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Why games get denied distribution?Does anyone know if any good reasons have been given by the creators of some old speccy games on why they wont allow their games to be distributed? …
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Running Game in AspectrumI am a noob at all this, I have downloaded the Aspectrum emulator and a game. When I select the tape to play all I get is the grey spectrum screen wi…
I am a noob at all this, I have downloaded the Aspectrum emulator and a game. When I select the tape to play all I get is the grey spectrum screen with 50 in the bottom left corner. Can anyone help?
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How to recover data from old Microdrive cartridges?I have 17 Microdrive cartridges that I filled with games (some listed in the "Missing in Action" section of this website) about 20 years ago. My or…
... " section of this website) about 20 years ago.
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Speccy emulator for online websiteDoes anybody know if there is a speccy emulator that I could run on my website which also has the ability for you to select games (as long as I've up…
Does anybody know if there is a speccy emulator that I could run on my website which also has the ability for you to select games (as long as I've uploaded them). Along the lines of flash but with load options.
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Why I Hate PC WorldI detest PC World for the following reasons: 1. Repeatedly poor service. 2. Selling me a 1Gb SD memory card for ?60, when I could have bought it for…
... I could purchase at least ?20 cheaper online.
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new retro gamer (issue 20)got it today quite a lot of speccy stuff in it theres an 8 page look at rare/ultimate theres sections on turbo esprit, knightlore, sabre wulf not ev…
got it today
quite a lot of speccy stuff in it
theres an 8 page look at rare/ultimate
theres sections on turbo esprit, knightlore, sabre wulf
not even counting the odd mentions of games here and there
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C64 Plug and PlayThe joystick with 30 Commodore games is now only ?5 in TJ Hughes (if there is one in your area), reduced from ?20. A lot of the games are crap but th…
The joystick with 30 Commodore games is now only ?5 in TJ Hughes (if there is one in your area), reduced from ?20. A lot of the games are crap but there are a few good ones.
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Worthing Pier. The death of my childhood arcade, and the end of an era.[url="http://photobucket.com/albums/v616/THXII38/Worthing/"]http://photobucket.com/albums/v616/THXII38/Worthing/[/url] The last of the original arc…
... left now. It is now 20 pence a game, greedy buggers ... the past. Get all 20 targets with 20 shots, you get your ... -
Ariolasoft20 years pass and I finally figure out Ariolasoft means "Nipple-soft"... I have FARRR too innocent a mind...
20 years pass and I finally figure out Ariolasoft means "Nipple-soft"...
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Dutch VNU in bid talksVNU NV is in talks to be acquired for as much as $8.8 billion by a group of the world's biggest private equity firms. The company is massive but amo…
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Looking for another game...Why can't I remember the names of the games I used to own? I mean, it was only 20 years ago. Any how, this game was a sort of arcade/adventure mix …
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Top tip 13Cover your driveway in rice krispies, so when you walk across it, it gives you that gravel sound, but without the cost. [ This Message was edited by…
Cover your driveway in rice krispies, so when you walk across it, it gives you that gravel sound, but without the cost.
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Acceptable usage questionI was going to give my brother some acrobat .pdfs of some your sinclair mags which i can make from the page scans in the archive. I read the acceptab…
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Funniest Spectrum-related memorySeeing the emulated loading screen on the Dreamcast speccy emulator reminded me of something from many moons ago. I was in the local computer shop w…
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Microdrive + Interface 1 + 29 microdrive cartridges FOR SALEI am selling the following: 1 Microdrive 1 Interface 1 with rs-232 cable 29 microdrive cartridges (including the original 4 programs for the Sincl…
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I have tested a select handful of the cartridges with ...MagazinesIt's me again!! I can't for the life of me find part of this site!!! It may not even be on this site at all and I have been dreaming it!! It was on…
... web page that let you select the page number or simply ...I've just found a couple of my old cassettes...Some people have interesting old cassettes full of machine code experiments they made while they were still at school. Not me. I found one cassette…
... tunes from other games so select tape tester and press play ...an idiot writes...I wonder if someone can help me - downloaded a couple of walkthrough recordings from the rzx site (i think thats what its called) but everytime i try…
... if i either want to select a program from the web ...Horace goes skiing...Was this the game that sold more than any other game on the Spectrum? The reason I ask is that whenever you look on ebay for speccys they ALWAYS have…
... a speccy in storage for 20 years and a copy of ... : itsallgood on 2006-01-30 20:42 ]Rescued a big monitor from work todayand attached it to my laptop. Went round to PC World and bought a USB keyboard for ?20 and now I've got a really good set-up and much less chance of…
... bought a USB keyboard for ?20 and now I've got ...You lot can post political post but i cant ? hum.... Troll, not a HYPOCRITEnt [ This Message was edited by: Cornishdavey:)) on 2006-01-31 20:27 ]
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[ This Message was edited by: Cornishdavey:)) on 2006-01-31 20:27 ]Old ZX80 software tapesI've just come across a whole lot of tapes with software I wrote for a ZX80 I had about 20 years ago - does anyone know if there's a way I can get th…
I've just come across a whole lot of tapes with software I wrote for a ZX80 I had about 20 years ago - does anyone know if there's a way I can get these programmes into one of the emulators?
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ScotDeal or No DealDid anybody just watch Deal or No Deal this afternoon? I was sitting having my dindins (two bowls of chilli, two glasses of red wine) and couldn't h…
... . The guy went away with ?20, and this was after resolutely ...TZX 128k/48k specific blocksBoth TurboOutrun and NightShift (and others I'm sure) have blocks specifically for 128k or for 48k machines in amongst commonly used blocks. How abou…
... /> Currently Night Shift uses a Select block and lets the user ... emulated. Maybe even extend the Select block to include automatic selection?
