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  • Multicolor chess?I thought multicolor chess pieces would be a good idea, since it's easy to fit a 8x8 chessboard within the 9x9 tile area of BIFROST*. However this tu…

    ... you could display a multicoloured Chess set on the Spectrum, surely ... , at least when the Spectrum was calculating it's next move ... ? If it was human playing human then there ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2013 Development
  • Multicolor chess?I thought multicolor chess pieces would be a good idea, since it's easy to fit a 8x8 chessboard within the 9x9 tile area of BIFROST*. However this tu…

    ... couple of months. Since I was wide awake at stupid o ... bit of doodling. Not for chess, but another board game:
    chess set. The only difficulty would ...
    snigfarp snigfarp December 2013 Development
  • Multicolor chess?I thought multicolor chess pieces would be a good idea, since it's easy to fit a 8x8 chessboard within the 9x9 tile area of BIFROST*. However this tu…

    ... couple of months. Since I was wide awake at stupid o ... bit of doodling. Not for chess, but another board game:
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2013 Development
  • Best Spectrum game from 2013 PollThe time has come. This year to avoid personal attacks towards me :P everybody can select a maximum of 3 games. Every person who votes for more than …

    ... a cheapo feeling of playing chess

    Biogen
    The ... /> Intergalactic Space Rescue
    It was fun to manage the user ...
    hikoki hikoki January 2014 Games
  • Roger Lloyd-Pack R.I.P.[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006[/URL] Didn't even know he was ill!

    R.I.P Trigger :(

    [QUOTE=fog;747594]he also appeared in the professionals many moons ago.. a very different character[/QUOTE]

    He was also a chess playing tramp in Byker Grove :D
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek January 2014 Chit chat
  • Roger Lloyd-Pack R.I.P.[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006[/URL] Didn't even know he was ill!

    ... />
    Didn't know he was Emily "Wish You Were Here ... the BBC page, his name was Colin Ball. Doesn't seem ... /> [QUOTE=dm_boozefreek;747599]He was also a chess playing tramp in Byker ...
    leespoons leespoons January 2014 Chit chat
  • "Spellbox" and other rare stuff on ibejHi, I started to sell Speccy software last week. Lot of rare stuff collected over years for sale. [URL]http://www.ebay.at/sch/misutakurashiku/m.html?…

    ... ]That Rick Dangerous auction was a blast. I was in up to ... I really loved when it was released, but there must be ... , I'm often bidding on chess computers for my brother and ...
    LCD LCD January 2014 Sales
  • 1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.

    ... the next move in a chess game. But it just has ... not much ornamental. Also, I was surprised by the misunderstanding of ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel April 2014 Games
  • Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?

    [QUOTE=ewgf;770671]Would 1K Chess on the ZX81 count? It' ... at the code if it was beautiful or not. :)

    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay May 2014 Development
  • Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?

    ... don't know if 1k Chess is a beauty to behold ... an example of what I was refering to in regard to ...
    dmsmith dmsmith May 2014 Development
  • Declutter, go on, you know you want to...Unwanted Spectrum case cluttering up your home? Non-working, but complete Spectrum gathering dust in the corner? I can save you and the Spectrum ;-…

    ... flag, formula 1 sim.. and chess's was that you wanted ? :)
    fog fog May 2014 Hardware
  • 48K: Half of copyright message in the middle of the screen?!Issue two. Has 74LS08 over the Z80, but the ULA is 5C112E-3 (I think this should be a 5C102E??? - I have one, but I'm not sure if it is working, at l…

    ... ][/I][/QUOTE]
    Well it was A LOT of trial and ... succeeded. I had a 16K chess TZX that loaded without any ... other thing that I noticed was that the longer the ULA ... .

    OK, so, I was able to run it twice ...
    georgedb georgedb June 2014 Hardware
  • The best selling Speccy gameI wondered if any sales figures were ever released of Speccy games and if it's know which game has the accolade of being the biggest seller?

    ... sure about Ghostbusters as it was released early into the Speccy ... span.[/quote]

    It was re-released on budget in ... Horace Goes Skiing, Chequered Flag, Chess or Make-A-Chip.[/QUOTE ... at all surprised if it was a budget game like Dizzy ...
    leespoons leespoons July 2014 Games
  • The best selling Speccy gameI wondered if any sales figures were ever released of Speccy games and if it's know which game has the accolade of being the biggest seller?

    ... Goes Skiing, Chequered Flag, Chess or Make-A-Chip.[/ ... Speccy at Christmas! It was a good Christmas that ... best selling Speccy game was Robocop, just because the ... or so, then it was released on a budget ... "They Sold a Million" was a good selling compilation for ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob July 2014 Games
  • What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…

    ... suggest Vroom, QL Karate, Psion Chess and Match Point as some ... think it's overall potential was probably on a par with ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2014 Games
  • What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…

    ... suggest Vroom, QL Karate, Psion Chess and Match Point as some ... think it's overall potential was probably on a par with ...
    chev chev August 2014 Games
  • Spectrum Six PackIs this really MIA? [url=http://postimg.org/image/5a4uh0xsj/][img]http://s13.postimg.org/5a4uh0xsj/IMG_1806_1.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://postimg.org…

    ... of the 8-pack that was coming with some Spectrum+ versions ... /> Backgammon
    Chequered Flag
    Chess
    Cookie
    Flight Simulator ...
    Pyjamarama Pyjamarama August 2014 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Did the 48k Spectrum have launch games?When a new console goes on sale it usually has a handful of games that go on sale from day one. Did the Speccy 48 have anything like that, or weren't…

    Wow my memory wasn't too bad.... it was Chess not Raiders...

    [IMG]http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ec/74/fe/ec74fe5aaf1337a4b7bc32996f2f724f.jpg[/IMG]
    Korinel Korinel January 2015 Games
  • Did the 48k Spectrum have launch games?When a new console goes on sale it usually has a handful of games that go on sale from day one. Did the Speccy 48 have anything like that, or weren't…

    ... wasn't too bad.... it was Chess not Raiders...

    [IMG ...
    Gulpman Gulpman January 2015 Games
  • Did the 48k Spectrum have launch games?When a new console goes on sale it usually has a handful of games that go on sale from day one. Did the Speccy 48 have anything like that, or weren't…

    ... wasn't too bad.... it was Chess not Raiders...

    [IMG ...
    nonterraqueous nonterraqueous January 2015 Games
  • Coder creates smallest chess game for computers[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31028787"]Interesting article[/URL] from the BBC about "A French coder has developed what is thought to be t…

    ... .org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess"]1K ZX Chess[/URL] for the last 33 ... ]

    Actually, 1K Chess Plus was beaten, written (or optimized) by ...
    Asimo Asimo January 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Coder creates smallest chess game for computers[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31028787"]Interesting article[/URL] from the BBC about "A French coder has developed what is thought to be t…

    [QUOTE=Asimo;816250]Actually, 1K Chess Plus was beaten, written (or optimized) ... move from the standard 1k chess insomuch as for example ... would also seem the new chess program cheats a little..< ... www.dailytech.com/Worlds+Smallest+Chess+Code+is+a+Cheating+Novice ...
    moggy moggy January 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Coder creates smallest chess game for computers[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31028787"]Interesting article[/URL] from the BBC about "A French coder has developed what is thought to be t…

    Ignoring any single rule means it's not Chess.

    Otherwise anyone could just claim any small program was chess (with some rules missing)
    ASH-II ASH-II February 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Archon: C64 / ZX SpectrumArchon the board/strategy game [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000243[/url] is regarded as an all time top 10 classic on the…

    ... game. The only resemblance to chess is that it's played ... few things. Speccy version was published by Ariolasoft who were ... was astronimical for a Speccy game; especially one that looked like chess ... . Also the Speccy version was released around the same time ...
    paranoid marvin paranoid marvin February 2015 Games
  • Coder creates smallest chess game for computers[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31028787"]Interesting article[/URL] from the BBC about "A French coder has developed what is thought to be t…

    ... just claim any small program was chess (with some rules missing)[/QUOTE ...
    Sokurah Sokurah February 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Archon: C64 / ZX SpectrumArchon the board/strategy game [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000243[/url] is regarded as an all time top 10 classic on the…

    ... .;816534]Maybe the Spectrum version was ****, but I definitely would ... . The only resemblance to chess is that it's played ... , whilst the Speccy version was quite slow in being published ... was astronimical for a Speccy game; especially one that looked like chess ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack February 2015 Games
  • Coder creates smallest chess game for computers[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31028787"]Interesting article[/URL] from the BBC about "A French coder has developed what is thought to be t…

    ... /> [LIST]
    [*]The original ZX81 chess program is not very optimized ... seeing my code) and It was 148 bytes smaller. So the ... when porting to Z80 it was 245 bytes. So we need ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena February 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Archon: C64 / ZX SpectrumArchon the board/strategy game [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000243[/url] is regarded as an all time top 10 classic on the…

    Archon was great on the speccy, my ... it doing battle. Nothing like chess, Very frustrating when your little ...
    scunny scunny February 2015 Games
  • Coder creates smallest chess game for computers[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31028787"]Interesting article[/URL] from the BBC about "A French coder has developed what is thought to be t…

    ... LIST]
    [*]The original ZX81 chess program is not very optimized ... my code) and It was 148 bytes smaller. So ... porting to Z80 it was 245 bytes. So we ... .dropbox.com/u/9498358/chess/blackandwhite1.png[/img] [ ... dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/chess/col4_2.png[/img]
    ewgf ewgf February 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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