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secrets of the superbrands[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011cr8h[/url] it's about technology brands , apple , facebook etc :) thought some on here might like it.. an…
... all leveraged their dominant position in their own markets (operating ... , advertising). Facebook is dominant in social networks, but they don ... walkman. Nintendo is still dominant in games consoles, and Apple is the ... , and we all know games consoles are sold at a ... -
Emulators and 50hzI have been trying out ZX Spin and Spectaculator on my HDTV that supports 50hz. I cant seem to find an option for 50hz (say 1360 x 768 x 32/16 colour…
... to get smooth 50hz scrolling in games!
Surely this is ... almost as important as accuracy in emulators.[/QUOTE]
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How much have you spent on your hobby?Time for a new thread... 1) How much have you spent in total on your hobby (can be Sinclair only), or other retro computing stuff over the years ? …
... comics and video games ever since I ... games... i had the speccy +3 and back in the 80's in ... portugal there was only one place I know that sold games ... pirate compilations with 6 games a disk) that would ... br /> that would be in games at something around 8000? ... -
New Game: 2k RGB ChallengeThere is something weirdly adictive in creating games in limited memory (I know I need to get out more). After my two very basic 1k games thought I w…
... ;539716]Can it be that in this particular forum the image ... PNG too, which was displayed in games section, but after moving the ... -
ZXDS questions...Hi Folks, I am hoping someone on here knows something about [B]ZXDS[/B]. I have downloaded the program to my daughters [B]DSi[/B] (for testing purp…
... the "Cursor Joystick" setting used in games. Which is not the same ... it is supposed to work in the games, too.
If ... yourself. It's easy, though, in default setup caps is mapped ... you try a lot of games in a turn and have only ... -
ZXDS questions...Hi Folks, I am hoping someone on here knows something about [B]ZXDS[/B]. I have downloaded the program to my daughters [B]DSi[/B] (for testing purp…
... the time to respond in such detail - really ... Cursor Joystick" setting used in games. Which is not the ... is supposed to work in the games, too.[/QUOTE]
... have never been in to games even back in the 1980s) ... I have been developing in BASin. My expectation is ... -
The Duke Nukem Forever demo is due out, BUT...The playable demo of Duke Nukem Forever is (finally!) going to be released, on the 3rd of June, one week before the full game is released (on the 10t…
... the formula that will bring in maximum revenue.
And ... I'm not that interested in the "big" console titles ... less and less interest in games as games and more in making them interactive ... people aren't that interested in challenge any more.
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I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... new thread - genuinely funny moments in games - though I expect LucasArts old ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... new thread - genuinely funny moments in games - though I expect LucasArts old ... -
Youtube DumpI think there was a thread containing only Youtube vids before but I can't find it so here's a new one. To start, here's my current favourite Mighty …
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The Hulk adventure game. "Bite Lip"??Who remembers this? To turn into the Hulk you had to type "bite lip"! The thing is, you had to do this right at the beginning to escape the chair to …
... /> Imagine this sort of thing in games these days where you have ... on BIG jumps!") before the games start proper. -
Last Sunset for LatticaHere's a [b]rough first draft[/b] of the [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/lattica.gif]Lattica map[/url], just to demonstrate th…
... ... and it just makes sense in my head. Because I mean ... 's graphical representations of waterfalls in a loop due to optical ... for the wrap-around used in games (left edge connects with right ... -
Last Sunset for LatticaHere's a [b]rough first draft[/b] of the [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/lattica.gif]Lattica map[/url], just to demonstrate th…
... ! :-) (but I was also wrong in thinking that it was Archimedes ... for the wrap-around used in games (left edge connects with right ... the proper term I had in mind, once I found it ... -
Help identifiying a very old gameHello, first post here although I've lurked for a while :) Great site! This is a long shot, but I wonder if anyone can help me find a game I played…
... joysticks for good results. In scramble games you fly a mission against ... hidden enemy base, whereas in defender games you must rescue humanity at ... and a games designer in one ? another from the specialists in games for eight ... -
I am a simple man....a layman if you will!...but I had a Spectrum when I was 12 years old that I loved more than was healthy! It gave me a love of computers which remains to this day and I …
... else we used to do in W H Smiths :oops:) but ... *whatever I need to type in order to make the picture ... can save it onto any audio device in order to reload it ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... "real" tests and to load in games. ;)
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... = speccy[16384+offset]. offset in current speccy_display not back_buffer.
in the speccy, in response to the keys ... to be able to run games?
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WOW!!! Amazing graphics. Just WOW!!!Remember how staggering it was back in 1984, seeing Knightlore for the first time? Or Fairlight? Or Turbo Esprit? Or Jimmy White's Snooker on the ST/…
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Legend of Kyrandia - ZX Spectrum DemoI was browsing the ZX Open Source site [url]http://opensourcezx.untergrund.net/[/url] and I found an interesting tr-dos disk image of a playable demo…
... . There isn't much gameplay in this demo.
You ... very early stage.
In games like this, the real challenge ... screens, all the animations. Unfortuanetely games like Legend of Kyrandia or ... -
Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …
... to a database of 'known' games. If the game (the contents ... "Write=". This updates the highscores in the virtual Spectrum from the ... stored data in the gamehigh.txt database, but ... score addresses by the PC (in games where no name is entered ... -
Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …
... br /> e:\Spectrum\Games\favourit
e:\Spectrum\Games\magazine
< ... for example, in the above examples, a list called Games.LST would ... that listed all of the games in the directories (as chosen ... addresses by the PC (in games where no name is entered ... -
Can a Voxel 3D engine be made in ZX Spectrum?I am not a programmer! So I could not investigate it... But I am not shy enough to shut up, I have to say the idea. I thought about this some weeks a…
... voxels. Some people in Slashdot ( [url]http://games.slashdot.org/story/11 ... /08/02/0443250/Making-Graphics-In-Games-100000-Times-Better[/url] )is ... -
Modern gaming conventions that were in Spectrum games?Out of interest, were any of these things that we take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games? 1. Multiple weapons that you can f…
... take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games?
... as is so common in first and third person shooters ... ?
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Yes. Games had power-ups. Cybernoid had ... exploding barrels in them, but did any Speccy games have barrels ... -
Modern gaming conventions that were in Spectrum games?Out of interest, were any of these things that we take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games? 1. Multiple weapons that you can f…
... take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games?
1 ... again, as is so common in first and third person shooters ... that aside, it was DLC in every sense of the term ... have exploding barrels in them, but did any Speccy games have barrels ... -
Modern gaming conventions that were in Spectrum games?Out of interest, were any of these things that we take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games? 1. Multiple weapons that you can f…
... take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games?
1 ... again, as is so common in first and third person shooters ... have exploding barrels in them, but did any Speccy games have barrels ... -
Modern gaming conventions that were in Spectrum games?Out of interest, were any of these things that we take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games? 1. Multiple weapons that you can f…
... take for granted in games nowadays, ever in any Spectrum games?
1 ... again, as is so common in first and third person shooters ... that aside, it was DLC in every sense of the term ... have exploding barrels in them, but did any Speccy games have barrels ... -
Gaming mysteriesWhy is it that the hero is always dropped 300 miles from the enemy he's trying to kill and then has to fight his way through jungles, deserts, tundra…
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If this had happened in world war 2 the Normandy ... 's ok though, because enemies in games always leave lots of weapons ... eventually kill them with. Usually in crates... -
Gaming mysteriesWhy is it that the hero is always dropped 300 miles from the enemy he's trying to kill and then has to fight his way through jungles, deserts, tundra…
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... door of an abandoned school in and find myself some ... addictive drugs stashed in the teachers desk? Along with ... -
worst spectrum game cheatwhat is the worst cheat you ever found for a game and what was it
I remember a few Playstation games with some silly extra modes ([ ... />
I suppose infinite lives in games like [I]Jet Set Willy ... ], where you could get caught in a repeating death-trap, didn ... corrupt and cripple the gameplay in drawing so many Willies at ... -
meaningless gameswhich games do think where meaningless
... had a meaning, Also type in games, I think the meaning behind ... /> Now if you mean it in the context of progressing to ... I suppose all the 'looped' games would qualify. -
there are 10,000+ games in the archiveabout 1 month ago I realised it broke the 10K barrier (and that's not even including text adventures)... obviously some have "never released" and som…
... isnt/wasnt the same diversity in games on consoles as there were ...
