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  • Is this joke actually funny?I read this in one of todays papers. It took me a little while to actually get it, but I don't find it funny at all. Infact, I'd go as far to say tha…

    Dont think that joke was too bad, heres ... [/B]"Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought ... Kirshen: [/B]"I was playing chess with my friend and ... interesting'. So we stopped playing chess."
    [B]6) ... Sharp: [/B]"I was in a band which we ...
    psj3809 psj3809 August 2011 Chit chat
  • Is this joke actually funny?I read this in one of todays papers. It took me a little while to actually get it, but I don't find it funny at all. Infact, I'd go as far to say tha…

    ... ;559156]Dont think that joke was too bad, heres the ' ... Key: [/B]"Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought ... ) Matt Kirshen: [/B]"I was playing chess with my friend and he ... interesting'. So we stopped playing chess."
    [B]6) Sarah ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek August 2011 Chit chat
  • Region locking PC games? Deus Ex: HR is to be region locked!One of the good things about PC games is that they aren't region locked, unlike [B]many[/B] console games (lots of consoles have great games that wil…

    ... would be nice if there was more diversity in lead ... their omission from Invisible War was a really bad design ... 9% of all humans at Chess, you'd think something ... night, and yesterday I was helping a mate to clear ... the rain), but I was still away from home and ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2011 Chit chat
  • Rml 380z / 480zjust looking through a book i got back from my dads that ive had since 1983 micro games (patrick bossert and philippa dickinson) and it mentions th…

    From what I was told, the RML 380Z machine was "standard issue" to ... bloke who is now a Chess Grand Master on one of ...
    Spex Spex September 2011 Chit chat
  • Zx spectrum 128Hello i from netherlands Look for a zx spectrum 128K or +2. On ebay no luck because many times i am overbid . I mean i use it as a hobby not for col…

    nah it was ebay that changed things.
    < ... a chess if2 cart and games for ?77.. but it was hhmm ...
    fog fog October 2011 Wanted
  • Were games expensiveDo you think speccy games were expensive? Having found a webpage to convert old prices to their modern equivalent it comes out that in today?s pricin…

    ... the impressive thing was that some flight simulators/chess games cost more ... />
    I suppose the 'excuse' was the difficulty of programming such ...
    JuanF. Ramirez JuanF. Ramirez October 2011 Games
  • games bundle questionHi , this is bugging me , so any help would be appreciated. I'm sure the Spectrum 128 came with a games bundle of DT's Supertest and The Never Ending…

    ... in another thread but this was the closest thread i ... could find - my first speccy was the "+" and the bundle ... chip (which I thought was a game at the time ... also having Psion? games like Chess, Backgammon and Match Point.< ... spectrum in 1984 (I was 8) and I only ...
    nuttyfox nuttyfox December 2011 Games
  • Best game ever?Not sure the best way to do this, thinking top 10s with a sliding scale of 10 points awarded to the game you vote 'best' down to 1 point for your 10t…

    ... called Bump, Set, Spike which was decent. And one of the ... From The Gods. Spectrum Chess 2 was pretty good as I recall ...
    Rebelstar Rules Rebelstar Rules March 2012 Games
  • A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…

    ... audibly and sonically than was done in the 80s. ... time we believed that was the case, what with ... for games like Chaos or Chess, where the sprites rarely ... that for the first time was sooooooo amazing - much more ... first PC, it was before Doom 2 was released, I ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2012 Brand new software
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... a real time game of chess.[/QUOTE]

    Pippo is ... penny of that 1.99 was justified in my eyes.
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2012 Chit chat
  • Show us your newly acquired spectrum stuff here......Theres another thread about posting pics of your collections on here but as a collector the pic submitted is already getting out of date. Thought it …

    ... /> The not so rare Master chess' and the slightly more sought ... .....?[/QUOTE]

    So it was you I was bidding against was it? ;)
    Graz Graz April 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Show us your newly acquired spectrum stuff here......Theres another thread about posting pics of your collections on here but as a collector the pic submitted is already getting out of date. Thought it …

    Master Chess + Casey Jones
    I didn' ... .

    My recent purchase was [B]The Birds [/B]by ...
    Graz Graz April 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Most difficult Spectrum game/sIs there a certain Spectrum game (or more than one) which you found difficult/impossible to complete? I always used to find Chuckie Egg 2 extremely …

    ... memory lets me down :( one was a 20 level game - you ... on each level, each level was an avoid the enemies collect ... Weeks In Paradise - although that was via a walkthrough
    Great ... mean I won Scrabble, Spectrum Chess II, Emlyn Hughes, International Cricket ...
    Rebelstar Rules Rebelstar Rules April 2012 Games
  • For Sale - Nice ZX CollectionI am selling my ZX collection of hardware (including a rare disc drive unit), manuals and software (including a few nice big box ultimate titles and …

    ... out 1 of the games was a chess sinclair cart.

    was reunited with buggy blast , which ...
    fog fog May 2012 Sales
  • The Euro 2012 England supporter's threadCome on in, grab a beer and try not to get too depressed. Let's take the time to enjoy the Euros now, cos we won't be enjoying it once they start! :…

    2nd half was more like a game of chess than football. we're so boring lol
    def chris def chris June 2012 Chit chat
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... make a chess board pattern to check a sprite was staying within ...
    R-Tape R-Tape July 2012 Development
  • Chessboard and piecesLast night for no particular reason I made a chessboard and pieces. [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/chessboard.szx]Chessboard[/url] [img]https…

    ... had a go on Psion chess and was suprised how good it ... was on the easiest level ([I] ... than capable of a decent chess program.

    I wonder ... .photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/chess-1.gif[/IMG]

    R-Tape R-Tape July 2012 Development
  • Chessboard and piecesLast night for no particular reason I made a chessboard and pieces. [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/chessboard.szx]Chessboard[/url] [img]https…

    ... (going back 22 years though!) was to design the engine for ... the chess logic part from another game, for which there was a ...
    jamorski jamorski July 2012 Development
  • Chessboard and piecesLast night for no particular reason I made a chessboard and pieces. [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/chessboard.szx]Chessboard[/url] [img]https…

    In my opinion, "Psi chess" has the best table ... 3d set too) or Clock chess for example.
    Obviously, ... the most effort and memory was spent on graphics, which ... set.
    Also Fig chess has perhaps the best " ... board" on Spectrum but no chess engine at all.
    ...
    Pegaz Pegaz July 2012 Development
  • Chessboard and piecesLast night for no particular reason I made a chessboard and pieces. [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/chessboard.szx]Chessboard[/url] [img]https…

    My chess pieces and board were like that but rotated 45 degrees. I think my sprites and board only took up about 4k and then the routine to display was about 70 bytes with 64 byte position table. Plenty of room left to have a good sized game logic engine.
    jamorski jamorski July 2012 Development
  • Chessboard and piecesLast night for no particular reason I made a chessboard and pieces. [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/chessboard.szx]Chessboard[/url] [img]https…

    A while ago when I was trying to come up with things to do with a 144x144 pixel grid I drew this:

    [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/chess.png[/img]

    Oh, and for my money [i]Colossus Chess[/i] had the best AI.
    chev chev July 2012 Development
  • Chessboard and piecesLast night for no particular reason I made a chessboard and pieces. [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/chessboard.szx]Chessboard[/url] [img]https…

    ... was going to use as an overlay menu system on my chess ...
    jamorski jamorski July 2012 Development
  • Chessboard and piecesLast night for no particular reason I made a chessboard and pieces. [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/chessboard.szx]Chessboard[/url] [img]https…

    ... ]A while ago when I was trying to come up with ... was going to use as an overlay menu system on my chess ...
    FrankT FrankT July 2012 Development
  • Chessboard and piecesLast night for no particular reason I made a chessboard and pieces. [url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/chessboard.szx]Chessboard[/url] [img]https…

    [QUOTE=jamorski;640767]Quick conversion of the .avi to .gif to show how it was to develop in its next iteration.

    [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28052510/chessboard75adeg.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]

    Very nice. Reminds me of Colossus Chess X.
    chev chev July 2012 Development
  • Space Invaders in 512b[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=59570[/url] Not bad for half a K!

    I didn't realise 512 used to be a mini comp size, was it not a popular category? 1k chess is one mean feat!
    EvilUncleBubba EvilUncleBubba July 2012 Games
  • Something that just occured to me (Windows 8 related)Even though personally I probably won't be putting Windows 8 on any of my PCs, as it offers no real advantage for me, I have to keep my hand in with …

    ... binaries on linux anyway? Linux was designed to run on a ... it's failure) and I was surprised it didn't run ... probably run the game (Detective Chess: [url]http://bindweed.com/det ... worry about them as it was 32-bit native from day ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2012 Chit chat
  • Average age of a Spectrum fanHi! I'm wondering what's the average age of us, readers of this forum. I'm 29 and started playing and programming on the Spectrum when I was 13 (infl…

    ... more like a game of chess, planning 10 moves ahead ... up on my own Speccy was Forbidden Planets, what a ... disappointment that was. It got reset a ... loaded up after Forbidden Planets was Who Dares Wins II, ... in about 1988 (He was literally on my doorstep for ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek August 2012 Games
  • New game: "Chessboard Attack"[img]http://members.inode.at/838331/zx/cba_shot.png[/img] I finished my "Chessboard Attack" over one month ago, but waited for the Music from a famo…

    ... making the "Detective Chess" game more like "Mystery Chess" for the C64 ... different graphics... There was a thread about chess pieces some time ago ...
    LCD LCD September 2012 Brand new software
  • Paradroid for C-64, why not in the Spectrum?Reading the special 30th anniversary Retro Gamer, I came across this game which was considered to be the best game for the C-64, and it does not look…

    ... />
    You can pretty up chess or dominoes or tetris till ... think the C64 California Games was the best of any platform ...
    weesam weesam October 2012 Games
  • electronic chess gamesanybody collect em? i almost bought one yesterday from a charity shop for ?3 but tbh im not that good at chess, i know the basics but wouldnt say i c…

    ... .co.uk/itm/Kasparov-Electonic-Chess-Game-/130782534331?pt=UK_Toys_Games_Games& ... have one of those... it was "not for kids" when it ... was for sale, and was expensive as hell, from ...
    VanTammen VanTammen October 2012 Chit chat
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