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  • Manic Miner or Jet Set Willy?I'd like to know your opinion of them and your favourite. They have never been in my top ten list of fave games, though.

    ... Willy more back in the 80's as it was fun ... , cyan and green but some characters can do without either the ...
    joefish joefish July 2009 Games
  • QL "monitor mode" on TVI remember of a small Superbasic program allowing to emulate dual screen (monitor mode) on a TV too, without losing columns at the margins. I'm not s…

    ... zone), high resolution and small characters.
    This screen can print ... row in both output channels, 80 columns in the input window ...
    dg67 dg67 August 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • WikipediaThere's an article in this week's Micro Mart about Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia that anyone can edit or add to. Apparently Lenny Henry c…

    ... can be very good. His 80's shows after Three Of ... to a couple of his characters but I guess eventually the ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler September 2009 Chit chat
  • Remake WIZBALL on the SpeccySeeing as all my graphics are available why not re-make it to include all the stuff that wasn't used? I made graphics for the Ying and Yang wiz and t…

    ... to add new rooms, more characters, etc. A 128K version of ... lover, someone who loved the 80's computer scene, etc) and ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2009 New game ideas
  • Micro Men - BBC4 Thursday 8th Octobereh... thats it... There was a new add for Micro Men on BBC 4 last night after 'The Cell' ( nice speccy goodness in there, including Jet Set Willy ) …

    ... former being able to show 80 columns of text, the latter ... 3 or MODE 6, the characters on the screen are drawn ... TV between each row of characters that are missed out.
    Winston Winston October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 2 questions about matrix and string handlingI was never good at understanding how to do something random in Sinclair Basic without repeating something that was already done. Had problems unders…

    ... LET a$(y)=x$
    80 NEXT f
    90 PRINT ... /> It simply picks two random characters along the length of the ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • 2 questions about matrix and string handlingI was never good at understanding how to do something random in Sinclair Basic without repeating something that was already done. Had problems unders…

    ... LET a$(r) = b$
    80 NEXT n
    [/code]
    characters. State 0 would begin at ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... more than just missions and characters... this whole gang toughness thing ... awfully).

    And an 80's radio station too... chuffed ...
    GreenCard GreenCard November 2009 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... more than just missions and characters... this whole gang toughness thing ... awfully).

    And an 80's radio station too... chuffed ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob November 2009 Chit chat
  • Pirates on ebay or not???Great lines are appearing in the item listings now... [SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#ff0000]NOTE TO EBAY STAFF:[/COLOR] [/B]WE HAVE HAVE PERMISSION FROM ALL RE…

    ... been working since the early 80's and just wants it ... know you only chose 'colourful' characters in your games... We all ... your skullduggery dm_boozefreek!... All those characters in your game begin to ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Matthew Smith's Delta Tau OneGoing through some old boxes I've managed to dig up some stuff on Matthew Smith's first commercially released game [B]Delta Tau One[/B]. I don't know…

    ... the late 70's\early 80's the company specialised in ... not familiar with the TRS 80 display then screenshots tend to ... Spectrum's 2x2 block graphic characters) and arise out of photographing ...
    Turkwel Turkwel January 2010 Games
  • ULA Plus and Interlace.May be a bit late to suggest this, but here goes. Did the original Speccy ULA actually output a proper PAL interlaced image, with timing pulses on a…

    ... know of, and doubt any 80's computers did this. The ... results in very ugly jagged characters, but it looks fine in ...
    Winston Winston January 2010 Hardware
  • You play, like, a girl!I'm having trouble thinking of any Speccy games, apart from the Mojons' boobyfests, Gauntlet (Thyra), Gothik (Olga) and Rampage (Lizzie) that feature…

    ... a game back in the 80's so it was just ... to make most of the characters blokes. Dont think it matters ...
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2010 Games
  • Swords and Sorcery by PSSCan anyone help me out with completing this classic game? There seem to be plenty of bugs with it, so just knowing that it is in fact possible to com…

    ... must process each of the characters you wish to play with ... /> 70 RANDOMIZE USR 28013
    80 RESTORE 500
    90 FOR ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2010 Games
  • Skooldaze and Back to Skool on the CPC?Did Skooldaze and/or Back to Skool ever come out on the Amstrad CPC? Or on any machine other than the Spectrum or C64? I'm curious to see any differe…

    ... mode to use?

    80 column, 2 colours - easiest to ... monochrome background and single colour characters (4th colour used for shields ...
    Jimmy Jimmy February 2010 Games
  • Help on 80s Horror TV ProgHello all, I could we some of WOS's sage like knowledge. In the early 80s my dad recorded a US 1 hour horror program. You know, the usual format, i…

    ... obviously shown in the early 80 on UK TV!!!

    characters telling the short stories) is ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2010 Chit chat
  • Dark SceptreThis game was popular then and (looking at the Top 100) is popular now but I still don't understand what the hell I should be doing or what sort of s…

    ... : GUARD
    79: SEEK
    80: TAKE
    81: GRAB
    characters, four packed into every three ... preceded by a length character. Characters 0x01-0x1A are A-Z ...
    John Elliott John Elliott February 2010 Games
  • Skooldaze and Back to Skool on the CPC?Did Skooldaze and/or Back to Skool ever come out on the Amstrad CPC? Or on any machine other than the Spectrum or C64? I'm curious to see any differe…

    ... mode to use?

    80 column, 2 colours - easiest to ... monochrome background and single colour characters (4th colour used for shields ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 February 2010 Games
  • Violence in Videogames....and Alan Bloody Titchmarsh..I don't know about violence in videogames, but [i]this[/i] makes me want to go on a murderous rampage....... [youtube]<object width="425" height="34…

    ... fact that 99% of soap characters have the sexual morals of ... they seem to spend about 80% of their lives in a ...
    Vampyre Vampyre March 2010 Chit chat
  • Jumping the sharkBored again, so "inspired" by a post on a forum I read last week (can't find the link, I'm at work now), here's a list of programs that I think have …

    ... a whole new cast of characters from East Europe. :lol:[/QUOTE ... 1 reason..70's and 80's.. we had sod all ... except 4 channels... mid? 80's we got sky / videos ...
    fog fog May 2010 Chit chat
  • +3 how to detect if a file exist ?Need help. I am making a generic menu to my compilations over the spectrum +3. Exist some way programatically to detect if some file exists on the d…

    ... . There should be 203 X characters after the REM, and the ... 201 THEN GOTO 60
    80 DATA 255,255,33,0 ... ,0,57,197,221,225,80
    90 DATA 89,235 ...
    140 DATA 1,0,80,89,1,253,127,243 ...
    John Elliott John Elliott May 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • The 50 Greatest Video Game Characters[url]http://www.empireonline.com/features/50-greatest-video-game-characters/default.asp[/url] Sabreman is currently #24. Vote for him! :-)

    ... few more UK classic game characters on the list, not every ... the late 70's/early 80's then you have to ... didn't start in the 80's, 70's, 60's ... to have seen more Speccy characters in there, but I know ...
    Vampyre Vampyre May 2010 Games
  • The 50 Greatest Video Game Characters[url]http://www.empireonline.com/features/50-greatest-video-game-characters/default.asp[/url] Sabreman is currently #24. Vote for him! :-)

    ... and development of video game characters and how many have become ... really place something like gaming characters in a list according to ... the grade - they're niche characters from niche games whether we ... to see women from the 80's on there. :D
    mile mile May 2010 Games
  • 'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…

    ... Spectrum uses normal ASCII for characters from 32 to 127. Now ... lines down)*32 + (number of characters across)[/quote]

    The ... gives the middle third, and 80-87 gives the bottom third ...
    ajmoss ajmoss June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Howto paint a squared zone of the screen ?You know what guys ? i begin to love this languaje. Cant understand why not put more effort on the 80's to learn it :( because it is really speedy. …

    ... large code, either with printing characters or not. Here is the ... version without printing the characters, it draws directly on the ... be #ff, and all other #80,#00(for width-2),#01 ... /> push hl
    ld (hl),#80 ;left edge
    xor a ...
    Shiru Shiru June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Howto paint a squared zone of the screen ?You know what guys ? i begin to love this languaje. Cant understand why not put more effort on the 80's to learn it :( because it is really speedy. …

    ... , and all other #80,#00(for width-2),#01 ... push hl
    ld (hl),#80 ;left edge
    xor ... ,mfill
    ld (hl),#80 ;right edge
    pop ... ,fill0
    ld (hl),#80
    pop hl
    ... your code and frame characters in your font (corners ...
    Shiru Shiru June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • New Moomins Movie! In 3D !!There's a new Fuzzy-felt Moomin Movie in the works, due for release in August! More details here.... [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/ca…

    ... have been some crazy 3d characters, still looks like the old ... felt characters.

    Loved the moomins ... back in the early early 80's but i think i ...
    psj3809 psj3809 July 2010 Chit chat
  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... changes I'm talking about? 80% of the changes were simply ... anyway as the platforms and characters now use the same colours ...
    jesus 666 jesus 666 July 2010 Games
  • Seeking alternatives to DATA statementsAnyone know of any memory saving alternatives to storing a list of numbers, other than using DATA statements or poking data into addresses?... Im ti…

    ... you manually add the backslash (\) characters as these mysteriously get omitted ... DATA "Mc!h!lM\"
    80 DATA "!hBl+l!l"
    BloodBaz BloodBaz August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Games that didn't age so wellTo start with .... [LIST] [*]Grumpy Gumphrey Supersleuth [*]Monty in Innocent [*]Driller (innovation in 3D lasts about a year) [*]Avalon [*]Stunt Ca…

    ... the way you controlled the characters.

    I'll always ... so much back in the 80's but i rarely play ...
    psj3809 psj3809 August 2010 Games
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