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Hardest game you actually completed?Mine was Sonic Boom (the monochrome sega shoot em up). I managed to finish the whole game despite it being (a) rubbish and (b) impossible to see the…
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Viking RaidersHi - I have searched high and low for a .sna or .tap version of Viking Raiders by Firebird Software to no avail. Does anyone know where I could get …
Ah didn't know it was that easy - thanks guys.
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Retro GamerI have only just heard about the Retro gamer mag. I am going to get issue 3 online as I can't find it in any shop :( I see on the website that issue…
Just in case you didn't know.. Issue 2 is back in stock for a limited time only (shop returns). -
Memory Available for 16k and 48kAm I right in thinking that if I am writing a 16k Game, I have 8k available for the machine code prog 6000h to 8000h, and for a 48k game I have 40K a…
It doesn't matter, it's just that ... color changes etc. I just didn't know if some of that ram ... -
Memory Available for 16k and 48kAm I right in thinking that if I am writing a 16k Game, I have 8k available for the machine code prog 6000h to 8000h, and for a 48k game I have 40K a…
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I just didn't know if some of that ram ... -
Memory Available for 16k and 48kAm I right in thinking that if I am writing a 16k Game, I have 8k available for the machine code prog 6000h to 8000h, and for a 48k game I have 40K a…
... color changes etc. I just didn't know if some of that ram ... the way. If you can't CLEAR to a certain address ... , Basic can't contain itself in that limited ... -
Emulation accuracy and how it affects softwareHi folks. I was thinking of bodging together a rudimentary Spectrum emulator myself, not as a competitor to the other emulators, but as an integrate…
... , Fred wrote:
Uridium doesn't work on the TS2048, and ... .
The ts2068 doesn't use resistor decoupling on the ... ? It's a shame they didn't do the pullup thing for ... 48K Spec but maybe they didn't know. -
Commodore//speccy rivalryHeres a very short movie my son made regarding the commodore//sinclair rivalry...hes 13 and plans to make a long movie featuring all the old consoles…
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On 2004-06-13 01:52, chaosmongers wrote:
- Your girlfriend is a slapper
- Your children are ugly
- Your mother is a prositute
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I didn't know my family was that well known! -
The ZX Spectrum On Your PC - Book (pdf)by C . Woodcock. [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/ZXSpectrumOnYourPCThe.pdf"]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/…
... there was a lot I didn't know about them. This book has ... the next one.
Can't beleive there are people out ... -
Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…
... Jet Pac type game (I didn't know what Jet Set meant).
t have it as good as ... -
SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…
... opensource emulator authors won't touch it with ... closed. And we all know what happened when the ... something we simply do not know at the moment.
t get far without it, ... from, but since you didn't know about the technology, perhaps ... -
Manic Miner Tape InlaysJust a question for you, how many different inlays were there for manic miner ? I have found the Software Projects "Alien" and Bug-Byte "Miner" inlay…
i must admit i didn't know the story about the Lantern/Ladder inlays, I always thought it was the order i eluded to above but i am very happy to stand corrected ;) -
SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…
... for no real reason. I didn't force the issue, it was ... EDSK it was.
We didn't know much about the copy protections ... , and I personally still don't understand. Thanks for Jon,Woody ... disk/image. What it doesn't do, is authenticate the disks ... -
Finding my way home!Ohboy! Just signed up to this forum and boy am I going to hang around here from now on! I just need to tell you about my own background as a Speccy …
... all this emulator stuff, I didn't know szx was only for spectaculator ... -
Antique Toy 2004 Voteing ( Music/Graphics )In case anyone doesn't know or missed it, at RAWW.ORG and SCENERGY they mention voting for Antique Toy compo is happening now until August 10th. If y…
Won't comment too much because I' ... they were sampled if you didn't know better.
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Help needed prior to next vault updateHi everyone.... The next vault update is not too far away, however, I've managed to source 9 unlisted titles, 11 titles which are MIA and a further …
... CD. They wanted to know what titles were purchased ... t give them any..thats all..they also wanted to know ... in, although we all know the poor re-sale ... donation!...again i said i didn't know..
so ... />
thats all, i didn't bid on the blaby titles ... -
Survey: buying new games?Hi all, I'm steadily progressing with my Ragnar Revival isometric game for the Spectrum 48k and if I keep working as hard as I do now, it'll probabl…
... Dos emulator and didn`t even have Windows version)but didn`t know there were ... />
However, now that I know about Cronosoft and people such ... game, even if it wasn`t gonna be the best game ... file as well, I don`t think you need worry about ... -
Help needed prior to next vault updateHi everyone.... The next vault update is not too far away, however, I've managed to source 9 unlisted titles, 11 titles which are MIA and a further …
... , I was shocked as I didn`t know they had anything to do ... -
An unofficial conversion of City Connection (reprise)I hope Martijn and Andrew won't mind if I post this topic once again, but in the STP/MIA section it had no reply so far. I post it here because in th…
... Italian.
Unfortunately I know nothing about this game, and ... /> It's another game i didn't know about and it's added ... -
I've just met Matthew Smith!I just saw him doing a Q&A session today at the classic gaming expo in Croydon. Picked up a mint copy of JSW and got it signed by him! He's was real…
... that you do Chronosoft, hadn`t really noticed `til now... Just ... to it by now, but didn`t know about them till a month ... -
Games you used to haveI used to have virtually all of the Ultimate games including the dire Bubbler and Martianoids and swapped them with people at school for other games.…
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I don't intend to start collecting comics ... weeks ago I couldn't resist buying 60 early ... after reading it - I didn't know then that it had been ... if not all, shops (WHSmiths didn't like the cover... :p ) ... now because it wasn't even available on back ... -
MBXI've been looking at the [B]Dungeons and Dragons Character Creator[/B] by [B]S. Davis[/B] (1986). It contains a message along the lines of, [I]If you…
[quote]tThe service looked basically like teletext but you could interact with it :)[/quote]
Thanks for taking the time to explain all this. It's been an eye-opener: a whole aspect of the Spectrum I didn't know exist :) -
3 in 1 NTG3 in 1 name that game 1) You are a ninja cyborg or something. A side view flip screen. Most screens look alike with just a few details different. Th…
... a game.
I didn't know there were so many 3rd ... like ATF, except ATF doesn't seem to have any churches ... -
AmericaI've been wondering, was the Spectrum released in America? Was it popular? Are there Spectrum games that were made in America? There must be a few A…
... bad reputation from people who didn't know better.
The ts2068 ... in 1986, even if it didn't have the 128k RAM. I ... 'm not sure why Clive didn't use it as a starting ... the Alphacom 32. The UK didn't see the 300 baud modem ... -
Clone Project feedbackFinally i now have some time to start again with my clone project. I have decided to drop the 48k project and go directly on a 128k clone. This migh…
... /> Man, it roxx!!!!! I even didn't know there exists something like that!! -
Clone Project feedbackFinally i now have some time to start again with my clone project. I have decided to drop the 48k project and go directly on a 128k clone. This migh…
... /> Man, it roxx!!!!! I even didn't know there exists something like that ... -
Highscore database?Have been playing Splitting Images all weekend and got 135,000 something, completing Marilyn Monroe. So a thought struck me - what about an online hi…
We`ll see... although I have profound confidence in my inability :)
Im gonna have a look at SpeccyTour... was just reading about it on the google or yahoo speccy discussion thingy.. thingymahjiggy
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If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…
... against other computers because I didn't use any.
< ... br /> The attribute problem didn't bother me then (but in ... a pity the 128 didn't have better graphics modes ... load, but again, I didn't know any better. Lack of ... . The C64? - don't even go there...!
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Got my highest ever score on Dictator tonight!Ran out of money though, and had to flee the country. My score was 188. IT was a shame, as I managed to get the monthly outgoings down to ZERO, but …
I didn't know this game was in the archive. I'm sure I looked for it a while back and couldn't see it. I must be blind. -
Retro Gamer #7: The MegaTree / Matthew Smith interviewIssue Seven of Retro Gamer magazine has two items of interest to the Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy community: 1. The data from the MegaTree developmen…
... version of Miyamoto, why isn't he minted like him ( ... /> [/quote]
Don't feel sorry for him. This ... I'm not saying he didn't deserve the money, after all ... a few months ago I didn`t know who wrote Manic Miner ... did, even if he didn`t finish it
