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WHO is in control of the DOCTORWhen i was a little un watching Dr Who Pertwee then Baker, i always thought that the DR was never in control of where the Tardis materialised, back i…
... thought that the DR was never in control of where the Tardis ... series he is in total control of where the Tardis materialises ... was beginning to think that in the early days of watching it ... little bit of the Time Meddler and in it the girl character says ... -
Probing the variables in 128K modeHello again! Briefly, I'm writing an m/c routine to read some BASIC variables. So, before I start, I try to get an idea for the structure of how var…
... idea for the structure of how variables are stored in memory.
in the WoS archive.
It ... prints out the names of all current variables ... CSSCGC tape magazine, which runs in 128K mode).
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Who was the local psycho in your street?We had a guy who was a few years older than us, but a little bit slow. Still didn't stop him getting into heaps of trouble though... He used to sit …
... used to sit on the little kids in the street and fart on ... it - and the handlebar came off in his hands, resulting in a painful ... face-first landing on the concrete. :D ... br />
Who was the local psycho in your street and what ... -
[Deep voice] The Big One...Wow! This is going to be my 1,210th post! And it only seems like days since I made my 1,000th post (not that anyone'd know, as no-one reads my posts …
... /> Philosophy. The Big Question. You know, life, the universe, everything. ... we alone in the universe, is there life after (and ... life from the point of view of every living thing in the universe? Is the ... answer hidden from us, or is it in ... -
BigBadMick's Saturday Night TV extravaganzaHey Spec-chums! Well, I've spent a great night watching reality TV and light entertainment on Virgin cable and I just thought I'd share a few of the…
... life almost instantly, any time of the day. When I'm sitting on the ... sofa in my pants ... . 1/5 stars.
In the ad breaks I flicked over ... you turn on your tv in the evening. Just remember, as long ... -
Old media is brilliant......because you never know what you might find on them. I've just been going through some second hand microdrive cartridges and found what seems to be…
... Mueden near the borders of Avalon, the latter to the Hidden Citadel in the forests ... of Stelgard have visions of the life of the ancestor under whose tree ... release elemental forces on the river. Next day the sky darkens and vast ... -
JSW... how does the game "finish" in assembly?It seems the ZX and C64 versions of Jet Set Willy suffer from the same "unfinishable" problem. Thankfully the ZX version has been patched with pokes …
... Willy suffer from the same "unfinishable" problem. Thankfully the ZX version ... not. I changed 2 rooms in the C64 version so I can ... /> But nothing happens at the bedroom. Maria has disappeared but ... fully aware of the direness of the C64 port. The stairs and ... -
Best mans speechAs you've probably seen on this forum over a long period my sense of humour can be 'different' and even though i find it amusing many people dont ! ;…
... best man speech at the end of April, bricking ... s jokes i heard the other day which was amusing ( ... About how 'Mr Pin' appears in ... At the moment its like my life ends on that day in late ... can live life again ! Stag do next week in Tallinn.< ... -
Help with the MSX pleaseI've been waiting for several Ice Ages to play Abbey of Crime in English on the Spectrum, but I've finally accepted that the English conversion is ne…
... play Abbey of Crime in English on the Spectrum, but I've ... never going to see the light of day, so I decided to ... play the MSX version, as that ... of games from other sites, in the same (.dsk) format, and they ... -
New game from CEZGS: Mariano the Dragon in Capers in CitylandHi all, here we come with another game for our Spectrums! Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face an incredibly difficult mission. All his friends hav…
... our Spectrums!
Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face ... been injailed by the evil tetrarch Pachin Poi Poi in the prison-planet ... -
Guitar Hero on the C64?firstly sorry if this is a repost, secondly I have no idea if this pic I found randomly searching for something else is fake or real partly because :…
... or real partly because :stop the press: I have never even ... on a C64 in my life (true story). but the title of this ... -
ZX Life Shield Pro V2.2 - WIPHello!!! It is Marco!!! I have been working on V2.2 of my life finder utility. The previous versions only support .SNA snapshots. This version wi…
... 2 of my life finder utility.
The previous versions ... .Z80 snapshots.
In the future I am also planning ... .SZX files, but the documentation of the format seems very hard ... working hard on the .Z80 format. Maybe in the next few weeks ... -
Look what I found at the dumpI frequently check the back yards of the local electric stores. There are many things been placed there for later dumping. And these places are open…
... harddisk to get back to life again.
But ... boxed and with the original receipts for the purchase.
The only fault ... B] which has all the games built in, as well as inputs ... is played through a speaker in the console.
Not worth ... -
Microdrive Not Present.... the little fibber!Hi chaps. I've just dug out my IF1 and microdrive to search from some long lost stuff on cartridge. I cannot find the ribbon cable for the life of m…
... I cannot find the ribbon cable for the life of me... ... just plugged the MD into the IF1 with the block connector ...
The little LED on the front of the MD came on ... present, so I plugged in a cartridge and did ... at telling me that the microdrive is not present ... -
The starting a film script thread...Please add as you see fit: A back garden in a traditional surburban UK neighbourhood. It's past midnight and everthing is in silhouette and quiet. …
... everthing is in silhouette and quiet. The camera pans around the garden ... young children. The camera swings around the garden in a blur and ... pulled away from his neck in the manner that is traditional ... has finished a long day at the office and is enjoying ... -
Break points in SpectaculatorHello!!! How do I make the break points to work? I found a POKE for "The Muncher 128K" (using my ZX Life Shield WIP utility) but it is only the cou…
... POKE for "The Muncher 128K" (using my ZX Life Shield WIP utility ... ) but it is only the counter ... change the counter.
The thing is, I added the address in the debugger ... -
Hilarious!Right, first of all, I am [B]NOT[/B] making an attack either on God (so don't cry blasphemy) or on all religious people (so don't see the topic as an…
... mostly the worst) of the religious people in the world, but the fact that ... born Christian. Only later in life do people choose to stray ... One of the most basic laws in the universe is the Second Law ... we happen to encounter that day.[/I]"
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Do you know what game im talking anout?Hi all, been a speccy fan on and off all my life and grew up as a kid with firstly a 48k+ then onto the gray 128 +2 .... Had others such as the zx81 …
... on and off all my life and grew up as a ... firstly a 48k+ then onto the gray 128 +2 .... Had ... goes like this, You are the owner of a computer publishing ... money than spent!!! just as in real life.
Ok ... this one will make my day.week :D
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Anarchy in the streets of Bedford. Burn the town hall. I've been banned from a shopA nice, eloquent foreign gentlemen just banned me from his shop. All I did was go in, and get some John Smiths draught flow. They were right at the …
... were right at the back of the fridge, in single cans, so ... br /> I was reaching for the sixth one, when he stormed ... I said, didn't see the baskets there.
the last beer at the back, and ... almost 6 yards to the next shop selling beer.< ... -
Games that are way too hard ... on the EASIEST settingToday I dug up my MAME emulator and played a few oldies. Amongst those was "Side Arms" (Japanese Version; dunno if and how it differs from the wester…
... , it was already like this in the config). I didn't bother ... back then? I played the speccy version back in the day, which as far ... 1943 (also from Capcom) released in the same era are much, much ... I decided to post this in the Spectrum/Games section instead of ... -
Half-Life on Doom!I didn't know that anyone was working on a version of Half-Life for the Doom engine, and apparently it's now been discontinued, but look at what's be…
... on a version of Half-Life for the Doom engine, and apparently ... four levels long (all shown in the video), and looks great. Alright ... -
so.....do ya wanna be in his gang?apparently Gary Glitter gets let out of a vietnemese prison in august Glitter to be freed from Vietnam prison Friday, August 1 2008, 11:18 BST By S…
... acts with two underage girls in the Vietnamese town of Vung ... that day. It will be signed by the director of the prison ... have sent his file to the provincial external relations office ... /> Glitter was previously jailed in the UK in 1999 for possession of child ... -
Fictional violence vs Real Life ViolenceI'm reading "The Jump" by Martina Cole at the minute, a story about a woman who gets mixed up with gangsters whilst attempting to get her husband out…
... amount of violence in it, particularly the prison scenes with the husband inside ... I read this story in the News of the World this morning:
the bit about the dog food.
< ... .
I guess real life really IS stranger (and scarier ... -
Things that just aren't the same anymore...Just drank a can of Tizer... It used to be such a gorgeous drink, and now it's crap!! Had a Slush Puppy a few days ago, raspberry, and that didn't ta…
... bars are a fraction of the size they used to be ... Munch... they were massive back in the day, now they're tiny. Metallica ... to be good, but since the [I]Black[/I] album, they ... like, that just ain't the same anymore? -
Creatures (artificial life)Did anyone play* the Creatures games*, the ones where you brought up and taught Norns (the species of creatures) and guided them through life [url]h…
... Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" Adams said "In the same week that this ... program was released, (microscopic) life was ... discovered on Mars - this is the more exciting ... -
Name the gameFrom someone at the retro gamer forum... "Hello, first post and all Smile While I remember pretty much all of the games I used to play on my ZX Spe…
... my ZX Spectrum back in the day, and have rekindled some ... /> I don't remember the name but it featured some ... correctly, the map layout was always the same but ... pretty sure the bombs were placed randomly. The goal was ... a bomb, hunt for the giant alien's location ... -
I seriously think I've had enough of the USAThis morning has just made me wish I was back in blighty, I don't know how much more of living here I can handle. I can't believe I married into som…
... millionaire to go to the doctor or the dentist.
Where ... />
What do I do in the meantime, watch even more student ... then pay them for the rest of my life, I think not ... .
Before she left the house ... -
The "Ernie Wise Memorial Game What I Wrote" thread 2008As the September rain lashes remorselessly long and hard against the window (Everest PVC-u) what more can a cove do but reflect on life whilst drinki…
... which I wrote back in 1990 and submitted to ... I can't for the life of me remember how ... you know, birthing. Hence the name. The keys, as always, are ... written in BASIC, and apart from "Touchdown", compiled using the ... why they wrote it in the first place!? -
The definitive Spectrum project??We know that the Spectrum has been put almost to its limits after all these years of life, but I would like to know which would be the definitive pro…
... after all these years of life, but I would like to ... know which would be the definitive project, the one you could say ... with our ZX".
In my case, I would love ... :
-Lucasfilm Graphic Adventure in the Monkey Island mold.
-Recover ... -
1.5 weeks without powerSo after Hurricane Ike my power finally came on last night after 1 and a half weeks. Pretty sad really for the 4th larges city in the US..one of th…
... the 4th larges city in the US..one of the richest countries in the world, and the ... life without hot water, Neighbors like to complain about the same things day in day ... out, people don't know how to deal with the ...
