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Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…
The War of the Worlds (CRL).
I ... to this after seeing the glossy ads and screenshots of the tripods etc ... crap. Screen after screen of being 'caught in the crowd and pulled ... -
No new Doctor Who thread yet?Then allow me to be the first. :) Last night's episode was great. I think Freema Agyeman is going to be a brilliant companion. The Mr. Saxon subplot…
... the way the Doctor changed and the way the background of the Doctor, the Timelords and the ... books are a real disapointment, after the excellent NA run.
the Time War and the destruction of the Time Lords, which ... -
Challenge: try to survive more than ten seconds in this gameThe game "[B]Oriental Hero[/B]" is almost unbelivable difficult. Does anyone manage to stay alive for more than ten seconds? :-) [url]http://www.wo…
... back to strike then duck, after the strike goes over you head ... fairly easy meet the end-of-level robot war-machine.. Looks like ... a big vacuum cleaner on the loose ... , sometimes you have to chase this "war-machine ... -
WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …
... at someones house, as after the fire, the house had to be gutted ... value, to be honest. The biggest was the Chess program, which (from ... wasn't the modded (a cassette port, [B]MAJOR[/B] mod!) +2 ... . I really don't remember sending the +D ... -
Aliens versus Predator (the games)We talk about other first person shooters on here, but we rarely mention AvP 1 or 2. I know these games didn't get the recognition that they deserved…
... looks like it, but the text on the download page calls it ... of Quake. The authors were forced to withdraw the (freeware) mod, after the company who ... owned the Alien copyright threatened ... -
Big BrotherHere we go again...zzzzz. Is anyone interested? Surely the novelty wore off about 4 years ago.
... slack in terms of looking after herself.
Passive, party ... , Action For South Africa, the Stop The War coalition, among many others. She ... George Galloway?s Respect party after Tony Blair sent troops to ... -
Scary Speccy games - are there any?Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you …
... nuclear war, especially after watching the BBC's "Threads" and the US's "The Day After ... his friends until some time after the flash, the melting milk bottles (which ... all cowering down there shortly after the attack on Sheffield - but you ... -
First steps in Z80 machine codeI never got into machine code much back when I had a speccy, as I didn't have any development tools at the time. The only machine code I'd previousl…
... , I stumbled across the above files again, which ... look at the original mod dates on the files on the DVD, ... br /> So, I guess after that brief frenzy of Z80 ... was actually created in the SPIN assembler, not ... /> But thanks both for the words of encouragment, it' ... -
B: drive dont workHi all, I went to Maplin today got myself a DIY lead the one with the proper 34 way edge connector for the Spectrum+3 other end 34 way to floppy driv…
... B: (or DS1) - after the twist, it switches round the drive to respond ... people have said regarding the pin 34 mod, I just thought I ... errors, hard to spot. If after all this and it still ... socket for the external drive, and the other end of the veroboard got ... -
Is 'Theatre Europe' winnable?Can you actually beat the computer at this, as Nato vs Warsaw Pact? Even if I hold my nerve and refrain from chemical/nuclear retaliation to their n…
... think it was until after the end of the cold war that it became ... for a real war/strategy game. Nowhere near the real level of ... hit and possibly raised the interest in war games in general at ... the time. :)
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Bad things you did as a kidOk, fess up. What's some of the worst things you did as a kid? For me: (1) Almost burning a neighbour's hedge to the ground. (2) Wiping a big dog…
... /> The day after the open market nearby was the perfect ground for a healthy war ... wouldnt go clean the place untill 2 days after so we went ... to pick up the cases with rotten fruit but after we had ... had a lugh hearing the recording after and when i first saw ... -
Speccy just snuffed it while playing 3D Pinball :(I have two speccys but the one I use most has just given up the gost! :-( game froze up and now all I get is flashing patterns and lines:-( Everyt…
... with bad ghosty bars. After changing to the ULA you sent me ... elementry, but i did the composite mod on it and now have ... three working speccys all with the ... composite mod!:-D
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Speccy just snuffed it while playing 3D Pinball :(I have two speccys but the one I use most has just given up the gost! :-( game froze up and now all I get is flashing patterns and lines:-( Everyt…
... with bad ghosty bars. After changing to the ULA you sent me ... elementry, but i did the composite mod on it and now have ... three working speccys all with the composite mod!:-D
I ... />
Did you get the composite video mod from my website?
How is this Possible?![url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7095134.stm[/url] How the heck did this guy manage this?! I mean I don't see how …
... pleasures - he had, after all, locked the door and had a ... pointless exercises are done for the "war on terror") result in unacceptable ... relatively uncommon. After all, car crashes seldom make the national news ... , we look after and try to help the weak, not ...The terrorists have wonWhen a man collapses in a diabetic coma, instead of the bus driver assuming the man is ill, but assumes he's a terrorist (and gets the police in who …
... in who then tase the guy twice), the terrorists have won. When ... have his attack six days after the bombing in 2005, so I ... - statistics after all show life expectancy going up all the time - but ... have plagues, mass death through war, illness carried by lack of ...Faulty +2 Grey :(Hello everyone... i was trying to fix a +2 grey board the other day, i had it for some time now. It gave a black screen (paper and border) with two …
... eprom works without the 2 diodes and the resistor mod...[/quote]
... but Jos? Leandro after all... sorry) does exactly the same OR-Gate ... output ([B]C[/B]). The circuit performs as follows (either ... the diode-resistor or the chip):
[ ...Speccy plus composite modHi folks, I have 2 48K speccy plus machines both with really poor RF output, one is very weak and the other wanders and white tears across the scree…
... white tears across the screen after about 20 mins ... assume that doing the composite mod would cure this ... still appears to use the modulator circuitry. I am ... of anyone reasonably priced for the job?
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I mean, composite mod is peace of cake. ...new BBC sitcomive written a sitcom under the allusion that i could write one better than 'two pints of lager..." the art of s…
... Germany without linking it to the war, now can you, huh? Yawn ... a proper script writter now after my first public apology. will ... 's ideas more closely in the future.)A serious question (in case you think it's facetious)Alright, so none of us can tell the future, and equally no one knows for definate what oil/gas etc reserves are left and where, but I was talking to …
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and after the next 50 years or so ... going we wont distroy the plannet. However, the plannet will cull quite ... climate.
The time of the floods will be really ... there may be a world war regarding the last reserves of oil ...Can I ever be king (seriously)?Not [B]will[/B] I ever be king, as obviously that's as unlikely as getting a good laugh out of Lenny Henry, but can I theoretically ever become the k…
... of the main changes made after the coup de tait of 1688 (the so ... it was the implicit threat of another civil war that made parliament ... back down in the case).Well it's the end for Britain by the looks of things!!![url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23436203-details/Adoption+of+Islamic+Sharia+law+in+Britain+is+'unavoidable'%2C+says+Archbishop+of+Can…
... several centuries later.
War is brutal and Christian warriors ... done a century or so after the Bulgarians had managed to kill ... is a characteristic of war where the business of killing people ... damn well sure that any war is motivated by economic and ...Denmark cartoons round #2As if Denmark didn't make enough headlines the first time round, we're approaching round 2. Last week, police apprehended 3 suspects. The 3 suspect…
... own countries chances are the military would shoot them ... have been really nice, the only thing different about ... Islam, because of all the violence and erratic behaviour.< ... come in and look after the shop for him during ... do there will be war, and a bloody big ...Anyone after 4164s...If anyone's after 4164 RAM... ... I'm in Houston at the moment, and EPO has some 4164 RAM in the shop, 100, 150 and 200ns variety, for $1 each. If …
... after 4164 RAM...
... I'm in Houston at the ... d really like to build the DMA mod).[/quote]
the odd power pins. Just ... />
Cannot measure the pins' voltages right now (and ... /> I don't need the chips myself, but I thought ...i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... on, ready to play one after the other. It's currently playing ... name winning the radio 1 friday rock show "rock war" back when ...Computer BattlegamesBook Title: [B][URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000080"]Computer Battlegames[/URL][/B] Authors: [B]Daniel Isaaman & Jenny Tyle…
... br /> 30 print "type the correct code"
40 print ... "
50 print "defuse the missile."
60 print "you ... message correct"
250 print "the war is over"
260 stop ... 130
210 print "the building collapsed"
220 stop ...The worst danger to the UK of nuclear war...It wasn't radiation, fallout or massive property damage. No, it was [url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080504/tod-britain-history-security-food-off…
... 1954 was only 3 years after the end of food rationing that ... bring rationing back in the event of nuclear war. Perhaps tea was ... just one of the commodities that ... over the lack of tea during the nuclear holocaust, just that the ...Englandwhat do you think of england do you think england should have nuclear weapons are you proud of england if a foregin country invaded england do you…
... rule...its AFTER that they went down the shithole.[/QUOTE]< ... of nationals. Sure the infrastructure was beneficial after the colonial power left, ... you though... to the victor go the spoils. 10-20 ... the top 5% earners in exchange for 100-200 years of war ...Englandwhat do you think of england do you think england should have nuclear weapons are you proud of england if a foregin country invaded england do you…
... the 'euros'. They did before euro power and they did/do after ... of nationals. Sure the infrastructure was beneficial after the colonial power left, however ... the top 5% earners in exchange for 100-200 years of war ...Englandwhat do you think of england do you think england should have nuclear weapons are you proud of england if a foregin country invaded england do you…
... other countries also suffered at the hands of colonialism.
... br />
Yep.. the USA has reallllly 'suffered'
the world was formed after tribal war and land ... grabs....nothing unique to the Brits ...Englandwhat do you think of england do you think england should have nuclear weapons are you proud of england if a foregin country invaded england do you…
[QUOTE=beanz;267102]Yep.. the USA has reallllly 'suffered'
< ... EVERY country in the world was formed after tribal war and land grabs ... ....nothing unique to the Brits ...
