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Oliver Frey's dodgy artworkI happened upon this great looking book about Oli Frey who did the artwork and all those great covers for Crash, Zzap64, Amtix etc: [url]http://www.…
... artwork and all those great covers for Crash, Zzap64, Amtix etc ... looking back through various Crash covers online (I used to have ... (only very vaguely game-related) covers that used scantily-clad young ... -
HATE is such a strong wordSo, I've been toying with an idea for a isometric shmup set in the future where you control a jeep and have enemy flying machines, ground enemies and…
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A scanner darkly - The movieI watched it last night. Visually amazing - looks kinda like the game XIII. Completely bonkers dialogue - some crazy scences. Can't work out whether …
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Elite 4?The good news is that it will definatly be made, the bad news is ... when?! Here's an interview with David Braben on Gamespot : [url]http://uk.games…
Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …
... pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well ... , perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway ...Arghhh no soundHi All Over the past few years I have bought a few old rubber keyed Spectrums to re-live those good old days. Thing is they have all been bought a…
... a picture which is not bad, all key funtions work but ...xmas is off....santa has lost his job. [url]http://uk.news.yahoo.com/06122006/323/harrods-gives-bad-santa-boot.html[/url]
santa has lost his job.
[url]http://uk.news.yahoo.com/06122006/323/harrods-gives-bad-santa-boot.html[/url]I got it bad!Just noticed the speccy Loading sounds on one of the menu selections on the Mutant X DVD. I got excited and played it a few times. Oh dear!
Just noticed the speccy Loading sounds on one of the menu selections on the Mutant X DVD. I got excited and played it a few times. Oh dear!New Opus Discovery tool addedFinally, after some years wait, a new [B]Opus Discovery[/B] tool, [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/tools/pc/OpusRead_v200.zip"][U]Opu…
... the download Zip.
The bad news is that the filter ...Windows VistaNever installed my Beta version, too many bad reports. Anybody tried it yet? I was reading a report that said serious 3D acceleration was required …
... my Beta version, too many bad reports. Anybody tried it yet ...funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... the pages where in really bad shape (I draw what I ... and charecters, but moist and bad wearehouse conditions ruined most of ...Fire and IceOK, I've done a quick search on the forum and can't see anything, but how do you get this bad boy to work? I've tried it in Spectaculator and Real S…
Blowtorch method of Speccy repairsI just did my first Spectrum repair (and successful at that). It was the Issue 2 spectrum I wrote about a while ago, I just hadn't got around to doin…
... or lower RAM to be bad, since my oscilloscope seemed to ...Why has no one remade 3D Deathchase?Why is 3D Deathchase, which is about 8k of code running on a 16K Spectrum, still unmatched (as far as I know) for a game of it's type? Since 3DD I'…
... speederbike. Those bits aren't bad at all, but it's ...Interesting online gaming magazineJust came across this interesting site that offers free issues of an online gaming magazine in PDF format. Thought it might interest a few of us game…
... in here.
The covers certainly look interesting. Downloading an ...My new Spectrum 128K+2A...Hi guys, As most people here, my first micro computer (1986) was a Spectrum (128+2 grey - I'm in France). I sold it near 1990 to buy my 1st atari ST…
... are working, even an old bad copy !!! :o The Speccy is ...don't go Vista matesaGreetings. As you well know, there has been a massive campaign to push Vista into the users. I'm against it and always will be. Most of the ancient s…
... botched UAP.
The bad news, then, is that UAP ... . Hey, that's not too bad, right? Just two dialogs to ... beautiful parents. It's so bad, I don't even know ...Tiz quiet in ere........No posts in the Shed forum for over a month - come on guys, it ain't THAT bad issit?
No posts in the Shed forum for over a month - come on guys, it ain't THAT bad issit?Speccy regrets...One of my biggest regrets is disposing of all the Personal Computer News that I had - all of them from - issue 1 It wouldn't be bad at all if they…
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It wouldn't be bad at all if they were ...Most Obscure SignatureOut of us, who has a more obscure signature reference than mine? mine: "isn't it good to be lost in the wood? isn't it bad so quiet there, in the woo…
Out of us, who has a more obscure signature reference than mine? mine: "isn't it good to be lost in the wood? isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood?" is from "Octopus" by Syd BarrettKeyboards - thanks to rwap!I've just completed repairing a rubber Speccy that I have (bad RAM and bad keyboard membrane). I ordered a new membrane off rwap just before I left H…
... Speccy that I have (bad RAM and bad keyboard membrane). I ordered ... it's not just a bad solder joint, is there a ...Possibly the silliest thing I've done in a long time..Just in case any of you guys are feeling down on a Monday morning - I thought I'd cheer you up by letting you know that your morning can't be as bad …
... morning can't be as bad as mine.
Went ... hardly type cos I have bad blisters on both sides of ... back - which aren't so bad.
The only thing ...Misc queries on website management.I was just going thru the website management tools provided to me by my web hoster and have a couple of queries on this matter that I hope someone co…
... protected list. Would it be bad practise to add .html to ...problem on the video output (spectrum 2+)Hello, I'am french. (Sorry my english is very bad). I have a problem on my spectrum 2 +. At the beginner the picture (on my tv) have 2 area where 2 t…
... . (Sorry my english is very bad).
I have a problem ... /> Now, the picture is very bad and I can't see ...Good review, bad gameSomeone mentioned Jailbreak earlier on in the week. I bought that on the strength of a Sinclair User review. The review gave it 5 stars but the colli…
Someone mentioned Jailbreak earlier on in the week. I bought that on the strength of a Sinclair User review. The review gave it 5 stars but the collision detection was dodgy and I found the game unplayable.
What other dodgy reviews can you ...Audio input on a +2would it be possible to connect an external tape recorder to the socket at the back,or would something bad happen?
would it be possible to connect an external tape recorder to the socket at the back,or would something bad happen?Broken disk drive?Well last night disaster struck. I booted the Sam and started loading something from disk. There was a horrible grinding noise and everything crashed…
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It isn't all bad as I have got another ...Games with different names on other systemsI was upstairs in the garage sanding some wood down when I thought of this, a strange thing to think of but doing repetitive boring work makes you th…
... ' Rumble on the C64, and Bad Street Brawler on the CPC ... same as the Speccy, But Bad Street Brawler was kinda different ...