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New bit of hardware for the Sinclair QL - long time comingThe first QL-SD Card Interface based on Peter Graf's design, and with drivers written in part by Adrian Ives is now available on SellMyRetro - [url]…
The first QL-SD Card Interface ... ]
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999 and counting, the Dean of GamesOver on Spectrum 2.0 [url]http://www.spectrum20.org/[/url], a true landmark is about to be reached as the amazing Dean of Games will very soon chalk …
... to be reached as the amazing Dean of Games will very ... /> Dean is truly one of the unsung heroes of the Spectrum scene. His reviews ... the authors, and are always the result of a proper good go at the ... effort, and makes sense of the archive as a living resource ... -
By The Power Of Grayskull![img]http://old.he-man.org/cartoon/cmotu/seriesinformation/moral1.jpg[/img] "In today's story, deadpan666 discovered that some fans have decided to …
... em-up based on Masters Of The Universe! Many actual companies ... have all failed to capture the feeling of the original show.. Well now ... keep believing in ourselves. As the old saying goes 'if ...
You can get the playable demo [url="http://gamejolt ... -
Realm of the Undead[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004053[/url] has no Author associated but inlay [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclai…
... Robert J. Yorke associated as the author of Phasorchase though: [url]http ... -
My Rendition of Horace to the Rescue 2Here is the first release of the new Horace game. [url]http://stevebroad.x10.bz/spectrum/download/My%20Rendition%20of%20Horace%20to%20the%20Rescue2%…
Here is the first release of the new Horace game.
[url]http://stevebroad.x10.bz/spectrum/download/My%20Rendition%20of%20Horace%20to%20the%20Rescue2%20.zip[/url]
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The Wizard of Hotspot HillockI've just re-discovered this unfinished game which I haven't done any work on for a couple of years. As it can be played through to the end as it is …
... couple of years. As it can be played through to the end ... 'wofm' for the name. When it runs out of files to load ... , select AGES-3v2gtest.TAP for the remainder of the files, after which select ... is one of the unfinished bits). If the highlight moves to the top left ... -
Yay! Another two fingers to us paying customers from the gaming industryThe (to me, hateful) trend of games companies selling their modern AAA titles in various editions, as opposed to earlier times when when you bought a…
... game you recieved ALL
of the game (every in-game weapon ... reached a new plateau of greed and "**** the customer" attitude.
< ... , then take a deep breath, and look at the chart:
of the other versions.
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Changing the baud rate of a wav fileTo put things quickly, I can't seem to get wav files to load on my +2, the system dosen't even seem to detect any sound. I think it might be to do wi…
... to load on my +2, the system dosen't even seem ... be to do with the baud rate of the wav's, so I ... if that isn't the reason why the wav's won't ... -
40 Minutes of the most uncomfortable cringe inducing radio.Im a big Opie and Anthony fan but i don't think many people have heard of them back here in blighty. Heres a clip of them trolling Rick Springfield'…
... many people have heard of them back here in ...
Heres a clip of them trolling Rick Springfield's ... answering a whole bevvy of questions, they come back ... more listeners who realise the joke phone up and try ... to win the non existent tickets.
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Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict - The MovieHello there!! My name is Andy Remic, novelist (16 books out so far!) and ZX Spectrum fanatic. I wrote a 48K/128K Spectrum game in 2009 called BIOHEL…
... language), to support the publication of my SF novel of the same name.
the idea, of course.
The link for the film is ... , if you were part of the Spectrum evolution then please get ... -
Bypassing bits of faulty ULAs: the LOAD!Hi everybody, Recently I had a sick Spectrum sent to me. The symptoms were that the machine would run fine, except that it wouldn't load. The border…
... of the ULA, which is the IOREQ. Next came the input - pin 28 of the ... ULA went to the input (pin ... 2). Then the output - pin 30 of the ... ULA (D6) went to pin 3 of the buffer chip ... -
Sir Cliff and the Shaddows of doubtBeen reading on BBC news of this Cliff Richard fiasco. I'd been reading bits n peices online for a few months that infered sooner or later he would …
... visitor to the 'Elm Guest House' where the Elite of our society ... for reporting the news because they were not the source of the leak. ... Who else other than the police ... that a vast majority of the establishment I grew up ... -
What's the Speccy's equivalent of Atari's E.T.?E.T. has long been associated as one of the worst games - if not the worst game for the Atari 2600. I wondered, is there an equivalent for the Specc…
... associated as one of the worst games - if not the worst game for ... the Atari 2600.
the Speccy?
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Pictures of 48k ZX Spectrums Showing the Important Voltages[SIZE=6][B]Pictures of 48k ZX Spectrums Showing the Important Voltages[/B][/SIZE] [URL="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3841/15005543009_7bcf3b3031_o…
... SIZE=6][B]Pictures of 48k ZX Spectrums Showing the Important Voltages[/B ... lead to the metal heat sink for all of these voltage ... tests.
[LIST]
[*]The +5V ... 16k RAM chips, bottom left of the board) should be between +11V ... -
The greatest archive of 20th Mid Century Architecure.On FlickR now is the greatest archive of mid 20th century architecture I ever did see. A great collection of britain's new towns, decaying slums, b…
... megastructures, modernest estates, and the beginnings of the post modernist knee jerk reactionary ... architecture. It is the image archive of ... ]
It's one of the things I miss over here ... -
The History Of Mastertronic[img]http://assets.podomatic.net/ts/f5/e8/ad/thereallocomaniac56245/285%3E_9980356.jpg?1412318825[/img] Welcome to episode 98 of the UK’s No.1…
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Welcome to episode 98 of the UK’s No.1 Retro ... tape) and Paul (the drisk) chat through the history of budget game kings ... ]http://retroasylum.com/ep-98-the-history-of-mastertronic/[/url]
Was I the only person to have a dodgy copy of Slapfight?I don't see any mention of it on the Interwebs but my *cough* copy of Slapfight had a bug where there was an endlessly repeating section of the game …
... t see any mention of it on the Interwebs but my *cough ... * copy of Slapfight had a ... an endlessly repeating section of the game near the start.
... before finally accepting the truth and chucking the tape on the fire. ( ...Another 'What is the name of the game thread'Hi All, I have recently rediscovered the joys of spectrum emulators after a few years away but really could do with some help finding a favourite gam…
... /> I have recently rediscovered the joys of spectrum emulators after a few ... a favourite game of mine...
The game itself was ... I spent most of my time sailing round the islands trying ... /> I believe you had the choice of being a Mage, Knight, ...Photos from the Cambridge Centre for Computing History and from the Baron of Beef pubFor several weeks, I've been adding new photos every Sunday to my Flickr space because I am publishing a selection of pictures from my trip to London…
... /> Yesterday it was the time of the photos I took at the [URL="http ... also a couple of shots, exterior and interior, of the Baron of Beef pub ... , where I had a nice plate of fish ...Tee Shirt of the year[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/19/awsome_countdown_contestant_pay_homage_to_it_crowds_moss/[/url] In my opinion the best episode of an ex…
[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/19/awsome_countdown_contestant_pay_homage_to_it_crowds_moss/[/url]
In my opinion the best episode of an excellent program. Pity he didn't win with the style of Moss.180 - Still the king of darts games on any format?When I first got GTA V I had a go at the darts mini game at the bar near Trevors house. Multi million pound game, and the implementation of darts wa…
... a go at the darts mini game at the bar near Trevors ... million pound game, and the implementation of darts was crap. 301? Who ... think? Is it still king of the darts games on ANY format ...The Abbey Of CrimeI downloaded the English hack of this game and it came in several sections for some bizzare reason. Does anyone know why it comes in sections and is…
I downloaded the English hack of this game and it came in several sections for some bizzare reason. Does anyone know why it comes in sections and is there a single file version of the game, preferably a dsk image?Movie of the day20 minute doc about retro gaming. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPQvZ_Z1F-A#t=304[/url] I always see the appeal of retro games as the appea…
... always see the appeal of retro games as the appeal of old classic movies ... .
Playing the ...Best Worst Gadgets of the 80sWhilst working today my mind began to wander as it does regularly to the 1980s. I began to think of all the fads and gadgets that came and went, some…
... regularly to the 1980s. I began to think of all the fads and ... gadgets that came and went, some of ... which stuck around, some of which are laughable ... about 87. I also remember the teachers having an eppy about ...What influence the number of stripes during initialization?Hi for All! After some adventures, with other rare old computers I'm back here to my favourite forum. :) Recently I got some ISSUE 2 boards from Ben…
... . On most of my machines the screen divided into ... only four stripes. One of the ISSUE 2 boards initializes ... the other shows eight. As I exchanged the ULA between the boards the number of ... stripes remained the same on the ...Vote the Best Game of 2014! [MULTIPLE CHOICE]You can read the title of the thread, can't you. Remember, it's a [B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="6"]MULTIPLE CHOICE[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] poll, vote how many g…
You can read the title of the thread, can't you.
< ... one.
To retrieve the games, or have more informations ... [and any other kind of programs], and keeping the Spectrum alive.
the bottom of the list to vote for missing ...Best TV Theme Tunes of the 80s and late 70sLet's continue our 80s reminiscing and extend the conversation to 80s and late 70s TV show theme Tunes. Let me start with this one. It has to be one…
... our 80s reminiscing and extend the conversation to 80s and late ... . It has to be one of my current favourites. Odd because ... outside instead. It must be the excellent early80s synth sound that ...Did your school use any of the Sinclair Educational / Science softwareBack in the day there was a range of Educational and Science Horizons packages published by Sinclair / MacMillan and others Was having a look at som…
Back in the day there was a range of Educational and Science Horizons ... a look at some of them in the archive :
[URL ... any schools use these in the classroom?Return of the KingSeeing as this wasn't done on the speccy. Only the first two books of LotR were. Would be a great project for those involved in the Hobbit 128K Editi…
Seeing as this wasn't done on the speccy. Only the first two books of LotR were. Would be a great project for those involved in the Hobbit 128K Edition?Measuring the 'real-life' speed of 3D racing gamesWe all bought Out Run, didn't we? An awesome showcase game from the arcades, full of rapid graphics whizzing past your Ferrari Testarossa.<div><br></…
... showcase game from the arcades, full of rapid graphics whizzing ... often felt, due to the sight of objects going past slowly ... best.
The true solution to discover the 'real' speed ... imaginary Testarossa by mathematical analysis of the video side-by-side ...
