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I've just got a letter from the new publishers of Retro GamerImagine Publishing have sent me a letter saying as a gesture of goodwill I will recieve 3 free copies :) I lost quite a bit of money with the subscri…
... have sent me a letter saying as a gesture of goodwill I ... :) I lost quite a bit of money with the subscription.
Has ... going to ring them today to get the exact details.
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"Unknown disk format"-error on Spectrum +3Hi, I have just gotten around to changing the drivebelt in my newly acquired +3. I tried to format one of the 3" disks I bought on eBay the other we…
... got the message,
"Unknown disk format"
on all the disks ... the manual of the computer but it doesn't mention this particular error-message ... anybody explain to me what is wrong? Should I invest in a new ... -
TommyGun updateHello Everybody! Well its been awhile since I've last updated it, but its now happened. I have uploaded a new copy of TommyGun (v0.8 ) onto WoS. So…
... not available in this release yet.
3. The Code editor ... . You can write a parser to parse the xml data into anything ... />
I hope you all enjoy it, and more importantly ... in the readme.txt
Cheers,
Tony
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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 …
... , because when I went to the store to get the DS (at BestBuy) I ... magic about the tiny display. Or maybe the controller plays a role in this , I ... /~zx_makeovers/[/url]
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Hacking utilities denied but readily availableSo the good news: Steve did a massive database update with loads of wicked games, and (finally!) my hacking utilities and XLR-8 mastering utilities! …
... , all the Speedlocks, Powerload etc) where you load the util, then play in a protected ... lives, or backtrack from the Game Over message to do the same - I understand ... .
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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…
... games (some listed in the "Missing in Action" section of this website) about 20 ...
However, the best it can do with all of my original ... cartridges is the "CAT 1 ... - but I have managed to load a few SCREEN$ files eventually, ... -
Another reason to hate the DutchDutch company Gatsometer BV, founded by the 1950s rally driver Maurice Gatsonides, invented the first road-rule enforcement cameras. Gatsonides wishe…
... the corners of a race track and came up with the device in order to ... the world's largest supplier of speed camera systems. Because of this, in ... some countries speed cameras are sometimes referred to as ... -
Need this games nameIm searching for an old game I played when I was a kid but I can?t remember the name. In this game you held an olympic torch and had the job to run a…
... was a kid but I can?t remember the name.
In this game ... you held an olympic torch and had the job to run ... around the world lighting the olympic fire all over the world and raise all the ... -
who ate all the pies?9 million people in the u.s.a. are severely obese. 7 million people in africa are close to starvation. who ate all the pies?
9 million people in the u.s.a. are severely obese.
7 million people in africa are close to starvation.
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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…
... one of those "type in a number between 1 and 3 ... vehicle to defeat three types of other military vehicle (all in ... text, of course).
As a game - ... to save me from having to load the game in!
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A View to a Kill - Spin Emulator (Problem)Hi, I downloaded A View to a Kill from the Spectrum Archive and I'm trying to get it to work using the Spin emulator. However, it starts off fine b…
... /> I downloaded A View to a Kill from the Spectrum Archive and ... I'm trying to get it to ... me to a gray screen that says (at the bottom) ... to work properly. I also get this weird screeching sound in the backround when the ... -
Great games that aged badlyAny thoughts of games that were great at the time, but are just not fun to play anymore. eg. I loved manic miner at the time, and still enjoy playin…
... it's fun to play in an emulator at all - the nostalgia of seeing ... , frame-rate has a lot to do with it - in the 80's it ... didn't seem so bad to have a game ... , than a complicated game that runs irritating slowly.
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Frogs jump into the finals....Not that much of a surprise I suppose, but I had thought it would've been harder for them. Thanks to Zidane, showing that age and skill wins over sho…
... be a great asset to England in Man.United. So you should all welcome ... him back with a ... just need to back up France in this hour of need against the mobsters ... -
The QuillHi, Is it possible to write new adventure with The Quill using the Spectaculator emulator? I bought The Quill when it first came out all those years…
... /> I bought The Quill when it first came out all those years ... ago and would like to have another ... have a copy of The Quill in this format but is it possible to save the ... -
Only in the films....Some time ago I saw a thread in which people posted things that only or always happen in films. I can't remember where I saw the thread (I think it w…
... gets out of a shower to answer the phone or the door, or ... stone on a field a mile wide, then the heroine of the film will ... the windows, or looking for a way to break in, or whatever the ... to add to this list? There are more mundane ones, such as the guns in ... -
*WoS database feature request*Greetings, This message is primarily addressed to Martijn, but I've thought of making it public, so that other members may have input on the subject…
Greetings,
This message is primarily addressed to Martijn, but I've thought ... possible to create an automatically-generated page that contains a list of all the ... ).
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Composite video mod on a 16K issue 2, not workingI carried out the composite video mod detailed here: [url]http://user.tninet.se/~vjz762w/fixuspec.html[/url] I chose the one that requires the trans…
... at all. Now, I'm not a klutz when it comes to this sort ... a mistake there. Does anyone have a suggestion? The guy in Maplin gave me the ... transistor pin outs from the ... -
How to increase the motivation to preserve?I've been thinking about this for some time now, and I think I may have an idea. Without hard-to-obtain knowledge, the only way to see if something …
... for the Spectrum is if it's listed as MIA in WoS ... here, it just gets lost in the sheer volume of stuff, and ... /> One way to eliminate this way of thinking is to introduce a rarity scale ... other platforms. This way, a title can still hold the highest rarity rating ... -
Connecting a Spectrum to the InternetI was just reading the Your Sinclair entry on Wikipeida and came accross the following reference: "Other technical columns included Rage Hard,... an…
... on Wikipeida and came accross the following reference:
"Other ... Hard, which helped you connect a Spectrum to the Internet."
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Train: Escape to Normandy, The[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005373]This game[/url], in which you play a member of the French Resistance attempting to stop…
... ]This game[/url], in which you play a member of the French Resistance attempting to ... stop the Nazis ... ], in which Burt Lancaster plays a member of the French Resistance attempting to stop the ... -
Housing Estates, a postmans view.1. Your gate must be closed at all times. Always. On Saturdays it is preferable if you also lock it / bolt it shut at the bottom. It shall be deemed …
... struggle past all the crap in your garden, complain to him about the amount of ... , and say in a smug voice "I bet you love this weather!" and ... has a parcel for you, sigh loudly, sl*g him off to this ... -
Does anyone know the title of this game?I was so succesful last time I asked about a game thanks to this forum that I thought I'd try again. The game I'm trying to remember is single scree…
... a game thanks to this forum that I thought I'd try again. The ... trying to remember is single screen at a time, get past the ... baddies type affair, you start in a house ... and you have to ... -
Blowtorch method of Speccy repairsI just did my first Spectrum repair (and successful at that). It was the Issue 2 spectrum I wrote about a while ago, I just hadn't got around to doin…
... removed the ULA. The fact this chip is consistently in a socket on all Spectrums suggests ... all over the bottom of the board, and bridged all the connections. I had to remove all the ... Sinclair Research message. I put the 74LS157 back in for the full 48K RAM ... -
A Game to IdentifyA graphic adventure - pretty early on, published no later than 1983. Involving several different screens which I believe you had to load in when acc…
... believe you had to load in when accessing, linked by a outdoors area ... which had a demons head as the middle - seem to remember this being a fire ... dungeon.
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The Eurovision Song ContestWell, did anybody watch the programme tonight where the UK decided what song was going to represent the country in the Eurovision song contest? [url…
... song was going to represent the country in the Eurovision song ... 'd think with all the TV phone-in vote scandals going ... the minute they'd at least be able to get this ... to emerge and declare your determination to represent the UK in the Eurovision song contest, a ... -
Retargetting the Z88dkWell, I'm asking here because it's come up before, and I assume someone here might know the answer... I'm trying to retarget the Z88DK for the Z80 b…
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I've followed all the steps under 'Basic retargeting', found ... At the end of this section, it makes some handwaving reference to modifying makefiles ... but it never appears in the output of build.sh. ... doesn't bring up a single makefile that references ... -
A little more on the Sinclair BuildingIn this evening's Cambridge News there is a bit about how entrepreneur John de Bruyne sold the mineral water company to Clive Sinclair. It eventually…
In this evening's Cambridge News there is a bit about how entrepreneur John ... de Bruyne sold the mineral water company to Clive Sinclair. It ... eventually became ( and still is) The Sinclair ... -
The best Spanish Game??This is a post to all non-spanish specchums of the forums : Which was the spanish game you liked the most back in the day? I know many games never r…
This is a post to all non-spanish specchums of the forums :
Which was ... the ... spanish game you liked the most back in the day? I ... -
Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to ... . I was able to work a way around the anti-merge or anti ... use all the available ram and overwrite the system variables, causing a reset if a ...
