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Boys from the Blackstuff.I've just been watching Alan Bleasdales's Boys from the Black Stuff on BB4 four. I watched it last week too. I must say that has to be the finest ex…
... Alan Bleasdales's Boys from the Black Stuff on BB4 ... />
It was filmed just at the right time too. It shows ... .
In 2000 the British Film Institute (BFI) poll ... professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of ... -
Loading screen noise in Scott Pilgrim vs the WorldAfter coming back from a short vacation and starting to watch some movies, I watched "Scott Pilgrim vs the World". It had references to 8-bit stuff f…
... , I watched "Scott Pilgrim vs the World". It had references to ... , but there's a scene at the coffee shop where Julie Power ... loading screen noise instead of the usual beep. Did anyone else ... YT and extract and share the audio if any Speccy freak ... -
Hacking the O.C.P Full Screen Editor/AssemblerIf you have been reading my posts recently then you will know that I am eager to have the sourcecode I wrote for the Spectrum during the period 1988 …
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I have looked at the features of Speculator and decided ... the sourcecode is stored directly after the program at address 089F0h. The ... very last BYTE of the ... terminator BYTE with the value 080h at 089FEh, I know ... -
The Manic Miner intelligence testI've spent the morning watching various teenagers playing 8 bit games. One thing that really struck me is Manic Miner seems to be quite good at showi…
... to be quite good at showing you who the smart kids are ... the best route on Central Cavern at the start is to not jump the ... bush on the platform ... out what happens on the conveyor belt before the yellow machine kills ... -
The Register compares Prince Charles to a ZX81This article is the current headline on [url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/]El Reg[/url] at the moment: [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/17/r…
This article is the current headline on [url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/]El Reg[/url] at the moment:
[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/17/royal_wedding_it_angle/[/url]
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"Aladdin" & "The Dark"Please Check this: [url]http://zx.pk.ru/showthread.php?t=12804&page=4[/url] There are two nice games at the end for download. Unfortunaly only TRD ve…
Please Check this:
[url]http://zx.pk.ru/showthread.php?t=12804&page=4[/url]
There are two nice games at the end for download. Unfortunaly only TRD version (but I know a dude in this forum, who can probably make TAP versions out of them). -
Zero 0.4.6 - The WoS SpecialI'm happy to announce the availability of the next version of Zero. I'm calling it the WoS Special not only because today is WoS's b'day but also bec…
I'm happy to announce the availability of the next version of Zero ... . I'm calling it the WoS Special not only because ... feature list can be found at the [URL="http://ramtop.wordpress.com ... -
Savvy Spaniard Snags Sun!![url]http://www.smh.com.au/world/spanish-woman-takes-a-shine-to-the-sun-20101127-18bf4.html[/url] :lol:
[url]http://www.smh.com.au/world/spanish-woman-takes-a-shine-to-the-sun-20101127-18bf4.html[/url]
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I'll turn into the most beautiful woman....A guy is 62 years old and loves to fish. He was sitting in his boat the other day when he heard a voice say, 'Pick me up.' He looked around and c…
... dreaming when he heard the voice say again, ' ... />
He looked in the water and there, floating on ... !'
The man looked at the frog for a short ... pocket.
The frog said, 'What, are ... pocket, looked at the frog and said, 'Nah, at my age ... -
what did you forget at the shop?I'm forever doing that.. and having to go back.. it's normally the first / main thing I'm going for.. handy out of london.. 2 minutes walk a massive …
... go back.. it's normally the first / main thing I'm ... ties for cable tidying... from the local hardware shop :)
How the spectrum generates the video from ramHi everyon, I know that most people here allready know this but i think i found out how the spectrum acctually dispalys stuff and why the LD x, (HL)…
... that chip the PIC cant also read the lower addresses at the same time ... .....But wait!!!
The ... in real time. The only time the display can not be ... So using the instruction LD x, (HL), you look at address HL ...strange things are afoot.. at a certain auction site..no prizes for guessing which site.. dunno if this has happened to anyone else.. so I wait to see if something sells, it doesn't and it ends .. so I …
... now it's sold and the auctions ended with a sale ... blah blah blah
the other thing , 2 times I ... been bidding under 20 seconds.. the time goes up by a ... seem to get snipe bid at the end .. obv no way of ...Galaxians at no.1Am I missing something? Is that a ZX81 screenshot of a Galaxians game at the top of the chart? Sorry if I am dense?! [url]http://www.worldofspectr…
Am I missing something?
Is that a ZX81 screenshot of a Galaxians game at the top of the chart?
Sorry if I am dense?!
[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0021621[/url]Back in the day Speccy related problems.Thinking back about the days where i used to play on the ZX Speccy (48K original rubber keyed wiith seperate data recorder) i recall some of the prob…
... i recall some of the problems associated with first owning ... know any better.
The two main problems i ... deposits on the black pinch roller on the tape mech ... get R-tape loading error at the end, so me an ... recorder problems back in the day?,did anybody lose ...Pussy - full version of the gameHi Martijn, I found that full disk version of "Pussy" game is on VTRD site: [url]http://vtrdos.ru/full_ver/PUSSY.ZIP[/url] Might be useful for up…
... be useful for updating WOS (at the moment there's a full ...Bat out of HellLike a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes [i]Well the fastest bats only fly at 40mph[/i] I can see myself tearing up the road Fast…
... [i]Well the fastest bats only fly at 40mph[/i]< ... br />
I can see myself tearing up the ... And I never see the sudden curve till it' ... at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun
[i]the sun ... /> Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning' ...At What Age did you get your first computer?I was at a dinner party and people where all complaining on how kids this days start playing computers very early on, and how they see kids with 5 an…
I was at a dinner party and people ... 30, and most of the people on the table where around my ... , telling me that "back in the days" whe started latter with ... ... I got my Speccy in the Christmas of 87 (my first ... been 88...), I was 7 at the time, and spent lot's ...Do you believe in alien life?Do you believe in alien life? That is, life anywhere but on Earth? So do you believe that there is life on other planets, or do you instead believ…
... and sun with the right conditions (their relative distance, the strength of the sun's ... rays, a reasonably circular planetary orbit to keep the sun's (the ... heard it as I was flicking through some songs on my ...The best music player for Windows?Up until now, I've been double clicking on .mp3/.wma files in Windows Explorer to play them in WinAMP (or block selecting with SHIFT and then right c…
... filename rather than the internal data of the .mp3/.wma ... whereas everything is in the format [group name]_ ... plus maybe other stuff at the same time), and I ... be minimized or sent to the background.
... ", which I believe is the correct English. Which is ...Which actor/s have appeared in the most films.?I watched Inception on dvd last night and it was just as good as when i saw it at the flicks as well as Leonardo DiCaprio there were a few other acto…
... as when i saw it at the flicks as well as Leonardo ... such as Michael Caine and the late Pete Postlethwaite who made ... recently and i asked myself the question `i wonder which actor ... has appeared in the most [i]movies[/i] to ..."The Apprentice" by Rainbow ArtsI've been reading the preview of this unreleased game appeared at Crash magazine and I focused over this text, at the [URL="http://www.worldofspectru…
... been reading the preview of this unreleased game appeared at Crash magazine ... I focused over this text, at the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... a few weeks off completion at the time of writing, it looks ...The Hobbit:A guide and how i play it.Yes i know there are walkthroughs and guides on the net but what i want to do here is give chance for those people to complete the hobbit who have no…
... ] ,i suspect the wood elf starts the game from the waterfall at the end of ... this road so the chances ... to get back,remember the waterfall at the end of the forest road i ...The I've Had Enough of Mega Threads Mega ThreadAs the inventor of the Mega Thread (three word story, at the car boot sale, miss wos, thread of belly laughs etc...), I can honestly say that you the…
As the inventor of the Mega Thread (three word story, at the car boot sale ... can honestly say that you the recent crop of mega thread ... caused my invention to jump the shark. I hope your happy ...The N64 megathread[Skip this if you want, the short version is "The N64 was deeply flawed, but still has some of the best games ever", so now you can claim you've read…
... companies abandoned the N64 altogether, or at best just made ...
Also, the N64 appeared at the beginning of the hardware enhanced 3D ... fit on the cartridge. The N64 has arguably the best first ... at all. But in other genres the N64 was amazing
The ...Goobye... and thanks for all the fish!Hi. The ones that know me probably know that I used to love the spectrum "retro" scene, from the start on the comp.sys.sinclair, the first emulators…
... the start on the comp.sys.sinclair, the first emulators (who can forget the ... on the amiga and the way it brought the speccy back, then the great ... emulation matters. The only light at the end of the tunnel are the new releases ...Does anyone still have the 2D animation demo MPEGs I did back in 2003?Heya - I'm just drawing together some of the animation files I created during development of the documentary, and I've foolishly lost the early 2D de…
... just drawing together some of the animation files I created during ... development of the documentary, and I've foolishly ... lost the early 2D demo MPEGs I ... happens) - if you downloaded them at the time, can you please check ...Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
Am I the only one? Someone ... sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum character set ... in the screenshot*...yeah, maybe not".
the font, but I just ... play games that use the ZX Spectrum character set.< ...The attribute challenge (part two)I got a bit carried away this morning and did too many :oops: , so I've split them into two parts and only just had a bit of time to sit down and pos…
... post them. This although the first is the second as we had ... a topic on this yesterday. The final part although already finished ... of days or more likely at the weekend. :)
Filenames have ...I think someones stealing my mail at the post office.I get a almost all of my games and dvds online and have done for the past 7 years. I maybe got 1 or 2 games/dvds lost in the post per year which whil…
... and have done for the past 7 years. I ... turned up even though the sellers have definatly sent ... different towns/cities so the fact that 5 individual ... my post office is the only constant makes me ... them somewhere along the line.
The 5 that did ...
