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Why did the Commodore 64 lose to the Spectrum in the UK?The Commodore 64 was released in the UK in 1983. As we all know, it was a great machine from a US company with a much larger financial backing than t…
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damn damn and damn againwell the 128k speccy i was going to have has gone from the shop but i got the guy to hold another speccy for me cuz i wanted your views on it. It`s …
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ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... look at the new GBA micro and the improved GBA SP ... -
Vindicator Bug?I've been trying to complete Vindicator and have come across a bug on level 1. According to the Tip Shop the anagram to Enter is JONATHAN DUNN (whic…
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CassettesIs anyone here in agreement, that it's bloody annoying that shops decide when to make a product obselete (and not the consumers)? I recently bought …
... when I found a specialist shop that sells them, I could ... -
Me & My Micro Companion CassetteHi, Just uploaded the .tzx for this tape to incoming, along with inlay scans. This is the companion cassette for the book, which is already listed.…
Hi,
Just uploaded the .tzx for this tape to incoming, along with inlay scans. This is the companion cassette for the book, which is already listed.
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More Micro drive problemsHi everyone! I recently bought a interface 1 plus a microdrive for my 48k speccy and have finally gotten round to trying it out. Having set everythi…
Hi everyone!
I recently bought a interface 1 plus a microdrive for my 48k speccy and have finally gotten round to trying it out. Having set everything up I thought I'd have a bash at formatting a couple of blank carts. The process at first ... -
Funniest Spectrum-related memorySeeing the emulated loading screen on the Dreamcast speccy emulator reminded me of something from many moons ago. I was in the local computer shop w…
... was in the local computer shop with the Spectrum set up ... in another part of the shop.
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Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…
... fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine ... could have an 8 byte buffer to store the 0 and ... -
Mega rare Red Boxes home control systemMega rare Red Boxes starter system hardware ? Sinclair / Commodore / BBC Now there?s rare and there?s rare! This piece of kit dates from 1986 and wa…
... a Spectrum, Commodore or BBC Micro.
The package consists ... with a Spectrum or BBC Micro, you will need to get ... -
YAY! just testingjust dug ye old faithful speccy and stuff out the loft and just testing and putting away the recent aquisitions ive had recently like a comp pro joy…
... i got from a charity shop yesterday, neater than in a ... -
Sinclair Heaven February UpdatesOver 1gb added today! Fixed magazine viewer & added books Major update to the Gamebase ZX Files Added the 3D construction Kit Video Added Making The…
... The Most Of Your Spectrum Micro Drives book
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Phantasmagoria for the PCI picked this up today in a local charity shop. Seven CD rom game. Before I waste half a day pissing about trying to install it on an old PC. Is it…
I picked this up today in a local charity shop. Seven CD rom game.
Before I waste half a day pissing about trying to install it on an old PC.
Is it any good?
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Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …
... 50549 at all.
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Linda BarkerI was sitting in a coffee shop today drinking my favourite caffeine-filled beverage and flicking through one of the local newspapers when I came acro…
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A Spanish game Missing, Telemark WarriorThere is a spanish game, Telemark Warrior, that is not listed, not even as a MIA, and the game was published, I am sure of that. You can even see it …
There is a spanish game, Telemark Warrior, that is not listed, not even as a MIA, and the game was published, I am sure of that. You can even see it reviewed in Micro Hobby Issue 196. Is it a MIA?
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New MIA - Spanish gameThere is a game, made in Spain, named Telemark Warrior, that is not either in the games list or the MIA list. I thought this could be a new MIA game!…
... . There is a review in Micro Hobby issue 196, Although the ... -
Echosoft Keyboard and softwareI have an echo Keyboard and interface in mint condition for the 128+ speccy, problem? the software that runs it is absolute ballax (poor) anyone know…
... gonna make me a pet shop boy by any means but ... -
American Gothic is finally being released on DVDI just found this out this morning on the SFX message board. I've been hoping for years that this would get a DVD release and now it's finally happen…
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Is this fair/legal?About a year ago, I bought a (512MB) mp3 player, and after a while it stopped playing music in one channel. I took it back to the shop, and they repl…
... took it back to the shop, and they replaced it. After ... ), so I phoned up the shop (it's about twenty-five ... -
3D Star Strike - best unofficial conversion ever?A copy of Star Wars as we all know, but I didn't realise how good a copy it was until I played the arcade game on MAME a couple of days ago. The bit …
... arcade conversions done on any micro. And I think it came ... -
Scanning magazine helpIve been scanning a magazine/book (not spectrum related) and most of the pages are fine but a few where the text is near the middle has blurred text …
... to edit them in paint shop to unblur them.
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SPOT*On Spectrum magazine index updateI've updated the database archive files and the various summaries and appendices at my SPOT*On site. All of the 437 issues of the eight core titles (…
... the eight core titles (Crash, Micro Adventurer, Sinclair Answers, Sinclair Programs ... -
Speccy Book pdfs on eBay CDHi folks, I see that the-sinclair-shop on eBay are selling a CD with a number of pds I've done for WoS. I do these pdfs for all for Free, and can o…
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Memorable game demisesHi, No, not demises in games...demises OF games. I can remember three of my games meeting their fate in an unnecessary way Battle of the Planets -…
... didn't load. Returned to shop who replaced it...after a ... -
VGA to scartOk, so I go into an electronics shop, and they say to me that their VGA to SCART adapters will cost me like ?80... then I google for the schematics, …
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Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
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ANN - ZXSoftware.co.uk Update V1.5 21/05/06ZXSoftware has now been updated to V1.5. Changes :- 299 new titles have been added - Listed below. A few thousend new ingame screenshots and loadin…
... Buffalo Bill's Rodeo Games Micro Value
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International Ninja Rabbits Micro Value
Jeremy King ... Ltd
Micro Chess Aackosoft
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I started this thread to recommend a CD I bought today...The CD is called [B]The Dark Third[/B] by a band called [url=http://www.purereasonrevolution.com/]Pure Reason Revolution[/url]. I was told that they …
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Brilliant, Woo Hoo, and all that...It's been waiting in the music shop for a long time now (two months or so) but I've finally bought Miles Davis' Bitches Brew. What an absolutely bril…
... been waiting in the music shop for a long time now ...