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Purple Saturn Day country of releaseIn the entry for Purple Saturn Day, the publisher is listed as EXXOS (France). Was not this game released in the UK primarily? (As what happened wit…
In the entry for Purple Saturn Day, the publisher is listed as EXXOS (France).
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Less Action in Chit Chat?Has anyone noticed a decline in the number of postings in chit chat? Not saying its a good or a bad thing, but its just somthing I've noticed. I seen…
Has anyone noticed a decline in the number of postings in chit chat? Not saying its a good or a bad thing, but its just somthing I've noticed. I seen more threads near the top that didn't receive postings for a day or two. -
New Game! Phantomas in the museumToday May 18th, 2012 we celebrate the [b]International Museum Day 2012[/b] ([url=http://icom.museum/press-releases/press-release/article/launch-of-in…
... celebrate the [b]International Museum Day 2012[/b] ([url=http://icom ... /article/launch-of-international-museum-day-2012-2.html]link[/url ... small contribution to this celebration. In the game, you have to ... to play the game live in the museum IAACC Pablo Serrano ... -
Management games in MCI'm looking for Management games written in machine code. So far I can only think of: Football Manager 2 Football Manager 3 Match of the Day Multipl…
... looking for Management games written in machine code.
So far ... 3
Match of the Day
Multiplayer Soccer Manager
Spectrum +2 EPROM in Spectrum +2AHi, My friend Marc bought a +2A from Tim Abbott at the Spectrum 30 event. Back in the day there were companies selling +2 ROMs to put into +2As to r…
... Spectrum 30 event. Back in the day there were companies selling ... />
Which ROM socket in the +2A would a +2 ... ROM go in?
Which ... m guessing 128 editor ROM in the lower 16K (0 - ... 16383) and 48 ROM in the upper 16K (16384 - 32767 ...Spectrumpedia featured at the Spectrum Day at the VIGAMUS, RomeThe Spectrum Day was held at the [URL="http://www.vigamus.com"]VIGAMUS (Video Game Museum)[/URL] in Rome last 2nd November. My intervention was about…
... importance of the Spectrum in the history of popular ... available in Italian only :(
A good day was ... proposals were exchanged, hopefully in the next few months there ... Animation Division, La Sapienza University in Rome; Michele Maiorano, Professor ...What was the last Spectrum game you bought (in a shop)?Not counting recent-ish Cronosoft releases etc... what was the last ever game you bought before you packed your Speccy away and moved on to other pur…
... bought it on the same day as De La Soul's ... buy a Multiface some time in 1989 which could be why ...Games with time travel in themOn another forum the topic came up about time travel related video games, and it is disappointing how few games involve something as interesting as t…
... B] (PC)
[B]The Day of the Tentacle[/B] (PC ... Time manipulation, as in you control time in the game including ... you only slow down time in effect, in reality you speed yourself ... (yes, another repeat mention, and in this game, like Timesplitters: Future ...Creating "strange" disks in emulators?Back in the day, Microhobby published a program (Superformat) that used 42 tracks/disk and 10 sectors/track to allow more than 200k/disk side. I thin…
Back in the day, Microhobby published a program (Superformat) ... easy to use premade images in any emulator, but I would ...Type in game with font generatorBack in the day I can remember a BASIC type in game that generated its own font by PLOTing extra pixels next to the PRINTed characters existing pixel…
Back in the day I can remember a BASIC type in game that generated ...Has anyone completed a Spectrum game on the day they bought it?Has anyone ever bought/loaned a speccy game and completed it on the same day? I did this with Rogue Trooper, i completed it in about an hour, it was …
Has anyone ever bought/loaned a speccy game and completed it on the same day?
I did this with Rogue Trooper, i completed it in about an hour, it was so easy.
I think i did the same with Yie Ar Kung fu as well but i can't be sure.The most convincing humans in gamesI'm currently replaying Dishonoured again, and good though it is, I'm still annoyed by how it fails to live up to the promises. One thing in particul…
... the feeling of a 'lived in' world - the people either stand ... to a destination building, go in, come out again with shopping ... the previous (virtual) day.
Alright, so in GTA style games ... part of the map. And in something like Dishonoured, with it ...generating a pre-defined list in an un-defined sequenceI've decided to become a drunkard, to which end I've been drinking a whole bottle of beer in one day (whereas normally I'd make it last 2 or 3 days).…
... whole bottle of beer in one day (whereas normally I' ... turn the screen black in an irregular (and increasingly ... a list of values in a specified range, each ... value once only, and in different sequences each time ... would generate every number in that range once and ...Times We Live InSometimes I ponder the ridiculousness of sourcing trivial things from half a world away and all the wasted time and energy that entails. It's a majo…
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Aug-26 ...Machine code/Assembly language back in the dayHello. Back in the 80s when I was a kid, I didn't learn Z-80 machine code, but I was always curious about it. Just recently I decided to explore Z-…
... who were learning coding back in the 80s though.
in the assembler window. However, ... from tape, then typing in lines of code, and ... would probably have given up in despair.
... whole system from crashing in case bad code is ...New Game: Sgt. Helmet - Training Day[i]Shortly before his infamous adventure in [B]Khartadmocia[/B] (where he was sent to rescue 40 rescueable damsels) ? about a couple of weeks earlier…
... Shortly before his infamous adventure in [B]Khartadmocia[/B] (where he ... [B]Katheleen Turner[/B], and, in his opinion, jumping trampolines using ... match.
The very day Jimmy the Lemur, his own ... sources) from the game card in our site
(downloads ...Favourite things to do in a power cut threadApparently we have yet another power cut at home, this is after 35 hours without any leccy over Christmas Eve/Christmas Day. Suggestions for favouri…
... /Christmas Day.
Suggestions for favourite things to do in a ...Sinclair Weekend in CambridgeHi, The Centre for Computing History is holding a Sinclair weekend in Cambridge on the 1st and 2nd March. Here's the details on their website: …
... is holding a Sinclair weekend in Cambridge on the 1st and ... be there, not sure which day.
Cheers,
Back in the day when schools had 'a' computer.I stumbled uppon this photo when looking for something completely different on-line. It got me thinking and reminiscing. Do you remember when schools…
... my spectrum. The computer was in a small but well lit ...Had my first job interview in 20 years todayI've not been employed for nearly 10 years now, just been doing my housewife bit while mrshairy works. Now my youngest is in school and my oldest is …
... works. Now my youngest is in school and my oldest is ... , only saw it on the day it closed, so sent them ... lot, even though your all in bed asleep :)Some kid pedalled past my window in C5 todayWhile teaching in an ICT room, a pupil 'drove' past piloting a bona fide Sinclair C5. I couldn't leave to go after him, and find out the reason or st…
While teaching in an ICT room, a pupil ' ... out he'd brought it in for something to do with ... before the end of the day so that I could get ...Once Upon A Time In Speccy Land....Yea, once upon a time in f@ckin Speccy Land huh.... Pissed off, fed up..basically don't give 2 ****s! Mongy Lards, Big Boobs, Big Women...F@CK IT!!! …
... , once upon a time in f@ckin Speccy Land huh ... long illness :(
Its mothers day today and to say I ... music, your supposed to be in a maze with ghost chasing ... br /> If I wasn't in 2014 and brought this offal ... back in 1988 I would smash my ...ZX Spectrum games represented in Good Pub GuideI've only just managed to track down these entries from past Good Pub Guides... [INDENT] [B]The pub, 180[/B] Well stocked with spirits, yet has only …
... barmaid has lightning-fast skills in sliding full pints down the ... and Jim take part in tournaments, all attired in the same clothing ... behaved spaniel who takes delight in marking his territory. Clearly, hygiene ... be the order of the day here. This really isn't ...24:Live Another Day (May contain spoliers!)Well, just watched [B]24 : Live Another Day[/B] yesterday. All 12 episodes that were Sky+'ed earlier this year, end-to-end. Now I love 24. True it…
... watched [B]24 : Live Another Day[/B] yesterday. All 12 episodes ... code that hacks in to a nuclear reactor in c50 seconds ... the original 24 was conceived in London and was initially meant ... beginning, US soldiers were killed in "friendly" fire incident that also ...Uzebox - disappointing light in the darkSo I have come across this Nintendoish open source home made console and honestly I was disappointed with its capabilities. Why does not someone wit…
... older boards through MAME emulator... In today's days when every ... ...
I believe one day someone will come with something ...The Beatles in mono or stereo? What do you prefer?I was listening recently to a couple of Beatles albums on Youtube in mono, i've never heard any in mono after 'Beatles for sale', it struck me that t…
... the early Beatles albums in stereo seemed to pan ... and all the instruments in another, i guess this ... recording techniques of the day (the first 2 albums ... ' and 'Sgt Pepper' in mono on vinyl and they ... hasty buying the stereo remasters in 2009!
There ...+3DOS routine missing in the +3 manualThe other day I realised the details of the +3DOS DOS DELETE routine are missing in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXSpectrum128+3Manual/ch…
The other day I realised the details of ... DOS DELETE routine are missing in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum ... /> Then I found the confirmation in the +3 Spanish manual and ...
