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  • adventure gamesI always liked text adventures and the speccy had loads,my favourites were Robin of sherwood,,Espionage island,,emerald isle,,dracula,,secret of st b…

    ... and graphic) adventures too. Favourite games? Well anything by Magnetic Scrolls ... or Fergus McNeil whose games were hilarious. I completed ... It really was a pain in games where you knew what you ... later point-and-click style games. I never really liked ...
    David David January 2002 Games
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... screen and it's true in games like Driller that the Speccy ... has an advantage, but in the 80's, the era ... is going to be better in other areas; that's why ...
    Spector Spector November 2001 Games
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    I expressed myself in a very stupid way. ... freely (i.e. not in those 8 pixel steps), you ... lookup table to decide were in memory you should write ... the Spectrum does perform worse in games of the _TYPE_ of Turrican ... english isn't the best in the world. I shouldn' ...
    Anonymous Anonymous November 2001 Games
  • what made u buy a spectrum?Yo spec-chums what really made you buy a spectrum?. Here is my story i was about 9 and had a oric1, poor me eh?, yes it had 48k but it was just about…

    ... i bought a book 20 games for the spectrum,,it ... and loads of other type in games and as i didnt have ... kempston pack with power on in 87...[img]/__forums/images/ ... a spectrum now and some games ok its old technology ... me like a brand new games system at a bargain ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr August 2001 Games
  • what made u buy a spectrum?Yo spec-chums what really made you buy a spectrum?. Here is my story i was about 9 and had a oric1, poor me eh?, yes it had 48k but it was just about…

    ... 24 hrs awake playing/typing in games he'd got.
    ... book which read '50 Games for Your ZX Spectrum'. ... one of Daniel's presents in.' (My mums ingeniuty still ... was stricken.

    In our house at the time ... then my Grnadfather walked in with a 2nd hand ...
    Chris Chris August 2001 Games
  • Currah Microspeech: good or guff?I've just been looking through old Speccy mags and saw the Currah Microspeech add-on. It certainly looks good, with lunar jetman having speech among …

    True - it doesn't work in games that are atmospheric I reckon - ... tune.

    Purely arcade games could suffer without the ingame ...
    David David December 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum collecting and nostalgia.I have recently started to buy and collect old Spectrum games and thought that it would be easy, but easy it is not. Well I say not because on auctio…

    ... find myself returning to Speccy games again and again. What ... some undefinable quality about these games, some kind of charm ... go" factor was huge in the old games, methinks. I have ... fantastic innovativeness and imagination in games in order to keep the player ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Brand new topic? Who used to map games?IS this a BRAND NEW topic? :) I doubt it. But what the hey? Who here used to MAP games? I hadn't heard the expression 'walkthroughs' back then but I…

    ... wrong so i gave up in the end.
    I used ... to use the maps published in games mags the only 1 i ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr March 2002 Games
  • Brand new topic? Who used to map games?IS this a BRAND NEW topic? :) I doubt it. But what the hey? Who here used to MAP games? I hadn't heard the expression 'walkthroughs' back then but I…

    ... wrong so i gave up in the end.
    I used ... to use the maps published in games mags the only 1 i ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr March 2002 Games
  • Gaming MythsLike mentioned in earlier threads - we have games like Mire Mare, Lunar Jetman and Scooby Doo. Does any other ones spring to mind. They need not be…

    ... many stories were circulated about games. Seeing as the Spectrum was ... 'secrets' that could be found in games, as well as the fabled ...
    davidjs_uk davidjs_uk April 2002 Games
  • Best font in a gameMy faves would have to be: 1. Hobbit 2. Starquake 3. Nodes of Yesod 4. Frankie Goes To Hollywood 5. Knightlore 2 to 5 are stocking fillers compared…

    i liked the fonts found in adventure international games.
    Also liked the outlined fonts used in games like super hang on and enduro racer..very arcade looking.
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr June 2002 Games
  • how has the?......................how do you feel the games industry has progressed from the start of the 8bit machines in the 80's right up to the present day?

    ... a big big effort, resulting in lots of recycling of bits ... game genres were basically invented in the '80s, even some ... totally be in control of every bit in the machine, games has somehow ... wish to see more experimentalism in games production these days, but if ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi June 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • are games?................are games made today just as playable as they were in the 80's?

    ... is less variation and originality in games today. Games are much more complex ... what makes them weaker, in my opinion. Games seem to be like ... it like other non-computer games, like pool, which is just ... . I'm also suspicious that games today are much easier.
    Spector Spector July 2002 Games
  • Looking for a Spectrum emulator which supports multi-button joysticksHello, I'm very new to the Spectrum Emulation game, and have tried a few, my favorite being X128. However, I play my games on a 4 button joypad, and…

    ... again, for no reason. Recalibrating in Windoze doesn't help. And ... it a pig to use in games that require absolutely pixel-perfect ... positioning, like loads of Speccy games.

    Any ideas on ...
    Jazzbeaux Jazzbeaux August 2002 Emulators
  • which direction?................hi there, which direction do you think the computer games industry will go in the future as games become more realistic etc and what are your views o…

    ... software complexity can be put in games, they'll ride the 'realistic ... will ask for more "abstract" games, in the old style.

    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi August 2002 Games
  • which direction?................hi there, which direction do you think the computer games industry will go in the future as games become more realistic etc and what are your views o…

    ... I seem to have become in games.
    I'm really not ... graphics, or 3rd person platform games with more advances cartoony graphics ... and less interesting - with modern games they strike me as amazing ... game programmers had to make games that were actually fun and ...
    Anonymous Anonymous August 2002 Games
  • new to emulators...I tried using a speccy emulator several years ago...but I see that they have improved by leaps and bounds now. So...what is the best emulator to use …

    ... tape images. The 'best' one in terms of fidelity is tzx ... to save the tape image in time just as it was ... to use with multi-load games.

    While you're ... up again, and enable saving in games which did not support it ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi September 2002 Emulators
  • new to emulators...I tried using a speccy emulator several years ago...but I see that they have improved by leaps and bounds now. So...what is the best emulator to use …

    ... up again, and enable saving in games which did not support it ... z80...and then saving it in the same format?)

    grioghair grioghair September 2002 Emulators
  • new to emulators...I tried using a speccy emulator several years ago...but I see that they have improved by leaps and bounds now. So...what is the best emulator to use …

    ... again, and enable saving in games which did not support it ... z80...and then saving it in the same format?)
    ... start from a .z80 in the beginning: you could ... faster save), or while in the middle of your ... makes it for an effective in-game 'save' option ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi September 2002 Emulators
  • Spectrum musichello, I was wondering if anyone had released some kind of music sequencing software for the spectrum? if so, can anyone point me in a direction of …

    I didn't realise the situation was so complicated! :|

    sorry, im pretty ignorant when it comes to spectrum hardware. Was the music in games Such as Batman The Movie and Target Renegade created using granular synthesis?
    Fatnick Fatnick October 2002 Games
  • What's you happiest speccy related memory?Mine would have to be coming home from school at lunchtime with a couple of friends, loading up manic miner or commando for a quick 30 minute game-pl…

    ... a book of Speccy type-in games. Was absolutely gutted until my ... to put on the stereo in the dining room. Grudgingly went ... in to do so and finding ... a great big box of games my dad had got off ...
    Vampyre Vampyre October 2002 Games
  • Easiest game everMy nomination for the easiest game ever is: FA Cup Football by Virgin. 8 Players each choosing 8 teams from a possible 124, leaving about 60 teams to…

    ... User, people complainging about flaws in games.

    I think there ... where if you parked up in the right spot you could ...
    thx1138 thx1138 October 2002 Games
  • The Great Mystification: A reflection upon the feebleness of the "distribution denied" policyThis argument has been debated several other times in this place, yet I have not expressed my thoughts about it, and I would like to hear comments by…

    ... freely download (old) Dizzy games, they not only directly lose ... Demos also contain characters featured in games, but demos are freely available ... , if they say Spectrum games may be distributed freely, ... how about C64 games? And how about Gameboy games? It's ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu November 2002 Games
  • all in a good cause...We are hoping to attract the attention of a magazine publisher to launch and support the UK?s first glossy (and hopefully rather funky) retro gaming …

    ... only have a passing interest in games gone by (most people would ...
    cyborg cyborg December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Book listingsI used to spend hours typing in programs from books. I had a whole box of them books and typed in hundreds of programs. Some good, some bad and some …

    i remember typing in a Galaxians game from '40 games for your spectrum ... when i originally typed it in years ago that the saved ... STP project, i guess type in games should be dumped as TZX ...
    pigdog pigdog December 2002 Games
  • Publ;ic Apology Umm... there was a bit of trouble over the past months and it was due to me (Nathan Graves) and Freddy (David Samnell). Just wanted to say i'm sorr…

    ... on the Giana Sisters thread in games. You posted a comment "It ...
    Spector Spector January 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • poke in fuse??is it possible to use POKES with Fuse?? its a long time ago since i used a spectrum and can't remember the routine!! many thanks jasboy

    POKE location,value

    in 48K mode, you do that ... pressing the 'O' key while in the 'K' mode, followed by ... value (0-255).

    in 128k mode, you simply type ... you want to use pokes in games or the like. I'm ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi January 2003 Emulators
  • ANN: Write Spectrum Games in C with speclib121 Announcing the sprite pack C library for the z88dk C cross compiler available from: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/main.htm"]http://justme895.tr…

    ... programmers to produce more games for our beloved format ... as assembler) in a very short time. In the future I ... plan to write software in C and then optimize ... too slow to be useful in games).

    What ... pack will be available in a few days. It ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2003 Announcements
  • unreleased games and beta versionsAre there any alternative beta versions of games, or games that were never released at all in the archive. I dont seem to be able to find any. There …

    ... numbers of releases, my Speccy games CD has nine or ten ... . And there are some typed-in games and Cascade 50 style stuff ... seven or eight thousand individual games though...I always thought there ...
    TygerBC TygerBC March 2003 Games
  • Why did I buy that crap game? Hype, Cover Art or Licenced Product?Was I the only person to buy "Knight Rider" before any reviews came out? I doubt it. What made me buy it? Yep, it was hyped and a licenced product of…

    Caveman by CRL. It was on the level of a Sinclair User type in game.

    Speaking of type in games the library here still has speccy game books for loan!
    Mikal Mikal April 2003 Games
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