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First box of c64 games for saleGot another box to go through yet. Will list them later on after spooks. These have been stored in a garage for a while by the looks of it, as the b…
... Micro Prose
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - level 9 ... Decathlon - Activision
Footballer of the Year - Gremlin
... Breakdance - Americana
Secret of Kandar - Power House
... Story - Mastertronic
Shard of Inovar - Bulldog Software
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Throne of Firea little mistake on your Throne of Fire WOS entry: this game has never been released on the C64 unlike your page states. Remains of an unfinished d…
... little mistake on your Throne of Fire WOS entry:
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Free to a good home - Anyone in South Wales want a pile of Spectrum Games and a +3?Bit of an emergency - I'm moving out in a hurry and I don't have time to sell these! Is there anyone in South Wales who wants a fairly big pile of s…
Bit of an emergency - I'm ... a fairly big pile of spectrum games and is ... pick them up one of the evenings this week ... /> should give you a list of the games.
If you want any of this stuff and can pick ... there are a lot of games there and they ... -
Anyone seen King of Kong?It's a full-length documentary made last year about an attempt on the world record for arcade Donkey Kong (which has stood since 1982). It sounds bo…
... made last year about an attempt on the world ... Boeing and whilst out of work came across the ... It's a fascinating study of rivalry and is really worth ... watching. Some of the geeks in it are ... record holder as a bit of an arrogant bastard to be ... -
disassembling raw images of ROMs.Pip pip. I'm wanting to disassemble a few ROMs. I have the raw file, a dump, but I'm looking for a way to take every two bytes and print them not in …
Pip pip.
I'm wanting to disassemble a few ROMs. I have the raw file, a dump, but I'm looking for a way to take every two bytes and print them not in hex, but in octal.
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Japanese-only or lesser-known games you playedI've noticed by their comments there are a few people on WOS (hi Vertigo, dm_boozefreek etc.) who have played titles which were either never released…
... I first got an interest in imported games (regardless of them getting ... ) at the end of the 80s and very beginning of the 90s, when ... Japanese games we played with an adaptor (or maybe not, I ... also played host to an impressive number of pretty saucy titles, but ... -
Multiplayer online Speccy gaming - an actual technical proposalAs is so often the way, [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=274215&postcount=121]trying to put into words why something is impo…
... has given me an idea of how to do it ... instance of the emulator. When the emulator encounters an IN ... suppose we then receive an event timestamped before that ... and examine what each of those return values should ... need the CPU power of an entire planet to pull ... -
Air Cooled Spectrum, No #01 of twentyI want to add a bit of friv to our quirky heritage, knock as you like. Here is my first offering [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt…
... want to add a bit of friv to our quirky heritage ... nice speccy, i'm tired of trying to make a buck ... , i recently aquired the stock of an old speccy engineer and have ... loads of rare stuff
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err, I like wrote this years ago, and just found it archived.[b]read it, and say it's crap if you want, but do not go on about the technical side, cos it was bullshit, we all know it, and the end makes no sense…
... assorted games consoles, bits of robots and other electronic ... a PDA small electronic diary that was sitting ... said Tex handing her the diary.
''Cheers babe' ... stupid part of his mind had an urge to ... functioning. Tex was part of an underground cult, who ... -
'Ocean Re-united', Byte-Back, videos & photos'Ocean Re-united', Byte-Back Longton, Stoke On Trent, 7th March 2009 "One of the most famous software houses of the 80s and early 90s was Manchester…
... most famous software houses of the 80s and early 90s was Manchester ... Ocean Software. Several former employees of the company will be appearing ... Bagley - Whilst he was never an in-house programmer for Ocean ... url]
Videos (about an hour and 9 mins all ... -
First Class - Anyone remember it?Hello all This already mentioned in a previous thread, only I been trying to locate some video clips of an old 80's show called First Class. It were…
... to locate some video clips of an old 80's show called ... . Tried browsing on YouTube out of curosity...
It were ... on kids telly during the 80s'. I remember comming home from ... -
Game art: homage or rip-off?I know a lot of games had artwork which "borrowed heavily" from other sources but stuff was usually altered a little bit so that it wasn't quite a st…
... image taken from page 4 of "Xenozoic Tales" issue 2 ... cover of Vixen? Well, her or some other 80s page ... I know he mentions some of his sources on his website ... uncannily like the cover photo of an SAS book I'd ... about Wako's "borrowing" of Arnie for at least one ... -
An old arcade gameI'm trying to remember (or discover) the name of an arcade game. As far as I recall, I think it consisted of a sort of pipework type maze and your…
... remember (or discover) the name of an arcade game.
As ... , I think it consisted of a sort of pipework type maze and ... -
Remove the beinning of an RZX?I've had a [URL="http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/d.php#darksceptre"]Dark Sceptre RZX[/URL] sent to me, with quite a long playback time. However, the firs…
... first few minutes of the RZX are of the game loading in ... be to remove this part of the recording using a hex ... -
Spectrum+ from ebayI recently received a Spectrum+ that I bought off ebay for about ?10 including postage. I have not tested it yet but had a quick look inside through …
... that often. I have been an electronics service engineer for a ... most, if not all of the 80s and have repaired many a ... Spectrum (and most of the other ... combinations thereof. Anyone had experience of CPU related faults?. -
VCF report and photosNot sure where to put this, exactly...but here it is, what went on at the Vintage Computing Festival at Bletchley Park last weekend. Finally I've fo…
... /> A very small part of an IBM System/360 mainframe. These ... inside, a small collection of transistors, capacitors and ... kit systems of the late 70s and early 80s):
... could even have an orchestra of AY chips if ... is the underside of a part of a DEC pdp ... -
Dust Bunny of the day[URL]http://www.zxsoftware.co.uk/dustbunny.jpg[/URL] Found in a dual Xeon machine that came out of an operating theatre. Worryingly. I also have …
[URL]http://www.zxsoftware.co.uk/dustbunny.jpg[/URL]
Found in a dual Xeon machine that came out of an operating theatre.
Worryingly.
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R3PLAY report and photosWell, R3PLAY is now over ... and what a great event it was. I have to thank all the organizers, their hard work really paid off and it was a huge suc…
... , pretty much every platform of the 80s and 90s represented (including ... those who were kids of the 80s - I saw an 8 year old ... the strong, familiar smell of burning electronics near my stand ... continuously being played all of Saturday and most of Sunday.
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Specventure. Anyone got an invincibility poke?Anyone know of an invincibility poke for Mastertronic's Specventure? I can only find an infinite lives hack. Love this game, it was the first compu…
Anyone know of an invincibility poke for Mastertronic's Specventure?
I can only find an infinite lives hack.
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2 hours of Sinclair and computer gaming related TV documentariesHi folks, for a few weeks now I?m allowed to upload videos of unlimited length to my YouTube channel. This weekend I took the opportunity to publish…
... ?m allowed to upload videos of unlimited length to my YouTube ... ]Horizon - Clive Sinclair, the anatomy of an inventor[/B] (BBC 1989) 49 ... /> [B]Thumb Candy - The history of computer games[/B] (Channel Four ... -
Why didn't you want a NES?I'm trying to work out why consoles didn't make much of an impact in the UK in the 80s. At school in the late 80s, I knew one person who had a NES, …
... make much of an impact in the UK in the 80s.
At school in the late 80s, I knew one person who ... Master System. Everyone else had an 8-bit computer. And when ... -
Reliable sources of information on the web.When it comes to finding information on the web wikipedia is often my first port of call but it is always regarded with skepticism. So what sites are…
... is often my first port of call but it is always ... im looking for a definition of an "expert system" and i need ... -
Trying to remember the name of this magazineA memory of an obscure UK magazine has popped into my head, and wondered if anyone could identify it. It was primarily about learning to program (ma…
A memory of an obscure UK magazine has ... I think) with lots of type-ins. Although I ... also it had some reviews of commercial games. It wasn ... it had two kind of chubby cartoon monster characters ... as kind of mascots.
Ring ... -
Fascinating video of ancient artifacts.This is the most fascinating display of the most ancient artifacts from all over the world. Presented by Klaus Dona. It can be downloaded or watche…
... the reverse side of the stone, is an inlaid spiral with ... center, and an inlay in the center of the triangle that ... under black light. Inlays of the Orion constellation are in ... Mostly human.
Proof of an advanced global civilization pre sanskrit ... -
Fatal Atraction type of thing...I feel a bit ridiculous to tell this story... I've been giving some classes & work shops, and one of the schools where I teach, is mostly for "older"…
... amp; work shops, and one of the schools where I teach ... , I sent an e-mail to all of my old students ... them and got an e-mail from one of them sending ... , she sent me sort of an agressive e-mail telling that ... wasn't looking for anykind of rewards...
at ... -
Earlier version of Super Nova/SupernovaHi, This post is about [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005071"]Super Nova[/url]. (Actually the game title seems to be Supern…
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Double file of Pyjamarama Jackson Soft Italian editionI noticed in yesterday's update that a file named "Pyjamarama(JacksonSoft).tzx" has been added to the archive. It is a double: the Italian official t…
... double: the Italian official translation of the game, marketed by ... Jackson Soft, a label of the now defunct Gruppo Editoriale ... still in my possession, instead of an "unidentified copy" as this ... is a double of an already existing file, and of uncertain origin ... -
Someone with a bit of a thing about clone games:I don't know if anyone knows who this is, but it's a blog post on arcade game clones and the development of licensing over the 8-bit era. I came acr…
... clones and the development of licensing over the 8- ... to look up the extent of Harry S. Price's ... bile and fuming hatred of any sort of 'Froggy' or 'Haunted ... 's a definite touch of the David Starkey to today ... to release a loose clone of an arcade game, this makes ... -
Bunch of speccy stuff up on eBay.just finished listing.. phew - some of the sparky boys on here might be interested in some of the bits, but pick of the lots is a minter of an Issue …
just finished listing.. phew - some of the sparky boys on here ... , but pick of the lots is a minter of an Issue 1 machine ... />
This has had pride of place in my collection for ... -
Some questions for us big-brains to ponder...1) In this week's Micro Mart (well, tomorrow it will be last weeks, but I only got around to reading it today) it says that it's untrue that PC compo…
... in fact it's an urban myth that when ... carrying by touching an earthed wire/piece of metal.
... she's some sort of irresistibly enticing bombshell.
of the order Windows arbitrarily ... the 70s and most of the 80s) surely no one ...
