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TV alert: Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy and Clive Sinclair in BBC's ClickThe 24th January 2015 edition of the BBC?s Click programme includes a three-minute featurette with footage from [i]Manic Miner[/i] and [i]Jet Set Wil…
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The featurette starts in ?Central Cavern?, and shows Miner ... Jet Set Willy[/i], starting in ?The Bathroom?, and moving quickly ... on him today, ?but one day, they?ll surpass humans.?
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Match Day - Maximum number of goals (?) and a bug compilationGreetings. I'm willing to share some stuff about old Ritman's classic Match Day, so let's get on with it. :smile: PART 1 ------ I was curious abo…
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New Manic Miner Remake written in AGK Basic and available on Mac OS X and Windows.<div style="font-weight: normal;">Hi,</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">I've released a re-write of …
... a re-write I did in the 90's for Manic ... you how to complete it in one life. and if you ... ?
If you are interesting in learning how this was made ... tutorials as and when my day job doesn't take over ... -
Tau Day<br>By popular demand (well, demand of one, which is highly popular in the sorts of things I do :D ), here is a small celebration of tau day, June 28…
... unfamiliar with it, Tau Day competes with Pi Day (March 14) for ... /> // printf %g must be enabled in config file
#include ... see what that means in terms of accurary in the results. I ... .
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Calling in some help?Hi guys. As you may know, I released the 'non beta' of the Vulcan expansion pack. OK so it ended up having a single minor, easily fixable bug. But…
... worked on the problems all day today and got no further ... down the roads, and appear in random places on the map ... how much effort I put in myself really!
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Vote for your favourite games in Gamefaqs' best games competitionGamefaqs (which is a very good site with an individual forum for almost every commercial game made in the past twenty-plus years) is holding a Best G…
... almost every commercial game made in the past twenty-plus years ... , and I've voted for (in alphabetical order here):
Conker's Bad Fur Day,
Deus Ex,
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Matthew Smith's Andre's Night Off in C&VG - did he really write it?Despite it being written in BASIC, Andre's Night Off is not very good - so what happened exactly? Was the hyperbole surrounding the type-in so much h…
... hyperbole surrounding the type-in so much hot air, ... it written by him in the Software Projects office ... />
Matthew has said in an interview he dabbled with ... two weeks to make in the accompanying article when ... could knock this out in a day or two? Some ... -
What was this type-in space shooter gameI'm fairly certain this game was a type-in, probably from Your Computer. A moonscape would draw itself in green across the screen, and some silos …
... this game was a type-in, probably from Your Computer.
A moonscape would draw itself in green across the screen, and ... some silos coloured in at the bottom. A single ... /> I loved this back in the day. It looked something like this ... -
Speccy Games that will be 25 in 2016!Yes, time for the annual list of games turning 25! A lot of Speccy owners would be upgrading to other systems around this time, if not before 1991, …
... Elephant Antics
CJ in the USA
Confused ... /> Spellbound Dizzy
Spike in Transylvania
Spooky Castle
Terminator 2 - Judgement Day
Tetris
Thomas ... Titanic Blinky
Top Cat in Beverly Hills
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Upcoming Retro Gaming Events In LeedsWe have loads of Retro Gaming events coming up in Leeds over the next few weeks and months be great to see you guys there - we are slowly turning Lee…
... Retro Gaming events coming up in Leeds over the next few ... START
A video games day for all ages. Over 45 ... the insanely busy last event in January we are back for ... -
Flying Ant Day 2016Saturday16th July 2016, 7:15pm Flying Ants Day... everywhere in both the back and front garden, climbing up the walls, over flowers and, yeah flying…
Saturday16th July 2016, 7:15pm Flying Ants Day...
everywhere in both the back and front garden, climbing up the walls, over flowers and, yeah flying everywhere. Blackbirds are having fun, running around, pecking and eating the little buggers. -
The day you unboxed your brand new SpectrumI was at junior school for much of the Spectrum's heyday, yet never owned a computer in that time. I was fascinated by computers back then, they were…
... festooned inlays of Mastertronic games in Boots and various newsagents made ... impressive bundle going on, throwing in a Cheetah Pro joystick (and ... keyword-less keyboard, which resulted in [i]LET OAD ""[/i], ... my Spectrum - twice - on the day I used it. Being so ... -
Glitches, tricks, and sequence breaking in Spectrum games?Me banging on about[b] Deus Ex[/b], skip it if you don't like the game. I've just found out that it's possible to complete the original Deus Ex (b…
... by using the in-game mechanics in ways not intended ... s more fun. One day I will play through it ...
I know that in [b]Underwurlde[/b] you can ... these quirks.
In [b]Skooldaze[/b], if the ... correctly, if you stand in a certain place during one ... -
RRGGBB Color codes in HexI got talking to some students about hex color codes the other day,it was not the topic under discussion more an aside. My students seemed completely…
... hex color codes the other day,it was not the topic ... very good approximation of it in hex RRGGBB format such as ... -
Merry Green Jesus Day 2017[img]http://www.cfact.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/GreenChristoRedentor.jpg[/img] Yes it's that time of year again when we commemorate well nothi…
... when we commemorate well nothing in particular, apart from a young ... who should never have been in charge of a class full ... where education had no place in schools! :))
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Conflict likely in Korea?Is anyone getting nervous yet about the escalation of threats coming out of North Korea and counter-threats from their perceived enemies? It's har…
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I was a teenager in the 80s, so remember the ... the docu-dramas 'Threads', 'The Day After' and Frankie's 'Two ... from some rogue nation, say in the Middle East, getting hold ... -
Bringing back spectrum games on Steam, as well as micro computer games in generalHello, Clive Townsend recently re-released Saboteur 1 and 2 on Steam and Switch ? I think it would be great if more old games were briught back. M…
... I hope to see one day are Robocop, Batman,Cauldron,Sorcery ... and 2,Mandragore,Three weeks in paréadise... And many, many ... -
The Generality of how to Preserve Software "in the round" . Software sellers are now citing their use of "air tight " boxes etc - so we know that an effort is now being made to preserve . But these (often "R…
... long the software has "lived in this luxury"
... the whole thing it covered in dust .
When ... for each specific case . In Museums they have graduates specially ... available in the airtight box . Today " the tune of the day" would ... -
A Family Man's Lament of Wifes, Family, Mother In Laws and New Cars.So after working tirelessly in the USA since my wife asked me to emigrate in 2013 our family has grown and the car I brought when we came (a Subaru F…
... asked me to emigrate in 2013 our family has ... We even get vermin living in our cars sometimes owing to ... of food source she leaves in the cars coupled with ... that seemed to be in every nook and cranny.< ... hours or more per week day (plus weekend homework) I ... -
Covid in IndiaFollowing recent news about a upsurge of Covid in India and hospitals at breaking point, and after looking at global figures for COVID I was wonderin…
... about a upsurge of Covid in India and hospitals at breaking ... record number of new cases in a day (over 300,000) -
Q. on placement of bonus rooms in Captain Dynamo.Feeling nostalgic, I played Captain Dynamo. Now, I don't remember catching this back in the day but it definitely caught my attention this time ar…
... 't remember catching this back in the day but it definitely caught ... wasn't sure.
In the first bonus room* I ... I scouted around the walls in the main cavern but didn ... />
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Happy Hallowheeen / All Souls DayHappy Halloween or All souls day if you like. Despite many towns not doing nout because of Covid (US towns typically make Halloween a downtown event…
Happy Halloween or All souls day if you like. Despite ... doors like we did/do in the UK). Still we ... to stop traffic and just in case anyone goes mental.< ... s Rover SD1 was covered in toilet paper and swear ... words written in lipstick. It was the ... -
Spectrum Day at the VIGAMUS, Rome, 23 April 2022A 'Spectrum Day' will be held at the VIGAMUS, the Videogame Museum of Rome, for the 40th anniversary of the Spectrum's launch. Your humble writer …
A 'Spectrum Day' will be held at the ... .
If you are in Rome or nearby, why not ... join in? :) The event will start at ... -
The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels Paperback - Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (AS NEW). (£44.99 UK ONLY)The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels Paperback - Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Full set of volumes 1, 2, and 3, in excellent (essentially new) condition. …
... Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels Paperback - Volumes 1, 2 ... volumes 1, 2, and 3, in excellent (essentially new) condition.
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We're already using free energy in the UK?Does anyone know anything about electricity? I dont :D but I've seen a few things that raise my suspicions: There is a voltage difference betw…
... metal lattice is being used in the UK simply to hold ... blast on a clear sunny day, so the kite itself provoked ... anyone know anyone who works in a power station? Cos according ... -
Kempston problems in XPOK, I've been running ZX32 on Win98 for a year or so and using my Sidewinder Pro pads with games providing the Kempston joystick option. Everything …
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Keys in 48k mode for SpecEmu 1.2?Hello all, Does anyone know how to get the " symbol to appear when in 48k mode on Spec Emu 1.2? As you can imagine, it's pretty essential to be able…
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Emulator for iPAQ ?G'Day, Does anyone know if there is going to be a Specy emulator for the iPAQ in the not too distant future? thoma P.S. If this question has a…
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Beginners in need of Help using WarajevoAs a newcomer to emulators I would really appreciate some help on how to use pokes (pok files) for the Warajevo emulator. I reallly don't have a clu…
... 'm sure there are others in the same boat who would ...
