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3 missing Your Sinclair "write-in" programsIn this context a Your Sinclair "write-in" is a type-in program listing where YS made such a mess of printing it that it was unusable and, as they di…
... Your Sinclair "write-in" is a type-in program listing where YS ... correctly, readers had to write in to get the correct listing ... of over 200 listings published in Your Sinclair, only three come ... )
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British telecom game I think or what ever they were called in 80sI am looking for a game way back in mid 80s that was a walkthrough adventure collecting items and going through phone portals by dialling in numbers …
I am looking for a game way back in mid 80s that was a walkthrough adventure collecting items and going through phone portals by dialling in numbers any help??? -
More reasons for publishers to deny distribution...Hi, I just bumped into this : [url="http://thebiggdev.blogspot.com/2005/09/creativity-is-unnecessary.html"]http://thebiggdev.blogspot.com/2005/09/cr…
... Creativity is Unnecessary
In talking to many people about ... ?Welltris?, a ?Tetris? clone in a well where the pieces ... can just do a straight port with updated graphics, like the ... the internet is like being in the special olympics, even ... -
Rest in PeaceRonnie Barker. May he find peace with you in Heaven. Fork 'andles!
Ronnie Barker.
May he find peace with you in Heaven.
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Worst Collision Detection & Colour Clash in gamesSorry if this as been mentioned before but i did do a search ;) In a recent discussion with a friend we talked about probs with the older games such…
... do a search ;)
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Name that game number 23,843,342 in a seriesHello! Name this game please, so I can play it later. OK, I'm not sure if you could select your screen colours but as far as I remember it by default…
... because it was in 3D.
You were in a craft of ... learnt to read the game in Cetan, but can't remember ... -
A spectrum, in a museum!Massive apologies if this has been touched on before but I was at a Museum in Newcastle last week and they had a Sinclair C5, a ZX81 and a Rubber-key…
... I was at a Museum in Newcastle last week and they ... a Rubber-key 48k Spectrum in glass cases.
They ... weird amstrad thing with built in monitor which looked the way ... makers thought computers would look in the year 2000.
Spin / Emuzwin and reading keys with IN in BasicIt's just a bit of a quirk I've found really, but here goes... Some of the Basic programes and games I've encountered lately , use IN to read the ke…
... 've encountered lately , use IN to read the keys. I ... got the Gauntlet editor type-in from Program Pitstop at [ ... as the program uses IN. I tried it in Realspec and Emuzwin ... (there were some bugs in it, so I had ... use the editor in Spin, but can in the other emus ...An idea for a keyboardHi guys, I was just thinking there just now (first time for everything). I was thinking about an AT keyboard on the Speccy. I remember a few peopl…
... for projects like building Speccys in tower cases and the ... a bit of a pain in the ass to build.< ... levels. The scanning routines was in the Speccy 128 and + ... serves correctly but was removed in the +3 (+2A/B ... output on the Speccy RS232 port which could be used ...divIDE issuesI discovered a few issues with the divIDE hardware and FATware software that may be of interest to some people. 1. ROM paging If your Spectrum is a…
... still cause it to page in and so must be avoided ... memory bank that normally sits in 0x8000-0xBFFF by paging that ... bank in at 0xC000-0xFFFF. This works ... device mounted over the USB port.
Still, overall I ...Sonar Salvage incorrect link in archiveOn the page for Sonar Salvage by Hitech, there are links to a solution printed in Sinclair User. However, as far as I can tell that is for a game cal…
... links to a solution printed in Sinclair User. However, as far ... of pointing out this error in the archive so I decided ... be best.
Also in the archive Sonar Salvage is ... isn't.
Further, in the archive for Cronosoft's ...The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …
... and we may get more in the future, as it ... seems this system was used in Ocean and many other ... sources. Unfortunately, no changes in such a way are yet ... the assembled object is dumped in the PC's hard ... be done capturing the serial port (COM1) by software. It ...New Doctor Who Mini Episode for Children in NeedIt had to happen. Russel T. Davies is penning a mini episode of Doctor Who featuring just The Doctor and Rose that will be set between the end of th…
... part of this years children in need.
Just as ... not as bad as dimensions in time!Look what I picked up in town...Was looking for one of these for ages. Saw them on amazon.co.uk, but never got round to buying one, then I was in Debenhams today and found one in t…
... buying one, then I was in Debenhams today and found one ... in the kids section for ?10 :)< ...ZX computing scans in the archiveHi, I was looking for a couple of issues of Zx computing in the archive that I used to own, but they don't appear to have been added yet. One had a …
... of issues of Zx computing in the archive that I used ...IDE interface emulation request (yet another one) Simple, 8-bit IDE interface emulation for interface described here: [url="http://piters.tripod.com/zx.htm"]http://piters.tripod.com/zx.htm[/url] …
... will be OK.
Port addresses are: (Spectrum 48/128 ... interface emulation - maybe change of port addresses will be enough? Is ... ? What about define of IDE port addresses in INI/CFG file?
in ROM can be little simpler ...ROM change without reset in RealSpecCan it be done somehow? Don't see in manual... Just don't ask why I need it :)
Can it be done somehow? Don't see in manual...
Just don't ask why I need it :)Externally emulating hardwareThere's been several threads onlong the lines of "can somebody add emulated hardware X to emulator Y"? What would be useful is if emulator writers c…
... hardware that could be 'plugged in' to any compliant emulator.
port and a ROMBox that I ...Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) mentions the Spectrum in his book!I just finished reading Nick Mason's "Inside out: a personal history of Pink Floyd". Entertaining reading. The book ends with a chronology of events …
... Mason's wit: it begins in 1943 with the birth of ... Wright and Waters, and ends in 2005 with the Live 8 ...Hidden piccy in Cylu loading screen.I was looking at the eggs at [url="http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#"]http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#[/url] and I was wondering about …
... Jabba person who pops up in some of the screens ... is ...Hidden text in Bounder.Long story short: I had forgotten the name of a game I played close to 2 decades ago. I remembered that there was a ball in the game but more import…
... that there was a ball in the game but more importantly ... remembered there were characters "hidden" in the "landscape" of the game ... of the game are "hidden" in level 2.
The ...LENSLOK CRACKED IN EVERY INSTANCEKnocked the whole lot out in about fifteen minutes. Good to know I've still got it!! Incidentally I also downloaded Jewels of Darkness and Price of …
Knocked the whole lot out in about fifteen minutes. Good to ...DarkStar.tzx in Spectaculator 6.25Hi all I think I have found a bug in Spectaculator. Darkstar.tzx(OriginalRelease) wiil not not load. DarkStar.tap loads The DarkStar Re-release t…
... I have found a bug in Spectaculator.
Darkstar.tzx ... loads
DarkStar loads in other emulators
When ...Mag scans in the archiveI know that if you change the page number of the scan you'll get the next page, but a lot of the time with multi-page reviews only the first page is …
... first page is linked to in the archive.
See Firefly ... chance of this being fixed in future? I think it's ...Quazatron/ParadroidI've never played Quazatron on the Spectrum and I've never played Paradroid on the C64 either. I was thinking of firing up Quazatron on the Speccy, b…
... just a poor man's port of a C64 game then ... stand up as a game in its own right, or is ...Game with 12939 in it.Hey ... I just had a flashback ... what game had the word PEPSI in it? I remember that it was in 3D and might have been either Mercenary or Virus. …
Hey ... I just had a flashback ... what game had the word PEPSI in it? I remember that it was in 3D and might have been either Mercenary or Virus.
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:)Fuse on the GP2XDidn't spot any thread with mention of the GP2X in the title, so here's a quick link that a mate of mine showed me: [url="http://wiki.gp2x.org/index.…
... with mention of the GP2X in the title, so here's ... Ost is working on a port of [url="http://photobucket.com ...lost game in archiveHello. I have one doubts. I do not obtain to find in the archives of the Spectrum, a game that I have the certainty that I played called Vulcano or V…
Hello. I have one doubts. I do not obtain to find in the archives of the Spectrum, a game that I have the certainty that I played called Vulcano or Volcano, but was a game of flippers. Who to know some thing or has this game contacte me for the email.Why did the Commodore 64 lose to the Spectrum in the UK?The Commodore 64 was released in the UK in 1983. As we all know, it was a great machine from a US company with a much larger financial backing than t…
... Commodore 64 was released in the UK in 1983. As we all ... ?50 overnight. Suddenly the difference in price between the two was ... happened. There was genuine surprise in the industry when the Spectrum ... 84. The overall sales figures in 1985, arguably the most ...
