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Cant play any speccy emulators in xp helpJust recently ive been having a problem that effects every spectrum emulator ive got in which i cant use the cursor keys to emulate a joystick and if…
... emulator ive got in which i cant use the cursor keys to ... if i choose the keyboard option in a game the keymapping is all ... whwn its plugged in the controls are the wrong way round. The pc keyboard ... works ok in other ... -
The Endorian ForestSeeing good old Manic Miner again, I remembered how stunned I was when I saw Return of the Jedi and realized one of Manic Miner's levels, The Endoria…
... of Manic Miner's levels, The Endorian Forest, represented an ... 's that possible? Was the programmer one of these people ... that Lucasfilm released the movie considerably sooner in the UK than in NL?
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The SentinelThe reviews for "The Sentinel" regularly stated that the game had 10,000 levels. The game's level numbering system starts at 0000 and goes up to 9999…
... up to 9999, the code for which is in the tips section and ... was in Your Sinclair. It ... .
How are the levels stored in The Sentinel? Maths was never ... there a way of hacking the game in order to see what ... -
Sunk in the OceanOK, from what I've found out Ocean's 'Sly Spy' and 'Beach Volley' were never released full price on the Spectrum. However, with only a few Ocean titl…
... never released full price on the Spectrum. However, with only ... to wonder if it's the same scenario with these ... up.
So, were the following Ocean Spectrum games actually ... physically released onto the shelves?
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Worthing Pier. The death of my childhood arcade, and the end of an era.[url="http://photobucket.com/albums/v616/THXII38/Worthing/"]http://photobucket.com/albums/v616/THXII38/Worthing/[/url] The last of the original arc…
... The dancing monkeys, and the marksman game, are the only two machines left in ... buggers, it was always 10p in the past. Get all 20 ... street in Brighton.
The photos of the knackered ... the beach, sum up the death of the old skool machines in ... -
No, this is THE conspiracy"At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs." - [I]Astronaut Scott Carpenter. Carpenter…
"At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there ... screening of ET at the White House in 1982[/I]
"You don't know the half ... [/I]
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I'll name that game in 2I was on the phone to my mum the other day and I happened to have Manic Miner sitting on the title screen and my mum, overhearing the PC, said "what'…
I was on the phone to my mum the other day and I ... have Manic Miner sitting on the title screen and my mum ... , overhearing the PC, said "what's that ... she heard/saw it was in the 80's!
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Downloading Magazine Scans From the Archive?Firstly, if this post is in the wrong section then please feel free to move it. I've been looking at mag scans with the HTML Viewer, but as I'm on d…
Firstly, if this post is in the wrong section then please feel ... get individual magazines directly from the archive? I tried downloading both ... torrents available, but I think the files are far too big ... you then run into the problem of the pages-per-session limit ... -
Celebrity Big Brother who would u put in ?i think it's going to be difficult for the big bro lot to better this series, and was wondering which celeb housemates could surpass these lot. If yo…
... going to be difficult for the big bro lot to better ... brother from past or present in the next celeb big bro, who ... put in ?
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who ate all the pies?9 million people in the u.s.a. are severely obese. 7 million people in africa are close to starvation. who ate all the pies?
9 million people in the u.s.a. are severely obese.
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way of the rodentjust found this site whilst serching remake sites,sorry if its been posted before. [url="http://www.wayoftherodent.com"]http://www.wayoftherodent.com…
... few nods back to the spectrum and the scene in the 80`s
Was there a bug in Turrican?I notice that when i play it on Spectaculator 6.25 that when i die on any level it says 'Continue YES/NO' and if i choose YES it puts me back to the…
... it puts me back to the start of level 1-1 ... it do this on the real version of the game? Because if ... there is a bug in the emulation of the game on Spectaculator 6 ...Barrymore - the big comebackSo now that Celeb Big Bro has finished and Michael Barrymore has emerged as somewhat less that a social pariah, what does everybody think of his chan…
... ve recently read the story in the Sun about him meeting the father of ... fella that died in his pool. Apparently the father says he ... able to make a comeback in the UK, or do you all ... considering the amount of shit the newspapers have flung in his direction in ...The Bill 1984 - ????I always used to watch the bill when i was younger and then i stopped watching a few years back. I recently watched it and was appalled at how its tu…
... always used to watch the bill when i was ... % who shafting who in the station then the other 10% actual ... also saw that the latest producer is the same guy ... Brookside into the ground. I recently rented the first series ... to be rather than the pantomime it is is ...Creating a loading screen in 80'sToday painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loa…
Today painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loading screens twenty years ago? Did they use lightpens or some kind of scanner?name the game.I was currently rumaging through my current gf's bag last night and i found something she brought home from school. It was one of those stupid paper …
... it, i was doing them in the 80's
anyway ... , and i want to research the history of it, for my ...Anyone know the name of this music demo?Back in the day I remember playing through the various games and programs on a magazine covertape and being amazed at a music demo. It began with …
Back in the day I remember playing through the various games and programs on ... was impressive to me at the time. It was probably a ...Free Speccy (&C64) games to collector in BristolCopied & pasted from elsewhere so ignore references to C64 if necessary! In other news, i am moving house on saturday and tragically this means i am…
... leads etc UNLESS someone in the Bristol or South West ... area can collect the games and/or the C64 by ... night...
The games are nearly all boxed ... rare from 86-87, just the usual suspects
all the titles have been archived by ...Name the game...?Can anyone help me? It's a strategy game which involved moving tanks and infantry units about on a contour map. There was a status box in the bottom…
... was a status box in the bottom part of the screen with scrolling ... text in it.
Apologies ...The whole denied games, abandonware and buying from eBay issue I understand that it's a software company or author's right to ban free distribution of their games on the Internet. This is a wider issue these da…
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The problem I have is the way that these ... aren't interested in the mint condition manual or the unscratched box/ ... cd/tape? The actual software ... it (illegal). Either way, the original company makes no attempt ...Barbarian II competition in Speccy magBack in the late 80s I entered a Barbarian II competition in one of the Speccy mags (I think it was either SU or YS, but I might be wrong). The idea…
... in the late 80s I entered a Barbarian II competition in one of the ... might be wrong).
The idea was to design a ... used in Barbarian III. I entered and won one of the runners ... know what mag it was in? Over to you guys ...FuseX on the Xbox :releases, testing and feedbackI'm creating a new thread here to continue on from the thread about emulators on the Xbox ([url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php…
... continue on from the thread about emulators on the Xbox ([url=" ... snapshot loaded and you change the controller config (ie which ... (but different extension) to the snapshot which is loaded. So ... save DanDare.cfg in the settings folder on the disk. Next time ...You've got the Programming skills, I've got the Ideas lets make lots of moneyYou know those tank games, one tank on either side of a hill where you choose angle of fire and strength, well can someone tell the the BASIC instruc…
... the the BASIC instruction to plot the line of fire, or point me in the ... direction of a BASIC game in the archive that I ... can rip off
In advance ...name the game, possibly hard.you are a roller skate going round a maze, avoiding holes in the floor.
you are a roller skate going round a maze, avoiding holes in the floor.The Unicorn trap.Could anybody tell me the meaning of the words, "Within this book, there lies a trap." As mentioned in the 'Shadows of the Unicorn' novella? Played…
Could anybody tell me the meaning of the words, "Within this book, there ... lies a trap." As mentioned in the ... 'Shadows of the Unicorn' novella? Played the game for months ...The longest (but most fun) weekend of my lifeAn archaeology conference (which was organised by an archaeologist friend of mine) was held in Kilkenny this weekend. It concentrated entirely on dis…
... on discoveries and ongoing projects in the city. I've been helping ... went smoothly and it was the best weekend of my (recent ... historians from various parts of the country.
Anyway, now ... some more entries for the keyword list over the next few days ...Name the arcadeI've just rediscovered MAME; the last time I tried it, there was only support for a few old games, but now it seems to support almost every arcade ma…
... spent half of my adolescence in the arcades). I've already found ... :)
One of the games was about elves, dwarfs ... blackmail. I also remember that the power bar was labelled "STAMINA ... one was about bashing punks in the streets, quite similar to Double ...Seriously rare item on Ebay - Guess the end priceRight folks, here we have one (1) genuine second world war Enigma machine, boxed with spare rotors. [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI…
... an end bid (as in the genuine winner, not the local nutters) of ...The Traveller - Australian Sci-Fi Film seriesCreated and filmed by Australian Andrew Merkelbach, who was in the frame to replace Christopher Eccleston to play Doctor Who but David Tennant got th…
... Australian Andrew Merkelbach, who was in the frame to replace Christopher Eccleston ... David Tennant got the role.
Visit the official site here ... ve worked with them on the films and they are excellent ... . But they need all the support they can.
