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Mission to MarsGiven that the Chinese have just launched a probe on a mission to the moon as part of their plans for a manned mission, and Nasa, the Ruskies, and Ja…
... and Japs all have plans to go to the moon, got me ...
Now, rather than go to the moon, which from the ... of it is going to be overcrowded and doesn' ... they first went there was to play golf and confirm what ... and desolate) we should go to Mars.
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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…
... of emulation I'd like to give them a second chance ... genre and will be a hard choice for many as I ... 'm limiting your selection to your absolute favourite - the one ... game you would want to be able to play on a desert island ... -
Anyone playing Burnout Paradise?If you've got a PS3 or 360 then I recommend downloading the demo and getting a taste of it. It's out on the 25th Jan and I've been having loads of f…
... huge sprawling city and outlands to play with. The demo gives you ... game and is brilliant fun to play online.
A couple ... to copy its model.
A few people (the Burnout hard ... that's because they want to play Burnout 1,2,3,etc ... -
Some more questions on various subjectsSome more questions that occur to me (mainly when I can't sleep). 1. Do DVD discs have PAL/NTSC formats? If so, how come I could play DVD regio…
... so, how come I could play DVD region 1 (USA, ... faster upstairs as opposed to downstairs, since gravity is ... , even if I wanted to play HL2 on my PC, ... Speccy is easier to emulate due to it's lack ... everyone elses' hard work does attract people to relive their old ... -
How to add speech to a program?Is it possible to add speech to a machine code program? And with possible I mean with relative ease. Hardware could be 128k. Is there some utility …
Is it possible to add speech to a machine code program? And with possible I mean with relative ease. Hardware could be 128k.
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Which is the best spectrum to have ?Just wanted to know which is the best Spectrum to have as i know some have more bugs than others. All i wanted it for was to play games on both 48k …
Just wanted to know which is the best Spectrum to have as i know some have more bugs than others.
All i wanted it for was to play games on both 48k and 128k
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First game that allowed you to redefine the keys?The first multiload thread makes me wonder what was the first Spectrum game that allowed to redefine the keys to play the game? The Don Priestly Tan…
The first multiload thread makes me wonder what was the first Spectrum game that allowed to redefine the keys to play the game?
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Dan Isaaman's Computer games (to play and write)hi I own this book, and the publication date is 1983. I didn't quite know whether to put this in Infoseek or in MIA - but the book contains a whole …
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SENDING beeper music from Z80 to AY?Hello. According to [url]http://z80.e-demo.pl/[/url] Z80 sends music-data to ULA (the 1-bit transducer). I was wondering if it's possible to send…
... url] Z80 sends music-data to ULA (the 1-bit ... it's possible to send the same data to AY (instead ... first, to make it simplier, to one channel of AY (not to change ... music. Z80 can send it to beeper or AY. I ... Z80. Is it possible to use AY to play that? And if so ... -
Rushing to acquire two tracksI've bought and downloaded a lot of music from Tesco Downloads, mostly without problems; but apart from the fact that one of the tracks ([i]Sixth Day…
... cannot get the licences to play those two tracks, although ... I can play all the others.
... all WMA digital-bang-to-rights-mismanagement crap, which ... can[/i] burn them to audio CD so I ... can rip them to MP3 -- eventually.
Next step in MIDI to AY conversionI e-mailed the author of MID2AY with a few questions. While I wait for a reply, I would like to expose my ideas. There should be a better way to conv…
... better way to convert MIDI to something that the AY can play. And ... AY (for SpecAY, OUTs list, PLAY commands, .TZX with player and ... converted (doesn't have to be limited to three. The export feature ... , and use a Spectrum Orchestra to play it!)
Now, ...8 pixel scrollingJust been playing Gunrunner (always forget how much I love this game, probs cos it's VERY hard) and wondered what other games use 8 pixel scrolling A…
... , probs cos it's VERY hard) and wondered what other games ... pixel scrolling AND are decent to play?
I can think ... the framerate was high enough to reduce jerk (fnar fnar) then ...Porting C64 text adventures to ZX Spectrum?I would like to port some of my text adventures from the C64 on over to the ZX Spectrum. Is this easy to do? Can someone with knowledge of the Spectr…
... Spectrum. Is this easy to do? Can someone with ... ranging from 8K in size to over 32KB.
to play the .D64 files.
...
I would like to specifically port these games:
to the ZX81 by Andre. ...Fancy a challenge ????I played one of my MINIGAMES from the 2008 competition and got a very hard game. It took me several days to find the solution. So if you want to gi…
... a very hard game. It took me several days to find the ... />
So if you want to give it a try, here ... = new game (but you want to play this one)
For ... you who want to know the solution, read the ...Xpadder - map pad buttons to keyboard keysI like to play PC games with a joypad (using a Gamecube pad with an adaptor), but some games do not support all joypads or are not convenient to play…
I like to play PC games with a joypad ... joypads or are not convenient to play with one.
... there which allow you to map any button/pad ...
Here's a screenshot to let you know how the ... the white placeholder for it to the appropriate position - this ...Porting Vampyre Cross to ZX SpectrumAnyone seen this game on the C64? It's a "hunt the vampire" classic text adventure. Here's the link to the download: [url]http://www.geocities.com/d…
... adventure. Here's the link to the download:
[url ... (such as VICE) in order to play the game.
Anyone ...The Speccy game you try first with a new emulatorI'm excited about the possibility of getting Speccy games up and running on the Nintendo Wii, which led me to think about which game I'd try first...…
... Nintendo Wii, which led me to think about which game I ... /> It's very hard to narrow it down to one, but I think ... , which is very easy to pick up and play, and just an ... one game you'd have to fire up first?Science Explained (Finally)!We believe that all the main physics principles can be explained away by the existence of tiny gnomes. Electricity: Inside cables there are hundreds…
... back, but just sit and play.
Food:
... free while the gnomes party hard. The morning after (which ... gnomes. These gnomes party particularly hard and thus the morning after ... sense of humour and love to play practical jokes. They will quickly ...How do you make a CD play at its normal speed in a PC?OK, annoying. I want to play a CD using my laptop but it seems silly to me to have the thing going at 24x generating a ton of heat and noise. I tried…
... , annoying.
I want to play a CD using my laptop ... but it seems silly to me to have the thing going ... does is spin up to 24x to read some data, then ... spin down to the right speed, then ... Anyone know how to make a CD play at its correct speed ...The "Ernie Wise Memorial Game What I Wrote" thread 2008As the September rain lashes remorselessly long and hard against the window (Everest PVC-u) what more can a cove do but reflect on life whilst drinki…
... rain lashes remorselessly long and hard against the window (Everest PVC ... life of me remember how to play the damn thing. I think ... was written as an antidote to the protracted development of "Touchdown ... now have no idea how to play it, and more importantly, why ...Your views on Technician TedAnother game the were I first bought for the Spectrum. I liked this game alot. It has very good graphics and sound, much better then JSW. It is a ve…
... is a very hard game to play and you had to have perfect timing ... game is impossible to complete, but was able to finish it a ...Blimey! Buy a used console games and you might have to pay the s/w house to play it!From: [URL]http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/11/10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the-secondhand-market/[/URL] [COLOR=blue]"Epic…
... 10/capps-we-really-need-to-make-strides-against-the- ... industry will start making moves to combat it.[/COLOR]
< ... that models involving restricting content to those who bought the retail ... [COLOR=blue]?I?ve talked to some developers who are saying ...The Race Against Time - places your mom never let you go to...I've made a few demonstration videos regarding the hardness-glitch in the game, and places you can get to. Vids are made according to the continents…
... , and places you can get to.
Vids are made ... according to the continents:
[URL="http ... 's not actually allowing you to play the game)
A ...Which Speccy game have you always WANTED to complete?Partly stealing the idea from the other thread about completed games, which game have you always wanted to complete since you were a kid, but never q…
... have you always wanted to complete since you were ... but now it would have to be [b]Head over ... fire it up, only to fail miserably because I've ... forgotten how to do the rooms (without ... previously mastered! I need to play it for several days straight ...Your favourite Half-Life game?Right, I've posted a few polls up today, and I've had so many pm's (nearly one, so far) from people saying how much they liked them, and asking for m…
... fantastic game, you play Gordon Freeman, and have to fight your way ... [B]have[/B] to play this if you want to be called a ... battle is brilliant (though very hard!). Episode Two is fantastic!
to play the HL2 games on PC ...Why do the likes of CodeMasters and others, deny their games to the rest of us ?Hi, first post :) What I'd like to know (and probably many others), is why do people like CodeMasters (among others), refuse to release their back c…
... br /> What I'd like to know (and probably many others ... CodeMasters (among others), refuse to release their back catalogue.< ... allowing old speccy games to be re-lived again ... than happy for us to play games of old, so ... think people are going to pay about a tenner ...From "Tape" to "TZX"Hello, Could some please help me with the method(s) for converting "Physical Tapes" to "TZX" format. I would like to know basically what software t…
... (s) for converting "Physical Tapes" to "TZX" format.
I ... would like to know basically what software to play the tape into ... this can be save out to.
Then do I ...Boo to The EdgeThe thread on Fairlight, at: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23670[/URL] has made me realise just how much The Edge, th…
... Klass of '99 (Skooldaze/Back to Skool) and by far the ... release, so we never got to play it. Even Ultimate, who won ... Speccy games, don't object to remakes.
True, the ... , and by allowing the remake to be released, they'd garner ...Not a very nice situation to be inA mate of mine and his girlfriend decided to take the plunge and move out of my mates parents house and get there own place in a town 40 miles away. …
... realised they would be struggling to pay utilities and mortgage etc ... itll be ok hes not to hard to handle.
So they ... electrician and probably earns close to my mate and his girlfriends ... unbearable so he had to retreat back to the landing. From what ...Computer or console: Which do you prefer for games?Yep, the old argument again. I was talking about this yesterday to a mate (a World of Warcraft addict) who doesn't like consoles, and neither I (who …
... looks fine to me.
PC games run from hard drive ... consoles allow game loading from hard drive, such as the XBox ... not all games work from hard drive), or the XBox 360 ... gaming) just whether you prefer to play modern games on a console ...
