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My thousandth post - and a request for help...[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=7][COLOR=Red]1[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Lime]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Cyan]0[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Well, seeing as this i…
... writing another book on the spectrum industry (focussing on games, game companies ... 's Crashback columns, only in (hopefully) a lot more ... br />
In other news, the Commodore 64 book is coming on ... Spectopia or something like Spectrum analyser (which you are ... -
Spectrum games coming to the WiiJust received this [url]http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11037[/url] earlier this morning from my brother, who knows of my love of old compute…
... get smooth scrolling in emulation for C64 and Spectrum etc...
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You mention "Spectrum, PC Engine, [COLOR=red]Mame32 ... from glitches and incompatabilities in many games)[/COLOR], NES, PSX, ... as good, and in many, maybe all, cases better, but ... -
Spectrum games source code?Odd (and probably incredibly naive but gonna ask anyway hehe) question...is there any source code out there for the Spectrum games?
As most Spectrum games were written in assembler, when running the game in emulator, you ... source files with comments are in most cases forever lost. -
Starting on machine code - BASIC first?Howdy. If I wanted to start learning machine code for the speccy, from scratch, would you recommend I learn BASIC first or is it entirely possible to…
... from Ian Sinclair's book [i]Introducing Spectrum Machine Code[/i], then ... writing numerous patches for these games. So my goals have been ... assemble my codes manually and (in the old days) type them ... in as DATA-statements in BASIC, or (nowadays ... -
Please help me find a spectrum book!! :)Dear all I'm new to this forum but am a long time spectrum lover. I cut my programming teeth on the speccy years ago, and have written emulators and…
... I recall having this book of "type in" adventure games, now I can ... remember it had about 10 games, one about being underwater, ... Virgin Book affair to me. Possibly "Adventures for your ZX Spectrum" ... for your zx spectrum" by Clive Gifford? Shot in the dark ... -
Favorite C64 games?It seems that the guys over at [url=http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27077]Lemon[/url] are finally admitting that they like Spectrum game…
... a Speccy one in their perspective, even if the Spectrum version is ... them it would be a Spectrum game first and foremost.[/ ... the Miner Willy games, the Dizzy games, and Starquake C64 games is like ... the Sea[/i] my favorite book written in English. It just doesn ... -
Favorite C64 games?It seems that the guys over at [url=http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27077]Lemon[/url] are finally admitting that they like Spectrum game…
... have also played that first in the arcades too, which makes ... I believe that even most Spectrum users would have thought that ... the Miner Willy games, the Dizzy games, and Starquake C64 games is like ... the Sea[/i] my favorite book written in English. It just doesn ... -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... it from here...
Spectrum Games Bible 1982-1984
games (minus one or two) can be seen for the first book ... />
Theres about 200+ reviews in the book.
1985-1986 ... pound profit) so for every book sold lulu make the vast ... -
Miner Willy BookHi Guys, If you are a fan of Matthew Smith and Miner Willy then you may be interested in my new book: Miner Willy: from rags to riches... The boo…
... Willy book is in full-colour (including internal pages) whereas the Spectrum Games bible ... -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... to seeing my reviews in print, and to see ... might use the service myself in the future.[/QUOTE]
book but on the other ... Spectrum Games Bible 1985-1986 or Spectrum Games Bible 1987-1989 etc so in ... merrier. But the last book i really cant wait ... -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... a good book.
I'm enjoying discovering spectrum games I've ... reviews from other people about games which i might not have ... to back in the day and now. I mean some games i ... (ahem) left the speccy scene in the late 80's but ... -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
I don't know what they guy who did the Fred review in book 1 was smoking but I want some.
Fred is one of my fav Spectrum games, but smooth scrolling and Fred don't go together. -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... have a Dave Perry interview in my archives which I conducted ... which would be perfect for Book 3 or 4, maybe even ... Book 6. (DP & Nick Brunty ... of books is called The Spectrum Games Bible. I feel that it ... -
Help with references For WikipediaThere was recently a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum/GA1#GA_Reassessment"]review[/URL] of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.…
... adding a link to the Spectrum Games Bible (Which isnt exactly something ... , we do books about Speccy games, ZXF Magazine is there with ... /> Its a book by fans with fan reviews in it and we ... -
The Cecco controversySo as I said in the other thread, I'd try out Cybernoid - since I've never played a Cecco game, and never seen one, I'd be coming from a position of …
... be one of my favourite Spectrum games ever, I'm only gutted ... review for it for book 3 of the Games Bible!
book.
Both technically very nice games, especially Exolon in my ... -
what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
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Is there any difference in the accuracy of collision detection ... hardware is a bit limited in some ways and big sprites ... I noticed when looking at games myself, Spectrum games don't seem to ...
console is rather colouring book and many many pens
In "Sinclair World", what would Ultimate have done next?I've always wondered what Ultimate would have done next if they had continued on with the Spectrum... A few years ago, I saw Rare's Wizards & Warrio…
... Ultimate" - I'd agree. Their Spectrum games were technically very good, but ... convinced of their playability in a lot of cases (playability is [B ... , full speech, lip synch (in those days, and on the ... at Rare's N64 catalogue. In order:
...What did you do before WOS?Around 1992 I was still a very active Spectrum user, but had no one to talk about it. The stores stopped selling my favorite magazines and I was left…
... dabbled with the Speccy in the early 1990s, ... I then discovered the "Spectrum 1.7" emulator ... /> Not only did the Spectrum get me into computers, but ... I could play ZX Spectrum games on the move with ... /> The Spectrum certainly has a lot to answer for in my book.CronosoftIt's a bit of bad news, but I'm sorry to say that I'm probably closing up the Cronosoft label. I'm struggling financially at the moment, and Cronoso…
... /> - Releasing a compilation of Cronosoft games
- (I ... games.
- Expanding horizontally into the ZX Spectrum ... the book field.
- Special deals in partnership ... commercial emulator developer in which games are sold with ...CronosoftIt's a bit of bad news, but I'm sorry to say that I'm probably closing up the Cronosoft label. I'm struggling financially at the moment, and Cronoso…
... who are not interested in new games would be just like ... 'i only play original games in the 80's' then ... reviews for the final Speccy book (it'll be 100% ... If some console kid saw Spectrum screenshots or heard about old ... least try a few games and he might be ...Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... Andrew Rollings's "The ZX Spectrum Book - 1982 to 199x", I decided ... the first two volumes of "Spectrum Games Bible".
Great stuff.
in producing such retro jewel.TI calculator gaming...There's some dedicated people out there. Maybe this is old news, but I had no idea someone was converting modern games to monochrome versions in Z80 …
... memory which stores screen like in Spectrum, or do you need to ... . They are in many cases worse than Zx Spectrum. Still these games are really ... be possible to create on Spectrum 128KB an emulator of it ...Who the fcuk is Paul McKenna??Disappointing development: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.cgi?permit=houses/McKennaPaul.pmt"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.…
... by trying to sell old spectrum games on new mobile platforms), ... spectrum games' covers instead of tobacco) and make you have instant confidence (in ... your life in seven days just by selling old spectrum games on new ... can, just buy his book by the same name).
"We don't understand computers but we've got ?3.58 million to spend on them....... so lets find a problem to solve with the money" is a good translation of the article at: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7886754.s…
... initial format. A good goal, in my book.
If this ... other institutions or companies interested in maintaining old archives. I ... DOS games, Atari ST games, Spectrum games, arcade games, calendar files, screenshots, ZX81 games, MSX games, Amiga games ...The best Spectrum games company?Which do you think is the best Spectrum (or multi-format, of course, though we're only concerned with their Spectrum output in this thread) software …
... redesign them into an original Spectrum game anyway? Most of the ... license and, in a lot of cases, there are games more faithful to ... the hardware.
Adventure games are even more portable. I ... by playing them on a Spectrum.
Anyway, I'm ...Biohell Zx Spectrum Complete...and undergoing playtesting now. Official release date is 1st May 2009. There is also a concurrent competition- the first person to email me the sol…
... also like to expand the Spectrum arena if that's possible ... remember was always heavily criticised in adventure games.
It's ... make the game of my book, I thought I'd do ...Cheat Mode BookHi all, I'm considering making and releasing a book of game cheats - it would cover the C64, Amstrad CPC and Sinclair Spectrum. It would feature PO…
... concentrate on the CPC and Spectrum part of it.
... I might note down in each game the protection ... look at a particular type-in cheat listing?
in it, along with Andrew Rolling's book.
book on all the games released - I ...Games not working on Timex 2048Timex 2048 is a very good Spectrum 48k clone, over 90% of games work fine. But there are also not working games or working but not properly. Is there…
... partially decoded as on the Spectrum. One consequence of this is ... port as is done in a handful of Spectrum games, although I must ... original TS2000, which was a spectrum ntsc machine, couldn't ... like a spectrum -- I would bet that the ts2000 cases were salvaged ...The Edge's Mr Tim Langdell......gets a bit of a kicking on [url=http://kotaku.com/5273141/trademark-troll-gets-mobigames-edge-taken-down]Kotaku[/url] today. I had no idea that t…
... . :-) I remember buying Tim's book
[url]ftp:// ... and a load of Softek games.
His Wikipedia ... disprove he wasn't involved in Spectrum/Dragon design. It reads ... like Robin Bradbeer were involved in Spectrum, Dragon, BBC, Atari design ...The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…
... /> [B]Best Spectrum game based on a film/book/TV series etc ... Ocean, Hewson
[B]Best Spectrum era computer magazine (doesn't ... ] YS
[B]Most Iconic Spectrum games character (the one you most ...
[B]Best game advert in a magazine:[/B] no idea ...
