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What was the best speccy model?What was your favourite speccy model (non-clone)? A close one for me between the 48k rubber keys and the Sinclair 128k machines. Rubber face just w…
What was your favourite speccy model (non-clone)?
A close one for me between the 48k rubber keys and the Sinclair 128k machines. Rubber face just won in the end. -
Nes...having grown up with the spectrum, NES was sort of a myth to me, something we would just hear about in American movies and somewhat of a super system…
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Hard drive crash - any help?My HD has crashed, the OS is Windows 2000 Server. Right at the start of the boot process it says "Error loading operating system". Running the reco…
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Running the recovery console from the Win2k - a chkdsk ... years back, but the recovery console chkdsk fixed the problem. -
timeless speccy gameswhich speccy games do you hold tobe worth playing today regardless of nostlgia-reasons (if possible not to "regard" them...), regardless historical c…
... competition with analogous pc and console titles and why? (not taking ... -
More general questionsJust some more things that I wonder when I can't sleep... 1. What's the highest score anyone's ever achived when playing snooker? I mean, yes there…
... is so much easier than console piracy, not to mention the ... many PC games (whilst a console is comparetivly very easy to ... easier to write for a console. I mean, constant, documented hardware ... will run fine on the console, without the user complaining that ... -
ResiDOS v2.00 releasedI've just posted a major new release of ResiDOS, at: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/residos/"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/residos/[/URL] T…
... Vehmaa) and the ZX-Badaloc clone. It is of course still ... -
WTF? New HD crashes after 1 week!FFS, I've had enough of hard drives. My new one has crashed after only a week. Again, it's during the unrarring of a large 4 gig file which was dow…
... disc in, going to recovery console and doing a chkdsk, it ... -
ZX Spectrum Clone on Ebay!!! :)[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dragon-32-Home-Computer-1982-Welsh-ZX-Spectrum-Clone_W0QQitemZ220101048417QQihZ012QQcategoryZ1247QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url…
[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dragon-32-Home-Computer-1982-Welsh-ZX-Spectrum-Clone_W0QQitemZ220101048417QQihZ012QQcategoryZ1247QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]
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Soviet/Eastern Bloc speccy clonesI've noticed a huge increase in ads for these on Ebay the last month or so. Anyone bought one of these yet and if so could you share some info on the…
... /Rare-Vintage-Soviet-computer-SANTAKA-Clone-ZX-SPECTRUM_W0QQitemZ320105835291QQihZ011QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] -
How to install fuse in Ubuntu? Warning: Newbie trying to escape from MicrosoftThe title says everything. I have downloaded and decompressed fuse-0.8.0.tar.gz and I don't know what to do. Synaptic doesn't have fuse, and I haven'…
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Some more off-topic questions...Just some more things I wonder about, especially when I can't sleep (I hate insomnia)... 1) Do jet packs actually exist? You never see them, even…
... it to come out on console (if I don't have ... why do more and more console FPSs have auto-aim that ... -
The Speccy scene in BrazilI started talking to a guy who's part of a TK (spectrum clone) club in Brazil. They have developed their own hardware mods and much more active than …
... part of a TK (spectrum clone) club in Brazil. They have ... -
GP2X - Spectrum EmulationHi all. Looking for advice on the GP2X and (especially) the quality of its ZX Spectrum emulation. Has anybody anything to say about the console - is…
Hi all.
Looking for advice on the GP2X and (especially) the quality of its ZX Spectrum emulation.
Has anybody anything to say about the console - is it worth buying? -
Thinking aloudLooks like Im finally going to get some free time soon, so I started thinking about doing some speccy stuff again. Its been about 23 years since I h…
... this almost as a spectrum clone, except there may be issues ... -
Death of CRT=Death of Spectrum?I was testing an old PC Engine console on the LCD TV in my house, and couldn't believe how awful the picture was. With giant ugly unblended pixels th…
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Hardware GuideI was thinking this might make a good sticky... [b]Service Manuals[/b] [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/technical-docs/ZXSpectrum48K…
... .aticatac.altervista.org/"]A Spectrum Clone![/URL] -'Chrome' An Italian Spectrum ... clone by Mario Prata
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I have joined the Dark SideGone and bought a PS3 that is. Even after all of the posts I made about not getting one as they were so expensive I succumbed and sold my 360 (and o…
... s probably the best console I have ever owned ... all in all a great console.
Until ... better word) and the console would hang. A reboot ... minutes after booting the console after several hours/days ... matter of time before my console "bricked". The only ... -
Aliens versus Predator (the games)We talk about other first person shooters on here, but we rarely mention AvP 1 or 2. I know these games didn't get the recognition that they deserved…
... the XBox of all machines? Console users mostly want action, not ... -
I wonder if . . .An M68k could emulate a ULA. You know, like the ZX80 used the cpu for rastering the picture on the screen. This would mean that the people who clone…
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Ebay pricing - how much is too muchI was wondering what an acceptable price for a spectrum including domestic postage (uk - uk) is in general terms. I know that some models have a lar…
More game reviewsPunchy. Pants its a really bad Hunchback clones. It moves badly, the controls suck and it doesn't even look nice, even worse someone thought speech w…
... write about. Its a defender clone. Moves nice, looks nice, plays ...New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…
... . Do we just want a clone or something better perhaps something ...+D and RAM Turbo interfaceJust a quick note to let a few guys in particular know that my RAM Turbo does in fact work with my +D interface. I checked continuity through the RA…
... , my +D interface is a clone. The other RAM Turbo, which ... .
So, either the clone is more tolerant of external ...is the great british pub dying?the pub i went to last night has closed, the landladys leaving it cos her 6months lease is up and shes moving to portugal to run a pub. she said its …
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also due to the clone bars / wine bars in larger ...I need ONE 'Crash' mag. Swap anyone?I retrieved my old Crash mags from the attic at the weekend. I have all thee ones I bought from number 1 up to the early 90s when I lost interest EXC…
... /> No 21 Oct 1985 (Astro Clone) Back cover missing. Fair con ...Buying a new TV - any advice?My faithful ol' television has just ceased to be, become bereft of life, started pining for the fjords, etc, so I've got to get a new one, and I was …
... couldn't handle a PAL console yet, but if there's ...The 'Must read' threads.Ahhh, memories! There's been a hell-of-a-lot of great WoS over the years, and many fantastic threads currently being reminisced over, like the X-Box…
... and Takashi64's Playschool Spec-clone... But what in your opinion ...Z80 Developer ConsoleHi, This is a project I have meaning to do for ages, recently had a kid, had some time off work (as a software developer) and surprisingly had a bit…
Hi,
This is a project I have meaning to do for ages, recently had a kid, had some time off work (as a software developer) and surprisingly had a bit of time off...
Its basically a version of visual studio for a z80... Ive kept ...Unreal Tournament 3Is anyone here looking forward to Unreal Tournament 3 on the PC/XBox 360/PS3? The original Unreal Tournament (1999) is probably my favourite PC game …
... affordable. Not as cheap as console gaming, but of course you ... not available on console (or are, but the console versions are so ... 't be used on any console versions. The only PC games ... platforms, be they computer or console, is dedicated to improving the ...