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A book I would like to read.In the late 80s I couldn't get away to the Amiga quickly enough, mainly for the graphics if I'm honest. So I find it very interesting that some of us…
In the late 80s I couldn't get ... very interesting that some of us never left the ... seems there was still loads of interesting stuff going on, ... d love to read an interesting memoir of these times (say ... Perhaps Steven Howlett's 'Dairy of an 80's computer geek' would ... -
That Robot Boxing movie I'm almost certain is based on an 80s Japanese cartoon ?Hello , as a kid I saw a cartoon where the nerdy kid built a fighting robot and programmed it using his computer. The fighting scenes involved the k…
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Looking for advice on building a HarlequinNew member here. From the US. My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 back in the early 80s (in fact, I got one of the first batches sold in th…
... in the early 80s (in fact, I got one of the first ... m now kind of an old guy that got an engineering degree and ... I threw away a tube of 27C256 OTPs just a ... to run that by some of you experienced guys. Also, ... fit. That would be an easier project if one could ... -
Zelda: Breath of the Wild.I thought I'd make this it's own thread as it was appearing in bother the Switch and "currently playing" threads, that way everything can go into the…
... br /> I beat the first of the Divine Beats last night ... , it was surprisingly empty of enemies! Only half a ... always raining! Not much of an issue, but it has ... a bloody annoying habit of starting to rain just ... .
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ZX Spectrum+ showing 16K of RAMHello again, as the title says my ZX Spectrum+ is showing only 16K of RAM instead of 48K when running a memory check. [url="http://www.1000bit.it/su…
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How do I [blah-de-blah] while using an emulated diskette in a +3?I'm using ZXSpin 0.7, emulating a +3 and I've been trying out random games that come on diskettes. I've had issues with saving/loading snapshots corr…
... in a multipart game off of an emulated diskette.
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TERRAPINS: a fantastic new arcade game by HighriserHello there https://highriser.itch.io/terrapins Get the free demo or get the full version (1.99 USD... it is worth every penny, given the amou…
... every penny, given the amount of work profused in it)
of an old 80s coin op
done ... ot tunes, colors and lots of fun
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Arcade mockupsHi all. After my initial thread of speccy pixel experiments I learned a lot about the graphical workings of the speccy (mainly colour clash). So I…
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After my initial thread of speccy pixel experiments I learned ... arcade mockups done by hand an how having the limitations on ... , no fancy color modification of existant arcade or console images ... thread, and its more a diary of pixelarting for the zx than ... -
Time travel...................................I am an eight year old boy and I really have a problem with these OAPs claiming to be the original old Punk bands, these wrinkly old age pensioners s…
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NEW SCI-FI AUDIO DRAMA - by me!Hi all, I'm branching out into the wonderful world of full-cast audio dramas! Whoop whoop! The first one is now complete, an '80s BBC style a…
... out into the wonderful world of full-cast audio dramas!
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Not exactly an idea for a new game...... or even something new but more of an idea for existing games. However, I don't know if this has been tried before (or if it is possible to pul…
The trials and tribulations of the external tape recorderAnd you may find this a strange topic, because having been a +2 owner for the last 31-and-a bit years, it's not something I've had to deal with in th…
... br /> Anyway... I bought one of those new tape recorders from ... much of a Chinese-made tape recorder from an era ... and it reminded me of an old Eddie Izzard sketch ... PC, but none of the recordings of these that the ... to see. Think of the shape of the peaks as ...The diary of a retro studyMany years ago I always had a spare room to act as a study. Then I had a family and that idea withered and died. Eventually everything went into the …
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The upshot of all this is that the ... I have dragged everything out of storage and placed into ... / landfill. A large portion of the boxes are books, tapes ... the items on shelves. Of course this will take ... out a good amount of the crates to make ...Songs of the Spetcrrum's Heydays: 1982So I thought I'd start a series of threads, that will be created each week where we look at and discuss music from a given year when the ZX Spectrum …
... I'd start a series of threads, that will be ... in a top hits of the 80s album type way), but ... not obscure no one's heard of ...
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls - A tune I think ... about two years ahead of its time.
https ...ZX Spectrum BASIC "non UK" titles that can be easily translated to make an "easy" English VersionIt was the 16K German version of LEMONADE STAND written in BASIC that made me think about this . Really , I suppose this translation aspect just…
... keyboard and therefore the use of Spectrum Basic is relevant to ... and so therefore "a bit of an idea" about Spectrum BASIC itself ... best fit for this sort of software translation are the Germanic ... could be given this kind of GOOGLE TRANSLATE (or similar) ...Unlucky 13 quiz....at last i done a quiz.Ok heres my effort of a quiz.Usual rules apply,post your answers here and i will mark them on Sunday 23rd. There is a total of 20 points available...…
... games in the BEST OF BEYOND compilation. 1 point ...
Q3... An unofficial and an official version of the same arcade ... this.
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Q5 ... UGH! clue.. it was an 80s pop star. 2 points ... point who was the star of Automania?
Wally ...Unlucky 13 quiz....at last i done a quiz.Ok heres my effort of a quiz.Usual rules apply,post your answers here and i will mark them on Sunday 23rd. There is a total of 20 points available...…
... games in the BEST OF BEYOND compilation. 1 point ... of.
Q3... An unofficial and an official version of ... UGH! clue.. it was an 80s pop star. 2 points ... Gendarme Kadin are out of which game for 1 ... who was the star of Automania?
Wally Week ...Unlucky 13 quiz....at last i done a quiz.Ok heres my effort of a quiz.Usual rules apply,post your answers here and i will mark them on Sunday 23rd. There is a total of 20 points available...…
... games in the BEST OF BEYOND compilation. 1 point ... br />
Q3... An unofficial and an official version of the same arcade ... UGH! clue.. it was an 80s pop star. 2 points ... Gendarme Kadin are out of which game for 1 ... who was the star of Automania?
Wally ...Unlucky 13 quiz....at last i done a quiz.Ok heres my effort of a quiz.Usual rules apply,post your answers here and i will mark them on Sunday 23rd. There is a total of 20 points available...…
... games in the BEST OF BEYOND compilation. 1 point ...
Q3... An unofficial and an official version of the same arcade ... UGH! clue.. it was an 80s pop star. 2 points ... Gendarme Kadin are out of which game for 1 ... point who was the star of Automania?
Unlucky 13 quiz....at last i done a quiz.Ok heres my effort of a quiz.Usual rules apply,post your answers here and i will mark them on Sunday 23rd. There is a total of 20 points available...…
... games in the BEST OF BEYOND compilation. 1 point ...
Q3... An unofficial and an official version of the same arcade ... UGH! clue.. it was an 80s pop star. 2 points ... Gendarme Kadin are out of which game for 1 ... point who was the star of Automania?
...are games?................are games made today just as playable as they were in the 80's?
... about a story thats got an ending with the aim to ... not last as long as an 80's game play wise ... get a great deal of fun out of taking part in the ... that good,,jedi2 and medal of honour are far better.
of the 80s were better for that ...What kind of music were you into in the early 80s?Recently I've been taking a trip down memory lane with these spectrum games, and in conjunction with that I've also been curious as to what music was…
... NWOBHM artists too. (Wheels Of Steel is a forgotten ...
I remember lots of the songs mentioned above, back ... 's a site called "pure 80s pop" at
... songs for every month of the 80s. It's a good ... almost any song listed from an MP3 site. Like Kazaa, ...OT: I hate modern music!Sorry for this off topic thread, but I've been subjected to one hip hop/ r'n'b record too many when out tonight. Why do we have to listen to this? …
... bollocks at the end of the 80s. How it enraged me ... for releasing such a sham of a song.
... - I've got lots of their records, and thought they ... band (although a bit of a joke from the outside ... not gonna take it' in an election campaign.
...The Best Era of Crash MagazineMost of you probably did buy Crash on a reglular basis. I'm just wondering what era you thought was the best. Mines has to be 84/85 era with Robin…
I always liked early Crash!, the Xmas issue was massive and so full of games and features. Everything for a great Spectrum Xmas. They got me all worked up for it!
LM was good, like an 80s Loaded.
LeePlayground Battles - Ridiculous ClaimsAah, the old days! All that rivalry between the various 8 bit computers. Can anyone remember any ridiculous claims made by the Spectrum haters to tr…
... Italiana instead kept carrying on an aggressive marketing campaign that made ... lot of C64 users upgraded to Amigas towards the end of the '80s.Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... reasonable suggestion as to an alternative to paging that ... the point to make an affordable machine OR NOT.[/ ... point to make it an affordable machine given that ... one of the most popular micro's of the 80s must ... had the idea to think of?[/quote]
..."Mega-tree (Manic Miner 3)" : development disks to be auctioned on eBayI plan to sell the development disks of "Mega-tree" to coincide with the 20th anniversary; the third game in Matthew Smith's "Manic Miner" / "Jet Set…
... they capture an image of you in a blink of an eye's ... have a couple of me from the 80s where i'm ... . the quality of the photos, the design of the interiors. ... the style of the Coca-Cola ... etc. - it all screams 70s/80s and i think it's ...GB Max SoftwareEllo chums... I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about GB Max Software? Specifically, if they have a list of games "by" them, and what they were…
... tape magazines" between the 80s and the 90s. Here ... I have inserted an excerpt from a memoir ... fact, towards the end of the '80s, many Italian C64 ... crimes - apart from being pirates, of course ;) :
-they ... this utter load of crap, there is an [url="http ...GB Max SoftwareEllo chums... I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about GB Max Software? Specifically, if they have a list of games "by" them, and what they were…
... site with lots of downloadable tape magazines from the '80s.
... have a friend of mine, proud owner of an MSX and than ... my biggest collection was made of those infamous magazines. This collection ... made of over 200 tapes was stolen ...Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... disagree; with the advent of technology (more graphics, ... interaction, involvement, story. An example is a platformer like ... the most realistic simulation of an event that we can ... what happened in the 80s. And this is a ... quality of games in the early/mid 80s was ...
