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Steve Wilcox quote in latest 'Retro Gamer' magOn page 7, in a feature on his IOS Spectrum emulator, he is quoted as saying: "The Android market has been 'poisoned' by a number of very shoddy Spec…
... games anyway, but for newer games, such as games that then get re-released later on ... lot are dongled = you have to have a dongle to use em ... the very same tape .. why should I be forced to pay ... br />
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What other systems to try, and why?Just for the fun of it: Suppose, by some weird force of nature you've become bored with the ZX Spectrum :lol: AND still have some free time left, wh…
... now, got some nice quirky games that have a bit of a speccy ... cart working which keeps loadsa games on it and you can use ... would've been brilliant in this view if the games were released in ... a really dirty trick, and should have been thought out a bit better ... -
Dizzy Returns on Kickstarter[url]http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theolivertwins/dizzy-returns[/url]
... Olivers, and I think that should tell you all you ... a couple of their other games (non-Dizzy, for ... Spectrum I think) and so on.
Then ... sort of Dizzy game released for phones maybe a ... except that times have been rough, and although I still have some ... -
What do you think Amiga's chances are?Would you abandon Windows for Workbench? At least for your own enjoyment when you don't have to use Windows? [url]http://www.a-eon.com/[/url] [url]…
... never said that A500 games were PC ports, I said that was ... and ST rather than work on specific versions for specific ... potentially could have been a stop-gap, but it was released around ... fans were rightly arguing that the Amiga should have been a contender as ... -
Anybody else hacked off with Blizzard?Sorry, my first post in months and i'm using it to rant. Don't check my emails much these days, but I happened to log in today and find the followin…
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Yep ... not long after it was released.)
[QUOTE=mile ... we advise that customers pursuing an appeal hold off on purchasing a ... -
FUSE on OSXHello peeps, Long time no speak! I am trying to set up some emulators on my MacMini (launched via XBMC), and of course, Speccy emulation is a mus…
... it seemed to me there "should" have been more in there.
... games to be launched from XBMC. With other emulators that dont have ... command line options i've cheated by using "Open game.rom ... with pad controls on Spectrum Emulators on devices like the ... -
Good or horrible: Shockway RiderHmmm. I thought FTL got lucky with Light Force. For me it was rubbish but got great reviews for some reason. Shockway Rider did well too. YS and …
... it for me was that the gameplay should have been slower in Lightforce, ... was well for Gargoyle that they released Lightforce about the same ... -nog and Dun darach games. Heavy on the magic was very ... moments.
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Which non-Spectrum emulators d'you use most?I would be interested to know which non-spectrum emulators you lot use MOST. For me, the most used ones would have to be: MAMEdox (Arcade/NeoGeo on…
... get them to run that well. Strange that the dreamcast is ... I think and it may have been released as recently as Christmas ... you playing on the actual hardware.
Really should've ... I found on pcsx2 different plugins work for different games which ... -
The Hobbit 128K editionWhat's this?<br>What better to celebrate the new forum with, than a long-awaited release!<br><br>I got tired of all the quibbling over tiny details i…
... think it's great that it's been released. I don't wish ... produced games rarely get beyond the, errrr, committee stage so Kayamon should ... be congratulated on releasing a slick looking ... Island and Half Life 3 have been released. -
machines you've owned and favourite games on each?Just reminiscing about games of the past - speccie and beyond - and the pleasure they have brought. Here is my list of my ownership of machines and …
... time fave machines. Some excellent games on it.
... Parasite Eve, because it should have been on there with PE 2 in ... [/b] Played lots of games on this machine, and it ... been released physically outside of Japan).
Jetpack joyride (It's sad that ... -
Alien 8... what does its name mean?So, all of you know Alien 8, the game. Quite a few people in Spain seem to think that Alien 8 is called the way it's called because of the movie Alie…
... Spectrum when the game was released.
... old myth, based on the fact that Sabre Wulf uses a ... CPC versions of isometric 3D games could look fantastic, as ... . Although Get Dexter (which should have been ported to the Spectrum) used ... -
A non-gamers grump!Theres a reason why I'm not a gamer and its this - I find most games boring, there's no incentive to work through them because there's not much of a …
... a look at the indie games that have been released in the last few years ... -cheap off Steam and should be playable on even low-specc'd ... -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... in the head and should not be allowed to ... but I'm guessing that he either dies or ... every system it's ever been released on :))
......Rocco wasn ... on PS2. A lot of the games I've mentioned have ... though it's very satirical that game is about 60% ... -
Saboteur vs Saboteur II - Which is Best?!Hi everyone and welcome to the February 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed the arcade classics Ghosts 'n Goblins again…
... think of that explained it=. I gave up on Durell due ... know that I was wrong. They hadn't given up on ... up on games totally. Durell wanted to make business software at that point ... . Sab 2 should not have been released as it was ... -
Saboteur vs Saboteur II - Which is Best?!Hi everyone and welcome to the February 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed the arcade classics Ghosts 'n Goblins again…
... think of that explained it=. I gave up on Durell due ... up on games totally. Durell wanted to make business software at that point ... . Sab 2 should not have been released as it was ... ll all look at the games a bit differently now lol ... -
Any other ROM cartridge / Interface two software produced for the SpectrumI just recall from the ZX Spectrum catalogue a few games were also produced on ROM cartridge, but was there any other stuff - utilities, languages or…
... what the ZX Spectrum+ should have been, keep in mind ... to add the cartridge slot, that would have required a ...
Agree 100% on this (and the previous post ... regards to the upgraded ROM, well I suppose a ... /> You could say some games might not of then worked ... -
New WoS and ZXDBIt turns out new WoS is using [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB"]ZXDB[/url]! More precisely [url="https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB/blob/c4bd3e40d81a8d47…
... /> This is all something that could have been sorted with a PM."[/quote ... "]ZXDB 1.0.0 was released on April 15th, 2018[/url]. At ... ="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/games"]new WoS software page[/url ... don't know SQL, you should be able to see it ... -
Happy birthday... Walkman ![url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman"]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman[/url] Introduced 40 years ago today. Man I'm getting old. :D
... majority of the games released for the system were ... I know you're on about the weird naming convention ... versions that came out last year. The EU version should have been ... named NoGrafx to reflect how they were never officially released on ... -
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This is something that should have happened on Friday, alongside the weekly round- ... Game Of The Year has been updated! Amongst the prize bundle ... (i.e. ROM 4.0 with LOAD ! and ROM 4.1 with ... of place on the B-side! That's [b]two[/b] games that will ... -
Yet Another Speccy Quiz (not too hard)OK! I thought I'd chance my arm at one of these things. I must say I've found the recent quizzes WAY too difficult, so I've pitched this one at simpl…
... , but at least most people should able to answer at least ... results here at 1am CET on 23rd August. If two or ... /> 4. List the Spectrum games that were released in ROM cartridge format. (8 correct: 1 ... -
A great ROMBack in the early 90s my ZX clone (called "Cobra" if anyone's interested) had a sort of a "SamRam" (actually an alternate ROM accessed via a NMI) tha…
... " (actually an alternate ROM accessed via a NMI) that displayed a menu ... this system was the fact that it couldn't run any ... . I have the ROM (there are also some scarce downloads on the Net ... (?)) and I think WoS should have the thing on display too.
Cartridge gamesWhen consoles took over the games market in 1990, many software houses started making cartridge games for the C64. Ocean actually decided that they w…
... cartridge games for the C64. Ocean actually decided that they would concentrate solely on ... similar happen on the Spectrum? Surely it would not have been technically ... difficult to create cartridges that would have slotted into ...Games for saleHello all, I have a bunch of games for sale. They have all been kept in their boxes in a sealed bag in a wardrobe in my flat for the last x years (s…
... have been very carefully looked after since (and before). I assume people on ... given that they have been carefully looked after.
The games I have are ... it helpfully says is "Joystick" on it.
As for ...Games that cannot be completed due to bugs - the definitive listIt would be nice if the community of WoS compiled a list of all the games that are known to be impossible to complete due to bugs. Perhaps one day, a…
... a list of all the games that are known to be impossible ... />
Oh, and I should add that the game must be *provably ... Message was edited by: GOC on 2004-06-13 23:17 ]Good/Bad Games RatioHi folks, What is your general feeling about all the games you've ever played on Spectrum, how many good games have you found compared to bad ones (…
... the games you've ever played on Spectrum, how many good games have you ... (with bad ones I mean games that you personally found uninteresting, had ... 150-200 different games, my good games/bad games ratio would have been maybe 1 ...Best/worst endingsPity this cheap'n'nasty UBB-clone doesn't have polls, one of the many features it lacks. :roll: :) What does anyone think are the best, and worst, g…
... endings on the Speccy?? Especially now that Speccy Spoilers has been running for ... three games have better endings for [I]failure[/I] than some games have for ... the Hitchcockian last screen (it should have been [I]much[/I] better rewarded ...Games That WerentI don't know if this topic has been discused before. On this site 'Games That Werent' [url="http://cs.c64.org"]http://cs.c64.org[/url] they seek los…
... topic has been discused before.
On this site 'Games That Werent' [url ... .org[/url] they seek lost games that gone missing in production for ...madmixI've been playing this game over the past couple of days, and really enjoy this little pacman clone. But being a Spanish game there are some messages…
... text with approximate translations (not that there is much) and ... games translated into English? There seem to be a few gems that ... really should have been.
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... Message was edited by: dasteph on 2005-01-28 08:46 ...Input needed for RG article on 8 bit games that 'stank' Hi guys, I'm putting together a piece for Retro Gamer. It will feature 8 bit games 'that stank'. I'm after your input on which SPECTRUM, C64 and …
... games 'that stank'.
I'm after your input on ... which SPECTRUM, C64 and AMSTRAD (only at the moment) games ... br /> . Were good on all formats except one
that I require, and as ... nominate plenty of C64 games! And spread the word ...Odin & Thor - Please let's keep the good senseDear friends, I think it is useless to shoot out bad words against Paul McKenna. Let's keep the good sense and discuss this isseu wisely. Some say …
... /> Some say that he should have been more polite. Ok, depending on the perspective and ... Odin Games, there's nothing we can do. We will have to ... here know that nowadays no one will buy Odin games for the ... question is. Why deny these games? Its a point. Let's ...
