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Ognom - What's this game about?I've been mapping the game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0016326&loadpics=3"]Ognom[/URL] and have finished 99 out of 100 scr…
... Spanish-speaking WoSser please read through the text and tell me (broadly ... through and kills me if he touches me but if I exit ... and re-enter the room he doesn ... and when I walk through him he disappears (the attrib is cleared ... -
Some TR-DOS technical questionsHi forum, I sincerelly hope this was the right section of yours to ask this kind of stuff in. (else return facepalm;) Anyway, here's a couple of que…
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Graphics: What is the point of ...... actually, let me apologize for such a stupid vague thread title, I so wanted to avoid this but the whole sentence I wanted to write is just way t…
... as it might fool the uninitiated/uninformed viewer into ...
Well-known examples are the screens between levels in Speccy ... screenshots on websites to show the graphical capabilities of a ... animated GIF that alternates/cycles through the different 2 or 3 ...Jumping the sharkBored again, so "inspired" by a post on a forum I read last week (can't find the link, I'm at work now), here's a list of programs that I think have …
... 's all so contrived, the sets, the styles, the people, everything.
the shark". The quality of the program was very high all through the two ... seasons, and never let up, but the last episode, containing the ...Bargain - ?15m and the Pope will call roundHis Holiness the Pope, former Nazi youth and leader of the richest organization in history (in terms of both wealth and land ownage), is visiting Br…
... plus whatever the cost of the Police, all of the organisation, etc ... Good job this countries going through the biggest financial boom in ... place, mostly during the many wars that the church supported.
the wealth to the poor, instead they ...So you need to double (or triple, or quadruple) the clock speed...No particular reason for posting this, other than I was looking at an eZ80 evaluation board that does this, and that jogged my memory of a project I'…
... together off chip and passed through the low pass filter).
the circuit just floats.
Pass these through a low ... the output from the circuit, the top trace is the 8MHz output from the VCO, the ...Help with the name of a FilmI remember back in the mid 90's i saw a film one night but cant remember what it was called but do remember bits of it and was wondering if anyone wo…
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Later on the main kid and his friend ... steal a piece of the councillors Harley Davidson so ... later scene the kid takes the Harley and rides it through the cornfields i ... think he may have had his friend on the ...Ebay geek help - did i do the right thing?right i aint an ebay geek, ive barely ever used it, i dont know the ettiquette etc anyway recently i bought a cardiacs cd.......cheap (the seller is…
... a cardiacs cd.......cheap (the seller is the record label) it was ... flimsy plastic sleeve rather than the usual cd box, but obviously ... left neutral feedback stating the good bits, plus the bad bit
through the letterbox so i didnt have ...Computing: the next 25 yearsWe saw the birth of the 8086 microprocessor which introduced Space Invaders to the arcades. Zilog Z80's microprocessor was released as a cheaper alte…
... introduced Space Invaders to the arcades. Zilog Z80 ... to-head with the release of the 6502 microprocessor ... the BBC microcomputer and the Commodore 64.
We then lived through the ... birth of the 16 bit microprocessor, thanks ...Games you can walk through...In the thread: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30506&page=2[/URL] the topic drifts onto games such as Airwulf or Roboco…
... advance which route through the screen will work. The original Manic Miner ... get the shields. The only problem is knowing the date of the history ... win (well, go back through the game again, as there is ... lesser men can barely get through the first few stages of ...Chuck your speccy through the window momentsInspired by my recent playthrough of Bully on the Wii. I completed a mission first try and then the game crashed. I then failed to do this mission fo…
... recent playthrough of Bully on the Wii. I completed a ... to some frustrating moments on the spectrum. Of course it ... Dizzy mis-timing the jump over the collapsing bridge. The bridge would remain ... collapsed for the rest of the game, rendering it ...New feature: copy previous query to the next query fieldAnother old request: the option to let Infoseek copy your previous query into the query box, like Google does. This is now possible, configured throu…
Another old request: the option to let Infoseek copy your previous query into the query box, like Google does.
This is now possible, configured through the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekconfig.cgi"]usual config facility[/URL].The laws surrounding nudity at homeOur office block faces a row of Victorian terraced houses, and occasionally one of the residents will appear at their bedroom window wearing nothing …
... and occasionally one of the residents will appear at ... an interesting debate on where the resident stands legally.
... parties could conceivably see you through the window?
... for example, opening the door naked to the postman/delivery driver/ ...Some more 419 fun fresh from the spam folderErm from Eva Desmond apparently? [quote]Hello My name is Eve Desmond, I saw your profile today through the help of chamber of commerce in ouagadoug…
... , I saw your profile today through the help of chamber of commerce ...
THE NATIONAL DAILIES.
THE WINNERS WAS SELECTED THROUGH ELECTRONIC BALLOTING ... apply after all "The winners was selected through electronic ballot system" so ...Super Stick ManBeen thinking about doing a weird platformer for a while now, but since I have zero programming knowledge, and a modicum of drawing skills, I thought…
... just single screens for wandering through the arcade machines, and you'll ... your way out of the machines, through the rest of the arcade (naff jackpot ... deal machine, cheap cafe then exit past the grabbing machines...)
Games you had at the time, but didn't appreciate until laterThere are a few Speccy games that I had at the time, but didn't realise how playable they were until many years later when I took a fresh look. A co…
... that I had at the time, but didn't ... org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003957"]The Pyramid[/URL] - I had ... this as part of the [I]Soft Aid[/I] ... rewards your skill with progression through the pyramid's chambers.
... thought nothing of this at the time, having got it ...Psi Ops - The Mindgate Conspiracy is now free for PC owners!Psi Ops, a very good game indeed, has been made freely downloadable for PC users. It's a third person shooter, where you play a soldier who through t…
... play a soldier who through the course of the game can not only ... long, and is one of the few action games with a ... />
I've not played the PC version, but it's ...The good old days (what do you honestly miss)?I was reading a post on Gamefaqs where the author was saying how modern games were better than older games, and even though that's just his opinion (…
... times more rubbish when flicking through the hundreds of modern day channels ... as a result. On the other hand, the predominance of supermarkets has ... like PC Zone in the late 90s (the only example I ... analogies, so fill in the blanks yourself. The first one is a ...Anyone played the Terminator FPS game(s)?I don't mean the modernish (XBox/PS2) third person games, but the original DOS first person shooter? The subject came around to FPS games today, and …
... PS2) third person games, but the original DOS first person shooter ... games today, and we regressed through the years and someone mentioned a ... I seem to remember going through a wrecked landscape with fallen ... s more interesting to post the question here, plus I ...The rescue of a coil.The problem at hand was a known defect transformer from the switching convertor inside a Spectrum. Both windings are not interrupted and not intercon…
... must have gone through the primary (larger) winding of the transformer. This current ... the next turn. As the outside of the coil is cooled at the air, the ... meltdown is on the ...The Hungry Horace is no more.....Yep with regret i have to inform you all the cafe located in forfar, once called the hungry horace, has been renovated and now goes by the name of...…
... have to inform you all the cafe located in forfar, ... once called the hungry horace, has been ... goes by the name of........ the fab roll inn, passed through the high street ... for the first time in ages ...Willy Meets The BeatlesHere's the almost complete release of Willy Meets The Beatles, which you can download from [URL="http://www.sendspace.com/file/55ps31"]HERE![/URL] T…
... complete release of Willy Meets The Beatles,
which you ... excellent music needs adding to the final version too!
... up.
Notes:
The screens may appear rather linear ... take Willy back and forth through the screens. This does mean that ...Just bought specs online for the first timeAny spec-chums bought prescription glasses online? I took the plunge and bought some prescription glasses online tonight from [url]www.glassesdirect…
... online?
I took the plunge and bought some prescription ... simply got fed up paying through the nose for them in high ... Expert that takes ?20 off the total bill:
[url ... you all posted on how the glasses turn out when they ...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…
... BASIC transferred from the PC to the Speccy and back ... all but affected the hardware, the cartridges themselves to ... " or copied through the layers of tape on the spindle, lowering ... Which means that the filesystem itself (=the logical structure between sectors ...Way of the Exploding Fist vs The FutureFighting Games - 'Back in the Day' I really enjoyed Way of the Exploding Fist as it was a real attempt to simulate a sporting fight. From a quick sca…
... ' I really enjoyed Way of the Exploding Fist as it was ... fight. From a quick scan through the games on later computers and ... looks to me as if the cartoony fighting games with special ...Text Adventures through Facebook; advice please!I've started doing what I call text adventures (but would really fall under the category of role-playing) with friends through the chat on Facebook, …
... of role-playing) with friends through the chat on Facebook, whereby I ... boredom, depending on the players commands and the limits of my imagination ... gently, and they usually take the hint (If not, "Rocks ... on a desert island, the adventure pausing last night in ...Question about Spanish LnR in the archive, SPA2 again :)I have been going through the spanish issues of LnR and I have spotted a couple of original spanish programs wich are not listed on WoS yet. The thi…
I have been going through the spanish issues of LnR and ... on WoS yet.
The thing is that I dont ... already planned and its on the to-do list or just ...Odd versions of the Multiface One.I've been looking through the adverts for the Multiface One and it's clear that there were a number of versions available. Note the earliest advert …
... 've been looking through the adverts for the Multiface One and it ... YourComputer/Issue8510/Pages/YourComputer851000022.jpg]The first...[/url] ...which ... It's not until the middle of the January '86 adverts ... these old versions of the interface? The 2K RAM and ...Sending key presses to the spectrumfor a project I want to send automated keyboard presses to the ZX via a micro-controller. Is it possible to send these through the expansion slot? …
... send automated keyboard presses to the ZX via a micro- ... it possible to send these through the expansion slot?
... is referring to the ribbon connectors on the PCB for the keys, but ... etc for? are they the same ports as the keyboards?
Computer pranksAnyone ever play a computer prank on a friend, or had one played on you? Here's a few which will make you laugh that I did back in the day... In 19…
... the computer. We plonked the disk in the disk drive of the computer in the ... shop, and made a swift exit. The ... we stood outside the shop pissing ourselves with ... they swapped Spectrum cassettes through the post... He had ...
