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What's on your saucer?Thanks go out to frobush and zx1 for inspiring* this WoSser to create a yet another excellent WoS thread. Lunch 10 minutes ago. [IMG]http://i300.ph…
cooked somet chicken today.. dunno where that chicken was from but it was a crazy size
That reminded me of that Alan Partridge scene..
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The magic's goneI dunno, i'm glad the new site is now up and running and most of the regulars are here but there's something missing and i can't quite put my finger …
Sometimes I forget to log out though. I could be "sleep-posting" for all you know.. ;)
They make as much sense as your "awake" posts...
(though you're probably right)
[Edit: I've made ... -
The magic's goneI dunno, i'm glad the new site is now up and running and most of the regulars are here but there's something missing and i can't quite put my finger …
Sometimes I forget to log out though. I could be "sleep-posting" for all you know.. ;)
They make as much sense as your "awake" posts...
(though you're probably right)
[Edit: I've made ... -
GoG / Steam saleLords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge are going at 75% off on GoG.com, right now!
A Key (presumably Steam) for less than 20 notes for Witcher 3 on PC. I've used CDKeys before so recommend them:
http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-pc-cd-key
Blimey! I only just reach minimum requirements :-o -
The magic's goneI dunno, i'm glad the new site is now up and running and most of the regulars are here but there's something missing and i can't quite put my finger …
One **** to rule them all..
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The magic's goneI dunno, i'm glad the new site is now up and running and most of the regulars are here but there's something missing and i can't quite put my finger …
One **** to rule them all..
That's no way to talk about foggy!
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GoG / Steam saleLords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge are going at 75% off on GoG.com, right now!
I picked up the Daedalic adventures bundle despite already having a game backlog... Now I've got Sim City to add to it.
I noticed this bundle but I wasn't sure about the quality of the games as I hadn't heard of Daedalic before. How ... -
GoG / Steam saleLords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge are going at 75% off on GoG.com, right now!
I picked up the Daedalic adventures bundle despite already having a game backlog... Now I've got Sim City to add to it.
I noticed this bundle but I wasn't sure about the quality of the games as I hadn't heard of Daedalic before. How ... -
Office Daze?What kinds of things could you do in a office daze game? Maybe the story could be that you have to get your boss so angry that he has a meltdown. W…
I implemented one of the suggestions in this thread
http://slenkar.herobo.com/officedaze/game.html
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Double height text...<p>Is here any good routines for printing a font double height?</p><p>I've concocted this ridiculous routine but I'm sure it can be done much better.…
Here's my version
; Prints a double height string at address (HL) from attr and
; ascii info at (DE)
;
PRSTRNG2 PUSH HL
LD A,(DE)
EX AF,AF'
INC DE
EXX
POP HL
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Double height text...<p>Is here any good routines for printing a font double height?</p><p>I've concocted this ridiculous routine but I'm sure it can be done much better.…
Struggling to get it working mate. loaded hl with 16384 and de with Where is the ld de, (chars) supposed to be pointing at? -
Superhero gamesHi all,<br><br>I'm going to be giving a talk on how comic book superheroes (Batman, Spiderman, etc.) have been represented in 8-bit games. Would you …
Asterix & the Magic Cauldron.
Phantom Club is about fictitious superheroes, I don't know if it counts.
Also North & South, by Infogrames, based on the great belgian comics 'Les Tuniques Bleues'.
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NEW "SH*T GAME TIME" VIDEO - RENEGADE IIIHi guys, god it's good to get these forums back even though I'm not sure about the new look but hey I'm happy.<br><br>Anyway, just wanted to let you …
P.s, any hope on a Chuckie Egg mod such as new levels?!
The original Chuckie Egg 2 sucked, we all wanted the sequel to be like the first one just with different levels.
I think everyone would like to see that, same gameplay, same playability, ... -
Double height text...<p>Is here any good routines for printing a font double height?</p><p>I've concocted this ridiculous routine but I'm sure it can be done much better.…
Of course if you want a truly flexible font solutionyou should use FZXEditor by @clausjahnand choose one of the larger sample fonts.
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Back to basicsOK, having had enough of constant moaning about the look of the forums, I have done what I was going to do first time - because I am right, and am al…
... tiny suggested tweak - the quote font is a bit big - you ... . Getting rid of the blockquote font-size in the css helps a ... -
Decent "attract" sequencesCould anyone recommend a game with a decent attract sequence? I want to leave it running indefinitely for a test.<div><br></div><div>Ta!</div>
And here's a thing. Woo! :)
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Decent "attract" sequencesCould anyone recommend a game with a decent attract sequence? I want to leave it running indefinitely for a test.<div><br></div><div>Ta!</div>
karingal said:
I always remember the rolling demo on a YS tape, blew me away, especially when the huge ship descended. A quite simple routine but visually spectacular.
I was just looking at the rolling demo, and ... -
Decent "attract" sequencesCould anyone recommend a game with a decent attract sequence? I want to leave it running indefinitely for a test.<div><br></div><div>Ta!</div>
karingal said:
I always remember the rolling demo on a YS tape, blew me away, especially when the huge ship descended. A quite simple routine but visually spectacular.
I was just looking at the rolling demo, and ... -
R.I.P. Sir Christopher Lee<font face="Arial, Verdana" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-…
Also R.I.P. Ron Moody
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Fantasy Premier League 2014/2015Right then..! The [B]WoS All Stars[/B] league is back with a vengeance..! Come and join, one and all..! [url]http://fantasy.premierleague.com/[/url]…
I was going to do an end of season round up, but it's been a while now and I couldn't be bothered..!
If anyone wants to do one, feel free.. :)
Congratulations to Shadowfire and Mal Zoff, definitely a notch above the rest of us mere mortals this ... -
The magic's goneI dunno, i'm glad the new site is now up and running and most of the regulars are here but there's something missing and i can't quite put my finger …
C'mon you lot chin up. It is up to us (I know I'm a returnee, so affectively new) to bring in the joy.Lets all sing together 'Happy, happy, joy joy...'.
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Back to basicsOK, having had enough of constant moaning about the look of the forums, I have done what I was going to do first time - because I am right, and am al…
... a go and definitely verdana font, lavender for the background and ... -
R.I.P. Sir Christopher Lee<font face="Arial, Verdana" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-…
He and Peter Cushing were my fave couple of actors in horror films ever and in my opinion he was the best actor performing the role of Count Dracula.
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What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
A Huff Post article by Sir Clive on the ZX Spectrum Vega:
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Superhero gamesHi all,<br><br>I'm going to be giving a talk on how comic book superheroes (Batman, Spiderman, etc.) have been represented in 8-bit games. Would you …
The Punisher (but never released for the Spectrum)
Not about superheroes, but also based on Comics:
Snoopy
Garfield - Big, Fat, Hairy DealGarfield - Winter's TailPopeye -
Game completion challenge?<span style="font-style: normal;">Ok, this is probably a really daft idea, but as </span><i>games club</i> seems to be suspended for now I thoug…
Let's see if I have understood... we all will play the same game and when everyone completes the game, we'll go to another game, correct?
If so, I'm afraid we'll get stuck in the first game for months! :)) -
ZX Spectrum in the modern mediaInstead of having a dozen threads pointing out mentions of the ZX Spectrum in different (modern) media, wouldn't it be better if we had them all in o…
This classic (Jump to 4min 7sec)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBJpAR9k3I&t=4m7s
