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The state of the UK charts.. DisgracefulJust looked at the current UK music top 10. 1. Take That - 'Patience' 2. Booty Luv - 'Boogie 2nite' 3. Akon ft Eminem - 'Smack That' 4. Lazy Town - …
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Point-and-Click AdventuresI was just rooting around some of my old ZX tapes and I stumbled upon (more like "picked up") a couple of "point-and-click" style adventures. That's …
... to do... stuff.
The games I have are [URL=http ... wondering if there are other games of this style, and if any ... can find a load of games that support Kempston mouse on ... if there's any denienced games there, that's not why ... -
Registering my own domain name.Who is good and who is reliable and cheap. I need to register a new domain name this week and need some advice. Kind Regards.
Who is good and who is reliable and cheap. I need to register a new domain name this week and need some advice.
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Radio 4 "In Our Time" -- 22/2/07Anyone know where I can download an MP3 of this? I usually do so legitimately, from the Radio 4 site, to listen at my leisure; but this week they ha…
... can download an MP3 of this? I usually do so legitimately ... listen at my leisure; but this week they haven't made it ... they didn't warn of this so I've missed the ... -
Speccy MixupBoredom strikes! I've mixed up elements from ten speccy games into this picture. First one to guess them all wins, uh, an imaginary pat on the back. …
Boredom strikes! I've mixed up elements from ten speccy games into this picture. First one to guess them all wins, uh, an imaginary pat on the back.
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E-mail from Dom MorrisA few weeks ago I started a thread about a possible ethernet interface for the Speccy. This week I saw Dom Morris page about zsock for the z88 and I …
... ethernet interface for the Speccy. This week I saw Dom Morris page ... for the Spectrum?"
This was his reply:
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Fake Whiplash Claims Agggghhhh!!!I had a bump in my car last week going approximately 5mph in a cue of traffic where the car infront broke rather abruptly and for no reason. I did n…
... bump in my car last week going approximately 5mph in a ... other car involved.
This week my insurers contact me saying ... fraudulant ar*eho*es like this.
I want justace ... -
I've been using a Mac, I must say I'm dissapointed.I have been using an Apple Macintosh to do some video editing this week. I also trialed it on other simple tasks such as web browsing and Java apple…
... to do some video editing this week. I also trialed it on ... -
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…
... /> 1) Since Martijn's away this week I'm hosting the file ... version to WoS next week.
2) This edition of ZXF ... [/url]. I'll be uploading this to lulu over the next ... let you all know when this is possible). Because the printed ... -
ZX Spectrum emulation in QEMUI seem to have written [URL="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wholehog/stuart/qemu/z80.html"]ZX Spectrum emulation for QEMU[/URL]! For those that don't k…
... . For anyone thinking of trying games in this, I should point out ... -
Crap joke for TuesdayPoor Alan Ball died this week. Did you hear that David Beckham is taking care of the funeral arrangements ? Yeah. He's really good in a dead ball si…
Poor Alan Ball died this week. Did you hear that David Beckham is taking care of the funeral arrangements ?
Yeah. He's really good in a dead ball situation.
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Why I Hate PES online...first time I tried PES online (PES5) I was really excited with the idea of playing with somebody else that was not in my close group of friends... a…
... playing it online, and only this week end I tryed to play ... /> I just don't get this guys...
by the ... -
Snakes! -- the Wikipedia needs you (again)I've created a new Wikipedia category called [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Snake_games]Snake games[/url], partly so that all the Speccy …
... org/wiki/Category:Snake_games]Snake games[/url], partly so that all ... ], I need peeps to add games into this category!
C ... games", i.e. as described on either page linked to in this ... post; not "games featuring snakes".:p) -
Are you addicted to...The Shaky Game?Occasionally I have a look at [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/playstats.html"]this page[/URL] to see who has been playing what in the online emu…
... www.worldofspectrum.org/playstats.html"]this page[/URL] to see ... one of the most played games on this chart is inevitably
games.
I assume that this is not ... games competition entrant.
I guess one person plays this ... -
BumpyBumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy [COLOR=Red][SIZE=7]Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy Bumpy[/SIZE][/COLOR][…
... quota taken care of for this week.
[SIZE=2]Necros ... -
arkanoid and suchive been playing this game for ages recently, and it was one of my fave games as a kid. so two things. can you recomend similar style games. ie rep…
ive been playing this game for ages recently, and ... was one of my fave games as a kid.
games. ie repetative puzzle type games like this or tetris ... -
Job Hunting and slave tradersI went into work on Monday and packed my job in (home before 10.00, not hanging around) so I have been talking to the slave traders this week. Why i…
... talking to the slave traders this week.
Why is it ... Vista. Apparently the customer in this case wont accept any less ... be waiting 18 months for this job to be filled then ... -
Retro Fighter shoot-em-up development updateHi all, Some of you might recall I was developing a little shoot-em-up with the working title of Retro-Fighter. Well after a long hiatus I managed …
... been trying for the last week or so to get my ... few additions to the code this week and thought some of you ... designed some animated sprites for this which were much better than ... load not being balanced but this will be rectified when there ... -
If you ever wanted to ask Sir Clive one question...Saturday, 28th July is your time. Sir Clive will be attending the first A-Bikers' meeting in London. As a proud owner of an A-Bike, I would have lov…
... I shall be in London this week, but alas, I have to ... /learnt?
See this link: [url]http://www.abikecentral ... -
A Tale Of Two TV ShowsTwo allegedly big US TV shows started on British TV this week, both trailed to be unmissable. BBC2 had "Heroes", More4 had "Studio 60 on the Sunset S…
... shows started on British TV this week, both trailed to be unmissable ... approach is above all *fresh*. This wasn't some half-assed ... or satire of the media, this had that sense of authenticity ... -
Any of you listen to TWiT technology Podcasts?This is a series of free Podcasts from America but actually done by Americans who understand irony run by a guy called Leo Laporte. The main podcast…
This is a series of free ... />
The main podcast is This Week in Tech (TWiT) and is ... -
I have bought a brand new motorbike.Saturday before last, I was sitting at home late at night with a cup of coffee, flicking through MCN, and saw that Yamaha's were still doing 0% finan…
... 1000cc motorbike, without the missus this time, :D Happy Times.
this bike is bonkers!
this week.
My ... -
A few things I want to sharePics of Paul Farrow's custom cartridges, pcb, populated pcbs (each with a different configuration), interface to allow the 48K to emulate the ZX80 an…
... (128K models don't need this), pdf with instructions. He will ... and ts2068 cartridges were sent this week to a friend in Spain ... -
Wtf??I won this NZ auction earlier this week [url]http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=116509561[/url] and have been to collect the hardware th…
I won this NZ auction earlier this week [url]http://www.trademe.co. ... been to collect the hardware this morning.
I'm ... have never seen anything like this before... -
hardest level on manic miner?Thanks to the snapshot feature on the emu, I have now completed this game. back in the 'old days' I couldn't even get past Eugene's Layer, which is p…
... the emu, I have now completed this game. back in the 'old ... thought...glad to have finally completed this though, even though I cheated ... -
Blok*Load on Multiface 128Spinning this off into a new thread to avoid cluttering up the original: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17999&page=7[/u…
Spinning this off into a new thread ... ]
The tape contains this magazine hack-style program:
this:
[code]ORG 08000h ... has a different loader so this patch won't work. However ... a bash at it later this week. -
It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…
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The purpose of this prototyping session was to test ... at 0x007C gets fetched. This means our ROM's instruction ... call. I'll probably test this concept this week.
The ... these tests) is 36 macrocells, this is pretty economical.
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OpenZXRom v2007-12-31 releasedI've just put out a new release of OpenZXRom, the freely licensed replacement for the Spectrum ROM rewritten from scratch with no Amstrad code: [url…
... -12-31[/url]
This release is particularly announcement-worthy ... total of... *some* games. Huzzah!
This means that any emulator ... big chart of 'most desired' games (the YS top 100s combined ... -
I've got a 1961 music centre type thing, stuck in my loftSix years ago, I was at my physical peak, and I put this old early 60's stereo in the loft, after a house clearance. At the time, stuff like that, yo…
... physical peak, and I put this old early 60's stereo ... might give it a punt this week, now that I've started ... -
New Laptop!!My department got me a new laptop this week. It's a Dell D530. I nice laptop it is too 2.0 Ghz Dual Core 2 GB Memory 110 GB HD (could be bigger…
... got me a new laptop this week.
It's a ... previously.
I think, this is the one that will ...
