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And you thought Cornishpastey was a nutcase...On the IMDB message boards relating to Pixar (and some Dreamworks) movies, people keep spouting a crackpot conspiracy theory that Dreamworks steals a…
... Away[/i]) the Dreamworks movie was in production long before its ... Pixar "counterpart" was, the nonsense still continues...
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If the rubber key speccy was on Rick Dickinsons drawing board this year ?I was just wondering what spec of machine could be fitted into the rubber key speccy case now ? Was the Spectrum the smallest colour computer in the…
I was just wondering what spec of ... speccy case now ?
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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…
... Cyrus Is Chess - 48k
Death Chess 5000
Master Chess
Megachess ...
Psi Chess
Psion Chess
... Spectrechess
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What WAS going to be bundled with Bandersnatch?Just saw a documentary about the death of Imagine ( [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1012096952890708986[/url] ) and apparently they wer…
... put in the box, or was the whole thing a desperate ... lie?
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Live Earth - Is / Was it worthwhile.It's all fair and well telling every one to be green and start thinking about our enviroment but that's all people do. Say somthing must be done then…
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Was WOS down lastnight?Couldn't access the website or the forums from home last night (or this morning), but can at work...was it down or is my home IP blocked in some way?
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Chess players. Can one castle after check?I've been playing a bit of chess on Vista, and on x-box live recently, first time in a long time. Can one castle after being checked, if the king o…
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What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available ... that the Spectrum's implementation was very good, albeit slow ... don't know, but was it really that good, ... think the Spectrum lacked was an ON BREAK GOTO ... BBC, and then it was only to write a few ... -
What was the worst game you brought ?Only games you paid for please :) Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic) Apologies if the author is on here :oops: But even at the time…
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Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic)
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What was a Z80 computer capable of ?I have always wondered, and maybe the techy people on here could answer, with what you know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the…
... know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the ... colours ( usually 2 or 4 ) was always put on certain resolutions ... -
Idle animations: who was first?I've just been having a blast on Jack the Nipper II, and noticed that he has quite an advanced idle animation (he checks for an audience and then pic…
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a short story I read when I was youngI remember when I was starting to learn english, my teacher had a book that she brought from england filled with weird short stories and questions ab…
I remember when I was starting to learn english, my ... itself, but the short story was about a man, in australia ... (I think) who was a librarian or something similar ... -
Was this a good deal??I've just brought my wife this laptop for Christmas. Was it a good deal?? [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170166703909[/ur…
I've just brought my wife this laptop for Christmas. Was it a good deal??
[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170166703909[/url]
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What game was your first 'tape to tape'Inspired by a post in another thread, what was your first 'tape to tape' game you received? (I know it might be several but which stood out). I got …
... post in another thread, what was your first 'tape to tape ... on it and thought it was awesome....It had never occurred ... of games for me...it was a defining moment that lead ... -
I Was Bored...... so I typed 'fuck' into Infoseek just to see if there was any easter egg thingies. Sadly, there wasn't but I found [url=http://www.worldofspectrum…
... so I typed 'fuck' into Infoseek just to see if there was any easter egg thingies. Sadly, there wasn't but I found [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Fucking+Friends$]this[/url] instead. :)
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was there any yo yo em ups on the speccy?i can only think of one frak, but that was only on the bbc and *whispers* commode
i can only think of one
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The book that never was.Having read Ultimate Video Game History many months ago and having just ordered another book on the same topic (video game history that is), I was st…
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What was the last commercially released game you bought?What was the last commercially released speccy game you bought? Mines was in 1994 when our WH Smith was selling off all of its 8 bit software really…
What was the last commercially released speccy game you bought? Mines was in 1994 when our WH Smith was selling off all of its 8 bit software really cheap. I got Snow Strike and E-Swat for 50p each. -
What was the first record you bought?Here's one for you - what was the first record you bought? (LP, 45rpm or for the younger ones cd). Mines was way back in 1980 i bought Blondie's 'Ca…
... s one for you - what was the first record you bought ... the younger ones cd). Mines was way back in 1980 i ... s 'Call me'. Well, i was only six!
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Who was the local psycho in your street?We had a guy who was a few years older than us, but a little bit slow. Still didn't stop him getting into heaps of trouble though... He used to sit …
We had a guy who was a few years older than ... after him. The best thing was, when he turned into our ... such goodies.
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What was the first Spectrum game you bought.Mine was Technician Ted and Gift from the Gods. What were your first game you bought for the spectrum?
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What was the first game with a life bar?The Australian game program "Good Game" had a segment about the history of the life bar in video games, and they reckoned that the first one they cou…
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R@RE as hens...erm...feathersI've just got back from a car boot sale this morning... Someone was selling a cassette storage drawer with a few Spectrum tapes in it for ?3.00 ... …
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Someone was selling a cassette storage drawer ... a copy of Chequered flag, Chess, Horace goes skiing, a couple ... -
Was Knight Lore Really Written Before Sabre Wulf?Was Knight Lore really written before Sabre Wulf or was this a clever form of self promotion by the Stamper brothers? It was a great piece of journa…
... written before Sabre Wulf or was this a clever form of ... Stamper brothers?
It was a great piece of journalism ... didn’t think the market was ready for it but what ... Knight Lore came out or was you blown away when Knight ... -
Crash Powertape reader game... What the heck was it called?Okay, my mate played me Europe's The Final Countdown over MSN the other night (why, I'm still not sure). But it remind me of an old Crash Powertape g…
... I'm nearly positive it was on a Crash cover tape ... . Maybe I'm forgetting something. Was 'Hed' in the title perhaps ... -
Trying to remember a gameHi All, Firstly, there was more than one game on this tape, but I'm not sure if that's because it was a compilation, or just that the person I'd acq…
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There was one game, which you were ... I think the colour scheme was quite yellow]
Another game was where you could design and ... />
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Which was your worst 'death' music/animation?Following on from the Gyroscope thread, which made me want to to break the sodding Speccy, what was your worst 'death sequence' in a game? Be it mus…
Following on from the Gyroscope thread, which made me want to to break the sodding Speccy, what was your worst 'death sequence' in a game?
Be it music (Gyroscope), or animation/time taken (Monty Mole).
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Game database updateGreat web site! I work as a programmer, and learnt my trade on the early Sinclair machines, so it is amazing to find someone who has invested the ti…
... Lop Ears (I think it was mostly game objects), but I ... other things, I run the chess site, [URL="http://www.redhotpawn ... -
What was this game calledQuite a cool little game You where flying over the sea in a side to side scroller may have only had basic colours and you had to rescue guys in the …
... back to your base It was kind of like Choplifter but ... this I thought this game was called Volcano I see anoher ...
