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Why games get denied distribution?Does anyone know if any good reasons have been given by the creators of some old speccy games on why they wont allow their games to be distributed? …
... no chance of getting all the old Ultimate/RARE games i ... version of any of them at car boot sales etc.
Ive ... , or have stuff spilt on the tape or are just old ... -
Why games get denied distribution?Does anyone know if any good reasons have been given by the creators of some old speccy games on why they wont allow their games to be distributed? …
... no chance of getting all the old Ultimate/RARE games i ... at car boot sales etc.
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... hurtling down a motorway at 70 mph, coming up ... the correct cassette out of the boot of the car, put it in the ... STOP (whilst precariously balancing the monitor on your knee) ... wait for the correct program to load at 300 bits ... got a dead body at the end of his garden ... -
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... hurtling down a motorway at 70 mph, coming up ... the correct cassette out of the boot of the car, put it in the ... STOP (whilst precariously balancing the monitor on your knee) ... wait for the correct program to load at 300 bits ... got a dead body at the end of his garden ... -
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... hurtling down a motorway at 70 mph, coming up ... the correct cassette out of the boot of the car, put it in the ... STOP (whilst precariously balancing the monitor on your knee) ... wait for the correct program to load at 300 bits ... got a dead body at the end of his garden ... -
FairlightSo, I already have a copy of this and it works just aces on a 48K machine, but not my 128. Then, I pick up a sealed pack of Spectrum games from Games…
... out to raid car boot sales in the early hours of ... Sunday mornings so they can resell at ... , a cynical exploitation of the retro scene. They don ... bother to check if the tapes match the boxes.
at all in these shops ... -
The whole denied games, abandonware and buying from eBay issue I understand that it's a software company or author's right to ban free distribution of their games on the Internet. This is a wider issue these da…
... i discovered it, all the games, reviews etc it ... just brilliant. As for the denied games theyre always ... pick up tons of bargains at car boot sales, on ebay prices ... .
On the other side its great that ... can still read about the Speccy, great theres a ... -
The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain - did anyone ever finish this wretched game!?I've been 'enjoying' (if that's the phrase) the opportunity to replay some of the classic games I remember of yore, including "The Warlock Of Firetop…
... (which mine were in the main, fortunately). As ... I bought loads in car boot fairs years ago, some ... were rather popular too. The plastic figures aren't ... me bugger all from the aforementioned car boots.
the UK at one stage that I ... -
The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain - did anyone ever finish this wretched game!?I've been 'enjoying' (if that's the phrase) the opportunity to replay some of the classic games I remember of yore, including "The Warlock Of Firetop…
... new I bought loads in car boot fairs years ago, some of ... cost me bugger all from the aforementioned car boots.
What ... , Denmark, Germany and around the UK at one stage that I had ... marines, mostly mark 6 armour (the pointy noses.) late 80s figures ... -
What is it exactly about that Spectrum that you like so much?I'm sure that most people here will agree that there's something very special about the Speccy, thats why we visit WOS afterall... But what why has i…
I stumbled on the speccy by accident, at a boot sale, but fell in love ... immediately, it's so accessable, and the ... 's easier to program than the beeb (the retro computer I remember ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... do hope nobody got the arse with anything I wrote ... to work, Im sure the emulator does but in all ... now you only see them at car boot sales. And that Spectrum ... - I guess Im part of the problem!
Shit ... , I DO know what the answer is, if you want ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... now you only see them at car boot sales. And that Spectrum 3000 ... out of the loop on the emulation scene for the past sixteen ... , Ocean, Firebird, etc. in the package. Against which, games from ... Cauldwell and the Shaw brothers, being minor cult hits at best, ... -
Protection - why?Just musing on my huge box of copied Spectrum games, and wondering why the publishers bothered using all those elaborate copy protection mechanisms. …
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During the ST/Amiga era.... game cracking ... games were at least £39, with some reaching the dizzy ... br /> Forward to the days of the CDR, and the PS1, and prices ... available on markets and car boot sales throughout the world!)
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Ebay moan #86,400I'm looking in the Vintage & Retro Gaming section and yet all I can see are World Of Warcraft and Runescape gold purchases etc. I wouldn't mind a few…
... these are the same people who can be seen at car boot sales haggling ... over a 50p item. The world is ... but still send it via the cheapest option going. For example ... .
Even better still the seller sent me a snotty ... -
brainache(codemasters)questionhello has anybody got a clue what to do in this game?i have tried picking stuff up and moving it but i am still stuck!!!.hope somebody can help.than…
[QUOTE=Zagreb]Is this the one with the really hideously messy full ... -colour background graphics that the programmers, in their wisdom, ... QUOTE]
Understatement of the century.
I ... to pick up Brainache at a boot sale when I was about ... -
Gray +3??saw this on ebay I thought the +3 only came in black?? [URL="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sinclair-ZX-spectrum-3_W0QQitemZ290023306146QQihZ019QQcategoryZ1…
... , and a fiver for one at a boot sale, and all of these ... and TV wire. He says the BuyItNow is 50 pounds, but ... not much in evidence on the listing. -
Your Speccy Games CollectionJust updated my Spectrum games list today after having a load of tapes lying around for months, managed to sort them out and I now have 1441 original…
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Been collecting tapes since the late 1980's although many ... have had were sold during the 1990's but have ... managed to keep the collection alive from buying at car boot sales, eBay and ... skint !
Slowly building the collection back up again and ... -
Your Speccy Games CollectionJust updated my Spectrum games list today after having a load of tapes lying around for months, managed to sort them out and I now have 1441 original…
... have just short of 300 at the moment (not including duplicates) and ... quantity). The last stuff I bought was from a boot sale in Milton ... itself was hidden under the table right at the back.
Every ... -
Anyone still use their Spectrum?I mean, with the quality of emulation available, does anyone still hook up the spectrum and load from tapes? I still have my Spectrum + and it's in p…
... br /> still hook up the spectrum and load from ... buy any tapes I find at car boot sales etc. but even ... br /> Through the clouds an open sky, the wind flows ... your watering eyes
The sounds are pitched to ... br /> The edge of time, the edge of time, the edge of ... -
Anyone still use their Spectrum?I mean, with the quality of emulation available, does anyone still hook up the spectrum and load from tapes? I still have my Spectrum + and it's in p…
... =stvd;180371]I mean, with the quality of emulation available, does ... buy any tapes I find at car boot sales etc. but even then ... 'm more interested in having the game with instructions and such ... luck whatsoever although listening to the tone as it loaded sounded ... -
16-bit WarsDoing a 8-bit war is a bit of a no-brainer but what's your 16-bit fave, Multiple votes are allowed
... /> Never thought much of the Amiga 500 at the time. Was never tempted ... . Settlers and Hired Guns were the first games he put on ... finally bought one from a car boot, and later my own 1200 ... ?70!
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Personal Gaming History in (very) Brief'79:PrinztronicMicro5500 --> '80:PlayedCoinOp(Space Invaders) --> '83:Spectrum(48K) --> '84:Spectrum+(kit) --> '86:Spectrum128 --> '88:AtariST --> '9…
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I got one at a boot/jumble sale when I was about ... five or six at the time and the only reason I ... had a go on the The Hobbit which then got ... I started searching on the interweb and she eventually ... that she binned the lot when I was at school. Strewth, ... -
You're gonna bloody well read this...I took the time to write this rubbish, so you can damn well read it! In the thread about Dan Brown (a third class writer who has achieved major fin…
... file now. I'll be at the meeting point in an hour ... happening in the boot of his car (or the trunk of his car, as people ... Mel, as they all stared at the clues on screen, and Martijn ... Martijn stared open mouthed at the awesome beauty of the Spectrum SE, which ... -
At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…
Today at the Carboot sale I got a big boxed ... is uppon us, over the comming weeks I expect a ... and harder. They do appear at the boot sales, but you have to ... get there at 5AM to snap em up. Else the ones ... they have been salvaged from the bottom of a swamp. < ... -
Marshall Cavendish Input magazinesHi every one, I have the complete set of Input magazines in folders from a long way back. I am wandering if I typed them in (or at least as many as I…
I see them at Car Boot sales all the time from anything from 30p to ?3.
Now I know I'm missing a binder I will buy the next lot I see.
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cronosoft sitei just can't enter cronosoft site at [url]www.cronosoft.co.uk[/url] it give me an error like the site does not exist did the site go down?
... back online by 10th October at the latest. Then I'll ... rely on them to handle the installation.
... they wern't getting a sale (as we're not ... in the posh streets of the village in the middle of the ... - being sat in me car tapping away (on my keyboard ... -
BBC MicrosAny speccy peeps on here also have a collection of Beebs ? :) I have a fair few (and some accessories) , il try to get some pics later if anyone is …
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Infact the Beeep never stops.
I have checked the voltage on the PSU. I have also ... Master Series for ?10 at a boot sale. I put it ... -
This weeks optimists are...or maybe that should be This weeks bargins are..... :lol: [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/128k-zx-spectrum-2-sinclair-joystick-54-games_W0QQitemZ2802084…
The second one's not ... if he manages to sell the two for 100 quid.< ... 't really have car boot sales here, and the North Irish Sea ... from someone at work - in pristine condition, apart from the dead 4116 ... memory.
The first guy ... -
Issue 1 ZX Spectrum for SaleBefore I go down the route of shoving this on ebay, I would like to offer fellow WoSsers the opportunity to express their interest in this item. It …
Stating at 5 quid I might ... going around car boot sales looking for unwanted hardware in the hope ... to start using the same sources, hence the boon of something ... a distance by buying up the hardware you have spent ... I still get to collect at a distance. Still it ... -
list of removed / banned games?Hi all, apologies if this is outside the etiquette of this forum, but I was wondering if there a list of all of the banned or removed games from the…
... all still quite easily found at Car Boot sales or on E-bay ... ...just spouting brain dribblings onto the page *
