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Comparing the old and new site design - my feedbackHello folks, As a regular visitor to the WOS site, I would like to offer a little feedback on the new-look design. I hope you won't take offence t…
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• Game pages: The game's title at the top of the ... the green button at the bottom which takes you back to the top of the ... annoying. The jump to the top should ... the Spectrum's blue, which made the site feel more connected to the Speccy. The ... -
The Dilemma Of ModernityHere's one to ponder, gang. My current jam is Bear Bovver played at 2x speed in Spectaculator (music off, obv). What was always a decent but slugg…
... the place enjoying the environment and the gameplay at the speed it would have gone ... at if the programmers had had the power to ... the dramatic to the minor but significant fixes? The recoloured/redrawn Donkey Kong, or the ... -
The House that WOS Built.Yes time for some analogies ( and some DAMP SQUIBS thrown "into the mix" of course! ) In Britain ( at least up to the time when bad construction…
... Britain ( at least up to the time when bad construction ... to be married ) women would go "into a state of rapture" about the ... their new prospective kitchen in the new house they were to ... be "built to damp" or finished off to the "nth" ... -
The "Fun" of old equipment...Warning to others with the Alphacom 32.So I manage to slowly rebuild my spectrum, and a part of that is getting a new printer. The Brother printer I once had is no more, and I don't want t…
... don't want to drive from the Interface 1 again, ... a few "magic" words to accompany the problem, and my wife ... they built this so close to the spec. And with 40 ... what it's supposed to have, the diodes are at ... anyone else hits the same problem, check to see what ... -
Has anyone watched Expedition Back to The Future?At 31:04 of episode 2: https://imgur.com/sD0ZdR3 And a quote from a New York times article from June 20, 1983: "Sir Clive Sinclair, founder of …
... of Sinclair Electronics, may buy the closed DeLorean sports-car plant ... in Belfast to manufacture an electric car" -
Sonic The Hedgehog At 30.I stumbled across this on the BBC earlier :- [url="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57566746"]https://bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57566746[/url] …
... the Comet stores are long gone from the high streets of the UK. As the ... boggling to my young 11 year old mind at the time. The backgrounds ... out of the water games console came to my ownership, the Sony Playstation ... -
Were the full Sinclair Loki specs ever actually known?I was just curious. A lot was leaked to the media, but the exact specs seem different depending on source. Some say it could support up to 512x256 an…
... lot was leaked to the media, but the exact specs seem different ... 768x212. Still others say similar to the Spectrum with 80 columns ( ... but would have gone to 14 no doubt with the later Z80's ... and RISC optimisation to the instruction set to speed it up... ... -
Paging for 64Kb of Video Ram??? What is the best way to page this?Hi all, I'm just putting together a concept card for a "Loki" style of video card, which supports shadow ( so it fits a normal Speccy ) and also t…
... with RAM relocated to the ROM space? Use the existing 16K as ... you can get the internal MMU to handle the pages however you ... is the allow the 48K screen ( 256x192 or 512x192 ) to occupy the lower ... . This would allow the video card to have two separate screens ... -
Been to the Cinema recently?Honestly the last thing I think I seen was True Lies, unless Lord of the Rings Part One came out later? Yeah, it was LOTR I think. Anyway decades ag…
... 't leave yer house except to walk the dog and shop and ... requirements for cinemas (in the UK) to show the latest studio releases, or ... cinema chains have some requirement to distribute the big Hollywood blockbusters, or ... -
UDG creation? Back to the basics.I just discovered that I have a program called TILED in my download folder and it might be the very tool I need except that I dont think it can expor…
... folder and it might be the very tool I need ... dont think it can export the results as UDG's ... !" mode and even the manuals seem harder to understand. Well I ... will get myself back into the swing of UDG creation if ... its the last thing I do.< ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... :29 Johnny Cash Delia’s Gone
13:14 Mojo Nixon ... years
35:12 The The I Saw the Light
37:17 ... Cannibal Corpse Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead
2:40 ... Thorogood Bad to the Bone
3:25:14 Blondie Rapture
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How to use SPECTRUM emulator for playstationAnybody got an idea how to add roms to the SPECTRUM emulator for the playstation? I burn the .exe on the cd and it works fine with built-in game, but…
... to add roms to the SPECTRUM emulator for the playstation? I burn the .exe on the ... 't been able to find ANY instructions regarding to this emulator... Thanks ... -
Can I convert a sna to a real tape ?Hi I just want to know if there is a way to convert a spectrum files for emulator to a real tape that I can load to my real spectrum. Or convert a r…
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I just want to know if there is a way to convert a spectrum files for emulator to a real tape that I can load to my real spectrum. Or convert a real zx files to the emulator ?
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Getting the ball rolling againOkay things have been a bit stale in comparison to what this forum used to be like. Too many fallouts and it is getting harder to think of new threa…
... in comparison to what this forum used to be like. ... popular games making it to the big screen i.e ... try this in the 80's when the Speccy was at ... />
So here's the challenge - your a big buff ... what Speccy game to you want to convert to the big screen and ... -
Bug in Nemesis the WarlockI've noticed a bug in Nemesis the Warlock that prevents the game from being completed. On level 7, both on the 48K and 128K versions, the sprite repr…
... and will be confined to the lower part of the screen. It is ... Multiface to alter the code in order to ensure proper running of the program ... it enough before shipping it to the market.
Alessandro
HELP ! What was the game ?Hi I'm new to the spec emulator and loving the return of retro . Iv'e managed to identify and retrieve a number of games I once had but one I cannot …
... m new to the spec emulator and loving the return of ... retro . Iv'e managed to ... was an impressive (For the Speccy) death sequence ... gt; You had to plant bombs in the main colony hives ... so this involved locating the Queen "Bee" and plant ...The Broken Links...well, i can say that this is the biggest database related to spectrum in the WORLD! it's updated at least one time per week, etc.... anyway, i've see…
... that this is the biggest database related to spectrum in the WORLD! it ... saying that most of the games in the Archieve have broken links ... , if you look just on the left of any games name ... , and you'll be taken to the WOS search, and as you ...How often is the MIS list updated?I may have some games on the MIS list. How often is the MIS list updated at: [url]http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~as0aba/missing/MIS.html[/url] I don'…
... may have some games on the MIS list. How often is ... the MIS list updated at:
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I don't want to waste time TZXing stuff, when ... 's already been done, due to the pages not being updated.
Where has RETROSPEC gone ?Does anyone know what has happen to the RetroSpec website that was at [url="http://www.retrospec.co.uk."]www.retrospec.co.uk.[/url] That address has …
... anyone know what has happen to the RetroSpec website that was at ... site which has nothing to do with the Speccy.
Any ... help to clear up this mystery ...Spectrum kaput! HELP!Hi! I've had a Speccy since 1988. The only problem is that it went dead 6 years ago! ...Or atleast it seems to have.If I switch it on now, all I get…
... Is it dead? Has the keyboard gone to north pole? Is there something ... wrong with the wiring? Is ... you are smart enought to know wot the problem is, sitting ... point in telling me to march off to the nearest "old computers" ...Spectrum collecting and nostalgia.I have recently started to buy and collect old Spectrum games and thought that it would be easy, but easy it is not. Well I say not because on auctio…
... /> Spectrum machines from the humble ZX81 through to the Spectrum +3 sell quite ... .
Has the fun and enjoyment gone out of modern day ... candy with the modern games?
Has the gameplay factor gone out of ...Which expansions can I attach to a +2A?I have several peripherals that I would like to connect to a +2A: an Interface 1 with Microdrive, a +D disk interface and kempston joystick interface…
... that I would like to connect to a +2A: ... to the +2A slot, due to differences in the chassis with respect to ... they get damaged/damage the computer? I haven' ... />
Especially the if1 and the +d, since they are ... so rare, I wouldn't like to ...slightly different question - how long ago did you pack away the speccy ?if at all ;) personally I think I was about 19 when it, and all the games, went into storage - SNES and PCs etc took over. I'm 32 now, and only in …
... when it, and all the games, went into storage ... have I made the effort to locate an emulator ... and retry all my old favourites on the ... PC (big thanks to the people who ... least 13 years for the later games and doing ...Can someone please help me with the name of this game?It is set side on, with two chaps dress as knights. They are facing each other, attached by their backs to the wall with a length of elastic or rope.…
... other, attached by their backs to the wall with a length of ... pulled back towards the wall.
You have to hit a ... ball around the arena, trying to knock each ... a sword type thing to collect the ball from the air, aim and ...All hail Queen Elizabeth the queen Mother.Our thoughts turn to Buckingham Palace at this sad time. She will be remembered for her lively spirit and for her strength of character. If not for h…
... to the character demostrated, Sir Clive had the opportunity to bring to us all the little ... about her importance to the UK, he called her "the most dangerous woman ... :08 ]
To Sharopolis: The suggestion of the MBE was almost certainly ...SPIN Public Beta 0.1b Available for downloadHi all, back again, and as just recently announced on CSS, SPIN has been updated. Here's the post to CSS (or the relevant parts): It's been a bu…
... been updated. Here's the post to CSS (or the relevant parts):
new stuff gone into SPIN, so grab a ... [/url]
is the package to download. There's no windows ... or no cost to the speed of the emulator, and the
TZX support ...ANNOUCE: Spin Public Beta 0.1d now availableWell, after the overwhelming response to the previous announcement here on WOS Forums, I thought I'd best post that SPIN 0.1d is up. Here's the CSS …
Well, after the overwhelming response to the previous announcement here on ... a bit of work gone into it. The biggest thing from my ... option.
Added CSW Support to the TZX loader.
Known non ... now.
Added more features to the +3 fdc code - most edsks ...A question about the game \"Hostages\"Hello. I've finally managed to get a copy of "Hostages" running on my emulator, but I get stuck on the first level/scene, where you have to place th…
... on the first level/scene, where you have to ... place three snipers on a certain location. I do get the ... sniper to the right place, but ... and thus can only control the first one.
< ... know how you shift between the three characters?
< ...The name gameHere's one I remembered, seeing that post about hostages... Please help me find out what it is. I checked out, and it is not hostages. First of all …
... a building, in order to get to the top and rescue tons ... away on a helicopter. The bad guys do not ... . As your men travels to the top, they drop things on ... control an aiming mark around the screen, with which you ... aim and shoot the baddies.
...Someone knows the name of this game ?I remember an old game of kung-fu where in the first 3 or 4 screen you played against another man and after you played with two kung-fu men. I rememb…
... of kung-fu where in the first 3 or 4 ... to beat the other and those moves were corrispondent to the number 1 to ... 4 of the keyboard.
< ... br /> Another indication is that the ...
