bug so you couldn't escape. I sent them a corrected programme but they still printed the old version.
They were supposed to pay me ?30 for it but when the cheque eventually arrived it was for ?50. As it took 2 months to get the money I assume it was extra for the inconvenience :smile:
Anyway, great days.
Simon
tbh i dont know that game but welcome, its always good to see the people who actually created the stuff we played and used joining up :)
The ZX81 was the first computer I ever used. This was followed up by an Amstrad CPC and a 48k ZX Spectrum. After those I picked up an Amiga 500 and I've been an Amiga spod ever since.
I've always held a soft spot for the Speccy (and the CPC, which was essentially a Speccy in a party frock) and I've been playing games in emulators for years.
Recently, I got an urge to pick up some hardware, as my old 48k died many years ago. I managed to find a lovely +3 on eBay, which only needed the floppy ribbon replaced. I've been having a lot of fun with it so far, but I'm thinking of picking up a divIDE and some other bits soon.
Anyway, there you go. :)
Hi there and welcome to WoS!
May I please direct you to the WoS Permission page. Please consider giving your official permission of distribution to Martijn, owner of WoS.
And a hearty Welcome to WoS to thee also! :smile:
Cheers. :)
I'll drop Martijn a note giving him permission to distribute Escape From Devils Island.
Regards
Simon
Is the version WOS has the the one with the bug or the corrected one? :)
It looks like the one with the bug, i just had a go and one of the guards ran away from me :-?
I'll see if i can sort out a corrected version.
Regards
Simon
Yay!
I see in today's WoS update you granted permission of distribution.
Bought an untested +2a on a whim from ebay (8.50 plus shipping with loads of games) 3 weeks ago and not only found it came with classics like spy hunter and emlyn hughes international soccer but also worked fine after a clean and head adjustment. does crash occasionally which is annoying.
Now really enjoying this site and hooked enough to get a toaster or +3 next (my first post was to place a wanted ad).
also very much enjoying the excellent zxds emulator. too addictive and too many memories...
now mid thirties so maybe this renewed and fanatical interest is an early mid life crisis? based in bristol though a part of my heart will always be in wolverhampton. software city was where I got my speccy games from.
anyway - hello.
Good to meet you. Can't disagree!
I've owned a VIC 20, 48k Speccy (rubber-keyed) and an Amiga A500.
Don't have any of them any more, the spectrum suffered that common problem of the heatsink softening the glue holding the face-plate on which then came away and then the power cable snapped. Didn't get it fixed as computing was moving into the 16bit era so I thought that was that.
Now I wish I still had my speccy stuff so now have to make do with emulators :cry: .
Programming??? never got beyond this
10 PRINT "your name"
20 GOTO 10
:-P:-P:-P
How do Jimmo! Welcome aboard old boy...I'm sure if you rummage around here long enough, you can get yourself a variety of speccies to re-live the old days.
As for programming, I've been a professional Developer for 12 years and I'm not much better at writing code to be honest!! :grin:
STeaMy
My name, as you might be able to figure out, is Steve. I used to post on comp.sys.sinclair under much this same name, and now I post here, because it has a similar atmosphere and a pleasing amount of the same people. I'm 31 years old, I used to live in Cheshire, then I lived in Perth, Scotland, and now I live in California's Silicon Valley. (Interesting side note: I used to frequently drive past the Zilog factory where they probably made the same Z80s that went into Speccies, but it doesn't seem to be there any more. That wasn't that interesting, actually). I live with my wife of four years, my brother-in-law, five cats, a fish and a parrot. Everyone I live with has a healthy love of retrogaming, except possibly one of the cats, but we're working on her. I work as a court runner, which mostly involves driving around a bit and having things stamped by clerks. A bit like real life, only you get paid. But really, I'm a musician, although I still haven't had that transatlantic Number One album. I'm working on it though.
I first got 'in' to video games when I was about six and spent an extraordinary amount of time playing arcade machines in New Brighton. I can't remember exactly which games I played, although I'm fairly sure Pole Position was one of them. Then it turned out one of my friends had a Commode 64 (hngh), so we'd go around to his house and play games. I remember playing a lot of Emlyn Hughes's International Football. It was strange, you see. We spent most of our time playing football in the park, you know, the proper way, jumpers for goalposts and all that, then when we decided it was too cold/wet/etc to play anymore we would go inside and play a football computer game.
Anyway, other friends had computers as well, including two who had Speccies, and I decided I wanted a home video game system of my very own. So my dad agreed to this and came back home one night with a second-hand Atari 2600. Which wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but it was fun nonetheless. After I got bored of that, I asked my parents if they would at least consider getting me a proper computer, and, after considering a C64, we went over to someone's house to look at the ZX Spectrum +2 they were selling for 80 quid.
About a year later, during a particularly vigorous game of two-player Gauntlet, I spilled some Tizer into my Speccy, and it died, peacefully, at the age of probably 4. My parents offered to buy me a new computer, and they seriously considered an Amstrad CPC, because they thought it would be 'better for schoolwork', but I protested, and was then bought a new Speccy, which in this case was a +2A.
Since then, I've also owned a Master System, at least two Gameboys, an Amiga 500, several PCs, a Sega Genesis (we got it after I moved to the US, so it's not called a Mega Drive like it should be), a PlayStation (briefly), a Gameboy Colour, a Nintendo 64, two or three Gameboy Advances, a Wii and three Nintendo DSs (four if you count replacing the one that got broken).
I realise that I made the majority of this post about which video games systems I've had throughout my life, but there you go.
welcome aboard steve
And I suspect Steve would've kicked your arse in CSS had you quoted his entire post and added three words of new content. Suppose you didn't top-post though :P
And hello Steve!
:P
Haha, so did I. That takes me back. :D Yes indeed, they did seem to have the Japanese version of Pole Position in New Brighton at one point.
Played Space Harrier for the first time ever in one of the arcades there. I was blown away by it.
My all time favourite though was the two-player game of Lucky and Wild, although that might have been in Rhyl, not New Brighton.
I liked the way many of the games were only 10p in the New Brighton arcades.
Welcome to the forums. :)
erm.. lo Steve and welcome.
... actually no I can't.
I'm Andrew and I write for a living. You've probably enjoyed at least one Speccy thing that I had something to do with. I'm currently trying to raise at least ?1,000 for the Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal. If 100 people sign up I will release an open source version of the Spectrum ROM (which will make it easier to distribute legal clones, and enable emulators to be distributed with certain Linux distributions thus saving people the bother of having to build them from source). If you use Linux you will certainly benefit from the latter. I am currently 28 pledges short of the target total of 100 pledges. Last week went by without a single pledge. I would really appreciate it if those of you who have yet to pledge could see your way clear to making sure this pledgebank appeal doesn't fail. The code is all written, tested and ready to go, so there's really no reason to wait to donate. Please make a difference.
http://www.pledgebank.com/opense