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Top 5 Pink Floyd albumsAfter the recent Floyd thread i was wondering what other wossers top 5 Pink Floyd albums are, mine are: 1..Animals 2..Wish you were here 3..Dark sid…
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Lord Fortescue Plays Jetpac...badlyI've been over to the dark side for a while (mainly playing Atari 2600 games), but the lure of Jetpac pulled me back! As always, all feedback gratefu…
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Lord Fortescue Plays Jetpac...badlyI've been over to the dark side for a while (mainly playing Atari 2600 games), but the lure of Jetpac pulled me back! As always, all feedback gratefu…
... 've been over to the dark side for a while (mainly playing ... -
Robin of the WoodThis is a game I was completely unaware of and only discovered recently while browsing the games database. I love it! But am rubbish at it, as is so …
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Some unrelated thoughts about games...I've been sorting some snapshots I got from old disks, and they've come with some questions... - [b]Thanatos[/b]: I never played it, but the main …
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DrillerOne game which I never see mentioned here is Driller. It got 97% in Crash (bless them), but it in my opinion it doesn't hold up. In saying that, it i…
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DrillerOne game which I never see mentioned here is Driller. It got 97% in Crash (bless them), but it in my opinion it doesn't hold up. In saying that, it i…
Driller was a very original and innovative game although being a touch slow, and it is one of my personal favourites even nowadays. Maybe The Dark Side was better, but it came out about 7 months later, so some progress was to be expected, wasn't it? -
mercenary: what did u think?mercenary was a fantastic game and i just started playing it again, it wasn't everyones cup of tea though, it had fast graphics (thx to the small scr…
Games overrated by MagazinesI know this is a little ambigious (LMLWD) as your worst game could be someone else's best, but sometimes didn't a games review seem a little overboar…
... running on. Never got into Dark Side as much, but it looked ...Games that benefit from a change in speed.Has anybody tried playing games on an emulator at different speeds? I've found that certain games are more playable with a slight speed tweak. Obvio…
... tried the freescape games, but Dark side and Driller (and carrier command ...Speccy imageHiya, I'm new here, hope you don't mind me popping round. I was just wondering if anyone knows what the copyright status is over photos and illustr…
... about Pink Floy's 'the dark side of the moon' t-shirt ...Speccy imageHiya, I'm new here, hope you don't mind me popping round. I was just wondering if anyone knows what the copyright status is over photos and illustr…
... about Pink Floy's 'the dark side of the moon' t-shirt ...A game that took the Spectrum to its maximumWhat Spectrum games took it to the maximum of its capacity? I think R-Type is a good example. What are yours?
The Sentinel: squeezing all those 10,000 different landscapes into just 48K is no mean feat, isn't it? Also I think that Driller and The Dark Side were other major breakthroughs - imagine it, real 3D in 1987...A game that took the Spectrum to its maximumWhat Spectrum games took it to the maximum of its capacity? I think R-Type is a good example. What are yours?
I would say some of the freescape games (Driller,Dark Side, Total Eclipse, Castle Master etc.)virtual worldsAny suggestions for which were the most interesting speccy games as far as giving you a sense of being in some big or convincing computer generated w…
Tau Ceti is the first game which springs into my mind, especially the 128K edition was great and very atmospheric.
And then there are:
- Starglider (excellent 128K game)
- Driller/Dark Side
- Mercenary
- Carrier Command"Spectrum" by Billy CobhamI've just finished listening to [I]Spectrum[/I] by Billy Cobham. And what a great record it is! I would recommend it especially to those among you wh…
... - Pink Floyd's [I]The Dark Side of the Moon[/I]. Coincidences ...Best space and sky simulators on speccy.Coming from the topic of scrolling shooter I looked back at all the nice flight simulators that exist for Spectrum. Everyone knows elite of course,…
It was probably "Ring Wars". The game with trees could be "Mercenary" or "Echelon", if it is in Solid graphics: "Driller" or "Dark Side"Better on an Emulator?!With the power of current PCs we can have our old spectrum running x2 x20 x100 it's original speed. There must be some games that benefit greatly f…
... in most cases.
Dark Side is one game that I ...Good Isometric 3D GamesHi My fave game of all time was Head Over Heels, which I have now completed thanks to emulation. I have also now done Batman and recently discovere…
... dark star
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Dark Side, Shirley?
Speaking of Dark ...Is there a list of best rated games by Sinclair or Crash magazines?Is there a list of best rated games by Sinclair or Crash magazines?
Cannot Find That Game. Again!Ok, I thought that game was called Spheroid, but I couldnt see it in the archive. I think its after-1986 game. Black background, greenish obstacles.…
... games (e.g. [I]The Dark Side[/I])
8. Several multi ...name of the gameim looking for (probably) older game -you play character on a bike (or another vehicle in later levels), sprite was small (say like manic miner badd…
That's what someone told me it sounded like, but of course as people will know thats not a Spectrum game... its from the dark side ;)
There was a remake of that done in last years remakes.org competition.Accelerated GamesPlaying Driller the other day on Spectaculator, I wondered what sort of improvement could be made by increasing the emulation speed to 10x. That way,…
... to 28 MHz Driller and Dark Side, you simply can't go ...Favorite 3D ShootersHow many 3D shooters were there for the Speccy? And which is your favorite. My favourite is StarStrike 1.
Yeah,"Incentive" 3d-games are great.(Driller,Castle Master-1&2,Dark Side,3D Kit-Game,Total Eclipse-1&2).Italian tapes "project"Hello chums... A while back, I'd mentioned I was looking for the original names to certain games which had been hacked, translated to Italian, and r…
... Wing (Creative Sparks, 1984)
Dark Side = 3D Starstrike (Real Time, 1984 ...Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... draw parallel's to the "dark side of the moon" album cover ...Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …
... % Iss. 11 (Dec '84)
Dark Star 89% Iss. 11 (Dec ... % Iss. 53 (Jun '88)
Dark Side 95% Iss. 54 (Jul '88 ...Long filenames.Does anyone know how to get long filenames to be displayed in DOS? Or more specificly long filenames to be displayed in Taper? It's a right pain tryi…
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On 2004-11-23 17:43, NickH wrote:
I sense someone's head has just exploded ;)
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I'll see you on the dark side of the moon then. :DThe dark side strikes back...... but given the current exchange rate of US$ to Euros, I think I'd still want one: [url="http://www.qvc.com/asp/frameset.asp?dd=/hp/hp_dd.html&nes…
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On 2004-11-26 19:40, J?rg Pleumann wrote:
The dark side strikes back...
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Grrr! I feel the hate flowing through me now... :mad:The dark side strikes back...... but given the current exchange rate of US$ to Euros, I think I'd still want one: [url="http://www.qvc.com/asp/frameset.asp?dd=/hp/hp_dd.html&nes…
... ?rg Pleumann wrote:
The dark side strikes back...
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