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Reviving a Microdrive (and its notoriously fragile media)eBay has been getting a [i]lot[/i] of business out of me lately, which brings me to this... Context: some years ago I bought a job lot of Spectrum…
... supposed to be a foam pad on there holding the ... others - one has the pad a bit wonky, on another ... . Er... where's the foam pad gone?
To ... the bits of disintegrated foam pad (and probably give the ... didn't have a sponge pad in the mechanism at all ... -
Reviving a Konix Navigator joystickAaaaaaaaaaaand my next bit of required advice comes courtesy of another eBay package I've just received in the post this morning - with a Spectrum +3…
... right were either jammed or felt more like the nasty, dead ... -
Controllers... I'M A CONTROL FREAK!...to paraphrase the Volvo advert from about 20 years ago, for some variant of the 850/V70, if I remember rightly. Anyway, I wonder if it's possib…
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Arkanoid vs Giganoid (Amiga) - Which Is Best?Hi everyone and welcome to the December 2017 edition of the "Which Is Best?" and the last of the 2nd series (started back in Dec' 2015). Last month …
... 50 votes to 13, many felt the maze play on the ... -
Dredd Over EelsJust in time for Christmas, my brother has released another game based around a character from the pages of 2000AD......and Grud on a Greenie, this t…
... even use your favourite control pad by selecting 'Kempston' from the ... -
Gauntlet II vs Ranarama - Which Is Best?Hi everyone and welcome to the December 2017 edition of the "Which Is Best?" and the last of the 2nd series (started back in Dec' 2015). Last month …
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what do you play in spectacolGreetings. Just wondering what do you play on this android emu. I dont have a usb2go so i have to use the virtual pad. Been playing thanatos l…
Greetings.
Just wondering what do you play on this android emu. I dont have a usb2go so i have to use the virtual pad.
Been playing thanatos lately. You?
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Divmmc Future QuestionHi there, I have just bought a divmmc future from the wonderful tfw8bit and am enjoying it immensely. However I have 2 questions 1) Is it ok to use a…
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Started a dietRecently i've been piling on the pounds a bit (now up to 34 inch waistline) so decided to start eatling less and better. I've been on it a week, the…
... first couple of days i felt terrible, lethargic and no energy ... -
Is it a form of despondency or am I just now lazy?I know there are quite a lot of us 40 to 50 year oldies from the Spectrum era and I was wondering if anyone else felt this way? I seem to have the in…
... was wondering if anyone else felt this way? I seem to ... was wondering if anyone else felt the same or if anyone ... -
'The computer game' vs 'The Videogame'This may sound absurd I know, but for me the two things didn't always mean the same (...but do they?) :P Maybe I am being a bit biased (I started …
... a game it sounded - and felt - different from 'The Videogame' version ... -
Bit of fun Part Two - CPU SwapFollowing on from [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/56671/bit-of-fun-one-change-only/"]this topic[/url], I felt given the erm 'natu…
... -only/"]this topic[/url], I felt given the erm 'nature' of ... -
Use more than one fire button with a Divide?Greetings, I have recently purchased a Divide 2k14 that has an integrated joystick port and an activity led for said port, whenever I plug an Amst…
... an Amstrad gx4000 or Megadrive pad, the led comes on with ... -
SpecIde updated!Hi, all! In these past months I've been brushing up a bit my emulator, SpecIde, a.k.a. the least efficient emulator in the world. At this momen…
... , using a joystick or game pad connected to the PC. The ... -
Basic Broadband and LandlineJust want some thoughts on this I have been with my current UK provider now for ten years, and my flat fee went up £10 per month last year, and is…
... . Then when I said I felt with the rise in price ... very high. Just had not felt able to do so before ... -
Was this normal or a bit odd?I just wanted a few thoughts on something that happened a few years back when I had to attend a psychotherapy group. Its probably too far back to mak…
... no longer present. Eventually I felt the group was too non ... -
We need 8 new Chuckie Egg levels - any takers?Will someone PLEASE create 8 new level layouts on Chuckie Egg for the speccy!!! There must be someone out there that could do this, I know there i…
... of what most of us felt over Chuckie Egg 2, let ... -
Is Sabre Wulf a bit naff?Go on, I'm feeling controversial. I have never, ever liked Sabre Wulf. It looks pretty nice but even back in the day I found it a tedious and frus…
... tight, boring corridors. Atic Atac felt more structured and explorable than ... -
Discussing Octav1us's breasts?I was watching her live stream where someone asked her if she had played a certain speccy game yet, and she said she hadn't and lamented that she had…
... a Remax logo since, I felt sick to my stomach, even ... a conclusion necessarily, I just felt it was a talking point ... -
Madam Blavskja's Carnival Macabre 48KEighteen years ago to the day, Adban de Corcy (in real life: Fabián Álvarez López) released a beautiful Jet Set Willy game called “Madam Blavskja’s C…
... I first played it, I felt distressed and upset that the ... this fine adventure ;) . I also felt that it should be possible ... -
Will be away for at least a week.Just signing in for one hour, and typing this up in advance, hopefully i will be able to get it posted and do anything else I need, because one hour …
... I am physically. Monday I felt more fatigued than normal carry ... another thing was this lockdown felt strangely familiar to me, the ... -
FUNKY FUNGUS RELOADEDHello Spec-folks, seven years ago, I created a game meant to be a little homage to classic single-screen platform coin-ops of the 1980s. It was on…
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Di TT Racer?Any love for this game? I spent a lot of time on this trying to do a full season etc but I never quite managed it. It felt like a flight sim with …
... managed it.
It felt like a flight sim with ... -
Ad Lunam Plus[i][url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/57071/ad-lunam"]Ad Lunam[/url][/i] was a proof of concept, designed to fit into the humble 48K…
... is being built, while launch pad 1 hosts a rocket for ... -
Arkanoid / Batty clones ?Although there is an old 2008 topic [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/16532/best-worst-arkanoid-clones/"]here[/url] , I felt a new …
... -arkanoid-clones/"]here[/url] , I felt a new fresh one instead ... -
Disassembly's I'd love to seeThis is not meant as some kind of request thread, as that would be grossly cheeky to ask for (however muchI wanted it) but I somehow felt a need to p…
... wanted it) but I somehow felt a need to post this ... -
Unexpectedly "Popular" Words that Appear In ZX Spectrum Game Titles.The extent to which words are unexpected in debatable (and of course most common words are "expected" to some extent) . But what about relatively un…
... Archive . ( And , of course, I felt it found be an "O ... -
A Family Man's Lament of Wifes, Family, Mother In Laws and New Cars.So after working tirelessly in the USA since my wife asked me to emigrate in 2013 our family has grown and the car I brought when we came (a Subaru F…
... cheerios, banana skins apple cores, felt tip pen stains, kids stickers ... , sticky candy wrappers, cookie crumbs, felt tip pen stains and cheerios ...
