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New Game: "Willy Games: The First 30 Years Quiz"I am pleased to announce the release of a brand-new game for the ZX Spectrum 128: "[b]Willy Games: The First 30 Years Quiz[/b]". It is a multiple…
... by John Elliott a decade ago) in a very unorthodox way: to ... create a multiple-choice ... and thanks, instructions, a short history of the development ... history and background information, a description of the title ... -
Original Grey +2 Picture IssuesSo, I have my +2 connected to an old CRT TV, and the Speccy has been working fine. Decided to have a shift around, but once I moved the +2 i've lost…
... working fine. Decided to have a shift around, but once I ... getting either no picture, or a very dark static screen with the ... picture very slightly visible.
Is ... the +2 itself? Would purchasing a +2 SCART remedy this (cos ... -
PROJECT ZX, EXCLUSIVE NEW GAME!!!Enjoy this review and official trailer to the upcoming pc windows Spectrum game,...PROJECT ZX! Battle all your golden characters form tons of classi…
... originally intended for,...Clive is a very angry MAD man!!!
< ... first level starts off in a PC graphic world then it ... langfordproductions.com
Please consider a donation for this cracking game ... , it really is a joy!
For ... -
Dandy - Hacking lvl 6 needed, please.So, I've always wondered what's in the top right corner of level 6 of Dandy. I don't recall there being a fake wall or a door. But I wonder if som…
... recall there being a fake wall or a door. But ... wonder if someone here with a very particular set of skills, ... that you have acquired over a very long career, skills that ... make you a nightmare for level edits like ... if you could take a look see and let ... -
Digital Clock in Game of LifeY'know Conways Game of Life? A [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Life$&pub=^Sinclair+Research+Ltd$&loadpics=3"]version[/url] …
... Conways Game of Life? A [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... This website[/url] has a much more powerful version with ... Some guy has just built a very impressive [url="http://codegolf.stackexchange ... .com/questions/88783/build-a-digital-clock-in-conways- ... -
Disabling the ROM without removing the whole thingHi! I've got my hands on a non-working issue 6a. I suspect the ROM may be bad, but other things may be faulty as well. I've read that in an otherwis…
... ve got my hands on a non-working issue 6a. ... speccy removing the ROM gives a very specific screen pattern on ... bootup. That seems like a good way to see if ... />
But the ROM (a NEC type) is soldered on ... d have to desolder with a pencil-type pump. Would ... -
128K Toastrack (Noisy video output)Hello there guys! Need all of yours guides and advices. Some time ago I bought a nice looking 128K from eBay (motherboard v6K) and put it aside for…
... /> Some time ago I bought a nice looking 128K from eBay ... /> The problem with it is a very noisy picture and unstable loading ... all the electrolytic capacitors with a new ones, 7805 voltage regulator ... this knowledge. I'm not a hardware guy.
Any ideas ... -
Nostalgica: Portugal's first Videogame Museum!!Hi to all, how are you today? It is my sincere pleasure to announce the first Videogame Museum of Portugal: [url="http://www.nostalgica.pt"]Nostal…
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This Museum with a lot of effort survived the ... de Pombal[/url], It involves a lot of technology and videogames ... /> The Museum itself has already a very nice library of videogames, you ... 's a project which touched my heart, for it is always very ... -
Crystal Kingdom Dizzy Remake[img]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hu3KFlY4PPQ/WPKTFRnh2mI/AAAAAAAAhRo/Fb92COWf6oMPL4oyEQ_z_Ep6BrRHUCOPgCLcB/s640/Crystal0.jpg[/img] [quote]Dizzy fan…
... of Dizzy in a really big way, as a very special Dizzy remake ... in 1992 on a multitude of systems in a completely different graphical ... -
Flight simulators?Flight simulation is a very specific genre, and there are enough flight simulators for the Speccy, so I thought it was worth it to create a different…
Flight simulation is a very specific genre, and there are ... was worth it to create a different category for these games ... simulation games are classified under a more generic category "Simulation" ... flight simulators) but it's a huge task. Is anybody willing ... -
Always chew your food!Well, I had a bit of an interesting Easter weekend while staying with my girlfriend in Filey. Warning: fairly icky medical stuff and ewgf lengthiness…
... via taxi while spitting into a plastic bag...
very painful and just came ... waiting to see a doctor. A medic came to ... pipe on its way. A very odd feeling but not ... me)...
A different consultant came to see ... -
Weird dreams threadI remember some of the dreams I've had over the years. I wonder if I'm the only one who has strange dreams like this... Days ago: I was dreaming t…
... dreaming that I was in a very bright space, where there ... , flying, resisting death and a few other things that should ... , if it's just a dream? We should be ... fly" or "this is a dream, I am invincible and ... present day. I could write a book, but some people ... -
Post interesting websitesI'm currently on the internet (duh!) and I'm bored. Yes, despite the internet covering every subject ever, and containing maybe ninety percent of all…
... www.vogons.org/ [b]Very Old Games On New ... .emuxtras.net/forum/ - A very good forum for the original ... - A seemingly endless amount of interesting and sometimes very funny ... /> http://www.moddb.com/ - A very good resource for mods (fan ... -
New game competition!Competition time! There aren't any instructions at the moment, just some rules! Rules... 1. Teams of 4 or less only. A team member can be a …
... admins will determine whether a team member is professional or ... not, but as a starting point we will use ... anyone who has a game published in infoseek ... will have to PM a WoS admin with their ... in each category will win a *very* limited edition WoS branded ... -
ZX Dev - Conversions * New Spectrum games Compo!! *Hi Everybody! A new edition of the ZX Dev has just started, we have been planning it for the last weeksand finally we have come up with this speci…
Hi Everybody!
A new edition of the ZX ... ;)
Right now we have a very nice prize (and this can ... something, he will become automatically a judge to decide the winners ... -
Help guess game by descriptionI'm trying to find a game I've seen in my childhood. There is a small main character, white-coloured. He has a very long red energy bar and about 5 …
I'm trying to find a game I've seen in ... character, white-coloured. He has a very long red energy bar and ... 5 lives.
It is a platform maze game.
I ... -
Recent hardware acquisitionsWell, not actually that recent but I've not had time to look at them until a few days ago... Two Speccy +'s. Both are semi alive. Both have semi d…
... than the other. One has a very erm 'grainy' output even when ... to investigate these a little closer. Both are very erm grotty in ... ' ones in instead, I have a couple floating about somewhere. That ... issue out hopefully.
A CPC464. Had one years ago ... -
Omelettes for breakfastIt's dawn at the castle and you need to prepare some deliciuos omelettes for his majesty's breakfats, using the eggs of some exotic bird...Beware of …
... nasty kitchen assistants!
A (very small: just 7 screens/levels ... coin op (which also pays a little homage to Poyan and ... Popeye in a couple of screens)
King of Pong (2010) hacked version for 1 Player, anybody has it?Hi all! I am looking for the hacked versión of the game King of Pong, by ex-author from the industry Ricardo Cancho, which allowed to play against th…
... players). I know this is a very long shot, but does anybody ...Recreated Spectrum .What do we get for the "now" (Aug 2017) best retail price of around £35?Well best/ cheapest retail prices can vary a bit so I thought it best to be specific. At this £35 price ,is it a good deal and what do we get ? A…
... this case there is a British "guiding" manufacturer ... Some well known very big brands achieve very good quality by ... this time on sale at a "very reasonable" price ? Who ... one back because of a fault . Slow response ... USB lead is a bit of a token effort . ...Playing my own random 'Cover Tapes'So after reading through some old magazines, I started to get nostalgic about the old days, where I'd get a new Spectrum mag 3 weeks out of 4 complet…
... days, where I'd get a new Spectrum mag 3 weeks ... out of 4 complete with a cover tape full of games ... />
This let me try a very mixed bag of software, and ... , you'll have already played a lot of the games, but ...Using BASIC from Machine CodeHi Folks, Came across a very interesting article by Toni Baker in Your Spectrum: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr11/yr11_66.htm …
... Folks,
Came across a very interesting article by Toni Baker ...
CALL 5808
LD A,(23610)
CP 255
120 LET A=USR 62000[/code]
Conflict likely in Korea?Is anyone getting nervous yet about the escalation of threats coming out of North Korea and counter-threats from their perceived enemies? It's har…
... s hard to see how a diplomatic solution can be ... .
I was a teenager in the 80s, so ... that the Middle East has a whole set of their ... to use targeted terrorism as a vehicle. But North Korea ... to be close to having a very real capability, and they seem ...Unreleased game 'Cloud Hopper' has been releasedIn this month's Retro Gamer magazine (issue 172) , the Desert Island Disks subject is a programmer called Adrian Longland, who has now released a ver…
... Longland, who has now released a very old Spectrum game of his ...1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …
... into what was already a very stressed bit of coding ... hl)
sbc a,a
ld (de),a
inc e ... ld c,l
ld a,(de)
rra
...8 Bit Typography (Font study)A very nice article that compares typography (font) of 8 bit machines, including the ZX Spectrum. https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-i…
A very nice article that compares typography (font) of 8 bit machines, including the ZX Spectrum.
https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fontsZX Spectrum 48k PSU Vs ZX Spectrum 128k PSUHi Guys, A very straightforward and simple question :-). I am buying next days a ZX Spectrum 128k without PSU. I own already a ZX Spectrum 48k and I…
Hi Guys,
A very straightforward and simple question :-). I ... am buying next days a ZX Spectrum 128k without PSU ... . I own already a ZX Spectrum 48k and I ... ? I think the 128k needs a little bit more amps then ...Don't read this if you're depressed! I apologize in advance for this but I didn't really know where else to air this opinion/have this moan. This is NOT a pity party! Apart fr…
... this moan. This is NOT a pity party!
a good few of them ... to something but not as a general rule, posts like ... I tend to write very long posts which probably wouldn ... Maybe I'm just not a very interesting person and everyone's ...Anyone remember Micronet?I was flicking through my old YS collection a few nights ago and came across an article on Micronet (think it a 1989 or 1990 issue) which was probabl…
... through my old YS collection a few nights ago and came ... 1990 issue) which was probably a very primitive version of today's ... . It cost an arm and a leg to use as you ...
