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  • first 3 speccy games you remember playingEarth Defence Desert Burner JSW [I]edit: not including Thru' The Wall.[/I]

    Thro' the wall (obviously!)
    Ah Diddums
    The Chess Player

    Next three were Zip-Zap, Sentinel and Spectral Invaders IIRC...
    MrD MrD March 2007 Games
  • first 3 speccy games you remember playingEarth Defence Desert Burner JSW [I]edit: not including Thru' The Wall.[/I]

    ... third would be either Psion Chess or Chequered Flag. It's ...
    JamesW JamesW March 2007 Games
  • Reasons for buying a QL ?It seems, from what I have read, that the QL was a bit of a failure back in the days. But apart from being a collectible, is there any useful/intere…

    ... tennis game) and QL Chess (the first 3d chess game), both by ...
    rwap rwap March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Will an interface 1 work with a +2?I don't want to break anything, can I bugger up the +2 by connecting an interface 1 and microdrive to it? Are they compatible? If they are, with no…

    ... importantly if you have a Chess game or Backgammon or one ...
    Geoff Geoff March 2007 Hardware
  • Lords of Midnight, Tir Na Nog or ChaosInspired by the games club poll and Mousey's JSW quest I have decided to tackle a Spectrum classic bit by bit through the next few months... These th…

    Chaos...

    However I wouldn't tag Chaos along with the other 2 suggestions...Chaos is best described as a board game, a huge and more complex version of chess.

    Its simplicity and lack of character are its genius.
    WISE OWL WISE OWL April 2007 Games
  • Windows Vista & ChessBought Windows Vista Ultimate a few days ago and noticed some things: 1-Finally a game that people can actually play! Chess! Who would have thought …

    Cant beat Psion Chess :p
    RND RND April 2007 Chit chat
  • Windows Vista & ChessBought Windows Vista Ultimate a few days ago and noticed some things: 1-Finally a game that people can actually play! Chess! Who would have thought …

    Stick to Palm Tungsten E2.

    Reliable chess, draughts AND backgammon!!!

    You can't go wrong.

    :)
    BigBadMick BigBadMick April 2007 Chit chat
  • Windows Vista & ChessBought Windows Vista Ultimate a few days ago and noticed some things: 1-Finally a game that people can actually play! Chess! Who would have thought …

    ... ) The current version ships with Chess, Backgammon, Reversi, Checkers (draughts) which ... ! But why does it take chess so many years to get ...
    Hedegaard Hedegaard April 2007 Chit chat
  • Scr to vectorBack in 1989 I saw 2 m.c. routines that impressed me. One could convert a certain area of the screen (up to 6144 bytes) to vector images. And the sec…

    ... ://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/chess.gif[/url]

    It ...
    Geoff Geoff April 2007 Development
  • Kurt Vonnegut Is Dead. Long Live Kurt VonnegutWow. It's sad that all CNN covered all week was Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Don Imus, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, …

    ... time I watched a good chess game on TV was in ...
    Skarpo Skarpo April 2007 Chit chat
  • Kurt Vonnegut Is Dead. Long Live Kurt VonnegutWow. It's sad that all CNN covered all week was Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Don Imus, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, …

    ... WHAT WAS TALKING ABOUT
    "Chess Master Arrested" was the headline ...
    usspeccyfan usspeccyfan April 2007 Chit chat
  • Kurt Vonnegut Is Dead. Long Live Kurt VonnegutWow. It's sad that all CNN covered all week was Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, Don Imus, Anna Nicole, Anna Nicole, …

    ... WHAT WAS TALKING ABOUT
    "Chess Master Arrested" was the headline ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack April 2007 Chit chat
  • Gunman kills 31 at US university[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6560685.stm[/url] :sad: :sad:

    ... some pop music or played chess one day. As Chris Rock ...
    psj3809 psj3809 April 2007 Chit chat
  • Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…

    ... />
    HB were a popular detective action-thriller book for boys ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…

    ... ;184121]HB were a popular detective action-thriller book for boys ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler April 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • first 10 speccy games?Im interested to know what the first 10 commercially available speccy games were... does anyone know, or have a link to somewhere that provides this …

    ... (Simon W Hessel)
    SPECTRUM CHESS, ZX ASSEMBLER (Artic Computing)
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2007 Games
  • Games Collection for Sale on EBayHi There's a pretty big collection of my Speccy games up for sale on EBay if anyone's interested: [URL="http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZmatthew.…

    ... /> Codename Mat
    Colossus 4 Chess (unmarked tape)
    Combat Lynx ...
    netallstar netallstar May 2007 Sales
  • WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …

    ... remain untouched), wrote a reasonable Chess game (well, it beat me ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games Collection for Sale on EBayHi There's a pretty big collection of my Speccy games up for sale on EBay if anyone's interested: [URL="http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZmatthew.…

    ... /> Codename Mat
    Colossus 4 Chess (unmarked tape)
    Combat Lynx ...
    spectbeginner spectbeginner May 2007 Sales
  • speccy pda gameshi? i got pocket pc and am trying speccy games on it; which ones do you have good experience with on this little screen and weird control-thing? (so …

    ... , Tai-Pan, Draughts Genius, any Chess game...
    Uros Zupan Uros Zupan May 2007 Games
  • Bargain !!!!!!!Check this out, only ?300 !!!! [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/sinclair-128k-zx-spectrum-2_W0QQitemZ190109194834QQihZ009QQcategoryZ112866QQrdZ1QQcmdZVie…

    ha ha, didn't realise that was a cat, good eyes. (or maybe a bit of bladerunner type detective work there.) the precence of the cat may explain why he didn't straighten out the duvet.
    mile mile May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • games with human speech in themFast Food Jonah Barrington's Squash Meteor Strike Amaurote (?) any more...list 'em up.

    The Chess Player
    Voice Chess
    Speakeasy/Easyspeak (you could record your own speech with this)
    Chase HQ
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2007 Games
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    ... a pack of games, a chess game was one of them ... (Psion Chess I think).

    As ... was the extent of my chess playing :lol:
    MoonMonkey MoonMonkey May 2007 Games
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    I believe Cyrus Is Chess - 48k was found to be the best, though Colossus 4 Chess played a very good game as well. IIRC one of the Speccy mags played the games against each other to discover the best.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2007 Games
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    Psion Chess
    Psi Chess (loved the 3D graphics)
    Cyrus Chess
    RND RND May 2007 Games
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    ... playing off a load of chess programs against each other once ... BBC came second with Psion Chess a respectable third. Artic's ... Spectrum Voice Chess got roundly panned by everything.
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2007 Games
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    ... ;188360]Artic's Spectrum Voice Chess got roundly panned by everything ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Games
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    You may find this thread of interest:

    [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8216&highlight=Chess[/url]
    Arjun Arjun May 2007 Games
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    I'm hopeless at chess? Queen goes on its own ... tactic to use against a chess program (on a timed game ... the time available to the chess program. Whereas if playing from ... the game book the chess program spends almost no time ...
    dekh dekh May 2007 Games
  • Top 48k Spectrum Chess TitleNow the UK football is finishing I'm sick as a parrot. So my thoughts have turned towards... ZX Spectrum Chess! [B]The Speccy 48k List[/B] Chess - T…

    ... think the samples crippled Voice Chess so much as that it ... port of an old ZX81 chess game that was comparatively weak ... as Artic's Spec Chess.

    Psion Chess (OK, it's ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2007 Games
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