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Anybody who has recently bought/built a machine or about toDo NOT buy/build one of the new "Sandy Bridge" machines. Intel have found a serious flaw in the motherboard chipset which screws with SATA drives. …
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Extremely rare example of a Sinclair QL with DongleWe have now managed to resurrect an early example of the Sinclair QL home computer as it was first unveiled to the expectant media, complete with the…
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time traveling retro gamersa thought. if all tech will eventually crumble and become unusable. then it stands to reason the only real source of retro machines/games will be th…
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Spectrum 128 on modern (plasma) TVHello gang! So I want to hook up my 128 to my new Panasonic plasma TV via Scart-RGB, but the picture keeps shifting from left to right. Anyone had s…
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Good (non-Spectrum) games to explore inSomeone on gamefaqs asked "[I]Reccommend me some great games that involve exploring a large land. Games that strongly feature discovering new areas a…
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Some 48k+ packages for saleSoon! Rwap is sending over a few membranes for 48k+ machines, so far, got two fully functional (and looking good!), soon as the membranes are in the…
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Plus 2 keyboard on 128k machinesI'm about to buy a 128k machine without keyboard. Can a Plus 2 keyboard (I've got one spare from my last Plus2 machine) be plugged into the circuit b…
I'm about to buy a 128k machine without keyboard. Can a Plus 2 keyboard (I've got one spare from my last Plus2 machine) be plugged into the circuit board of this machine?
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Ill-chosen wording in online game![IMG]http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn77/robert-fm/alibaba.jpg[/IMG] I play online games at [url]uk.pogo.com[/url], and one of them is Ali Baba …
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Windows 7 games compatibilityI've just bought a 2TB (two terrabytes! I used to think that a 780kb floppy was huuuuge! :-o) hard drive for my desktop PC, and I thought that whilst…
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Zetr0's Catchup Time (hardware / software)Hello there my fellow ZX'ers I have been soaking myself into the "world of spectrum" and more I do, the more I realize I have to play catchup.... a …
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Windows XP problemI dont normally ask you folkes about problems with my OS as I can usually figure them out myself. However, this one has me stumped. A few days ago m…
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The Death of Arcades and why it sucks...For the past week I've been travelling, and I've been in at least 7 diferent airports... spent lots and lots (and lots) of hours in them waiting for …
Question about QL composite modI am servicing my two QL machines (capacitor replacement, pcb and plastics cleaning, microdrives head cleaning, 7805 replacement etc). I already fin…
... am servicing my two QL machines (capacitor replacement, pcb and plastics ...Can anyone try this file ?I need to run an old DOS file, but I cannot make it work. I get a runtime error no matter what PC I try, but I don't have any older machines than a P…
... don't have any older machines than a P4, and there ...A question for Mister BeepMy wife is a massive Queen fan, is there any chance of coding a medley of sorts by Queen using only beeper? She's not impressed by the old machines …
... not impressed by the old machines of yesteryear but something like ...Do you wish they'd stop making games?Probably the stupidest topic ever posted on WOS, but here goes... Today I was talking to a bloke about gaming, and it reminded me of something I rea…
... stack of games for various machines that I've bought but ...2x 48K membrane free to a good homeOriginal + an RWAP model. Please email name and address to cheveron[at]gmail[dot]com. First come first served. These are for the rubber key machines.…
... are for the rubber key machines. You will have to peel ...Amstrad CPC Discussion Thread (or superthread)The CPC was the first computer I ever owned, getting it back in Christmas 1984.. I had tons of games for it and subsequent CPC machines, but the one…
... for it and subsequent CPC machines, but the ones I enjoyed ...The Dragon 32/64 threadI got a Dragon 64 a few years ago. Not many games included though. Back in the day, they always reminded me of the BBC with its shape. There always…
How to get proper SOUNDHi. This subject appeared in several threads of the Forum. I was even lately spinning some reminiscences about old good times and connecting Spec…
... sound because most of those machines has line-out (flat sound ...One Missing from the Archive?Today I brought a ZX Spectrum and it came with the usual Make a Chip, Scrabble, Chess, .... plus a few common budget titles. However, I have one I h…
... usual Make a Chip, Scrabble, Chess, .... plus a few common budget ...Emulating the 128KeIt occurs to me that I wasn't frequenting WoSf when I created the 128Ke standard, which means some people haven't heard of it. Here it is: [url]http…
... all the legal Sinclair branded machines (and even some clones) can ...Do you collect games?Do you collect games for the system(s) you own? I don't mean pirate games, I mean original game cassette, disc or cartridge. Or direct download games…
... I do in my other machines - I just buy the games ... on your shelves. The other machines' range of games all have ...Brief report about RetroEncounterAnother April... another retro event! (Firstly sorry for the quality of the photos, owing to not being able to find my camera battery before leaving …
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As usual, the pinball machines and arcade cabinets (brought along ... line of other (non-Acorn) machines, and it seemed to be ...Have any games ever been sold with limited play time?Have any games, on any computer or console, every been sold with limited play time? What I mean is, has any game ever been sold where you could only …
... now that most modern gaming machines are online it is possible ... (or most other pre-internet machines) then I bet in most ...Have you learned anything from software?I get a lot of educational speccy stuff, and stuff like chess tutors etc so has your speccy taught you anything ? didn't seem right putting it in …
I get a lot of educational speccy stuff, and stuff like chess tutors etc
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didn't seem right putting it in the "games" section:)Name this (PC) gameLCD's great Chess/Mine Sweeper game for the Spectrum ( [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0026121[/url] , and my best completion s…
LCD's great Chess/Mine Sweeper game for the ... /> It was set on a Chess board, and you had to ... it was just a 2D chess board the type of PC ...Hustler (Bubble Bus)According to an article in Pop.Com.Weekly (21.Jun.84, front page) Hustler was re-released in the UK as Minnesota Fats' Pool Challenge (although proba…
... the Spectrum - "conversions for other machines are expected soon"). Apparently Bubble ...
