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  • How close are we to online Speccy gaming?I just ask cos i remember awhile ago a few of us were wondering fondly if it would be possible but it didn't seem feasible, but i was just on a C64 s…

    ... :
    "User20 requests online speccy chess gaming session with the administrators ... me.........."

    [ This Message was edited by: alanspec on 2005 ...
    alanspec alanspec September 2005 Emulators
  • I wan't one, because they are R@RE[url="http://cgi.ebay.nl/sinclair-zx-spectrum-48k-cassette-lead-rare_W0QQitemZ8223031047QQcategoryZ112866QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http:…

    [quote]
    On 2005-10-20 20:57, Lee_dC wrote:
    Spectrum Chess is a cheating bast of a game
    [/quote]


    Yes. I was cheated by paying 25p for it on the promise that it was rare, and I could sell it on Ebay for 50 quid.
    chaosmongers chaosmongers October 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • what was the thing that impressed you the most ?on a Spectrum game - you know, those things that you thought to be impossible, yet.. e.g the wide screen mode in Dark Star, Technician Teds loader..…

    I was really impressed by:

    < ... />
    Psi ches (excellent 3d chess board)

    Dynamite Dan ...
    Pegaz Pegaz October 2005 Games
  • Chess Game with a slant to 2 player versionsHi y'all. I'm actually going through the spectrum collection for chess games with a slant towards 2 player games. The older the better. Before I ch…

    I used to enjoy playing Cyrus Is Chess, Colossus 4 and Psion Chess.

    Although I understand how the game worked, I was never any good at it and never actually won a game.

    Necros.
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton January 2006 Games
  • Chess Game with a slant to 2 player versionsHi y'all. I'm actually going through the spectrum collection for chess games with a slant towards 2 player games. The older the better. Before I ch…

    Grandmaster Chess for the C16. Very strong program for it's age and memory useage/ One side of the tape was a "novaload" turbo jobbie, the other side was the standard long load, Commodore standard that took over 15 minutes
    DEATH DEATH January 2006 Games
  • Chess Game with a slant to 2 player versionsHi y'all. I'm actually going through the spectrum collection for chess games with a slant towards 2 player games. The older the better. Before I ch…

    I played Psion Chess on the Spectrum, then it' ... the same engine so it was a pretty damn good player ... /> Oh, I'm rubbish at chess, btw. I just play in ...
    xuratoth xuratoth January 2006 Games
  • Games to TradeHi I have a few games to trade, I am looking for text adventures (on any format), here's the games if anyone is interested (duplication indicates mo…

    ... and lisa, the games designer, chess, molecule man, horizons
    or ... ferret"

    [ This Message was edited by: mel the bell ... :54 ]

    [ This Message was edited by: mel the bell ...
    mel the bell mel the bell January 2006 Sales
  • Atic Atac and Sabre Wulf walkthroughs on Google VideoYou can now watch these 2 games being completed via your web browser, courtesy of Google Video. Atic Atac: [url="http://video.google.com/videoplay?d…

    ... chequered_flag.AVI
    2.0M chess.AVI
    12M chuckie_egg.AVI ... url]

    [ This Message was edited by: NickH on 2006 ... 15 ]

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    [ This Message was edited by: NickH on 2006 ...
    NickH NickH January 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Horace goes skiing...Was this the game that sold more than any other game on the Spectrum? The reason I ask is that whenever you look on ebay for speccys they ALWAYS have…

    ... although it was more fun than Vu-Calc, Reversi, Chess, Ship Of ...
    jil jil January 2006 Games
  • Has this been done before?Are there any emulators whose speed can be adjusted by the Spectrum program that the emulator itself is running? So that, say the Spectrum program ca…

    ... a bad number considering it was a casual activity. How many ... /> Back to topic:
    Psion Chess could do with some speeding ... up (as well as other chess programs), The Hobbit (unfortunately the ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2006 Emulators
  • What is it exactly about that Spectrum that you like so much?I'm sure that most people here will agree that there's something very special about the Speccy, thats why we visit WOS afterall... But what why has i…

    ... , and so when the ZX81 was "properly" released (pre-built) they ... games such as Golf & Chess, only for the 16K ram ... I love it because it was the first computer I really ... system we had before (which was better in turn than the ...
    bobs bobs May 2006 Games
  • speccy speechCan anyone tell me what the first spectrum game to feature digitised speech? Was it Ghostbusters? I think it is but i might be wrong!

    ... 1982[/QUOTE]

    The Chess Player also had speech and ... you could understand what it was saying. (Meteor Storm ran in ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2006 Games
  • speccy speechCan anyone tell me what the first spectrum game to feature digitised speech? Was it Ghostbusters? I think it is but i might be wrong!

    ... it Speakeasy.

    It was the very same code that ... was used to produce the speech in Meteor Storm and The Chess ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2006 Games
  • ZX Game Book UpdateHi all... For various unrelated reasons the time I have for editing has been limited to weekends, but I'm still plugging away. I have created 'fi…

    ... I never knew 3D Tanx was Don Priestly's biggest hit ... me that much as it was one of the Spectrum' ... to the niggles:

    Was [I]Football Manager [/I]ever ... don't think there ever was a third [I]Lord of ... Storm [/I]and [I]The Chess Player [/I](both released in ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Questions and answers...I'm bored (downloading some Unreal Tournament levels, when they've finished I'm off to scoff my tea), so I thought I'd create this topic with some Ea…

    ... the ZX81? Was this a real implementation of Chess, or was it cut ... down? Did it play strongly? How large was ...
    ADJB ADJB July 2006 Chit chat
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... the "friend" who reckons that chess is "the only game suitable ... />
    In 80-s choice was at least 100 times lower ...
    piters piters September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • At Last!!!!!Beware, there is not too much sense in following text, this is nothing more, than I would like to let whole world know, that I got my childhood dream…

    ... AS A GIFT! While I was searching for ebay for a ... , adapter and even with original chess and horizons tape. Unfortunately the ...
    Arda Arda September 2006 Hardware
  • To all the forum.....To everyone on the forum zx1 wishes all a very happy new year and all the best for 2007! Let's make this year a good one after all it is the 25th ann…

    ... fascinating! (The creator of Uridium was trying to remember the periodic ... , and I learned to play chess from Chessmaster 4000], Chip's ... . Gauntlet Legends is how I was introduced to the joys of ...
    CaroKann CaroKann January 2007 Games
  • Best ever children's TV programmesSo what were your favourite kid's TV shows?

    ... />
    I think it was part of a Saturday kids ... it was a game where kids played on a giant chess- ... children taking part. It was probably part of a bigger ... around '91-95. It was so memorable I can't ... anyone knows what the program was, you'll finally be ...
    Collie Collie February 2007 Chit chat
  • Groundbreaking gamesWhich games really broke new ground? I mean the ones that actually got around the hardware limitations of the Spectrum. For example: Aquaplane - f…

    ... saying the score. it was really grainy but you could ... out. I think that was 84/85....and I ... believe Technician Ted was the fist game to ... Meteor Storm and The Chess Player both had it in ... 1983, although Technician Ted was still obviously a major advance ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2007 Games
  • 25 years of gamesWith the anniversary fast approaching I wanted to start some discussions about the last 25 years of the Spectrum firstly of course comes game Which…

    ... more than one game. It was inevitable! I'm not sure ... ) Batman - It was fun, it was cute and it was challenging without being ... 't terribly original but it was technically brilliant as well as ... , The Hobbit, Fighter Pilot, Psion Chess, Head Over Heels, Match Day.
    Arjun Arjun March 2007 Games
  • first 3 speccy games you remember playingEarth Defence Desert Burner JSW [I]edit: not including Thru' The Wall.[/I]

    Thro the Wall was certainly the first. The Horizons ... the Foxes and Hares program was fascinating back then.

    Chess or Chequered Flag. It's ...
    JamesW JamesW March 2007 Games
  • Reasons for buying a QL ?It seems, from what I have read, that the QL was a bit of a failure back in the days. But apart from being a collectible, is there any useful/intere…

    QL Cavern was the most famous platform game.< ... (Boulderdash).

    Jungle Eddi was another excellent platform game - have ... tennis game) and QL Chess (the first 3d chess game), both by ...
    rwap rwap March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Scr to vectorBack in 1989 I saw 2 m.c. routines that impressed me. One could convert a certain area of the screen (up to 6144 bytes) to vector images. And the sec…

    ... of these in 1989. I was obsessed with Spherical Objects and ... the spheres and the program was published as "Other Worlds" in ... like the way the BASIC was compressed with all that NOT ... .demon.co.uk/chess.gif[/url]

    It was very slow ...
    Geoff Geoff April 2007 Development
  • Kurt Vonnegut Is Dead. Long Live Kurt VonnegutWow. It's sad that all CNN covered all week was Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Don Imus, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, …

    ... !

    *Or was it ciggies ... I don't ... which. Or was it Kostnoj (sp.?) or was it Karpov or ... was it Spassky ... the ... last time I watched a good chess ... game on TV was in the 80 ...
    Skarpo Skarpo April 2007 Chit chat
  • Kurt Vonnegut Is Dead. Long Live Kurt VonnegutWow. It's sad that all CNN covered all week was Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Don Imus, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, …

    [QUOTE=Matt_B;182908]No, he was just a couple of pawns ... 'S WHAT WAS TALKING ABOUT
    "Chess Master Arrested" was the headline.
    usspeccyfan usspeccyfan April 2007 Chit chat
  • Kurt Vonnegut Is Dead. Long Live Kurt VonnegutWow. It's sad that all CNN covered all week was Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Don Imus, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, …

    ... ]THAT'S WHAT WAS TALKING ABOUT
    "Chess Master Arrested" was the headline ... is that popular personality remembrance was (probably) low on the agenda ... and liquified, and the stink was like roses and mustard gas ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack April 2007 Chit chat
  • first 10 speccy games?Im interested to know what the first 10 commercially available speccy games were... does anyone know, or have a link to somewhere that provides this …

    ... historical information is only what was published in magazines at the ... the fact that a program was reviewed or advertised isn't ... whose advent at the time was not documented in the press ... (Simon W Hessel)
    SPECTRUM CHESS, ZX ASSEMBLER (Artic Computing)
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2007 Games
  • WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …

    ... 't remember exactly what there was (I don't have any ... Your Sinclair (I think, it was the mid 1980's), put ... remain untouched), wrote a reasonable Chess game (well, it beat me ... sent me Mr Pack which was better than I'd probably ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    ... games, a chess game was one of them (Psion Chess I think).

    That was the extent of my chess playing :lol:
    MoonMonkey MoonMonkey May 2007 Games
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