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INKEY$ giving me troubleHello, I have been using BASin (great program by the way...) Sad though it seems during the typhoon here I have been re-learning my spec-skills an…
... times nothing.
Do i need a pause in ...
what I want it to do is loop forever until the ... love to learn how to do the fancy screen$ but ... ,W"
106 PRINT "DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW?(Y/N ... /> 120 PRINT "GLAD YOU DIDN'T NEED IT"
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Games That Are 10 Years Old This Year....Didn't do my usual "Try to make everybody feel ancient" type thread at the start of the year...well, I did, but just with Speccy games....so decided …
Didn't do my usual "Try to make ... Speccy games....so decided to do it now! Here's 2012's ... quite a few of these, it does seem like 10 years ... -
Excel -> OpenOffice Z80 spreadsheet problemI tried transferring my [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/z80times.zip]Z80TIMES[/url] spreadsheet from Excel to OpenOffice the o…
... other day, but it wouldn't have it. It said that it referenced another spreadsheet ... although it said it was going to update the links it didn't and it doesn't ... seem possible to do this manually ... -
The great 128k ConversionWell, I am not sure if it is going to be great. Hopefully it will! This evening, I set about getting my Issue 6A Spectrum Plus working. I suspecte…
... the power supply, because it had been connected up ... a first job to do. I admit to being ... meant that when it still didn't work, it got thrown in ... 7805 overheating. It isn't pretty, but it'll do the job ... it's a start! I suspect the lower memory didn't survive ... -
Work problems... again.So after a year mostly unemployed, I finally got the approval for a project i had worked for. It would be a project that would take me an entire yea…
... decided that we couldn't do it alone so decided to ...
I negotiated my payment, it's ridiculously low for what ... had proof of it. I admitted it might had been ... after they say they would do it, and now he's ... to do. He's just pissed off because he didn't want ... -
Did anyone here go to Colmers Farm School , Brumif your name is Lee and you owned sherlock.. and went to the school in bristol road south... apparently you didn't do ya maths homework.. and there w…
... bristol road south... apparently you didn't do ya maths homework.. and there ... when I heard about that it gave me a chuckle. -
Poorly Issue One 16k spectrum diagnosis?Hello, everyone. :smile: I was lucky enough to buy an Issue One 16k rubber key the other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One till I opened it up…
... other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One ... one. The Spectrum as it stands now is completely ... . Amazing.
It powers up okay and displays ... (not the speaker) when it is switched on.
... What do you guys think?
Assuming it is ... -
Issue 4A repair attemptI think I need some help. I have a nice Issue 4A main board here, which does not give out any video signal. I checked some voltages (the ones that se…
... the 7805 regulator didn?t do anything, so I replaced it. Now I ... /100uF one, but could it cause the video signal to ... snow" on channel 36 (don?t laugh - I know the ... "don?t eat yellow snow" jokes) : ... was present, snow wouldn?t surprise me, but the ... -
BIFROST* example: "Knights & Demons DX" source codeA package containing the source files of our multicolor game "Knights & Demons DX" is now available for download [URL="http://www.mediafire.com/?hbch…
... core gameplay" only. Since it doesn't include finales and challenges, ... spoilers. Also since it doesn't include Soundtracker music and ... generate a new board, shuffling it several times
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New Spanish game: GlaufightI discovered it through Russian forums. Somehow the authors didn't announce it here so I'll do the job. It may be not the most original idea in the …
I discovered it through Russian forums. Somehow the authors didn't announce it here so ... I'll do the job.
It may be not ... animated and quite playable. Try it people
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Half Life 2 ModI know some of you on here are into your PC gaming mods and I have to mention this one I installed today - [url]http://cinematicmod.com/[/url] It's …
... a hefty download (11Gb) but it completely overhauls the textures and ... ]carefully[/b]. One thing it doesn't highlight on that page is ... only thing I don't like about it is the Alyx character ... thing that Valve didn't do with her as it wasn't required given such ... -
Windows 8 re-activation nightmareI hope no one has to go through this... Replaced a dead Asus motherboard with a new one on a nice tower that came with Windows 8. Didn't notice it as…
... with Windows 8. Didn't notice it asking for re-activation ... (Spring) Update. Now it asks for re-activation saying ... avoid having to re-do everything from scratch just ... they couldn't help.
Do I have ... and then making sure it's activated and running ... -
MartianoidsAy up. I'm trying to record a walkthrough of Martianoids. I haven't much of a clue as to what to do... I understand you have to guide the program t…
... haven't much of a clue as to what to do...
didn't do much guiding, the program found it's own way ... in sector x", do you have to guide it to the pyramid ... appreciated! Reading the magazine reviews didn't really help that much...
Do you remember the Great Gaming Crash?Assuming you were in England (well, anywhere really, except the USA) in 1983/1984, were you effected, or even aware, of the 'global games crash"? Thi…
... time touched on it, but they didn't make a big ... thing out of it, or ... the Great Gaming Crash didn't have much effect in ... think that the event didn't just affect America, but ... bad but us Brits didn't notice it because we had Manic ...Ports of 16 bit gamesI was watching a video for the Speccy version of Turbo Outrun where the guy who posted the video said that whilst he didn't think it was as good the …
... video said that whilst he didn't think it was as good the ... c64 version he felt it was superior to the 16 ... well to the Speccy? Which do you feel fell short? And ... to the Speccy and which do you think they should have ...Trantor - The Last StromtrooperA couple of questions about this game: 1) Do you think Trantor would benefit from a map? (not a thing people would use back then, but that seems a "…
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1) Do you think Trantor would benefit ... games, the machine didn't have it's big decline until ... poorly? from the reviews it seemed like a hit ... cinematic" intro. back then it totally blew my mind and ... " message. I can't remember that many speccy games ...The Elder Scrolls gamesA few days back, I discovered a great new game, called [B]The Elder Scrolls III: Skyrim[/B]. Actually, I discovered it when it first came out, three …
... else, but I didn't like it, so I gave it away.
do people do that? Especially on their ... and islands. Such mods probably do exist for Skyrim, since they ... do for Morrowind, and incidentally I ...Most deserving Crash Smashes that weren'tTheres some inexplicable Crash Smashes. (Zoids!). But of the games that didn't make it, what has been shamelessly left out? My top choice would be Tr…
... !). But of the games that didn't make it, what has been shamelessly ... , puzzles and great humour made it a technical marvel in its ... day and it still stands. In the same ...Success at recording WAVs to tape and them loading!Hi I thought i'd share my recent great experience of making reliably loadable cassette copies of games from TAP / TZX -> WAV -> audio cassette. …
... with the CD and decided it was too low, so re ... use dolby - the reason is it would add more top end ... when I get round to it. I'll post my ...
One thing I didn't do, which in practical terms hasn ... between the games. Doesn't matter as my shoebox has ...Opus Discovery - a Christmas taleBack in the day, when the ZX ruled the home computer market here in the UK, it suffered from 1 obvious problem: it lacked a fast mass media save/load…
... want's it. I needs it. I totally Gollumed it. My precious ... attached. I tinkered with it to run a simple ... , I didn't get it, and the parents couldn't afford the ... very day, and do you know what? It works. My ... now to speak to it, and it performs flawlessly. While ...Want your game in physical format? we can do it.Hello; My name is Felipe, from Spain. This year I´ll open a shop dedicated only to distribute non profits games for retro platforms. Selling them …
... quality, If someone will do....why not do yourself?. Maybe you have ... for all that work you do, It´s awesome.Multi-platform hits that lack a Speccy port?Title says it all, really: Do you know any games that were a great hit, ported to several (or even many) platforms, but -for whatever reason- didn…
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Do you know any games that ... , but -for whatever reason- didn't make it onto the ZX Spectrum? Or ... in the 80s meant that it was one of a few ...Good or Horrible: Beach HeadI got They Sold A Million with my Speccy. Also: Transformers. Eesh. Surprised I gutted it out long enough to like the machine. Anyway, Beach H…
... Eesh. Surprised I gutted it out long enough to like ... on TSAM. Initially I didn't understand it. I was ten. ... I grew to like it. However, I'm ...
Overall I think it might be trash. I assume ... think it might be good. I DON'T KNOW. What do ...I'm getting to old for this Sh$%&...So I got a gig at teaching writting for TV at a masters course at college. (Miserable pay...). My class is mostly millenials, and the final work …
... gave them 3 weeks to do it and told them I ... reading their scripts... and didn't understand when I told him ... "No, I won't do it. It's good as it is". I gave ... good, none of them did it... well one defended his ... work by saying: "because it is". (And this is ...Adblocker no longer seems to be workingI haven't disabled it, but one of the main reasons I installed it was to cut out all those dumb ads on YouTube -- not just the "You can skip to the c…
... and sometimes (even worse) obscuring it by overlaying a box!
AdBlocker used to do a fine job of eliminating ... of Radioactive Man's goggles. It seems to have Photobucketed itself ... that I turn it off; I didn't install it to disable it at somebody ...1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…
... game got the praise it did, it's another boring ... the doddering old sod didn't hand it to you, he just ... adventure so you literally do have to play through ... this game, and it's very easy to do actually.
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Best thing to do now is drink a King ...The trials and tribulations of the external tape recorderAnd you may find this a strange topic, because having been a +2 owner for the last 31-and-a bit years, it's not something I've had to deal with in th…
... that hardly matters, does it? I just managed to get ... 't the height of technology at the time, but it didn't ... need to be - it would work long ... be the right thing to do, if there was one ... I didn't need it for 30-odd years? Is it worth ...ZX Spectrum rescued from a friend, has Issues.Hi guys, I've recovered this ZX spectrum 48K from a friend. It's a 1984 ISSUE 6A. He told me the last time it was turned on was about 30 years ago!.…
... When I switched it on, several keys weren't responding. So I ... lost a life, the game didn't continued. It suddenly froze. Loaded the ... work and finally switched it on....it booted up flawlessly!!! Success ... the computer hangs up.
Do you know what might be ...Will be away for at least a week.Just signing in for one hour, and typing this up in advance, hopefully i will be able to get it posted and do anything else I need, because one hour …
... be able to get it posted and do anything else I ... to me I could maybe do this, but literally last ... but almost feel I can do without the news for a ... people became enured to it and didn't notice it so much. Same ... have other things to do, and can't be ... well you ...New WoS and ZXDBIt turns out new WoS is using [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB"]ZXDB[/url]! More precisely [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB/blob/c4bd3e40d81a8d47…
... 2015. Old WoS from 2013 didn't know it, but [url="https://worldofspectrum ... ] in 2017. Again old WoS didn't know it, but [url="https://worldofspectrum ... from ZXDB 2018, period. How do we know? Well, let's ... data came from ZXDB. How do we know? Because game data ...
