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'Diary on the making of 'Mr.Do!' for the 48k/128k ZX Spectrum' by Mark R. JonesHere is my 'Diary on the making of 'Mr.Do!' for the 48k/128k ZX Spectrum'. It's a free, 50 page PDF. I hope you find it interesting: https://drive.go…
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Killed Until Dead - Spectrum 128K versionI first got hold of this game about the same time as the film "Clue" started being shown on TV, and there was a "Miss Marple" series on TV, followed …
... about the same time as the film "Clue" started being shown on TV ... was a "Miss Marple" series on TV, followed later by " ... and copies another loading screen onto the display
3. The main game is ... out to another RAM bank on the 128K Spectrum. However, this ... -
Completed gamesMy housemate and I are currently working our way through Deus Ex at the moment and the thought struck us that today it is actually possible to comple…
... animated screen of a raft leaving the island. Incidentally I was the second ... boat and then gert the hi-score screen.
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HELPHas anyone got any hints or even a solution to the following adventure games: Starship Quest Magnetic moon a shadow on glass moon magic
Colour of magic is based on the Terry Pratchett Novel.
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Screen PreloadersDid any of you chaps write your own spectrum games or applications. If yes , did any of you guys manage to get a preloading screen going..... Its …
Did Locomotion by Mastertronic complete a sliding-puzzle game as it loaded?
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Quiz III - Further adventures of... Ok, 20 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. There …
... a rotating icosahedron in the bottom right of the screen looking rather pretty ... .
The winner would get a ... ) Spell it correctly
Heavy on the Magick
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Quiz III - Further adventures of... Ok, 20 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. There …
... a rotating icosahedron in the bottom right of the screen looking rather pretty ... .
The winner would get a ... the Great Suprendo on the TV!
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Activision's SailingSailing by Activision is listed on the STP pages. I have a .VOC of it, but I can't turn it into a nice .TZX. What should I do with it? Upload the .V…
... help; you have to disassemble the saving routine, which can sometimes ... be found somwere in the code (i can't ... think i saw one in 'heavy on the magick' for example).
< ... virtually any loading scheme, once decoded.
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Name of a gameWhen I was a kid there was a speccy game where you would play as a caveman and have to hit women over the head with your club and drag them back to y…
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On 2002-08-04 14:38 ... run on the emu I have. It goes to the "select weapon" screen ... /> After making your selection on the "select weapon" screen you have to press ... not "y"! If you're loading from a TAP/TZX file ... to put Caps Lock on before loading :) -
A game that took the Spectrum to its maximumWhat Spectrum games took it to the maximum of its capacity? I think R-Type is a good example. What are yours?
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[...] The high resolution mode display on my own +3 ... I mean double pixels number on horizontal axis. Something like this ... . Not the game itself, but the game loading screen (or the color bars before the screen appears ... -
Panic (Mikro-Gen)Well, Mr Mikro-Gen (i.e. me!) has located an original copy of Panic by Mikro-Gen. It's been dumped so the unidentifyable copy from WOS can be replace…
... I am building at the moment shows the cover, loading screen, instructions, general ... information and tzx download for each game on ... you figure that the tzx is about 40k, the loading screen 6k, the base page ... -
unreleased games and beta versionsAre there any alternative beta versions of games, or games that were never released at all in the archive. I dont seem to be able to find any. There …
... /> On 2003-03-27 13:17, LCD wrote:
The only ... with movies (Just look at the "Godzilla" movies: "Frankensteins ... (presumably they changed the packaging, loading screen and in-game title ... )? It would be interesting to see the ... -
unreleased games and beta versionsAre there any alternative beta versions of games, or games that were never released at all in the archive. I dont seem to be able to find any. There …
... only seen similar cracks/compilations on Russian betadisks.
the french! :o
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On 2003 ... name in the games or in the loading screen or an extra loading screen.
Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…
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Heavy on the Magick - loved the way it cycles through images while loading
the loading pattern!
I have a question though. How did Heavy on the ... Magick manage to cycle through images while loading?Great fire of londonHad someone sucess loading this game into a emulator? I tried ZX32, RS and R80. Okay, the M1 version works, but does anyone really need a multifaced …
... feels to me like the backwards loading screen ends prematurely, even if ... a bunch of garbage. the rest may very well ... for me on emulators, with fast/turbo loading and at ... justtried it with Turbo-Loading and i hadn't ... was edited by: Sadako on 2003-12-10 02:51 ...Great fire of londonHad someone sucess loading this game into a emulator? I tried ZX32, RS and R80. Okay, the M1 version works, but does anyone really need a multifaced …
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On 2003-12-10 01:13, Sadako wrote:
the TZX ... . it feels to me like the backwards loading screen ends prematurely, even if ... 's funny how the actual data in the blocks is perfectly fine ... , it's just that the loader doesn't seem to ...Spectrum Database ProgramsWhat would people recommend to be a decent database program for the emulators? I've been fiddling with SGD but the databases are outdated, and ZX Rai…
... generating crc's dependant on the state of the entry then that is ... one for the tzx + loading screen, a third one if its tzx + loading screen + cover ... scan etc. That would envolve a lot of agreement on ...+D/Disciple games archive?Hi all, Having finally got my disciple to work, I'm starting to have a look at hacking multiload games. Is there any archive on the web with games t…
... br /> Is there any archive on the web with games that have ... that could be overlayed on top of the ROM. The +D has something ... basic loader that loaded in the loading screen before the game snapshot so you ... separate these to get them on disk.
Good ...+D/Disciple games archive?Hi all, Having finally got my disciple to work, I'm starting to have a look at hacking multiload games. Is there any archive on the web with games t…
... ram -- more on that below. Line 20 loads the rtype loading screen -- please replace ... this with a proper one, the one ... disk code for loading the next level in the disk RAM. This takes ...Old Posts, Double Dragon remake, Lost picturesI assume we all here read old posts, I`ve been making my way through the devoplment ones last week, with the Misc ones also.. and now, finally I get…
... on Spectrum graphics than other system. I actually like the limitations of the ... more Speccy programmers with time on their hands.
Amigo ... waiting for him to get the DD loading screen done! :)How do you talk to monsters on Heavyonthemagick?It sais you have to use quotation marks but i cant get it to work. The game doesnt seem to recognise these: " " ". Theres probably some simple proces…
... this: my memories of playing heavy on the magick 16 years ago are ... i think back to the heavy on the magick i had on my original spectrum ... a round compass at the bottom of the screen with N S W ... E pointers. Thats how i remember the ...Name (of) the gameExcuse this post. If it sounds odd then blame the 8th can of Stella I'm currently on. Have you ever though about the name behind a game? The words …
But Why is 'Heavy on the Magick' spelt with a 'K'? < ... br />
Becuase, in the 80's dungeon and dragons ... as a noun, instead of Magic, to give things more of ... me a headache. I am on my 12 can of diet ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
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On 2004-02-27 12:34, ... a custom loader. But at the time, I thought way it ... used the flash effect to alternate the words Manic and ... (circa 83) didn't have the flashing loading screen. Is that version W0W ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
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On 2004-10-13 15:24, ... (circa 83) didn't have the flashing loading screen. Is that version W0W ... ]
If so it's the same as my copy, so ... copy & his DID have the flashing loading screen - bast !Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
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On 2004-10-13 15:24 ... copy & his DID have the flashing loading screen - bast !
[/quote ... to print the flashing [I]MANIC MINER[/I] on the screen, then saved ... it over the original loader. ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... a friend. That DID have the flashing loading screen. That tape eventually wore ... loader to print the flashing [I]MANIC MINER[/I] on the screen, then saved ... it over the original loader. Funnily ...My websiteI've had a couple of emails (when the damn thing works!) regarding my website, asking when it'll be up, what?s in it, where's the pdf's gone etc.. so…
I think go heavy on the mags, have the mini screen shot of each cover like ... me pick early issues from the cover games mentioned... they also ... given) or also written for the site.
Areas ... a couple screenshots laid out on page, the Tzx (plus snap for ...Most original game conceptHi everyone, What games do you think were the most original. Two that spring to my mind are Nebulus Revolution [ This Message was edited by: dmsm…
... so many titles for the Speccy that were original ...
And that was the beauty of the whole thing back then ... the colour clash, the beeps, and loading from tapes were never the ... , knightlore, head over heels, heavy on the magick, hundreds of adventure games ...MSX to speccy ports?World is full of speccy conversions for MSX, many of them worse than speccy original. (argh) There are MSX games which have converted to other syste…
... Spectrum to MSX. Check the MSX loading screen for Robocop for instance: ... the MSX by the same company.
The Konami games on the ... to convert the coin-op. The Konami games on the MSX were ... Hyper Sports has other events on the MSX for instance. And ...Smallest Reason for Loading a GameHi folks, Every so often I keep loading some games merely for seeing the loading screen or, as in the case of Jet Set Willy, trying to catch the mag…
... enjoy watching Moonstrike and The Final Matrix loading. The first time I saw ... was brilliant seeing the instructions appear on an animated loading screen.
I ... 2 just to hear the cool tune on the title screen.
Necros ...
