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Manic miner question?Hiya, Hope you can help with this techie problem...well not a problem just curious. I am a big fan of Manic miner on the speccy, been playing for ye…
... vat" miner willy decides to jump when hes not supposed to ... -
YSRnRY Documentary - 1988 chapter now available for download23rd April 2007 is the 25th Anniversary of the launch of the Sinclair Spectrum! So, as part of those celebrations, here's the 1988 chapter of th…
... celebrate Christmas in April! And jump for joy as Ocean achieves ... -
WOS Server under heavy loadJust got a couple of "System Load Too High" responses - I guess a lot of people have heard about the 25th Anniversary and discovered WOS through the …
... couple of "System Load Too High" responses - I guess a lot ... -
ZXF11 now available!To celebrate 25 years of Spectrum computing, ZXF magazine has returned with a special celebratory issue! Before I give you the link, a couple of poi…
... file myself; in anticipation of high demand I've used quite ... high compression to reduce file size. ... available as a printed version (high resolution, of course) to buy ... -
ANNOUNCE: Jet Set Willy: Party Willy [Special Edition 2007]Today (23rd April) is the third anniversary of the full release of [i]Party Willy[/i], Daniela Hantuchov?'s 24th birthday, Nicole Vaidi?ov?'s 18th bi…
... room with a well-timed jump from the conveyor in "Matthew ... -
Z80 gamesHello, I am looking for the following in Z80 format... The Great Escape (best game ever made!) Run the Gauntlet Microprose Soccer Football Manager …
... Cup Edition
Eddie Kidd Jump Challenge
The Cult football ... -
Your views on... "V"What did you think of the game [B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="3"]V[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] from 1986? The highly popular tv series created a great hype around thi…
... a very nicely animated forward jump / roll, but I did never ... -
I have joined the Dark SideGone and bought a PS3 that is. Even after all of the posts I made about not getting one as they were so expensive I succumbed and sold my 360 (and o…
... one of the two main High Street gaming stores and was ... -
Aliens versus Predator (the games)We talk about other first person shooters on here, but we rarely mention AvP 1 or 2. I know these games didn't get the recognition that they deserved…
... know of could make you jump the way AvP did - even ... /screech cry, it made you jump.
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my big dateok so i mentioned the other week i joined a dating website. well anyway i had my first proper date on saturday. (from the site, not in my life) was a…
... back to her house got high and had sex. so all ... -
Danger Mouse in Double Trouble. Features ...Even though "[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001247"]Danger Mouse in Double Trouble[/URL]" does feature one (1, single) scree…
... . multiple screens) DM has to jump across alligator infested ponds, climb ... -
How did games started with LOAD "" CODE auto-start?Some early games (l remember for example [B]Galaxians[/B] from 1982) was loaded with LOAD "" CODE, which in one single block first loaded the loading…
... does the LOAD "" CODE command jump into game code and execute ... -
Too funny...I saw this the other day, but it was nowhere near this high... Thanks to speccy_abuser for redirecting my attention to it... [url]http://cgi.ebay.co…
... it was nowhere near this high...
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Scary Speccy games - are there any?Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you …
Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you jump?
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Blatant duplicationI got my first +2 around 1986 second hand bundled with the Sinclair Research game pack that included Oh Mummy! Disco Dan and Crazy Golf... One of th…
... the same sub game of jump the barrels. All for ?3 ... -
YSRnRY website - Keep the intro Flash animations?Heya, As part of the 10th Anniversary "thingy" on 16/08/07 (2 months. 514/51.), there are going to be a few tweaks to the website. Have a look at […
... 'm thinking of doing large, high-quality renders of various locations ... -
Best beginners guideHi folks One of the girls in work is looking towards learning the very basics(1) of programming. She has never written any type of program or even a…
... somewhere) and explained in very high level language what it was ... -
Daley Thompson's Decathlonhi I've been playing DTD a lot recently and I've managed a long jump of 9m 65 by jumping as soon as the line appears on the right, then holding the …
... I've managed a long jump of 9m 65 by jumping ... the right, then holding the jump key down until you've ... the normal speed during the jump.
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Disable onboard memoryWould this work...? Access to onboard I/O can be disabled by holding IORQGE high. Would it be possible to create a MEMRQGE in a similar way to disa…
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... the entire colony to be high in order to please Earth ... step is moving to the high level where we'll be ... -
Childhood strange obsessionsWell, off on a tangent from the white dog shit thread... there were the strange childhood obsessions which were pretty arbitrary and maybe a little o…
... lights, an "elk" was a high pressure sodium/mercury type with ... -
is the great british pub dying?the pub i went to last night has closed, the landladys leaving it cos her 6months lease is up and shes moving to portugal to run a pub. she said its …
... in britain now, due to high costs / overheads, beaurocracy, laws etc ... -
Best tennis gameI love playing [I]Match Point[/I]. 8-) In spite of being from 1984, having very simple graphics and poor sounds, it has a high playability; one of…
... poor sounds, it has a high playability; one of my favourite ... -
Fast internet connection ?[quote]75-year-old Sibritt L?thberg from Karlstad Sweden just got her first computer, but it didn't take her long to download all the necessary patch…
... into the internet at such high speeds.[/quote]
[quote ... able to download a full high-definition DVD in just two ... -
Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…
... affair with or without a jump key, or a simple maze ... -
Buying a new TV - any advice?My faithful ol' television has just ceased to be, become bereft of life, started pining for the fjords, etc, so I've got to get a new one, and I was …
... ? I don't care about High Definition, or picture in picture ... -
Collision detectionI understand the basic methods for testing for collisions but I have question about the trickier situation of testing for when shots hit the backgrou…
... shot occupies (ie. 4 lines high shots). If its not single ...
