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Whos Your Favourite Game Programmer ? Mine's Keith Burkhill, Mike Lamb. Its the people behind Commando, Arkanoid. There are others cant remember their names, I'll continue later [img]/_…
... speccy shoot em-ups featuring full colour large sprites and fast ... . Philip Mitchell
> The Hobbit
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Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…
... speccy shoot em-ups featuring full colour large sprites and fast ... . Philip Mitchell
> The Hobbit
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My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... of information (whilst maintaining 'near' full compatability - I say near because ... modern as well (the Russian Hobbit clone had Forth I think ... -
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?
... vote goes to The Hobbit. It was full of bugs and was ... -
Most sought after gamesWhich original games are most sought after by the avid Speccy collector??
... from Manic Miner and The Hobbit through to Elite and Match ... that never made it to full publication - Mire Mare from Ultimate ... from Matthew Smith. (See the full list of 'Games That Time ... -
Another Free Ebay Day ;- Link to 300+ ?1.50 all in[url="http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=cornishdavey&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=200&rdir=0"]http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/w…
... Latin Kit
Codemasters (Full)
Rock Star Ate Hamster ... Vol. 2
Commando
Full Guy x 2
Grand ... x 2
Hellfire
Hobbit NI x 2
Gyroscope ... /> Codename Mat
Deathchase
Full Throttle x 3
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Most controversial game ever...?The most controvertial game that I can personally think of would have to be 'Raid Over Moscow'. You play as the leader of a squadron of US planes and…
... info seek entry :p
Full title Tebbit, The
Year ... in the style of The Hobbit. The game was advertised by ... -
What games exploited hardware speccy to the top level?Hello For you....what games exploited hardware speccy to the top level? thanks. greetings from Spain
... /> 1) Dark Sceptre: huge sprites, full colour, scrolling, menu system, complex ... Uridium, caught my fancy with full colour scrolling (smooooth!), good sound ... gameplay.
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Time Capsule Spec-GamesOkay, another question for you all. Imagine you've got to put just five-ten Spectrum games into a time capsule for future generations to enjoy (just …
... 48K!
4) The Hobbit - I always list an adventure ... ) and Zynaps (no holds barred full action, all colour, gob smacking ... -
Games that make you stand and stare!A similar thread is going on in the Games forum but thought this would be a good one to open it up to all machines/consoles/arcade/etc... For exampl…
... atmosphere
3) The Hobbit - excellent graphics and superb parser ... away!
5) Zynaps - full colour smooth scrolling blast em ...
6) Commando - huge full colour vertical scrolling! What a ... -
Atic Atac and Sabre Wulf walkthroughs on Google VideoYou can now watch these 2 games being completed via your web browser, courtesy of Google Video. Atic Atac: [url="http://video.google.com/videoplay?d…
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Edit: That list in full if anyone's curious (some ... dummy run.AVI
876K hobbit.AVI
4.9M horace_goes_skiing ... .AVI
77M auf monty full.avi
676K minedout.avi ... -
Your Speccy Games CollectionJust updated my Spectrum games list today after having a load of tapes lying around for months, managed to sort them out and I now have 1441 original…
... hedges - micromega (dixons pack)
Hobbit - melbourne house, 1982
Horace ... acorn versions)
Flying formula (full game) - Zx computing monthly - 1986 ... -
1982 speccy gaming pioneersThe games that helped get the Spectrum noticed are about to be 25 years old. Which is the best game from 1982? A list of the 30 with the highest rati…
[QUOTE=Arjun;177776]The Hobbit, hands down.[/QUOTE]
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1982 speccy gaming pioneersThe games that helped get the Spectrum noticed are about to be 25 years old. Which is the best game from 1982? A list of the 30 with the highest rati…
... ]Is it true it's full of bugs?[/QUOTE]
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1982 speccy gaming pioneersThe games that helped get the Spectrum noticed are about to be 25 years old. Which is the best game from 1982? A list of the 30 with the highest rati…
... ]Is it true it's full of bugs?[/quote]
The ... ?
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What game was your first 'tape to tape'Inspired by a post in another thread, what was your first 'tape to tape' game you received? (I know it might be several but which stood out). I got …
... did us a blank tape full of games - it had Atic ... on side A and The Hobbit and Manic Miner on side ... to play MM & The Hobbit :sad: -
games and dreamshave you ever dreamt about any speccy games while sleeping? and what speccy games feature dreams in them? (have you even dreamt about some of them, p…
... an animated dragon in the hobbit
(during a period while ... in a surreal dream about full throttle
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Vote for your top 100 Videogames!!Just thought I'd let you all know about Empire's 100 Top Videogame poll, as I hadn't noticed it anywhere else...wasn't sure if this was allowed to be…
i voted
Lords of midnight
Manic miner
Jet pac
The hobbit
Call of duty 4
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Vote for your top 100 Videogames!!Just thought I'd let you all know about Empire's 100 Top Videogame poll, as I hadn't noticed it anywhere else...wasn't sure if this was allowed to be…
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Jet pac
The hobbit
Call of duty 4 ... , just hope the list isnt full of nintendo fanboys choices[/QUOTE ... -
ZX games for fixingExist any games/software which need fix any bugs ? - incorrect graphics - incorrect or bad keyboard controll - too fast games (need slow-down) - game…
I always wondered what was in the room that was too full to enter in The Hobbit. -
ZX games for fixingExist any games/software which need fix any bugs ? - incorrect graphics - incorrect or bad keyboard controll - too fast games (need slow-down) - game…
[QUOTE=Necros;381173]I always wondered what was in the room that was too full to enter in The Hobbit.[/QUOTE]
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ZX games for fixingExist any games/software which need fix any bugs ? - incorrect graphics - incorrect or bad keyboard controll - too fast games (need slow-down) - game…
[QUOTE=Necros;381173]I always wondered what was in the room that was too full to enter in The Hobbit.[/QUOTE]
Where about's is that room (next to which other ones) ? :)
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What were your favourite speccy adventure games?My favourite speccy adventure games, mainly obtained from Your Sinclair, Crash and Sinclair User covertapes are: - Bored of the Rings - Winter Wonde…
... all the 150-odd full-screen pictures they got ...
As for The Hobbit ... If you had a "Game ... as the over-rated Hobbit, and yet got little ... last slagged off The Hobbit. It's quite invigorating ... the frustrations of The Hobbit pale into insignificance beside ... -
When do you think video games no longer needed imagaination?I'm not sure if I can phrase this question coherently, hence the pre-amble. What I am getting at is - when I was a kid I'd play a game, take Chequere…
... on about.
* The Hobbit. Till then I had been ... says to me, "You played Hobbit yet? It's an adventure ... heard about the 3d rendered, full colour, full sound, all out action ... -
Magnetic Scrolls Adventures...Look at that: [url]http://www.mobygames.com/game/guild-of-thieves/screenshots[/url] all of the platforms evil c64, little brother cpc, even crappy a…
... /> 1) you couldn't charge full whack for the 8 bit ... impressed when I bought the hobbit as a kid.. so it ... -
ZX81 more powerful than the Speccy?I have been reading ?The ZX Spectrum Book 1982 - 199x? by Andrew Rollings (thanks again, Andrew - it?s a great read!). There are some comments in the…
... long time to explore its full potential -- about 27 years in ... , Enduro Racer, Trap Door, The Hobbit, all were amazing at the ... -
Thoughts about 1990Just dipping my toe into 1990 research (I know I said I'd be taking a sabbatical, but it seems to be slowly, surely, drawing me in), and wondering ho…
... ;419848]1990 was the first full year following the fall of ... /> Yep, will be mentioning the Hobbit in the 1990 chapter, and ... -
Games that made your jaw dropThere were some games that really 'wowed' you the first time you ever played them - those games that made your jaw drop in disbelief. It might have b…
... !
4) Zynaps - Fantastic full colour, high speed scrolly shooter ... close!
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Text Adventure Vector graphicsI've often wondered what the memory cost of graphics in a text adventure was. If you were to hazard a guess, how many bytes would it be possible to …
... describing part of arc (but full circle is easy and can ... details in screen. for example Hobbit screens takes about 500 - 800 ... -
Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
... Manic Miner, Ant Attack, The Hobbit, Jetpac, etc. I can't ... 90s the 16bits were in full swing and most of us ...
