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Looks like im looking for a new job :(background currently been in my job 4 years next april, in that time ive gone from complete noobie to senior operator. ive learnt most there is to le…
... I understand the reasoning behind being difficult with the new guy ... left. The boss who I had several disagreements with used the opportunity ... to move me to the ... how I would deal with the change and now he ... -
World of Spectrum BooksHello, Whilst the archive is down, I have uploaded the books I have downloaded over the years onto DropBox. Feel free to download. Let me know i…
A very happy and jolly chap that had several conversations with a publisher recently after a threatening letter. -
Iron Maiden Attacked At Ozzfest by Sharon Osbourne, or The Anger Of The BeastI'm angry about this. And if you are an Iron Maiden, or metal fan for that matter, you should too. Iron Maiden's final Ozzfest 2005 performance was…
... opened with "Murders in the Rue Morgue," several members of the crowd bombarded the British ... the egg-hurling delinquents.
During Maiden's next song, "The Trooper," the ... 's instruments. In audio captured during the concert and posted on various ... -
Interview with VERONIKA MEGLER ("The Hobbit" programmer)This interview with Veronika Megler (The Hobbit) has been published by elmundodelspectrum.com in Spanish, I copy it here for you all in its original …
... that help the scientists I work with find the data they ... [I]?What were your responsibilities during the game development, and what were ...
Well, I sat down with the book and worked my way ... small step to have the characters interact with each other, as ... -
The Rant Thread.A thread to rant and ramble about stuff that makes you mad: 1) Why can't women say things in only a few words.Instead of a simple yes, no, we…
... Well I am somewhat **** off with the pillar to post I have ... I was pretty bad with anxiety due to several factors including struggling ... of treatment I got in the 1990s during a bad patch. They ... I have PTSD, and informal conversations with someone in social work I ... -
The Rant Thread.A thread to rant and ramble about stuff that makes you mad: 1) Why can't women say things in only a few words.Instead of a simple yes, no, we…
... Well I am somewhat **** off with the pillar to post I have ... I was pretty bad with anxiety due to several factors including struggling ... of treatment I got in the 1990s during a bad patch. They ... I have PTSD, and informal conversations with someone in social work I ... -
The Rant Thread.A thread to rant and ramble about stuff that makes you mad: 1) Why can't women say things in only a few words.Instead of a simple yes, no, we…
... I was pretty bad with anxiety due to several factors including struggling ... I have PTSD, and informal conversations with someone in social work I ... on it, so I asked several times should I be repeat ... need to check on her during the week, making sure she doesn ... -
the loading screen.It wasn't so bad in the past, with all the colourful lines during the loading stage. But now that everything has improved so much it is kind of annoy…
... so bad in the past, with all the colourful lines during the loading stage. But ... emulator that will just play the game straight away? Is this ... emulator problem or a problem with the type of file I'm ... -
Don't forget about a priority of GAMEAll of us were united with this site, which name ? World of Spectrum ? speaks that it applies for being considered as storehouse of all Spectrum-prog…
... in WOS Archive.
Why during several years there are no in ... software (mainly UK, given the origin of the Spectrum)?, i.e. ... higher on the order with complexity and quality.
If the site ... its name corresponded to the contents the owner of this site ... -
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…
... with Matthew Smith from the CGE UK convention in July, which reveals several ... we would have ended up with if the plug hadn't been ... . But there are legal complications with the copyright law as it stands ... I have to it. But with the case of Jet Set Willy ... -
Problems with zx32I have two problems with zx32. The first one is connected with sound output. When I play some games with AY music in zx32 I sometimes notice that the…
I have two problems with zx32. The first one is connected with sound output ... games with AY music in zx32 I sometimes notice that the sound ... read something from the hard drive and during this time the game runs ... -
Problems with Castlemaster/the CryptI recently bought these 2 excellent games. The problem is when I get killed and I start playing for the 2nd time, the game begins again and after a s…
... start playing for the 2nd time, the game begins again ... re-
loaded the game but the game didn't go ... />
Have the games some incompatibility problems with the +2A?
I really like the game ... -
Horror Top Trumps - who was the 'Daddy'?Who else can recall the 2 'Horror' packs in the Top Trumps series that were made in the early 80s (if not earlier)? I was having one of those 2am co…
... one of those 2am conversations with a friend the other morning trying ... ?
What were the categories - there was 'horror factor ... ' or something at the bottom of the card, and possibly ... me, for each of the categories, the 'top dogs' across both ... -
John Gibson InterviewThought some of you might be interested in this, just found it on some old zip disks: Please find below an incomplete John Gibson interview I conduc…
... to form Denton Designs with several key members of the Megagame team. How ... with.
(12) What games did you personally work on during ... your Denton's peroid?
Gift From The Gods ... -
Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…
... names (eg %MAP, %DIR) with support for abbreviations
[*] ... br /> [*]Task Manager allows several 48K tasks to be switched ... and used, fully compatible with all the new ResiDOS commands
[*]FORTH language, with support for multi-tasking, based ... -
Multi-tasking OS on the Spectrum?Do you think it is possible to build a multi-tasking operating system on the Spectrum? That is, most important the ability to have several task run…
... important the ability to have several task running "at the same time ... is of course easier, with the different processes choses to leave ... a real preemptive multitasking with a task schedulor that ... get back control from the process using the CPU?
The best ... beginning with "P"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "P", which do you think are the: [B]Bes…
... Finally, after the gaping desert of good games beginning with N or ... O, the Speccy strikes back with some great ... for me. A great game, with (for the time) amazing graphics, a ... People will probably say the Pawn, or the Price of Magic, but ...The Ultimate QuestIsometric game, point-and-click or Where-time-stood-still-style. The game could have just one map and several areas like in "The Great Escape" or a d…
... just one map and several areas like in "The Great Escape" or ... left of it. The game would start with you in your own ... clues with you and a map, talk to people, take the Tube ... Atlantis" in the point-and-click style and with digitised voice, but ...Morrissey Hits The Decks![url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/6427052/Morrissey-collapses-on-stage-during-concert.html[/url] [quote]The former Smiths fro…
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[quote]The former ... "Good evening... probably," before performing The Smiths' 1983 hit This Charming ... as he came to the end of the song his knees ... appearance in May on the Later... With Jools Holland TV show ...RIP Frodo the Rendering Beast, 2006-2010Please, no flowers :) Frodo died a couple of days ago whilst rendering a very-close-to-finished version of the 1990 chapter intro animation. Rather …
... close-to-finished version of the 1990 chapter intro animation. ... with the recent Christmas Special, as well as all website updates during ... that time (such as the massive 10th ... as much RAM to play with - quite looking forward to ...An evening in with the Speccy emulatorAfter a day at work which didn't exactly go according to plan, and after three weeks of disruption at home due to redecorating, the old soul needed a…
... needed a bit of revarnishing. With just the netbook to hand, I ... really become familiar with the map - for some reason the second part turns ... Yes Prime Minister, noticing the parallels with the current political scene 20 years ...The death of the SpectrumI was reflecting the other day about life and the significance of those interests that we develop during childhood. For many, its football or physic…
... and the significance of those interests that we develop during childhood ... but that was fine with us. The box art was often ... through our interactions with computers in the present of our ... but the keepers of the archive. The childhoods that we carry with us ...Help and Advice with DivIDE PlusHi Guys, Really struggling to get any reliable actiivty with my DivIDE Plus and am looking for some pointers. I am trying to get it to work with on…
... 1 attached. With DivIDE Plus plugged fully into the IO Bus, ... resets the Spectrum. I've tried holding down SPACE during power ... state ends up with:
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[*]the Residos message at ... "Issue 4B". With DivIDE Plus plugged fully into the IO Bus, ...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…
... - we had a room with the National Museum of Computing, a ... around and do things even during the busiest times.
... a BBC Micro, several small kids enjoying the Vectrex and Manic ...
Old DOS PCs - loaded with the favorite death match games of ...The best Explorer (file manager, not browser) replacement for Windows?There's a stack of utilities that claim to make Windows faster, or more reliable, or easier to use, but one type I've never really bothered with is t…
... 've never really bothered with is the replacement file manager. These ... people to come to terms with the lack of a GUI ... wanted it to, with no problems. The only things offhand that ... open up several instances of Explorer++, just like you can with the normal ...The Sinclair ZX Microdrive Resurrection Project (long)Dear Spectrum fans! [Management summary: Download [url]http://www.bartheld.net/temp/mdv2img.zip[/url] and tell me what you think. All help very much…
... good contact with the drive head with my tweezers, the foam literally ... this is rarely the case, just once during my tests:
with. The games cartridge refused to load ... you should get the Termite terminal along with the Logfile and Hexview ...Strange behavior of program compiled with HiSoft BASICA while ago I experimented with HiSoft BASIC 128 (1.2) and compiled [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=683349&postcount=140"]…
... test. All the emulators I tried it with loaded the game regularly while ... emulating the 128K/+2 ... a listing of the BASIC loading/calling program several times before running ...A few mods I've done over the years to my Spec 128k+Hello, Was a bit bored and decided to upload a few pics and sound files from my Spectrum 128k+ I've been tinkering around with over the past several …
... 've been tinkering around with over the past several years hehe.
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The AY stereo circuit I built ... jpg[/IMG]
The rear with stereo jack and Stereo mode ... the game as well. Here are the Mp3's of each, starting with ...opiinions requiredI'm currently writing a science/fanasy tale with the theme being based on the sins of the father being passed down onto the daughter (Jeremy Kyle'd h…
... fanasy tale with the theme being based on the sins of the father ... mess swept under the carpet Several years later, the resulting off spring ... mouthing off during/before a fight and the very first to ... and that the former king did the business (with a demnic ...
