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Deathchase: The Riders Shoot Back!No they don't. Or do they? This rumour has been around for ages, that the bikers you are chasing shoot at you on higher levels. I think it may have b…
... that moment, a raft will get tossed up on a large wave and ... you to Crusoe Corner (a desert island to us ... you catch the bird that travels up towards In ... or the Master Bedroom) and from that point, it should ... this when the magazine came out and waiting til 11:45pm ... -
ULTIMATE SUCK!!I wonder what reaction there will be to this? I just wonder if there are any other ppl out there who agree with me. I never got as much enjoyment ou…
... . It's a bit more complex than Knight Lore, and definitely harder ... think the Knight Lore = just a collect-em-up argument is ... came out and it just astounded EVERYONE. The only other game I remember that ... interrupt overkill. The gameplay felt a little sterile. -
Stupid bugs in gamesDid any one discover bugs in any game. I found out in Football Manager 1 you can sell all your players and still play matches (and even win them)
... buying auf monty when it came out and being blown away by the ... a man saying "bunny" or a woman saying "minky".
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are games?................are games made today just as playable as they were in the 80's?
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Speedlock & Spin (again)Following on from the Vixen thread, I've come across another game which crashes during the decryption beeps - Imagine's "Ping Pong". With Vixen, a ne…
... a few people that had this problem, and so I built a new version ... which logged everything that ... happened when SPIN went fullscreen. Turns out that ... fullscreen, and on ... -
New SPIN Beta - 0.41 releasedOk, thanks to everyone (especially Refrenz and Fraser) for getting that bug nailed so quick. GDI mode is now more stable (apparently) and it's fast…
I had a similar screen save problem and it seems to be ... a put report in because I am still trying to work out ... if its a bug or my ... be the same - untested) that after you set the defaults ... I can reproduce the effect and document it.
What about "pussy"?I dont know who did it, bunch of russian guys I guess, but "pussy" is a good game. I think it is an Arcade conversion. and it is a good one. someone…
... game. There is a Demo version available, a Beta version which has not all ... some Warez pages, and the final version that I distribute. But ... the last licensed title that was transfered to TAP ... Perestrojka Software, Digital Reality and other groups, but they ...Spectrum vs Vic 20 - cast your vote (please!)As I mentioned earlier this week, the Spectrum goes head to head with the Commodore Vic 20 in this week's round of the Micro Mart 'computer world cup…
... A 8086 32-BIT!), a built-in Hard Drive and what seems to be a ... in hospital with 'Arm injuries'. And that's NOT the crowds.
I wrote a document for my Games magazine 'Out of Controller'. It ...Spectrum Instructions ProjectAs we're all aware, WoS is great and has lots and lots of games on it. However, not all of those games have had their instructions uploaded to WoS, w…
... Elite came with the Acornsoft BBC version's manual - and that's the version ... it's at. Quite a hefty download though, so ... the wrong platform too). And I'm plugging this left ... and right as it's ... my first .pdf and I'm rather chuffed with ...Happy happy joy joy.What was the happiest moment in your Spectrum life? (To narrow this down, this thread doesn't include recieving the Spectrum, or buying your best ev…
... purchase my present. I was very excited that christmas. Th first game ... first issue of Crash came out and my dad and I searched everywhere for ... to find out that my dad had picked up a copy of ... /> Finally finding Viking Raiders in a video store in Halesowen. I ...Stupid bugs in gamesDid any one discover bugs in any game. I found out in Football Manager 1 you can sell all your players and still play matches (and even win them)
... buying auf monty when it came out and being blown away by the ... intermitant sound like a man saying "bunny" or a woman saying "minky ... supposed to be "MONEY", since that was what Monty was collecting ... />
I never worked out what that "minky" was. I'm trying ...What was the most technically advanced game you've seenThe sort of game that made you disbelieve it was a spectrum you were playing on...
... are [I]Rex, Karnov[/I] and [I]Space Gun[/I], mainly ... very "Spectrumy". [I]Mugsy[/I] was really breathtaking when it came out - imagine that ... Type[/I] could have been a good candidate, if it wasn ... -only sound with just a few blips and beeps.
...Should WoS get a facelift?I think everyone would agree that "The World of Spectrum" has the most comprehensive collection of Speccy related stuff, and is essential resource fo…
... very mixed feelings about this competition. Firstly, WOS ain't broke and ... to be a commonly shared understanding of what we're out to ... posted that the competition was for a front page design only and that it ... who to ask, since nobody seems to have the role of ...You live you learn - random ramblingsWell I've been around for some time now and I continue to be amazed at the new things I find on WoS. For example, today I came across Martijn's inte…
... . because theyre a money hungry completely corporate entity that seems heartless.
very nice guys[/B] and Dizzy is [B] ... hopefully they will and Dizzy may very well be kicking ... than the crap Codemasters puts out, and theyre friendly, they talk ...Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…
... it was when it first came out and how it influenced people to ... a kind of game that is one of the most characteristic and rapresentative ... opinion on a game and to see, to say, that Emlyn Hughes ... Match Day II) and things like that (err.. and in this case I ...Why can't I vote for Russian/East European indie games (or TR-DOS games in general)?I've noticed that several Russian/East European titles coming from independent producers are not eligible for voting. So, I cannot express my prefere…
... wrote:
I've noticed that several Russian/East European titles ... only very few exemplars and was not able to recover the costs. That ... to make a TAP version of this game. Sorry, only very few TAP ... don't have the Beta Disc System, and some of them crash ...humphrey remakeI'm gonna start my first remake. The game is HUMPHREY by MADE IN SPAIN (ZIGURAT). I'm gonna use LINGO with DIRECTOR and the animations in FLASH. Soon…
Well it's a good choice that's for sure. I got that game when it came out and loved it.. sorry! STILL love it :) My fave of theirs though has to be Misterio Del Nilo...
Has HoH given you the inspiration?Sonic The HedgehogAm I right in thinking that this was released for the speccy? My missus wanted to know how old he is, and i think he is 17. I seem to remember pla…
See this is my problem. I definately played Sonic on the mastersystem during the speccy era.
But that would have been before 1991. I bought a megadrive when they came out, and the first game I got was Sonic II.Sonic The HedgehogAm I right in thinking that this was released for the speccy? My missus wanted to know how old he is, and i think he is 17. I seem to remember pla…
... it first came out and playing it on emulators today is still very good ... one said a bad word against the game practically, years and years ... a little bit old or not so playable but you could say that ... about a ton of ...1 colour per pixel without interlace flickering on +3No, no, it is just April's Fool day. ;)
... Games Designer. Does that mean it's ready? That very soon it will ... 's a beta tester.
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something like that ... , and code editor from the most recent version working in the next version ...Product Placement...I was thinking about Mr Wimpy and advertising in games. There were games like Mr Wimpy + Clumsy Colin , that were almost entire "adverts" in themself…
... for example recommended you try out (if memory serves) Jet Ski ... ]Codies never missed a trick. The YS version of Dizzy 1 was ... about 25p/38p a minute to call this, and that you should ask ... billpayers permission! Bet they made a few bob out of that... :roll:Can you remember this game?You played a Caveman who had to collect dinosaur eggs whilst hitting a tyrannosarous rex with hammers. I've had a brief look and it definately wasn'…
... Dragon 32! I wonder which version came out first? :D
[/quote ... !!! Before I had a speccy I had a Dragon32 and Ugh! was excellent ... Donkey King, Cuthbert goes Walkabout and there were some superb text ...Help needed prior to next vault updateHi everyone.... The next vault update is not too far away, however, I've managed to source 9 unlisted titles, 11 titles which are MIA and a further …
... came from ?
I am happy to chase this up and ... Spectrum Sofware Hire Club that was prevelant in the ... to send a list of titles out and then you ... ordered what you wanted to loan and ... contacting her to try and locate the infamous ' ...Tears of nostalgiaI have to say, playing games again like Fued, Head over Heels, Where time stood still, arkanoid 2, heavy on the magick (list could go on forever), ma…
... my spectrum and my games: The commodore 64 came out...and i ... 64 when the Amiga came out: Dont need you anymore ... and im really not feelin them AT ALL. Ive browsed through a ... lot of the new games in the shops and ... not really seen a single one that as ...What does SPIN have?I have been asking this question since somebody answered another I had made that RealSpectrum was a brilliant emulator. It is in fact. But... I see e…
... and lives to care of. They do not make any profit out ... development team are very pro-active and responsive to issues ... them they are a bunch of lazy buggers and that their emulator ... circulating pre-development version, it is a proven fact that any software, ...8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... Buying Crash! the minute it came out and reading it word for word ... next issue and games and looking forward so much to that.
... Games to me were so playable in those days, i dont ... brand new and it was a very exciting time at that age. Seeing a computer ...I cant belive this website and the activity round here!Hi! I?m new to this site (hope i have not posted in the wrong place already!). In the last few months I have got my self a PC to play games on from…
... you might like to check out: [url="http://groups. ... elusive game endings).? And for tips and cheats galore, [url ... out people's fan websites, including (ahem) mine (I have a custom version ... of Valhalla, and -- erm -- that's about it ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... a friend. That DID have the flashing loading screen. That tape eventually wore out ... absolutely gutted when I discovered that that version didn't have the flashing ... seem to be a file after the BASIC loader that seems to be ...Outrun vs Chequered FlagIn the latest issue of Retro Gamer its stated that Out Run was the first racer to have undulating hills etc. I reckon Chequered flag was, however cra…
... Racer not have undulating hills, and come out before Outrun?
[/quote ... /> It certainly did. The Spectrum version came out before Outrun but I'm ... sure about the arcade version. It's possibly that's what they ...Outrun vs Chequered FlagIn the latest issue of Retro Gamer its stated that Out Run was the first racer to have undulating hills etc. I reckon Chequered flag was, however cra…
... Racer not have undulating hills, and come out before Outrun?
[/quote ... /> It certainly did. The Spectrum version came out before Outrun but I'm ... about the arcade version. It's possibly that's what they ... MAME, Enduro Racer was out first in the arcades as ...
