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PS3 - Wintel killer?What do most households use computers for? Here's what I think are the core uses: Games Word processor Spreadsheet Web browsing Email Instant messag…
... your quote in my post so much ... and Sony won't give a shit about ... released. It offered a better viewing experience ... a better picture (which wouldn't degrade over time) and although you couldn't ... record not many people gave a shit as video did alright for ... -
Restore Registers Returning to BASICI should really know this, but I've not written code that requires a return to BASIC for a loooong time. What registers need to be preserved / resto…
... writing over a single byte of memory that shouldn't be written ... over.
And I couldn't post my code anyway - most compos ... don't allow the release of the ... the party.
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Papaya Labs shop open for DivIDE pre-orders.Papaya Labs are now taking pre-orders for DivIDE interfaces and other DivIDE accessories. Find their shop at [url]http://www.papayalabs.co.uk/shop/[…
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From my experience all SanDisk cards I ... , other?) and they didn't work. With extrenal power I ... couldn't load anything.
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The best adventure game on the speccy.I'm on a roll ain't I? Well the best adventure game this time. The Hobbit for me for various reasons: it was the first speccy adventure game I playe…
... or Red Door for me, but I couldn't make my mind up between ... was younger. To progress past a certain point you had to ... ", stupid but quite appealing to a 10 year old. In fact ... -
Currarh uSpeak - CrapCurrarh uSpeak well almost Today I became one of the rank elite of Currah uSpeak owners. I must say I?m a tad disappointed. I imagined it to have t…
I got one last year. Unfortunately, the sound was output through the TV and there was a lot of hissing - so much that I couldn't hear the speech properly. Does anyone know of an effective cure for that?
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Most controversial game ever...?The most controvertial game that I can personally think of would have to be 'Raid Over Moscow'. You play as the leader of a squadron of US planes and…
... the mocked up cassette inlay for it:
[url]http://speccyspoilers ... working on a fruit machine called "Tsunami Gold", destined for arcades across ... a palm tree, bent over into the same shape because we couldn't move ... -
Does TommyGun need a new name?I visited a site today and it said TommyGun was a stupid name for an application. So does TommyGun need a new name to reflect more on what it does? …
... to say that TommyGun isn't a retro development WEAPON ;) to help ... tool.
It was made for a friend in the US (I ... editor Tommy-something and all my feeble brain could come up ... , because I couldn't be bothered trying to find a better name and ... -
Pinnabll MAMEHas anybody managed to get this working? I've downloaded the eumlator from this site [url]http://www.vpforums.com/vptables/[/url] but I can't get the…
Didn`t know there was a SouthPark one, have to go look for that ... Who one looks amazing, couldn`t get it working properly last year, might ... too rock, found a few old classics for the emulators of them ... -
funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... couldn't afford real ones. I got a SNES in 93 I don't ... think I bought a game for it until 97 ... half a level into a Speccy. But me and one of my ... tiger, but I suppose a moves system and variety of ... you can tell me and my friend were trying to piss ... -
Why are people so sick?I have 4 cats. They all rarely go out and never get into fights or make a nuiscance of themselves. In the last two years I have had one kicked to d…
... can't get my head around.
Unfortunately it's just a sign ... control and have no respect for others, animals or themselves. ... heard a story a few months back about a lad that had a ... an animal fighting for its life is a completely different animal ... -
Spectrum NOT DEAD PROJECT SPECTRUM XXICommodore is back! MSX is back! Amiga is back! And Spectrum?? Why Not Dont Cry with Nostalgie for Spectrum! Help us To do this dream true! The SPECTR…
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For programming, there's no way ... Although you certainly couldn't play every Spectrum game with a joystick, you ... ones and it'd make for a much more compact - and ... Death]My understanding is that most of the software available for ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... no more code after #FC00 for the main game block. #FC00 ... that I hadn't read the thread properly and a BASIC loader version ... probably wasn't needed after ... ll crack back under my rock now, unless a BASIC program to ... -
Fuse 0.8.0pre1It's been [i]far[/i] too long since a [url=http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net]Fuse[/url] release. The code is finally reaching a state where it is …
Just as a quick note, I've just ... aspect hints that meant Metacity couldn't move or resize the window when ... " feature
* Improved sound latency for CoreAudio and SDL sound output ... (bug #1660099)
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Sony does it again...Another reason to both detest Sony, and to avoid the PS3 - at least if you're in Great Britain :evil: According to: [URL]http://uk.gamespot.com/…
... , to the point you couldn't find a console on sale after the ... my self a playstation the moment I heard they wouldn't be doing a ... I couldn't find the console, it was dam to expensive for me ... I got my spectrum) I really think we should get a litle ... -
Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…
... case. I begged my dad to buy it for me. Of course ... seen for a game in Crash. "Phew!", I thought, "lucky my dad didn't ... do remember getting a copy of International Karate. My dad had remembered ... use a joystick now. Now, why couldn't it have been IK+ for the ... -
Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…
... I begged my dad to buy it for me. Of ... for a game in Crash. "Phew!", I thought, "lucky my dad didn't ... remember getting a copy of International Karate. My dad ... a joystick now. Now, why couldn't it have been IK+ for ... biggest gaming disappointment of my life. I was ... -
Games that were better/worse on C64/SpeccyOkay, games that were either: a) Better on the Spectrum or b) better on the C64 Simple heh? I can think of a couple: Bombjack is way better o…
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My memory might be a bit hazy on this ... , so it didn't make much difference, although for a bit more fun ... managed to kill it, I couldn't quite scoop the cloaking device ... the Spectrum's unofficial Elite for a good few months and in ... -
Dun Darach/Tir Na NogI've decided once I've finished picking my way through the GBA versions of Castlevania, that I'm going to play these 2 games again. I realised someth…
... through there and wasting a whole A4 refill pad ... Medicentre couldn't keep up with demands for cheap tapes for my Tir ... in Tir Falahn on a regular basis. Back then ... . If you need a copy of my map, I can ...
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Vote for the change of TZX formatThere is an ongoing discussion on the proposal of Patrik Rat to change the current TZX format specification to one that is simpler to implement for e…
... to compile a list of the stuff that we couldn't support with ... the problem.
My suggestion is for a table reporting the loader ... - and the pros and cons for a particular solution are often exchanged ... -
Controls for Sir FredHi. Anyone know how the controls for Sir Fred work? I can't seem to figure it out for this one. I can't make the guy do anything useful. How do i ju…
... just much easier with a joystick than keyboard. Sir ... Fred was one big frustration for me, but I just ... know you have to move Fred from side to side ... after a couple of tries.
Sorry I couldn't help ... , but if anyone is a Sir Fred ... -
the lost years...hello what i am refering to in the title is the years 1993-1997 when the ZX spectrum was dormant.i know that WOS was set up in 1995,but i am guessin…
... when other projects took over my time. I later got back ... project and asked Future Publishing for permission, which was granted. ... was tired and couldn't be arsed to post.
For me it ... speccy due to being programmed for a Pentagon/Scorpion clone, this ... -
Ridiculous excuses to get off workI've worked for the same company for the past ten years and sometimes people come up with the most ridiculous excuses for taking time off work. Among…
I was off work for 4 weeks following a motorcycle accident. I wasn ... back of my dad's motorbike for my sick pay. Don't see why ... myself. My dad had ... on it, cos I couldn't swing my leg over the saddle, cos ... -
Miss WOS competition.I think we should have an anual Miss WOS competition. The competition could consist of the Ladies of WOS, and the wives or girlfriends of WOS membe…
[quote=Skarpo;198977]I couldn't find my rubber Speccy :-(
[URL="http://www.geocities.com/justabunchofpixels/a.jpg"]Ms. Skarpo[/URL][/quote]
Does that mean we now have enough for a calendar? :)
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I'm Free!!We've all had a ride round in Turbo Esprit, stopping at lights running over pedestrians, etc, and in Skooldaze/Back to Skool we've done everything bu…
... hours, possibly days of my life wandering around these 2 ... I was younger. My cousin stole me a tape from one ... it i couldn't rank at all, I died a Zelator again ... 2 (other than helping my wife out today, I ... don't have any more shit to do for a while woohoo ... -
Speculations of speculatorsGeoff's recent post in the Wanted forum about SU's speculations that the "colour ZX82" will not happen got me thinking: Did laughable speculations o…
... but couldn't find them in time for the boot.
I left my ... that he used to work for a company that developed hardware addons ... he had a couple of hard disks for the PC2000 but couldn't send ... them due to their weight.
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PCB transfer on the cheap?This will sound like a really dumb* idea, but maybe someone can help I want to etch a PCB by electrolysis using a salt solution. I know this techniq…
... ! It's very simple ;-) you move the power source to the ... , since I don't even have 80 quid for a basic one.
for nothing if at all possible (hence my misguided attempt ... thing doesn't surprise me, my dad worked in saudi for a while years ... -
Speculations of speculatorsGeoff's recent post in the Wanted forum about SU's speculations that the "colour ZX82" will not happen got me thinking: Did laughable speculations o…
... about an idea i had for controlling a cd player using an ... the mag actually published my idea along with my crappy drawing ( I ... something like they couldn't wait till i developed it !!!! A few months ... -
What's Your Score?[url]http://aq.server8.org/[/url] I get 33. While I expected it to be fairly high (I'm *very* awkward, socially, and have some weird pedantic intere…
... diet coke alongside junk food, my logic is that I can ... 't really taste the difference and it allows me to stuff my ... . Seeing as you generally can't get diet kebabs, burgers and ... give you food poisoning for a week. so you couldn't keep and solids down ... -
childhood mythsthought id continue with todays theme. did anyone hear stories when they were a kid that were obviously bollocks. there were some woods near to a k…
... teachers and parents. Wasnt a case of us being ... br /> There was a similar family on my mums estate. They were ... a family of ... with shit so they couldn't possibly wash or bathe. ... I haven't been up that street for a long time ... -
Got my mac mini and I'm in loveI have had it for about 2 days now and it is the 2nd best piece of computer equipment i have had, it is quieter then my dvd HD recorder i have been s…
... local. My HD is split into (roughly) 30gig for XP, 20gig for Ubuntu ... willing to pay megabucks. My top price for a laptop is about ?1000 ... I wouldn't even look at a Mac if I couldn't run XP ... be that difficult or expensive for a company like Apple.
