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MP3 player annoyances and computer questionsAllright, firstly, my MP3 player has taken a turn for the worse, and has done so in just the same way as have all my previous MP3 players: the sound …
... turn for the worse, and has done so in just the same way ... happened to my last one and the one before. Am I treating ... the second video output on the card, which inconveniently is something wierd and ... it and verified it to be a DVI connection - thankfully the ... -
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…
... as they're concerned, and the fact that I can't ... millionaire to go to the doctor or the dentist.
and pay nothing, what a ... and Hollister, and if my mother in law doesn't stump up the ... When one's 23 and the other is 19 she ... -
ZX-style gameLooking at the new Spectrum games, like Vera, I surprised. Two pages of discussion in your forum and twelve in Russian one ! Other new games has the…
... forum and twelve in Russian one ! Other new games has the same ... Spectrum ? But Dizzy AGE is not for ZX, and the success of this ... works too slow, the scroll is not soft and so on. So ... modern resolution (1280*1024 and so on). The screenshot of one game ... -
Anyone tried the Google Chrome browser?Running it now and it is great. Much cleaner than IE or FF (spit). I have dual monitors at work and the right hand side one has Chrome full screen.…
Running it now and it is great. Much cleaner ... have dual monitors at work and the right hand side one has ... -
Anyone getting those 80's cd's in the Daily MailI have got em all and the album i am liking most is No Parlez by Paul Young and Dare Human League, its brilliant how they have managed to get such qu…
I have got em all and the album i am liking most ... always contained the proviso " the tracks have been recorded by the original artist ... when you put the cd on and it was of the now old ... singer desperatly trying to reach the ... -
Machines and game starter bundles for saleI am just in the process of compiling a new stock list for the Preservation team shop and I am going to add a lot of my spare hardware kit and some o…
... new stock list for the Preservation team shop and I am going ... , a selection of games and depending on the machine, a joystick interface ... ) about 250+ games and the machine.
All the games will be ... be in the update please PM with your email and I will ... -
Remember that 1960's music center I had stuck in the loft?I emptied the loft today of everything. I had an early 1960's music centre up there too heavy to get out, and a sofa bed, and boxes , and boxes of ju…
... centre out of the loft onto the sofa, and hoped for the best.
the loft, I got the tons bubble wrap, and foam ... the loft.
and there is crap all over the house now, and the ... front garden is full of it too. The ... -
In the market for a new computerThe last one about five years ago, is coming to the end of its useful life for me. I bought that and the previous one on ebay and was more than happy…
... . I bought that and the previous one on ebay and was more than ... /> Looking at spending about ?200, and have found this which looks ... />
I only need the base unit as I have ... extra opinions before I go and splash my PayPal balance on ... -
New game bundles!Hi!, I have a few nice game bundles being listed on ebay this Thursday and here is a preview:- [SIZE="2"][COLOR="DarkGreen"]Lot 1-Small box versio…
... listed on ebay this Thursday and here is a preview:-
DIZZY-CLASSIC
THE HACKER
DEVILS CROWN ... FROM CURRYS PACK
THE WAY OF THE TIGER
ROCKMAN< ... DIDDUMS
BALLBALZER
THE WAY OF THE EXPLODING FIST-CLASSIC
Some more questions for the WOS geniuses to ponderSome questions whilst I'm waiting here: 1.Why do cars need ariels to receive radio stations? I mean, you're driving around in a lump of metal, so w…
... artificial intelligence? On the 8-bits, the speed and memory limitations made complex ... machines of the day. On the Speccy, Skooldaze aparrently gave the masters and pupils ... PSI Chess played very badly!), and the AI in Think! was good ...A video interface for the Spectrum, MSX compatibleSo you can use the same code for displaying sprites, tiles, characteres, and so no, on both the Spectrum and the MSX. That is, the Spectrum now has a…
... , on both the Spectrum and the MSX. That is, the Spectrum now has ... a "dual-screen" feature: the ... well known ULA video output, and a TMS9929 ... chips, and yes, they will be used on the next version ...And you think your team has got it bad....Quote " A Peruvian second-division football team has suffered what must rate as one of the worst days in the history of the sport, MSN reports. Me…
... one of the worst days in the history of the sport, MSN ... state news agency puts it, and the vehicle plunged 600ft down a ... players and two of the club's owners died in the tragedy. The MSN ... report concludes: "The team was ...The cheek of some peopleAges back i posted about the excellent yahoo group freecycle. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12443&highlight=freecycle…
... on the door bang on time. The woman was quite small and the blinds ... were 6ft long and quite cumbersome so ... to walking back round the corner and getting the blinds back but decided ...The Spectrum ConsoleI was looking through the March '91 issue of Your Sinclair when i noticed an advert for the Computer Express (or something like that) and the front p…
I was looking through the March '91 issue of Your ... advert for the Computer Express (or something like that) and the front pages ... said 'the spectrum console'. I don ... Did it appear? I think the advert said it was from ...The Cecco controversySo as I said in the other thread, I'd try out Cybernoid - since I've never played a Cecco game, and never seen one, I'd be coming from a position of …
... , good music.
* The selection of weapons and the tradeoffs you need to ... make are good.
* The level ... is bloody annoying, and having to replay the first few screens over ...I'm a freak!I've been short sighted for 20 years. My vision has stayed exactly the same at -2.25 in both eyes since I was 16. This morning, I woke up (as you d…
... see my laptop screen, and all light was hurting. ... So, I went to the opticians and he started by asking ... read the chart. At this point, the first letter on the first ... I looked at the chart again and read EVERY line! ... 've looked on google and can't find anything ...Found 128k +2 in the garbageHey there, I had a 48k Plus when I was a kid (still have, actually), and used to play in a friends 128k +2, so I know the basic of these computers. …
... the rubbers are good, the keyboard membrane looks good too and so do the ... I de-soldered it and opened it and the components are fine, just ... like the circuit board. The peripherals connectors ...The official Pandora handheld threadHas anyone here got a Pandora yet? If so, what do you think of it? Is it as comfortable to hold and use as we're all hoping? What is the screen like …
... 's the default software and operating system like to use? And the current available ... in all the documentation and features are available for everyone, and there's ... spelt Pandora wrong in the thread title, and the edit function won't ...New DizzyAGE gameJamie Douglas has recently released the full version of [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][COLOR=Black][SIZE=4]Dizzy Legends: The L…
Jamie Douglas has recently released the full version of
[FONT= ... =2][COLOR=Black][SIZE=4]Dizzy Legends: The Lord of Darkness
DizzyAGE and other games can be downloaded ...what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum ... something being easier and faster on the Speccy than the C64.
... effects (vertical and horizontal?) are better on the C64 including paralax ... it's late game Dragon and the whole screen flickers to ...The Quill[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006857"]The Quill[/URL] is listed as "The Quill Adventure System" which is what is reported i…
... is what is reported inside the program. However, all [ ... the same note, I have a "family pack" of both "The Quill" and "The ... Illustrator" in the same box (big, ... are separate instruction booklets and one tape with each program ...About the Gyron PDFThese instructions in PDF are in Gyron Arena, but I think they must be in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002194"]Gyron[/URL]…
... instructions talk about the two parts: Atrium and Necropolis, and the main page (of ... PDF) is similar to the inlay ...microdrive problems and interface 1I am having problems with microdrive. Whatever I try, the motor starts for a second or two and error message shows up "microdrive not present". If I…
... try, the motor starts for a second or two and error message ... interrupt by turning off power) and the motor is noisy.
Once ... , the CAT 1 command also worked ... to break it.
The interface1 seems to be working ...The quality of Ootub vids (short rant with a question)[RANT] Why, oh, why is it that the quality of uytobe videos go down so drastically after ULing? You don't have to answer it ... I already know the a…
... ... I already know the answer for the most part and I understand that ... that). I just hate the fuzzyness and the outoffocus-smoothing they apply sucks ... the job but the raw videofile is much better than the output on the ...Best Spectrum [whatever] beginning with "B"You know the drill, this time it's letter "B". I have to say, for me the Speccy stuff beginning with "B" tends to be of a higher quality than the "A"…
You know the drill, this time it's letter "B". I have to ... say, for me the Speccy ... higher quality than the "A" stuff.
And anyone, feel free ... to Skool, Bombjack, Batman 3D, and the excellent Batty. For me it ...Documenting ZX Spectrum SoftwareFirst and foremost a disclaimer... [COLOR="DimGray"][SIZE="2"]I'm a newcomer to ZXSpectrum emulation. Unless you find the need, I'll spare you the d…
... the words of our great Blaise Pascal, "I have made this letter ... longer than usual, only because I have not had the ... more centered on documenting and the tools necessary for this ... real good look at the format specifications and the files themselves.
...Vote for the best games everGamefaqs.com are having a best ever game poll, and since Gamefaqs are very well frequented (it's a great site, apart from the trolls and the useless,…
... apart from the trolls and the useless, clueless moderators) the results should be ... every console and handheld ever, plus the PC and Mac) go ... , even against the (very good) bots, and that's why ... screen multiplayer, bots, and you save the babes, not kill ...So... you want to format your 3.5" as 720K eh?Well, i've been trying to get hold of an application to make proper use of my 3.5" +3 floppy disks but i haven't been able to find any. I stumbled up…
... . I asked him about the proggy and he was a real nice ... /> CALL DISK ; Call the subroutine in ROM and write the data to disk ... /> DRIVE DEFB 65 ; Holds the drive letter
HEAD0 DEFB 0 ...BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been ... exe[/url]
And here's the obligatory "What's new ... MIDI via AY register 14 (and the PLAY command).
Added - Documented ... not properly reflect the state the emulation was in, and so wouldn't ...400+ games for saleHiya! I'm likely to be moving house in the New Year so rather than try and sell my Spec tapes bit by bit on eBay as I have been doing, I'm having to…
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Dizzy - Code Masters
Dizzy Dice - Players
Dizzy Down The Rapids - ... Code Masters
Dizzy Prince of the ... Fireman - Mastertronic
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Kixx
