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Chuckie EggHi peeps, a long time ago I wrote the original version of chuckie egg on the speccy. I've just heard about this board and was told I should say hello…
my main memory of Chuckie Egg is my mate shouting 'he ate my seed!' whilst playing it. Oddly it was his brother who turned out to be gay tho...
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I've finally bought a Spectrum at a boot sale!I do rather well at boot sales collecting games carts for consoles, but for some reason, I have never,ever,ever seen a Spectrum for sale second hand …
... 'm from Hoddesdon so just down the road.
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Chuckie EggHi peeps, a long time ago I wrote the original version of chuckie egg on the speccy. I've just heard about this board and was told I should say hello…
... still sometimes manage to fall down the lift gap on level 3 ... ]
Haha.. Chuckie egg, the game that help people spread ... ! :p
speak about the lift gap it can be ... tricky coz of the "bounce" effect with the walls and stuff ... -
are monitors bad for your eyesI would ask an optician but I don't really want 'em to sell me a pair of glasses, they wouldn't last five mins anyway, I am clumsier than most(I br…
It's not just the monitor, however: reading all the time also tires ... I spend more time at the bar down the street looking at girls ... -
Help with La Espada Sagrada!It's a wonderfull game, but I stuck. I've managed to find all pieces of the bridge, but on the other side the way is blocked by some strange barrier,…
... graphics is beautifull. And the idea is fun. The "pilot" part was ... easy for me - just descent down. The "miner" and "monkey" parts are ... -
Royal MailWhat is it with the Royal Mail these days? In the past month we've had... - Parcel Force items taking 3 weeks to arrive - postman leaving parcel…
... and they've come scurrying down the side passage exclaiming that they ... neighbour's rather than trek down the main office.
I ... anyway. So that could explain the unsigned items although I would ... . If you had to go down the main office and sign for ... -
Royal MailWhat is it with the Royal Mail these days? In the past month we've had... - Parcel Force items taking 3 weeks to arrive - postman leaving parcel…
... a good idea to burn down the local sorting office! You ... understanding enough to resend the items. Plus the countless cheques I ... on making profit at the expense of the consumers they are ... to appease the corporate cancer.
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New maps for the last monthMy creations: Home Iceland Dizzy [url="http://zx-maps.wz.cz/map.php?id=HomeIcelandDizzy"]http://zx-maps.wz.cz/map.php?id=HomeIcelandDizzy[/url] New…
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Rambo First Blood Part 1Greetings. I was just wondering if anyone knows of a version of this game that doesn't crash when you hit the enemy chopper. It's getting on my nerve…
I think it is a bug in all versions... I remember on other platforms you had to land the chopper on the top of the map after shooting down the othr chopper...
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Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…
... philosophy, well... although Cronosoft and the Amstrad E-mailer are examples ... ...
`The "amazing speed" of Windows is ... ah`ll probs run away down the pub)..
Id ... multi tasking), doing all the gadgets and especially a nice ... -
Opening the safe in Trap Door 1Can't seem to get the safe opened properly, after all that hard work ! I've moved the weight up to a certain point - if I push the safe underneath it…
... for Trap Door whilst holding down the H key - this will pause ... as Berk is pushing the safe under the weight. Now look at ... how high the weight has been positioned. It ... exactly this height (so that the yellow chain is exactly 3 ... -
Does anyone remember this? (**Not Spectrum Related**)When I was very young, I was given a present of a word game. It consisted of a dark blue cylinder and 16 rings with letters printed on them. You had …
... of something that happened in the early 80's...
down the word 'QUIM' on a triple ... he'd never heard of the word Quim before. I had ... -
Expanded Profiles - Brief BiosExpanding on the post about Crimewatch style profiles, why not make a biography style profile. And I'll be the first... NAME: Patrick J.K. Furlong A…
You misunderstand the final question....
I' ... or some fling you found down the pub!
When I ... sex!
And for the record, I have nothing against ... -
Expanded Profiles - Brief BiosExpanding on the post about Crimewatch style profiles, why not make a biography style profile. And I'll be the first... NAME: Patrick J.K. Furlong A…
... , zeropolis79 wrote:
You misunderstand the final question....
I ... or some fling you found down the pub!
When I ... sex!
And for the record, I have nothing against ... -
Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
... I'll have to say the grey +2.
The 48k version of the Saboteur 2 music.< ... dumped a year later. ?1300 down the drain.
[ ... console[/I]
Is the Atari 2600 even 8-bit ... ? Whatever - the Atari 2600.
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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…
... good memories of the spectrum and commodore 64, the mostly being ... I used to live down the road from the Kerry brothers who ... me how to program the spectrum and design games ... 12 or 13 at the time way back in ... younger sisters? I know the eldest got married to G ... -
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... bitches would almost never go down the steps like they did in ... i'd just throw it down the steps. it'd make ... it down them then.
... end and throw it and the sticky hand would catch ... Donkey Kong. I wondered what the hell i should've answered ... -
Sneaky/ underhand things you did, to get ur grubby mitts on those precious speccy gamesWell, i got 3 which i need to get of my chest after all these years. 1) Had a friend across the road, went on holiday with him and his parents and w…
... wanted by sliding them under the bottom shelf and then ... school ruler. Also the easiest way of cheapening the software was to ... of course.
Oh the deceit!
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Etch-a-Sketch , which is cool considering I trashed my brothers by lobbing it down the stairs !! :) -
ANNOUNCE: Fuse for Mac OS X 0.7.0Following the release of Fuse 0.7.0 is the unsurprising release of Fuse for Mac OS X 0.7.0 which should be available for download shortly at the Fuse…
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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…
... he was talking about the state of the gaming industry now, ... gone from having the bedroom coders to having the major console ... to try track it down!)
The numeric cheat code ... Apparently that's the point he realised that the whole Software Projects ... -
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 …
... and their being given to the British Film Institute for ... to stop running up and down the stairs looking for a missing ... br />
`I have donated the complete catalogue of Spectrum games ... , magazines, books etc. to The British Film Institute. This is ... -
Text-based Adventure GamesI really got into these after playing "The Hobbit" on the Speccy. I really enjoyed the Level 9 games: Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Dungeon …
... typing adventures, but the ones with pictures at the top, descriptions and ... />
Adventure games. apart from the obvious (level 9, etc); many ... play them at work; shrink down the EMU window size and spend ... knew that, 10 - 15 years down the line I'd be bored ... -
Chuckie Egg 2 helpCan anyone help me with Chuckie Egg 2? I've filled up the Milk, Cocoa, & Sugar vats, and have make the motorbike toy and picked it up. But what do …
... need to go into the rooms above the tracks - there's a ... you get onto the tracks - watch out for the locomotive, though :)
down the power... There's in fact ... -
What IS this game?You were an egg, and you had to collect things to put in a cauldron and defeat an evil Wizard called Zaks. Your girl was called Daisy, and your Grand…
... Dizzy Turn seeing whats happend ,so she sends the ... amp; putting them in the cauldron ,to go back ... amp; place them in the Cauldron again, after that ... Granmar Who is Still Dizzy after the Event that took place. ... :43 ]
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Spectaculator keybord problem in 6.3In Spectacultor key presses no longer respond in the emuluator. Hot keys work fine. I have tried removing Spectaculator and re-installing. I have…
... importantly in this case, the joystick would be set back ... plugged in that had fallen down the back of your desk, wedged ... the directional positions (or with a couple of buttons stuck down ... ) which was jamming BASIC's keyboard buffer...
The ...IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
... only use achar when moving down the column (Chars are written by ... for optimisation in the printing area.
The next step is ... to calculate the attributes, I will ...Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
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But when was the information from the address 16384-23296 accessed ... if the CPU needs to access the memory while the refresh of the screen ... on that page). it slows down (the exact rules are rather complicated ...Anyone fancy a "meet up" in September?I have a weekend off in September, 25th/26th September, the only one until Xmas, and am postng this invite on a few boards that I post on. I live in…
... into town, or whatever too. The local arcades are crap, no ... all now, just fruities. Altough the town has cheaper pubs than ... years ago, and the other one closed down. The only place left is ... the bowling alley, which has ...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 …
... convincing ways - whatever the object of the game was supposed to ... a really hard assault course down the road from me that ... recognise whether I'd been down this grey-corridor before ... things, humour, creativity, sexuality, the wonders of nature and science ...
