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Games that play better than they lookDespite that when you first start playing it and the first thing you see are a few UDG sized wizards on a black background, Chaos is one of the all-t…
... sized wizards on a black background, Chaos is one of the ... -
Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…
... a foreground colour or a background colour, and an attribute (containing ... 4 bit code for the background colour) is shared for a ... -
Video fault on issue two ZX boardI've trawled the Internet and drawn a few blanks as to where to look to resolve the fault with my issue two board. I'm hoping a few of you knowledgea…
... get a very dark grey background and black text. It is ... -
Android memory questionErm, I was sure there was already a thread about this before but I couldn't find it, perhaps it's deleted or something. So I'm asking this again. I …
... apps are running in the background.
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Drunk With Blood (Bible not boring after all)Flip! Not another religious thread from BB. How many's that now?! (... errrm ... two). I haven't forgotten about the Koran commentary (now that I've …
... God kills a baby. The background to this was that King ... -
Amateur horror theme[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oc_nCbZ4oo[/url] Should I do more or just leave it? The background is that I write dungeon crawl science fanta…
... just leave it?
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4K GamingWhen the new Nvidea 970 and 980 cards came out I decided it was time to upgrade my gaming PC. I decided to go for a 4K setup to try and future proof …
... great as a full 1080p background. At 4K it looks awful ... -
Bug-Eyed Blob Things[URL="http://www.speccyjam.com/games/bug-eyed-blob-things/"]Bug-Eyed Blob Things[/URL] is a great game, that won the [URL="http://www.speccyjam.com/"…
... -based animations with a fixed background, so it's a perfect ... -
identify game music is in this demohi guys, ran across this nice russian demo - but while enjoying the music playing in the background, suddenly it broke my concentration with a tune,…
... the music playing in the background, suddenly it broke my concentration ... -
New Game: Escape from Colony 8[I]I can't really tell what happened, when they first attacked our base or where they came from, but Colony 8 is lost. My only chance is to get to ha…
... the game. I love the background graphics and the sprite animations ... -
Video Games Live - Bonus Round[url]http://www.thsh.co.uk/event/video-games-live-bonus-round/[/url] No idea what this really is - anybody got any clues? I am guessing it's video …
... footage with a classical music background but I'm just guessing ... -
looking for a [forgotten] demoit's a poetic demo, I was sure it's written by gasman but it looks like it's not. as I remember, it was a letter to a girl named ~lucy-ish one. I'm n…
... span.
it's background was mainly white, I guess ... -
Resurrection of ZX SpectrumHello everyone. I recently emerged from my attic bearing my childrens 128k ZX Spectrum +2 with a bag of games etc. Like many before it hasn't seen…
... no video of the stripy background and when the tape had ... -
Uridium possible with more colour??Having seen the MSX version of Uridium mentioned in another thread I wondered if the Spectrum could produce anything similiar, and had a go at a mock…
... from the rest of the background.
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Need some AY music for my new game.I'm finishing off my new game but need a tune that plays in the background. At the moment I'm using a tune ripped from the "Gems" game that comes wit…
... tune that plays in the background. At the moment I'm ... -
Please can you help with three ocean gamesHi there I'm collecting early ocean games from 82-84 , most of the ocean titles had the black background with red and blue writing on the spine of t…
... ocean titles had the black background with red and blue writing ... I currently have is yellow background and black writing which says ... -
ZX Spectrum+ video ? red on green problemThis is my first post on the forum, so let me introduce myself. I am retired for several years. For 30 years I have been a fan of the ZX Spectrum. I …
... /> Black letters on a white background are surrounded (the left and ... -
Biggest baddie in a speccy gameIf you ignore really huge ones where the whole game is set inside a baddie (Dominator, Gutz etc), what is the biggest enemy "sprite" in a Spectrum ga…
... that those are just specific background tiles with multiple smaller enemies ... -
New Game - Rescue LanderMy third outing with AGD and I decided to take a departure from the 'Page' series of games. I wanted to make a lunar lander game, something simple a…
... edge graphics, or speaker pumping background music. The plan was to ... -
Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…
... shimmery underwater look to the background.
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3 weeks in paradise in game music<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; line-height: 14.399998664856px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hi, a…
Hi, always was wondering what the beeper music plays in 128k version while playing the game, sounds like a classical song ? -
ZX-Spectrum at MobyGames<span style="font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11.9999990463257px; line-height: 14.399998664856px; background-color: rgb(25…
We still don't know when Speccy games from the last few years will be stored at WoS. I think we need a better solution, until the reworked WoS site becomes fully operational.I just found out that MobyGames (world's largest online database of released games ... -
Bought a car? You might soon not actually own it.<div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;">Quote "<span style="font-fa…
Quote "It's official: John Deer and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. Not according to their corporate lawyers, anyway.
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New game: FlypeHi,<div><br></div><div>I originally posted in the temporary forums, but now they've gone away, I'll mention here my latest game, Flype.</div><br…
Hi,
I originally posted in the temporary forums, but now they've gone away, I'll mention here my latest game, Flype.Created mainly with AGD it's an arcade puzzle game inspired by "Cool Croc Twins".TZX is available to download at repixel8.com/games/ ... -
Code tags againHi Foggy!<div><br></div><div>Got the code tags to work. Sort of. Turns out, if you paste in an announcement from any other forum, you have to turn on…
... nicely monospaced, but has no background around the text. Looks odd ... /> I can get a proper background to the code by using ... -
Batman: Arkham Knight - or 'Screw the consumer' volume 2,375<div>If, like me, you're really looking forward to Batman: Arkham Knight, then you'll not be pleased to learn that no mater what version of the game …
If, like me, you're really looking forward to Batman: Arkham Knight, then you'll not be pleased to learn that no mater what version of the game you buy, you won't get everything that's available unless you're rich enough (and a bit lacking in brain cells) ... -
Z-Exemplar - Retro inspired shoot em up blasts towards Android and iOS<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c-0qKuOYA-Q/VW3AQztlOuI/AAAAAAAA…
Suminell Studios has announced the development of a ZX Spectrum styled shoot em up in a similar style to R-Type, Gradius and Nemesis for both Android and iOS based devices!
https://shar.es/12WeKh
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Commodore The Amiga years<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: rg…
Just discovered that Brian Bagnall will use Kickstarter to release the most avaited book (almost for me) Commodore: The Amiga Years.The campaign will start on 15 Jun 2015 as announced on Facebookhttps://www.facebook...4051909?fref=nf -
ANN: Tipshop updated Saturday, 06 June 2015Saturday 06 June 2015<br>Welcome to the May update (eh? Ed).. Shh! Archie Robins appears to have decided sleep is something that happens to other peo…
... , Arena!, Arena, Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh,
Arkanoid Editor, Arkanoid, Arkos, Armageddon, Armageddon ... -
New game released: EXPLORER<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Courier New';">- EXPLORER -</span></div><div><span style="font-si…
- EXPLORER -ZX Spectrum 48K/128K© 1989/2015 Luca Bordoni
PREFACE*******In far 1981, EXPLORER was a clone of my favourite game, Scramble. Once I've seen an alternate vertical-scrolling version in a TV show, I always wondered its title (internet was ...