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Greatest games of all time?Hi again. The guys at TrustedReviews have made some lists of their greatest games of all time. I think it's interesting that, between all the more r…
... some lists of their greatest games of all time.
I ... PC and console games, there are actually two Speccy games in there, Chaos ... -
Jonathan Cauldwell offered a job in this month's issue of Retro GamerHas anybody seen this month's issue of Retro Gamer (Issue 29) ? I was just reading it and there's a big article where a bunch of big name programmer…
... think of the spectrum games that are still being ... time to play Spectrum games in the mid-Eighties, now ... rewarding long-term career in a stable, friendly company ... in contact with Philip Oliver (who's running Blitz Games ... 'd sure be interested in finding out how the ... -
Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... 's code to draw everything in upper memory area, but what ... -
BRIDGEND: 128K +2 (Light Grey) and 3 boxfulls of Games.I whent to a well known carboot sale in Cardiff today (Splot Market) and came across a bloke selling a 128K =2 (light Grey) with power supply e.t.c. …
... of spectrum games. Many of these games were big box games in excellent condition ... set of small box dizzy games.
Overall there ... was easily over 100 cassettes in his collection. I was tempted ... to play, or ebay these games.
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The BASIC ISRFirst of all, excuse me if my blatant ignorance about this topic makes me write some nonsense :) The thing is that I'm finishing a game in mixed BAS…
... in mixed BASIC and Compiled BASIC (the pure BASIC part is to manage stuff in ... the RAM disk back and forth, the Compiled BASIC part ... I'm working in BASIC and I need to stay in BASIC (for the ... RAM disk stuff) - I know that BASIC has ... -
Gamestation Stores throw away retro games!!!After the closure due to the robbery of "That Game Shop" (see my "that game shop" thread in this part of the forum for more info), I resorted in phon…
... in town that takes anything older than Master System and NES games ... . That shop being the Gamestation in Newcastle City ... had cases with some games in that aren't even what ... palming some PSone and Dreamcast games off on them, thoroughly ... -
Bug in CONTINUE?I've found this anomaly in Spectrum Basic, but I don't remember have seen it in lists of ROM bugs: 10 FOR i=1 to 3 20 PRINT i 30 IF i=2 then PRINT a…
I've found this anomaly in Spectrum Basic, but I don't remember ... have seen it in lists of ...
CONTINUE
C Nonsense in BASIC, 30:1
CONTINUE
CONTINUE
C Nonsense in BASIC, 30:1
CONTINUE
Whats the rarest item in your speccy collection?Title says its all. Mine is probably a service centre test rom card to soak test speccies via the interface 2. Have a couple of ROM games in the ma…
... /> Have a couple of ROM games in the mail apparently, yet to ...timeless speccy gameswhich speccy games do you hold tobe worth playing today regardless of nostlgia-reasons (if possible not to "regard" them...), regardless historical c…
... regardless historical curiousity, simply as games?
i.e. - ... believe to stand well in the competition with analogous ... taking the advantages of emulated games in general into account.)
... checked quite lot of speccy games in several last months, i ...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 ...Warlord - Japan StrategyMorning All. This game has been on my computer for some time and I can't find a reference to it on WOS. There is a ZX81 version listed (I assume its…
... /games/warlord/[/URL]
WARLORD - a Japan strategy game written in BASIC ...+3 sound cureHi all, As most of us know the Spectrum+3A has this sound problem, distortion. The +3B had this problem fixed. I done some looking at the circuitry l…
... .
I tried the games 180, Boulderdach CK, Bubble Bobble ... and nice.
I tried in basic the beep and Play commands ...The Edge's 'Mega-games'It's funny to see 'Starbike' and 'Psytraxx' be described by the company director as 'the first mega-games' in Crash (before they came out I may add).…
It's funny to see 'Starbike' and 'Psytraxx' be described by the company director as 'the first mega-games' in Crash (before they came out I may add).
Haha! Hardly!Sherwood ForestAre we absolutely sure this game was made by Delta 4? It doesn't mention the company anywhere in the game, there's no mention of it on their [url=htt…
... 't mention the company anywhere in the game, there's no ... it's written in BASIC (all their other games were created with The ...Hidden gamesAs you may or may not know, Zub has a hidden game in it (a kind of shoot em up). Is there any other games which have hidden games in them? I guess …
As you may or may not know, Zub has a hidden game in it (a kind of shoot em up). Is there any other games which have hidden games in them? I guess there won't be many due to memory restrictions.How can I view code from a game?Hi All, I had a Spectrum years ago and it is what started my love for playing games. I have recently been playing some of the old games I used to pl…
... started my love for playing games. I have recently been ... enjoying playing Striker by cult games and Head Coach from ... addictive software.
I enjoy games programming and although have never ... think that Striker was written in basic.
Any help ...Are games on WOS allowed to be copied to tape?Ok, I have download 20 or so games on here since becoming a member. I have also worked out a decent way to copy these games to tape for use on the re…
... have download 20 or so games on here since becoming a ... decent way to copy these games to tape for use on ... answer to is: "are all games in the WOS archive allowed to ... the legality of copying the games to tape.:-)
Thanks ...Falcon Games on Ebay.co.ukWrong forum I know but... [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-x-Vintage-Falcon-Video-Games-In-Good-Condition_W0QQitemZ260167655956QQihZ016QQcategoryZ4193QQ…
... /2-x-Vintage-Falcon-Video-Games-In-Good-Condition_W0QQitemZ260167655956QQihZ016QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]
How Spectrum changed our livesHave you ever thought about how Speccy changed your lives? Just imagine all of us in our youth age without Manic Miner or Knight Lore, without that…
... /> Just imagine all of us in our youth age without Manic ... of time spent in typing in BASIC magazine games or waiting
in front of ... ...
instead of playing Speccy games! :-D
What would ...Games of ST07 - best choice ever?IMO, ST03 had the best line-up, but this is close to it... Platforms - Dynamite Dan Shoot'em ups - Penetrator Complex - All or Nothing Logic - Defl…
... 'much-better-then-you-expected' games (in case you didn't play ... 'realism' in Speccy's racing games :-)
To (enjoy in) watch(ing ...Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…
... never really got into these games back in the day but since ... this list.
The 14 games in the poll are the 14 ... that are rated in the top 100 by WoS ... visitors at this moment in time. It is quite a ...How could you hear if loading BASIC or MC?When loading a Spectrum program from tape you could usually hear from the sound if it is a BASIC or is some machine code program *. My question is, w…
... if it is a BASIC or is some machine ... the differens?
In BASIC I assume that the keyword ... g. PRINT) was represented in memory by some kind of ... so should not a Basic program in memory (and to tape ... sounds hard and tight, and BASIC more light and open. ...RZX Archive / Lack of Spanish gamesI started a thread at Speccy.org and asked why there's almost no Spanish games in the RZX archive. I have this feeling that if some of those games we…
... there's almost no Spanish games in the RZX archive. I ... if some of those games were available in English, Daren would' ... Spanish games that you would like to see in the ...
I was particularly interested in seeing the Abbey of Crime ... the .rzx for those games.8 bit simple interface + +3e romsSo, i have built the interface and burned the +3e roms to use on a +2B machine. Everything is working fine. I have a 64 MB cf card with some partitio…
... i want to get some games in to it.
I ... /> I could go on merging basic from tape then saving, then ... that only works for unprotected games and it is not practical ... way to transfer a few games to the CF?Idea : Speccys in the media...Seeing that we now have a synopsis of each month's RetroGamer posted up, I was thinking it could be really good to get a similar thread/forum going f…
... even Sinclair, related that appear in the media.
This ... -based stuff that Shaun writes in his MicroMart column, and any ... included, such as any speccy games in a new edition of the ...Loading games on Timex Computer 2048I've tried some tools published here in this site to try and load games in a Timex Computer 2048 (Spectrum clone) via my portable PC sound card, but …
... site to try and load games in a Timex Computer 2048 (Spectrum ... doing this?
Thanks in advance
Francisco VascoHelp with maze in Sorcerer's Mountain.:-? Does anybody out there know how to get out of the maze in SORCERER'S MOUNTAIN a text adventure (with some pictures) written by Martin Sykes and r…
... get out of the maze in SORCERER'S MOUNTAIN a text ... realeased in for the Spectrum in 1984? The program is written in basic but ...BASIC Keyword ReferenceRealised that the Sinclair Basic section would be a better place for discussion of BASIC keywords, so for reference the old thread is in [thread=2005…
... lists the keywords available in Sinclair BASIC
as ... commands in 48k BASIC. The
keywords are listed in ... the various controls available in BASIC using the keyboard.
in specific colours within strings in a BASIC listing.
...Eurogamer TV Top 50 speccy gamesThis is probably old news but [URL="http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=5572"]this[/URL] is a pretty nice video montage of top 50 specc…
... montage of top 50 speccy games as compiled by someone on ... and any of Cecco's games in the list.
