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Happy New YearOK so I'm a little drunk now - but I'd just like to add my appreciation to this great website. It's great to see the Spectrum still alive.I've just b…
... /> And lets not exclude our eight-bit-brothers in the Amstrad ... from this new years greeting! Eight bit fans, unite in celebration ... ! Three cheers to all eight bit computers! May they live ... classics of all the old eight bit classics on the computers ... -
Original 128 Part 2: The KeysMy 128 appears to work fine. The keys all have perfect responsiveness. All except keys 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. These five number keys don't work at all. E…
... the keys were divided into eight blocks of
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What game stopped you from venturing out to play with your matesFrom the topics on here it seems most of us are in our late 20's or 30s possibly 40s so most of us will have been playing spectrum games when we was …
... was memorable. One evening at eight on a normal weekday I ... -
what spec pc are you running your speccy emulator onAll them giga hertz and bytes and what do i do with it mainly...play speccy games and old arcade games.. What spec pc do you have at the moment? I up…
... UK WoS mirror archive 4 feet and 10Mbps away from me ... -
Quiz II - Son of QuizA small quiz that covers mostly Spectrum stuff, with the odd C64 question - extend your knowledge. Copy/paste into a reply - add your answers in the…
... tube stations, 126,720 square feet of London". Name the Game ... -
Quiz II - Son of QuizA small quiz that covers mostly Spectrum stuff, with the odd C64 question - extend your knowledge. Copy/paste into a reply - add your answers in the…
... tube stations, 126,720 square feet of London". Name the Game ... -
Quizzical 1 - Wots the story?Hokay, here it is then. My first go at setting a quiz on this forum. A few quick things first: * Post ur replies HERE only! * Try and NOT copy the…
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Reset switch.
Retractable feet.
Cheaper... fell to ... -
pics of people who visit wos :)hi everybody, how about having pics of people who visit world of spectrum :) octave
... advice for future reference, your feet go in the end with ... -
speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... 2 colorsa per the next eight, and then the old 2 ... -
speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... 2 colorsa per the next eight, and then the old 2 ... -
what was the best ultimate game?i think ultimate made some of the finest games on the spectrum but which game was their best? For me it has to be Atic Atac,its still a game i play o…
... bit too monotone - and Alien Eight plus Sabre Wulf just follow ... )Sabre Wulf
:cool:Alien Eight
9)NightShade
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FoonI've recently discovered Foon, which is a Speccy emulator that runs on the Gameboy Advance. I have used it with a GBA emulator to try and get a feel…
... then again, even a mere eight megabytes can hold a hell ... -
Ebayers Please Help !!! (MIA/STP/SDP)Hi folks, Most of you who will read this are probably already aware that there are many of the above titles floating around on Ebay. However I simpl…
... to lie squarely at the feet of the buyers, they are ... -
Looking for a Spectrum emulator which supports multi-button joysticksHello, I'm very new to the Spectrum Emulation game, and have tried a few, my favorite being X128. However, I play my games on a 4 button joypad, and…
... rule. Mightily. I use an eight-button joypad (like a generic ... -
What is a Kempston joystick?Just a quick question from an ignorant Commodore user (what, a Commodore user on this sacred ground? Relax, I'm a fan of all 8-bits, including the wo…
... , at least in the lower eight bits) to drive their extended ... -
Best joystickWhat was your best joystick to use for the Speccy? Mine would have to go to the Atari VCS original. This was a joystick that could live thru just ab…
... , and of course suction-cup feet.
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Cutest Speccy character in the world, etc, etc...Yup, I know we're all sick of these 'I like this game' and 'how do YOU wipe your arse?' polls, but I thought I'd chuck in my ha'penny... Cutest char…
The running farmer in Chuckie Egg.
His running is more like a Flintstone run.
Fast moving feet, but no forward motion.
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Spectrum helpHello all I run a website which is some sort of community/game information hybrid. It's dedicated to most gaming platforms (currently 62 of them). I…
Well, you could add the later models as well.
And the Spectrum has fifteen colours, not eight.
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250,000 games on ebay - 2nd chance ??hi guys , thanks for all your help in the past few days , watching over the auction , it was quite exciting at the end ................until the winn…
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Celebrity Deathmatch- Manic Miner vs Jet Set WillySince the two games have come up in this forum recently, it has made me think back to how imaginative they were, and how much fun they were to simply…
... in JSW.
+ MM has eight block-types to JSW's ... room can have up to eight guardian-instances of any types ... -
Demo effectsRight, erm, first of all, since this post is about demos, it's possibly not right to post it in the Games forum, but it didn't seem right posting it …
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What is your worst Speccy related memory?We've had the good times, but there were bad times too. I will give you two choice cuts from my back catalogue... Over at a friends house, wanting to…
... loaded in stage eight (the last level). Stage eight turned out to ... never got to see stage eight until ten years later (under ... -
Dynamite Dan 2hello in the last island(8)does anyone know where you are supposed to put the time bomb?.i have tried everywhere to place it on different platforms …
... /> "Once you've collected the eight elements of the password and ... -
Game Controllers I'm wondering if SE Basic will have abilities to recieve input from joysticks. It's just that i've thought of a crazy new idea...
My feet hurt though. Too much of it. Or perhaps it was that mad arcade game I played on at the local Arcades... -
THE BEST EMU'I've beem using ZX32 for about a year now.However,certain ROMS such as Double Dragon 1 or Phantomas will not run with this emulator.Is there another,…
... , the purest movement of the eight bit phenomenon. I was king ... -
Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …
... and fauna tear at your feet.^{7}Exits lead up and ... out the Village while 2000 feet directly below you lies a ... -
unreleased games and beta versionsAre there any alternative beta versions of games, or games that were never released at all in the archive. I dont seem to be able to find any. There …
... the machine; getting more than eight sprites with flexibility, scrolling the ... -
unreleased games and beta versionsAre there any alternative beta versions of games, or games that were never released at all in the archive. I dont seem to be able to find any. There …
... are at least seven or eight thousand individual games though...I ... -
Searching for one more game with spherical robot shooting laserI am sorry for flooding the forum with questions, but I just remembered another game I want to play again. In this game I control a Sphere shaped rob…
... (they were still finding their feet after all in this brave ...