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What if the Government backed Sir CliveHere is a question I have always wondered about... What if the Government had backed Sir Clive back in the Eighties... That is, placed his computers …
... , just half of it filled with NOPs.
The ... to invent their own, probably incompatible with everything else scheme), and so ... modifications. I don't agree with the earlier poster who said ... two filing systems actually work with each other because the OS ... -
Official CSSCGC 2011 Competition ThreadHello fellas. The site is up and running. We are already accepting submissions. [url]http://www.mojontwins.com/csscgc2011/[/url] Rules, info, and e…
... with lots of snippets you could nick and put into your games ... Many of my childhood games come with portions written in assembly ... BASIC programs spiced up with MC routines) and look ... then added it to my games.
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Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…
3" drives were a mistake, should have been the industry standard 3.5" drives.
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Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…
... port and not been so incompatible with previous Spectrums.[/QUOTE]
with software that uses the previous ... />
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Movie Critique (posh way of saying this is a film recommendation thread!)We haven't had a film recommendation thread for ages (so it seems), so I thought we should get a new one started, and hopefully everyone will post wh…
... had a section in the games reviews with the heading [B]criticism ... said good things about the games as well as bad so ... -
Chase HQ Pseudo 3d road algorithm ?Hello, I'm new to that forum and to the spectrum. I'm developping games for Colecovision (may be you hear about : Ghost'n Zombie and Smurf challe…
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Mr Beep / ipod gameCongrats to Mr Beep who did the music for a new ipod game... Air Supply The game looks very old skool with simple 80's style graphics, plus with th…
... normally like these 'runner' games but with the way the game looks ... being mentioned out there. The games well worth getting[/QUOTE]
with 'Spectrum' graphics. And for ... Mister Beep!
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MGT Two Facehi has anyone got a 'MGT Two Face' [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=1000247[/url] for sale or seen one for sale anywhere? thanks
... ' and the printer is just incompatible with my +D, also the joystick ... -
MGT Two Facehi has anyone got a 'MGT Two Face' [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=1000247[/url] for sale or seen one for sale anywhere? thanks
... ' and the printer is just incompatible with my +D, also the joystick ... the two face to work with the ZX printer or the ... -
Speccy Full-Price World Cup: 6 Months laterThe final of the Speccy Full-Price World Cup ended approximately 6 months ago, with [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3101…
Fromthe list I went with Elite.... perhaps thats a little ... and wonder that the other games fade with.
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MF3Z80 without +3e (like M3Unlock)Recently I've had a pop again at putting the copy protected Rainbow Islands onto real +3 disk. Some people may remember I tried to do this some time …
... using a Multiface 3? Games saved with a Multiface 3 will only ... load back with the Multiface 3 connected which ... Multiface 3 attached. The problem with the Multiface interfaces is they ... 678910
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MF3Z80 without +3e (like M3Unlock)Recently I've had a pop again at putting the copy protected Rainbow Islands onto real +3 disk. Some people may remember I tried to do this some time …
... out using a Multiface 3? Games saved with a Multiface 3...
Retro Gamer Issue 88Good issue this month, fair bit of Missile Command. I 'presume' Rainbird Rich is the guy who wrote the article on Firebird this month, looks really …
... Durell, Hewson and System 3 games could be grabbed from WoS ... of their old "simulator" games, together with an article tracing the ... evolution of their racing games? It ... a set of their old games for RetroGamer readers.
...Gamecube MegathreadWell, we've got a PS2 megathread, so why not a similar Gamecube megathread? One where you can post your thoughts on the machine and it's games, and p…
... I bought a Gamecube with those two games. I since found other ... 3, or the Unreal Tournament games), and Metroid Prime so ... third person exploration and shooter games, only with a first person viewpoint ... have some superb games, and I collect games for all three ...The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.
... , there were many games that loaded with different stripes or no ... counter).
- In another games, the countdown was an " ... Garfield[/url]) games usually load without stripes, with unusual screen ... you may find those games fitted with "standard" loaders.Gamecube MegathreadWell, we've got a PS2 megathread, so why not a similar Gamecube megathread? One where you can post your thoughts on the machine and it's games, and p…
... out on some really good games.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE ... 3, or the Unreal Tournament games), and Metroid Prime so ... third person exploration and shooter games, only with a first person viewpoint ... have some superb games, and I collect games for all three ...Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…
... , is this anything to do with the fact that the emulation ... not...DONT worry about any games made with a straight forward basic ... run on a real spectrum with no problem at all.Maketzx...Whats the state of play?Been out of the whole emulation bit for...a while :) But, back in the saddle, ready to transfer some more tapes.....except...maketzx doesnt seem to w…
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fdc765.dll is incompatible with any open-source license anyway ...Three Weeks in Paradise V3.0 releasedTeam SpecNG has released V3.0 of our remake. It can be downloaded from the official site: [url]www.specng.org[/url] New in version 3.0 ============…
... 2006) in order for games compiled with DarkBASIC Professional to run.
with at least DX 10 (Win7 ...TAB - Text Adventure BuilderOk. I wasn't exactly sure which forum to post this, so mods feel free to move to relevant section.. Remember all those old text adventures written w…
... TAB is not in competition with the likes of INFORM, ... esp. those who dabbled with Spectrum utilities like the Quill ... in the eighties. With some thought, games made with those could be converted ... or be happier using/working with a different authoring system... ...Sabre Wulf - don't you just hate itThere's lots of Speccy opinions that divide us, but one thing I seem to stand alone in is my dislike for Sabre Wulf. I'm not joking now, I don't like…
... don't see it with any subsequent games.
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I ... game) and with the people who mattered - us, the games players. Alien ... 're nominally both maze games, but with significant differences in the setting ...How did we put up with awful loading times.Going back through old games,some members where lucky to have disk drives on their comps whilst most of us had to stick with the tape format,looking …
... you to load some Spectrum games in at twice the speed ... />
Only a few games worked with this method however, to name ...Great Spectrum Mysteries #1 - the Stormbringer 128 PoltergeistI never could figure out how to get past the poltergeist in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004919"]Stormbringer 128k[/URL]. …
... loved all the Magic Knight games, but with hindsight some of the ...What is the current state of (non-Spectrum) emulation?It's been years since I've bothered with any emulators on the PC other than Speccy emulators. I do still occasionally use MAME and other emulators on…
... you mean about playing great games in a pocket sized machine ... Amiga emulation, mainly to copy games onto a CompactFlash card to ... someone I know copies some games onto real discs for me ... ) a fantastic machine, with some superb games. Same with the C64, but I ...Japan Tsunami AppealAs some of you will be aware, I've been tinkering with an open source version of SE Basic that could be distributed with hardware without infringing …
... through Jspeccy to see which games work with it and to play ... with its extra features.... Iv always ...Japan Tsunami AppealAs some of you will be aware, I've been tinkering with an open source version of SE Basic that could be distributed with hardware without infringing …
... coupe ROM also furnished me with the means to reverse engineer ... through JSpeccy to see which games work with it and to play ... with its extra features.[/QUOTE]
< ...OpenSE Software CompatibilityWith the earlier Open82 project a page was set up on Wikia ([url]http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Open82[/url]) with compatibility information on var…
... Not really. Anything that breaks with OpenSE BASIC will also break ... is already expected to be incompatible with the 16k :)
[ ... are right about expectations. However, with SE Basic I always placed ... and there is nothing wrong with them as a goal.
Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…
List of remaining games reportedly with pending errors:
[URL=" ... /ja/andrewbroad/"][B]JSW games[/B][/URL] with bugfixes provided [URL="http ...OpenSE Software CompatibilityWith the earlier Open82 project a page was set up on Wikia ([url]http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Open82[/url]) with compatibility information on var…
... is already expected to be incompatible with the 16k :)[/quote]
with a lower RAMtop and a ...Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…
... the latest list of remaining games reportedly with pending errors:
games[/B][/URL] with bugfixes provided [URL="http ...
