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Which two games show the progress made over the lifetime of the SpectrumJust voted for Batty on the free cover-tape poll. It made me think of the massive leap from thru the wall in 1982 to Batty in 1987. Which game fro…
Just voted for Batty on the free cover-tape poll.
< ... made me think of the massive leap from thru the wall in 1982 ... 1987.
Which game from the early days (which was considered ... you place next to one from the tail-end to show how ... -
Flood II animations from 1992 (not Spectrum!).Here's a video of some animations & graphics I did for a game called 'Flood 2' in 1992 which I was making for a company called 'Bullfrog'. It was nev…
... years have all been salvaged from the discs. The video shows various nasties ... , objects, a look through the l...evel map and various ... in the game. At the end is my animation of 'Kuato' from the game ... filmed on my phone camera from a PC running an ST ... -
Just come back in from.....My first night out to a gentlemans club. Swore blind I would never enter one of these places, but as my one of my best muckers is going states side …
... is not for me. Do the fat or old feckers in ... tit deliberately elbows me at the bar and blames me for ... our party and I returned from the bar
little shit ... -
R3PLAY 'The Arcade, Retro & Video Gaming Expo' - Blackpool[url]http://www.r3play.info/[/url] The big one ! Big retro show in Blackpool on 6th/7th November, both Games TM/Retro Gamer are putting their names…
... .r3play.info/[/url]
The big one !
Big ... />
Lots of familiar faces from the forums. Gail Porter will be ... going, i know over on the RG forums theyre doing block ... -
OMD at the Vintage Computing FestivalJust got this via Farcebook: (Also add to the list of speakers our very own [B]csmith[/B] on the Spectrum ULA) NEWS RELEASE A walk on the geek side …
... , and early career, which stemmed from the legendary Eric's nightclub in ... premiering a few tracks from "History of Modern", the band's first ... [/url] (Entry to the performance is separate from VCF entrance).
Recording to real Tape, problem playing from pcHi! Here is what i want to do I want to record some tapes with my cassette recorder from pc The problem is, my sound card is playing the output from …
... from pc
The problem is, my sound card is playing the output from the ... emulator with an echo that is messing the quality of the ... sound
It's only with the MIDI ...DivIDEo - streaming video on the DivIDEThis has been a bit of a personal holy grail for years and years, so I'm very pleased to announce the release of DivIDEo, my streaming video system f…
... delta compression (only storing the changes between frames, rather ... CPU time left over from handling the video data is ...
A Youtube video from the Outline demo party, where this ... ...
The converter app is available from the website above, but ...Countries of software release - what's the rule?WOS database says that there are many games from countries like Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia. All these countries appeared after the breakup…
... that there are many games from countries like Serbia, Croatia ... All these countries appeared after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
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And the games from the 80ties were created in Soviet ... br />
2) Use the original, historical countries
ZedX - Speccy emulator for the iPadJust stumbled across this on Twitter by sheer fluke - [url=http://www.maclife.de/iphone-ipod/ipad/grosse-pixel-snes-und-zx-spectrum-auf-dem-ipad]a Sp…
... It's still awaiting approval from the App Store though. According to ... the news article, the Basic interpreter [i]isn ... 't[/i] in the submitted version, as per standard ... mention of getting permission for the games though (and I'd ...Jumping the sharkBored again, so "inspired" by a post on a forum I read last week (can't find the link, I'm at work now), here's a list of programs that I think have …
... relationship removed that aspect from the stories, and by ... the crew from Red Dwarf, meaning that it departed from the whol ethos of the ... program, which was the single ... themselves from the furture and the program ends with the message ...Bargain - ?15m and the Pope will call roundHis Holiness the Pope, former Nazi youth and leader of the richest organization in history (in terms of both wealth and land ownage), is visiting Br…
... , plus whatever the cost of the Police, all of the organisation, etc ... place, mostly during the many wars that the church supported.
... then I doubt that many from the Vatican will ever get there ... don't exactly spread the wealth to the poor, instead they ...How paint in the down two lines ?The down two lines on the spectrum screen cant be used. But i remeber from the 80's that exist some code that allow us to paint on these two lines wi…
The down two lines on the spectrum screen cant be used. But i remeber from the 80's that exist some code that allow us to paint on these two lines with plot or draw or others.
Someone remember the code ?
thx in advanceThe Disk Has Been ChangedI bought some games on Disk from The Attic Bug and from Retrogames.co.uk and with a number of them I keep getting this message when I try to play the…
... some games on Disk from The Attic Bug and from Retrogames.co.uk ... play them:
[B]The disk has been changed 0 ...Cassette Player + 48k Power Supply (but really just the cassette deck)Hi everyone- I'm having some difficulty trying to find a decent cassette player on Ebay for a good price. The ones that I see on there are all ei…
... to find a vintage one from the 80's designed to work ... that the cassette player and the Power Supply didn't survive the journey ... picture of successfully loading to the title screen of Manic Miner ... for the PSU I can just get a new one from Maplins ...Challenging the orthodoxy - Composite modWell, what's brought this on is two things: firstly I composite-modded an Issue 4S board this weekend in preparation for the Vintage Computing Festiv…
... modulator, disconnect the +5v feed, and connect the video out from the motherboard directly ... to the centre pin of the socket on the ... can calculate the output impedance of the next amplifier, the emitter follower ...Internet on the ZX SpectrumThis has been a bit of a personal holy grail for years and years, so I'm very pleased to announce a humble speccy browsing the Internet with Firefox.…
... announce a humble speccy browsing the Internet with Firefox.
< ... to ZX Spec for conversion from the Rabbit Java proxy back to ... - everything you see in the browser (apart from video or some flash ... qvtYC8uKSzI"]Video of internet on the Speccy (as of time of ...So you need to double (or triple, or quadruple) the clock speed...No particular reason for posting this, other than I was looking at an eZ80 evaluation board that does this, and that jogged my memory of a project I'…
... the output from the circuit, the top trace is the 8MHz output from the VCO, the bottom is the ... the 74LS629. The green wire is the control input (voltage from the low pass filter). The ...Merlin has risen from the grave!Those of you following the Merlin saga [thread=29902]over here[/thread] might be slightly interested to know that the program is now available in the…
... which Merlin only moves when the direction keys are pressed. ... full assembler listing. To run the program (Spectrum 48k only), enter ... years ago, due to the mistakes in the hex dumps and there ... those foolhardy enough to enter the Deadly Caverns of Druldragon II ...What's the law regarding writing sequels to old books?I've long been tempted to attempt to write a sequel to a series of childrens stories that were originally written back in the period 1939-early 1950s…
... originally written back in the period 1939-early 1950s. ... still in print, though the author is long dead.< ... or other law, on the basis I will be ... would I need permission from the author's estate/family and ... /or the publishers?
...How the f.....[QUOTE]Originally Posted by grey key I suppose there is nothing to be gained by arguing a point with someone of such a high intellect as yours. [/Q…
... point or just laying down the law according to grey key ... warning for insulting the afore mentioned individual for the above reply, can ... insult!.
Ban ME from the forum.... :lol: :lol: :lol:A message From Jonathan Smith (Joffa's) sisterI got an email today from Jof's sister (Christine) .. it was meant for all of us,so here it is. I'm guessing she won't mind [QUOTE]Dear Paul, Than…
... got an email today from Jof's sister (Christine ... hear from Jonathan's friends. Yes, the hospital ... the love and support that was being sent to him from ... all his friends at WOS. I read the messages myself for the ... so much comfort. From the bottom of my heart ...The Stamper brothersI was wondering if anyone from the Speccy community has requested interviews with the Stamper brothers recently. I can understand that they were medi…
I was wondering if anyone from the Speccy community has requested ... interviews with the Stamper brothers recently. I ... their coding routines and the moment that they knew that ... ever let us know the stories behind the magic?
...Help with the name of a FilmI remember back in the mid 90's i saw a film one night but cant remember what it was called but do remember bits of it and was wondering if anyone wo…
... wondering if anyone would know from the info that i recall.
from his neighbourhood.
Later on the main kid ... friend steal a piece of the councillors Harley Davidson so it ... /> In a later scene the kid takes the Harley and rides it ...The 5 Most Absurd Video Games Starring Rock StarsFrom the WoS webserver logs, you may be interested in [URL="http://www.cracked.com/article_18634_the-5-most-absurd-video-games-starring-rock-stars.ht…
From the WoS webserver logs, you may ... -games-starring-rock-stars.html"]The 5 Most Absurd Video Games ... Starring Rock Stars[/URL], featuring the most often copied (and incorrect ... .org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007104"]The Thompson Twins Adventure[/URL] at ...Armageddon (based on the Bruce Willis movie)I was watching this today and thought it could make a good game. I've envisioned a five level game.. 1) As A.J (played by Ben Affleck), you have to…
... rig in the beginning of the film to get away from Harry (Bruce ... Willis)
2) You are in the ... shuttle as you avoid the tail debri from the asteroid as you try ... limit to press the explosives button to destroy the asteroid (with ...The death of the SpectrumI was reflecting the other day about life and the significance of those interests that we develop during childhood. For many, its football or physic…
... we can almost feel the emotion from that time long since ... past.
So - we love the ... from the menu of the present and likely be uninterested in the artefacts of the ... to all but the keepers of the archive. The childhoods that ...Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
... to make the best of the graphics either?, the problem ... to keep it in the guidelines from what I recall, ... />
Apart from that I don't understand ... , and yet, apart from the Dave Perry games and ... also half wondering about the Sinclair Interface cartridges, ...Anyone bought from this company?[url]http://www.comeuro.net/webshop/home.php[/url] Looks like they are from the UK. Thinking about getting a HI-FI from them. Any of you guys bough…
[url]http://www.comeuro.net/webshop/home.php[/url]
Looks like they are from the UK. Thinking about getting a HI-FI from them.
Any of you guys bought stuff off them?
Cheers.
Sy.Digital rot - the modern DRM scourge[B]A place for History[/B] I love WOS. Completely love it. It is completely crazy in its scale and is the best of its kind. I love that games have s…
... player/disk drive.
From this generation, we are starting ... never available on digital media from the start, we will have to ... ?page=0,1"]delisted [/URL]from the only store that they were ... only ever available from.
[IMG]http:// ...Things you do on the toilet....(aside from the obvious)
(aside from the obvious)
