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Idea for site - High Score ChallengeHi all An idea for the site.. CPC Zone (cpczone.emuunlim.com) has run a sucessful High Score Challenge for the past 12 weeks.. The organiser choo…
... very first suggestions of the high score challenge I was pointing out that ... snapshots that it was a form of cheating and as a result ... ull see that again a rule change was suggested and that i seconded ... pokes and it seems like every speccy game has a cheat ... -
Critical MassRecently re-discovered this gem of a game so i've been playing it a bit Pretty tricky ! Has anyone completed this ? I can hardly get past the firs…
I remember playing it a lot when it first came out and then recently thinking ... about how it was a great ... , I lasted only a few seconds and, therefore, conclude that it is rubbish ... -
Thing Bounces BackHello. Well, I wanted to talk a bit about this game from Gremlin. Back in the 80's I remember having played it and reaching almost the end, with a 99…
It's annoying the original "Thing on a Spring" never came out on the Speccy as it's the better of the two games.
It only came out on the commie and the amstrad cpc ... the latter of which was horrendous version! -
Giving back games in shopsMust have been in 1987 - I saw screenshots of Auf Wiedersehen Monty in a german Magazine and decided I wanted this game for my 13th birthday. So I to…
I do confess to copying a game and taking it back once, I ... came out and I loved it. But the next door neighbour wanted a copy a ... couple of days later, and I didn ... it was his tape player that was the problem, but of ... -
How many of you lot still own your original Speccy?I have reason to believe the majority of you still own your original Spectrum. I think thats great, but it also really suprised as well. I was obsess…
... came back as a Spectrum+. This was then upgraded to a +2 when that came out and ... then that was eventually sold ... original Spectrum 128 in very good condition and in it's box ... -
The worst conversion you played!!Could you remember the name of the worst conversion you played on spectrum? Here you have a list of the worst I remember: -kung fu master -final fig…
True Stun Runner and Harddrivin' were a bit much for the ... bad, considering when the speccy came out and what the games were like ... did first came out.
Who would have thought that you ... arcades when the speccy first came out their was nothing like ... -
I Want DENIED Gamessorry pressed enter to soon that should read I want denied games information Erm so what are the reason's for games being denied I know Thor/Odin a…
... your replies. Like a child throwing his toys out of the pram ... see both sides. Theres records out there 40 years old you ... point if they are available out there ? Do the majority of ... a 'boom' in mobile gaming and it seems that everyone thinks they can have a ... -
Best Two Player Games?By 'two player games' I mean those where two players can play at once, rather than games where each player must wait for a turn. I grew up out in th…
... , kickstart (only played the c64 version though - gasp!), way of the ... them where it was in a city, and a bonus round was you ... kicking stuff in a little wherehouse ... room or something, and if you failed a tiger came out and got you or ... -
Pirate game trading at school?How many people traded pirate games at school? At one school, there was a group in which members would trade pirate games for all systems most break…
... was a YS covertape - International Cricket which I missed when it came out and ... I absolutely loved!) Because he knew it was a bargaining chip that ... I abided with his wishes and never did copy it. It ... I had my Spectrum emulator that I had my own copy ... -
Pirate game trading at school?How many people traded pirate games at school? At one school, there was a group in which members would trade pirate games for all systems most break…
... was a YS covertape - International Cricket which I missed when it came out and ... I absolutely loved!) Because he knew it was a bargaining chip that ... I abided with his wishes and never did copy it. It ... I had my Spectrum emulator that I had my own copy ... -
Games like "alchemist" or "fantastic voyage"?Hallo! I love games similar to "alchemist" or "fantastic voyage", because they have LITTLE mazes (not too much complicated) and objects to find to es…
... pretty confusing! I like that but I wouldn't call ... Guts which is sort of a beta version. Some prefer it but ... />
Antics is a good maze game although its ... having to go backwards and forwards from one end ... />
Wriggler is a great maze game but would ... -
SW:ROTS (spoilers)T - 5h50mins. Who is coming with me!?!?!? Skarpo :) [ This Message was edited by: Skarpo on 2005-05-19 17:38 ] [ This Message was edited by: Skar…
... and that Lucas had to base a story that was consistent with the events and ... pedantic, I think he did a pretty decent job.
came out and partly because of the enigmatic ... -
Classic games you don't likeProbably most people will hate me but I have to say it. "Manic Miner" & "Jet Set Willy" - two Speccy classic games. But I don't understand why they b…
... 1987. With a lot of games out at that time (obviously ... when Manic Miner first came out it was revolutionary back ... games on that console they would think 'pah' and not ... for the first time and saw Turbo Outrun or ... Invaders you would laugh and say how rubbish it ... -
Games that make you stand and stare!A similar thread is going on in the Games forum but thought this would be a good one to open it up to all machines/consoles/arcade/etc... For exampl…
... windows 64 bit, and I don't have that! I didnt' realise ... 1 (last I used was a beta version some months ago)! -
Games that received the highest accolade from all magazinesAnother thread is talking about inconsistent reviews between mags, so I was wondering what games received all the top awards from each mag. The only…
... was a huge hit, 14/15 in YS, 5 out of ... 5 in Sinclair User and 94% in ... That sounds a weird game, cant believe that was ever gonna be a ... title. It came out ... the name) by a different company. Weird -
help me identify this TYPE-IN for the Spectrum back in '83I've had an amazing time downloading some of the type-ins on this site and bring back lots of fantastic memories (I can still remember typing in Stas…
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and I bought a book off eBay from none other that Mel ... the cinema when it first came out, and used to have "M.C ... high score tables for about a year afterwards. -
Movie / TV show scenes that really freaked you out!!!Having just watched the infamous 'boat ride' scene in Willy Wonka, I thought I'd start a discussion on which parts of films or tv shows really scared…
... my eyes open for about a week.
There's ... a simple scene in The Andromeda ... cut open a dead body and instead of blood coming out of one ... kind of ashy powder came out instead. That really disturbed me for some ... -
Starglider 128k TZXNow I would if I could, but I simply don't have a copy of the game on tape handy, but is there any possibility that someone could upload a working ve…
... tape (bought when Starglider very first came out) and loaded it into my +2 ... cursor type set to fixed and centering set to both when ... the TZX but a 'feature' of the 128 version (at least the ... first release - maybe it was fixed in a ... -
z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... been playing with it discovering that it doesn't "compile" ... VERY interesting. The way you'll get 4 colours out of ... ? Whoah man - that will make a lot of people's ... . I don't understand that. We all learned to ... the next version and I will consider using a 16-bit ... -
What's your favourite beer?Mines is 'Lapin Kulta' of Finland(I'm not just saying that because I drank it all last night). Followed by 'Warsteiner', then 'Mcewens tartan specia…
... ve generally found that dive bars, and rough backstreet pubs ... , to be the safest enviroments for a night out, and that ... trouble seems to flare ... Very nice;.
I like most ales and ... -
ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... can select using the a button, back with the ... tot he menu when in a game
a control method then change to that selected control ... i dunno what a latest version is tbh and the site ... listed in the help text file seems ... -
Mulitiface 1With a Mulitface 1, can you save games from tape and put them on disk on a +3? Or is it just compatitable with the 48/128k +2 models?
... Spectrum up to that time (Spectrum 48K, Spectrum + and Spectrum 128K, ... br />
When the +3 came out (and the +2A too, I think ... up "back ups" that had been saved with a Multiface 1 or ... (even the ones that sell old, retro games and hardware), Cash Converters ... -
Games that wouldnt loadI had a few of these, and even after taking them bck some still didnt load first time :( anybody else have/had games like this The pain in the asses…
... Lords of Midnight before it came out and was really looking forward to ... /> Shame really, as it was a very good game. It wasn't ... about half the speed of a Spectrum) that I actually got to ... -
Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
... , and it was a goldmine!!! i think, every thursday, new ones came out .....and waited very ... , a brilliant wee shop ..... where he made these wallracks, so that he ... least twice, and bugged the hell out of him ;), and watching him play ... -
Egghead 4 available to downloadFollowing his adventure in space, Egghead is today Entertaining a guest. Yes, Shelley is coming to tea and it's up to Egghead to get the food on the…
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Constantly adding a value to the random seed ... titles page will get around that problem; unless the image is ... getting the same value out twice in a row are pretty low ... fab, seems very playable during the quick go i gave it and i love ... -
TommyGun 0.8.9 availableShould be available by the utilities pages soon. Lots of bug fixes. Its close to 95% complete. So close to becoming a 1.0 release. Still a few minor…
... if somebody wrote a new version of Spectrum Basic, that had all the ... have a command 'PRINTSP' which printed sprites to the screen, and 'PRINTRM ... ' which would pop up a room of the ... call the compiler to spit out a binary or TAP/TZX of ... -
Has anyone ever owned, played on, or even seen an Amstrad GX4000I ask this question because the machine must have existed because Mean Machines from issue 1 until about 8 reviewed software for it until it flopped.…
I owned such a machine. I thought it was alright but pefered the normal CPC machines. I wasn't impressed when it got exclusives like Robocop 2 (but that was when it first came out and I was using hte CPC464) -
Has anyone ever owned, played on, or even seen an Amstrad GX4000I ask this question because the machine must have existed because Mean Machines from issue 1 until about 8 reviewed software for it until it flopped.…
... Ninja and the other digi-sprite MK rip-off that came out on that machine ... kept my SNES, I bought a second Megadrive in 1997 for ... flogged my Master System at a very reasonable 40 quid with about ... , however I haven't got a new one since the Dreamcast ... -
The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain - did anyone ever finish this wretched game!?I've been 'enjoying' (if that's the phrase) the opportunity to replay some of the classic games I remember of yore, including "The Warlock Of Firetop…
... and they were brilliant when they first came out. The first 3 took a ... while to came out then ... it seemed like one came out every ... never keen on because of that bloody maze which was ... -
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
It seems to me that you're asking emulators to ... contents are - and that's very, very useful. LOAD "" will open a file requester. < ... />
I might also point out that you're heading into TOSEC ... territory with filenames that are 50 characters long and up in ...
