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Your Computer magazine questionSometime between April 1987 and April 1988 Your Computer magazine dropped much of its 8-bit home computer coverage and began to concentrate more on s…
... magazine dropped much of its 8-bit home computer coverage and began ... -
New Poll: Best 8-bit magazine[url]www.retrofusiononline.com[/url]
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8 Bit Poll on Retrogamer - help the Spectrum[url]http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=93733#93733[/url] help the spectrum trounce the c64 etc , it will be in print for all to see in…
[url]http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=93733#93733[/url]
help the spectrum trounce the c64 etc , it will be in print for all to see in a later edition. -
Favourite speccy game cover-artSomething that was interesting about the 8-bit period was the cover-art for the games which tended to represent the very 1980s airbrushed/comic-art a…
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Just in case I've missed anything.It's probably the case. After all, I don't follow retro developments nearly as close nowadays as I used to. However, I've been asked to write an arti…
... data, networking/Internet etc... on 8-bit machines such as the Sinclair ... -
RGCD - Free CD Diskmag[img]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e226/darthgord/rgcdcover.gif[/img] For those not in the know, the mag not only reviews the best new releases …
... for the Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-Bit, Commodore 64, GBA, PC/Mac ... undisputed saviour of the commercial 8-Bit gaming world, Simon Ullyatt from ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... on the C64 and Atari 8-bit computers. In my opinion it ... is one of the better 8-bit games made in the '80s ... needs to be a little bit special: it has to be ... -
Parts & RepairsHi, For those who may not have been following other recent threads, I was recently handed a huge[1] box of ICs, for a wide variety of 8-bit machines…
... , for a wide variety of 8-bit machines.
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Getting games because of the covers?I remember in my early days that i used to feel the need to get games because of the covers, and then promptly wish i hadnt!! Earliest memories are …
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Paging Gary LancasterI just noticed that you'd posted and it jogged my memory, I sent you an e-mail while the forums were down, about the +3e. Did it ever get through? […
... 've recently built the simple 8 bit interface detailed on your site ... -
What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never used ... -
Jetpac for atari 8-bitCheck that post: [url]http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=110647[/url] and say YEEEEAAAHH ! ;)
Check that post: [url]http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=110647[/url] and say YEEEEAAAHH ! ;) -
it's possible new 8 bit computer ?Hi all, first excuse for my english. I read in zilog home the z8 encore cpu. it's possible a new computer with this cpu ? Features are really good, 5…
Hi all, first excuse for my english.
I read in zilog home the z8 encore cpu.
it's possible a new computer with this cpu ?
Features are really good, 50Mhz.
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SPIN's breakpoints - an overviewAs quite a few people have been asking how to set breakpoints on memory write etc. in SPIN, here's a description of the way the breakpoints work. Get…
... input/output ostensibly uses an 8-bit address. While this is technically ... to effectively compute a 16-bit port number! The spectrum ... are always 16-bit. Code that accesses genuine 8-bit hardware tends not ... would be a 16-bit value, the highest 8 bits of which ... -
Latest issue of Retro Gamer[IMG][url]http://www.retrogamer.net/issues/RG_044.jpg[/url][/IMG] Complete History DOOM Prepare to get scared senseless as Retro Gamer looks back a…
... NES may have dominated the 8-bit market, but Sega wasn't ... -
The direct bus or indirect one... that is the questionThe Ethernet project continues...and I'm in a quandry. So I've managed to implement enough socket library for the W5100 that socket, bind, listen, a…
... bus must be loaded a bit by the ULA, which so ... a single instruction for an 8 bit register.
Bus indirect ... -
Retrogaming CalendarHi there, I thought I'd let you guys know about the 2008 retrogaming calendar I have produced which may be of interest. It's 13-pages of full col…
... a homage to a classic 8-bit game on each month, printed ... -
The World of Spectrum Caption Competition #1Hey Spec-Chums! It's the World of Spectrum Caption Competition! Just what was Poof #1 thinking when he was staring at David Walliams? [url]http://…
... a vintage, yet still rocking, 8-bit computer that was quite popular ... -
Zilog's new corporate logo...On my last visit to Zilog.com, I note they have a shiny new corporate logo. Gone is the big Z, and now the all new lowercase 'zilog' with a yellow Z.…
... have an ARM-cored 32 bit microcontroller going now, too, which ... /> And of course, the classic 8 bit Z80 we all know and ... -
CF to IDE adapterthese things say that they allow a CF card to appear to a computer as an IDE device, at the hardware level. I'm just curious, would a CF card connec…
... card connected to a simple 8 bit interface (aka the +3e interface ... -
8 bit simple interface + +3e romsSo, i have built the interface and burned the +3e roms to use on a +2B machine. Everything is working fine. I have a 64 MB cf card with some partitio…
So, i have built the interface and burned the +3e roms to use on a +2B machine. Everything is working fine. I have a 64 MB cf card with some partitions and now i want to get some games in to it.
I have tried using Pera's Drive image but had no ... -
Diag Board and Simple 8bit IDE IFHello, finally I have made it. After finishing Winston's Diag Board a few days ago I started yesterday building the 8 bit IDE Interface from Peras s…
... I started yesterday building the 8 bit IDE Interface from Peras site ... , because office time started at 8:00 am. But now found ... -
Creating unreleased games?So, we know about games that were never released, and we hope that some of them will be found, recovered and preserved. What about games that were re…
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Hello and Help!Hi this is my first post here. I have been a lurker for a while now but have decided to sign up and post out of frustration more than anything. Sorr…
... pretty much all the the 8 bit compter era is before my ... -
What was the last commercially released game you bought?What was the last commercially released speccy game you bought? Mines was in 1994 when our WH Smith was selling off all of its 8 bit software really…
What was the last commercially released speccy game you bought? Mines was in 1994 when our WH Smith was selling off all of its 8 bit software really cheap. I got Snow Strike and E-Swat for 50p each. -
Good platform games for other machines and consolesBasically, what good platform games are there for the SNES/NES/Megadrive/C64/MSX/Amstrad/BBC/Game Boy (and GB Colour and GB Advance)/Atari 8-bit etc?…
... Colour and GB Advance)/Atari 8-bit etc?
I'm ... /N64 emulation is still a bit flaky, but earlier machines are ... -
Retro Gamer Issue 48Here's the cover [img]http://www.retrogamer.net/issues/RG_048.jpg[/img] The Making of Manic Miner Retro Gamer talks exclusively to Matthew Smith abo…
... one of the most influential 8-bit platformers of all time.
Why don't you like homebrew games?Alright folks, I'm sure that there are a lot of people here who like the releases from Bob Smith, Jonathan Cauldwell, CEZ Games Studio and the likes…
... Speccy). Do you think new 8-bit games are a waste of ...If they'd have been released in the 80s...Hello again, Firstly, thank you to everyone who participated [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19786]in this thread.[/url]…
... report on, review and present 8-bit 'home-brew' games, or new ...Speccy's most popular countries?I always wanted to know which countries had the most love for the Speccy (I'm petty like that) so I spent a while trying to get info, as far as i can…
... something like this for the 8-bit micros.
UK - [B ... .[/B] ? [B]7.[/B] ? [B]8.[/B] ? [B]9.[/B] ? [B ...
