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Need the name of a comicI wonder if someone can help with something thats been bugging me....... I remember a comic that i read in the mid - late 80's that contained mainly …
... comic that i read in the mid - late 80's that ... but i can't remember the name of the comic and its annoying ... (i think) was called 'Tough of the track' about a runner and ... -
Fatal Atraction type of thing...I feel a bit ridiculous to tell this story... I've been giving some classes & work shops, and one of the schools where I teach, is mostly for "older"…
... ; work shops, and one of the schools where I teach, is ... with my students in the end of the workshops, so we can ... you say in one of the classes that you drove ... didn't rememeber all their faces)
I ... out, and it's the sort of situation that I know ... -
Super Robin Hood and Robin Hood - Legend Quest/The Amazing Adventures of Robin HoodHi, There are two Robin Hood-themed games by Codemasters: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009432"]Super Robin Hood[/url] (19…
... Quest a.k.a. The Amazing Adventures of Robin Hood[/url] (1993 ... ]was[/i] published for the NES, as part of the Quattro Adventure / Super ... Adventure Quests cartridge. But the NES version ... -
The Demise of Hedge PronIll try to keep this as clean as possible. When i was a kid about 10/11 years old there was a track behind a friends house where you could occasiona…
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I remember the excitement when me and my ... free and im guessing the unspoken ritual of the hedge porn cycle ... untill one day in the summer holidays we were ... he had got 2 of the tapes and to go ... />
It turned out the film was Rita, Sue and ... -
Taking the Spectrum for a bath - Lots of SEXY photos!Decided to take a Spectrum +2 for a bath this weekend. It was non-working, so it needed fixing. It booted to a fuzzy dark picture and I thought "Ah, …
... br /> Here are some of the other spectrums waiting in cue ... br /> Close up inspection of the tape mechanisms reveal spewed grease ... pay attention to the rest of the cassette mechanism.
the English name for this) on the side of the rod, that holds/supports the ... -
Unlisted game - The Battle of MaidaI've just moved back the the UK and unearthed a game called "The Battle of Maida". I really loved this game back in the 80s and I believe a friend of…
... moved back the the UK and unearthed a game called "The Battle of Maida ... ". I really loved this game back in the ... a friend of the family by the name of Steve Jackson (not the RPG/FF ... />
I have a tape of the game, and although its not ... -
Worst Deal of the DayI am on the lookout for a new laptop at the moment and came across this. [url]http://www.crescentelectronics.co.uk/node/285464[/url] Now either the…
... for a new laptop at the moment and came across this ... they have misplaced the decimal point by a couple of places (still ... is) or somebody is extracting the urine.
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Marvel UK Return of the Jedi WeeklyAnother trip back down memory lane... Back in 84/85 I used to get the Marvel UK ROTJ weekly comic. I've been googling around trying to find out more…
... s also a bit of info at the [URL="http://starwars. ... to find out what the support/back-up strips ... look a bit like The Thing out Fantasic Four who ... boyhood memory has remembered that the women had whips (phwoar ... strip was or what the other support strips were ... -
FFS... (the ignorance of modern youth)Sorry for the foul acronym, but I was just talking to a bloke I work with, and I mentioned that Bob Hope's widow had just passed away, and he asked m…
... away from millions of potential fans just because the networks don't ... was, he was simply one of the best comedians ever, his timing ... . He really was (is) one of the few comedians who could make ... -
The development of (possibly) the worst car in the world...which is of course the Morris Marina. For some reason, YouTube gave me this as a suggested video (I don't know why!). It was interesting at least.…
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My grandfather had one of the vomit green saloon models from ... door handles and the subsequent parts of BL years later ... driven up the wall. If you look at some of the history ... sites about the company, many of the concept designs ... -
Requesting a little help to identify the purpose of this 'add-on' to my Issue 2Hi everyone First of all it's my first post here so please go easy on me! I'm grateful to be accepted into your fine little club :smile: I probabl…
... soldered to various parts of the innards. The pics are quite large ... via at the bottom of the CPU and, following the trace on ... the machines build date? Is that the 8215 on the top of the ... modulator (15th week of '82)? ... -
The origin of Dr. Maddo TZX...The origin of the original release of [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001479"]Dr. Maddo (US GOLD)[/URL] is unknown. No maga…
The origin of the original release of [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... any of our slovenian mates translate the review to english (the available ... find more information about the origin of this game as it ... a very r@re piece of the very important (and not r ... -
Robin of the WoodIs there any way of knowing where the Ent/bishop is going to be? Or is it just pot luck? After about 40 minutes of running about with only 2 bags of …
Is there any way of knowing where the Ent/bishop is going to be? Or is it just pot luck? After about 40 minutes of running about with only 2 bags of gold to show for it, it get's a bit annoying. -
Stryker - In the Crypts of Trogan AdditionThe Codemasters game [FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000000]Stryker - In the Crypts of Trogan was originally going to be known as Stryker in th…
... COLOR=#000000]Stryker - In the Crypts of Trogan was originally going ... be known as Stryker in the Crypts of Chaos.
... one of the first, if not the only game to make use of the ... Amstrad Plus's enhanced facilities on tape instead of ... -
The end of the road for the CD is nearWell, it seems that cds are now definately on the road out. There was a report last week that Mercury will stop pressing cd's at the end of next yea…
... cds are now definately on the road out. There was a ... stop pressing cd's at the end of next year.
It ... (look at HMV's sales, the same is going for DVDs ... as i like to have the music in my hands ... cds).
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To The Center Of The Earth (AKA) Romanians, please help![URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0023420&loadpics=3"]To the Center of Earth[/URL] I am not sure but I believe the name of this…
... =0023420&loadpics=3"]To the Center of Earth[/URL]
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The Making of 'Ant Attack!'This short film by Anthony Caulfield and Nicol Caulfield is about the making of the ZX Spectrum classic game ANT ATTACK released in 1983. [youtube]…
... and Nicol Caulfield is about the making of the ZX Spectrum classic game ... /> There is an interview with the developer Sandy White, who remembers ... .
Filmed at the at the Fusion 08 event in Leamington ... -
Canny use of the 'r' register?Seeing Sokurah's code in the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=583188#post583188"]crunch sound thread[/URL] has made me th…
Seeing Sokurah's code in the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... ] has made me think about the r register.
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As it cycles irrespective of whether interupts enabled so presumably ... (though much much faster by the looks of it).
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The rescue of a coil.The problem at hand was a known defect transformer from the switching convertor inside a Spectrum. Both windings are not interrupted and not intercon…
... the point where the enamel melts and the copper makes contact with the copper of the ... next turn. As the outside of the coil is cooled at the air, the ... meltdown is on the inner ... -
The name of the game - HELPHey I remember playing a game in Spectrum that I loved but can't recall the name. It was a bird that moved left, right, up, down, and in each cenario…
... loved but can't recall the name. It was a bird ... . There was a way in the cenario and a way out ... a rhinoceros on top of a hill and the food/symbol was ... believe the game is dated from the begginings of spectrum, considering the graphics.
What is the name of this game?An adventure game, split in 2 halves vertically. I can't remember the general gist of the game, but it seemed of a Science Fictional nature. Perhap…
... 't remember the general gist of the game, but it seemed of a Science ... think it appeared on one of the 'Your Sinclair' cassettes.
The Legend of Red Dragon MIA GameI think the author of the game still appears here in the WoS forums every now and then, so I would like to know if there was a cover designed for thi…
I think the author of the game still appears here in the WoS forums every ... that I once saw the cover in the Cronosoft old page, but ... me, maybe you can finish the game :pWhich week in '82 did full blown production of the Spectrum start?Hi Probably a long shot but does anybody have any hard evidence as to exactly which week in 1982 that full blown production of Issue 1's started? I…
... blown production of Issue 1's started? I know that the machine ... was announced to the world on April ... I would have imagined that the production run would have started ...Ship of the line[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006971[/url] Nothing important really, had not noticed it before today. A look at the basic …
... at the basic (it is all basic) shows an excess of 23613 ... =0 pokes, 40 of those pokes in ... in just a few K of basic. Only looked at V1 ...Help me remember the name of this text adventure game?Memory is hazy, I vaguely recall the following.. It was a text adventure game. Each prompt, was preceded by WHAT NEXT [i]name[/i]? If a command wa…
... is hazy, I vaguely recall the following..
... raised or dropped as the game went along, and ... some limited combat, with the odd graphic thrown in.< ... it a lot, some of the obstacles and hazards included;< ... to be avoided, and the route was blocked by ...The Sinclair ZX Microdrive Resurrection Project (long)Dear Spectrum fans! [Management summary: Download [url]http://www.bartheld.net/temp/mdv2img.zip[/url] and tell me what you think. All help very much…
... map of the cartridge's sector in the lower part of the Spectrum ... mdv2img configured to a max. of seven error retries):
the same error type, i. e. "--D" three or even seven ...
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...Release of the Sinclair QL Games Collection 1Thanks to work by Daniele Terdina and Jiri Dolezal, we have now released the Sinclair QL Games Collection 1. This is a set of 10 commercial games fo…
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This is a set of 10 commercial games for you ... this will help distil the comments that the QL was only ever ... hopefully help promote the QL itself.
The games included ... H Robertson Consultants
The Lost Pharaoh by Stefan Kuhne ...The smell of a brand new ZX SpectrumThis may be the weirdest question I've asked here... Most of you probably remember the day you opened the polyestirene case to reveal your brand new…
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Most of you probably remember the day you opened the polyestirene case ... with particular smell emanating from the inside of the case.
They ... to remove the screws underneath. The moment I took off one of the rubber ...Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds Next GenerationSo, new album in June/July, new cast, new tour in December... [youtube]DLxGquE23cs#![/youtube] Richard Burton replaced with Liam Neeson... other ca…
... a lot of people upset saying you can't replace the original ...Increasing the number of UDGs...Hi Folks, I know by default the Spectrum can have 21 UDGs (48K) and 19 (128K) and that the address of the bit patterns is pointed to by the UDG syst…
... /> I know by default the Spectrum can have 21 UDGs ... (128K) and that the address of the bit patterns is pointed ... to by the UDG ... it possible to increase the number of UDGs? I can ... br /> Something tells me the answer to this is going ...
