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The actual top ten Spectrum games EVER! : )I had a free moment and collected all the votes from the thread of "Top 10 Spectrum games ever". ([I][url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/show…
... moment and collected all the votes from the thread ... Ghouls and Ghosts
[*]Heavy On The Magick
[*]Horace Goes ... /> [*]Stonkers
[*]The Hobbit
[*]The Wild Bunch
[*]Treasure ... IK+
[*]Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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End of level - bosses and brawls - Other SystemsSpinning off from Jumping Stacks post about this in the Speccy games forum I figured why not post one for other systems in the chit chat and share a …
... for other systems in the chit chat and share a bit ... about some of the big buggers ... remembers the first time Tyrant burst through the floor of the Helipad, and ... was crap and the bosses were all pretty stupid especially the robots! WTF???< ... -
Fuse, Spin, the +3e and HDF filesSo. HDF files and the emulated DivIDE. Spin can create them (although the one I created in 0.662 is suddenly slightly incompatible with 0.666 - I ge…
So. HDF files and the emulated DivIDE.
Spin ... can create them (although the one I created in 0 ... anything, although CAT and SAVE work fine (and I can reload newly ... doesn't seem to like the HDF files Spin creates. What ... -
Damsel and The Beast. MIA?Is [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/d/DamselAndTheBeastThe.jpg"]this game[/URL] an MIA? A quick search through a list o…
... names.
AKA Damsel and Beast (???)
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullSounds like Mr. Williams hasn't lost his touch yet, though there are a few recycled sounds there. Go check out [URL="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid…
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How do I change the foreground and background colors?I assume I use INK and PAPER, right? But how do I change the screen to dark blue and the text to white? Paul
I assume I use INK and PAPER, right?
But how do I change the screen to dark blue and the text to white?
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Oh the humanity, my beautiful den of thieves, and local pub, closed it's doors.My local pub. MY PUB. My wonderful, awful, piss soaked, blood stained den of eniquity..... the only place in town, where when I walk through the doo…
... you government, and smoke behind the bar, in the bar, and whereve we ... , the wideboys, the wannabes, the small time gangsters, the hardcore drinkers, alcoholics, and generall ... The Mill, the Fleur De Leys, and the George and Dragon on the way into town. And ... -
Whats the name of this game? Drawing includedHello. There was this game that was one of the first ones I have played on Spectrum. I never got into it, but I remember it as a decent game. In the …
... game that was one of the first ones I have played ... as a decent game. In the game I am a man ... think some aliens and/or robots.
The graphics were similar to ... from my memory in paint and uploaded it to flickr. Check ... -
Horace has a birthday!Happy Birthday to Horace Leaves A Message :) Hope the skiing trip went well and the spiders didn't bite too much. :D
Happy Birthday to Horace Leaves A Message :)
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Questions about the Speccy and it's emulationOut of interest, and to raise another interesting discussion, I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation; 1) Is everything known ab…
... , I have some questions about the Spectrum and it's emulation;
the memory issue, and I've always assumed ... or two or more bytes and the it would be impossible to ... Overscan, NMI 2 and the second part of the Shock Megademo all test ... -
Farmer Jack and the Hedge MonkeysFinally I have the cassette of this good game by Bobs, but I find it quite difficult, much more than its prior game Farmer Jack in Harvest Havoc, whi…
Finally I have the cassette of this good game ... 5!! How many levels does the game have, Bob? I fear ... />
Keep playing, cheers and congrats for the game as well, really ... -
Rapscallion, Eugene, and ZaksSpinning off from Mickmogs Horace and Willy thread, which seems to pretty much feature characters you controlled (In other words heroes). I thought …
Spinning off from Mickmogs Horace and Willy thread, which seems ... villains.
The 3 in the title do spring to ... would seem. The along Came Vidar "ERIX1" Ericson, and made Eugene ... Lord of the Bathroom immortalising our ... -
3D engines and the ZX SpectrumCastle Master's engine, [I]Freescape[/I], is described as the first proprietary 3D computer engine on the Wikipedia. I have a few problems with this…
... probably the case with David Braben and Ian Bell's seminal and iconic ... years to develop and possibly places it as the first 3D game ... engine was used in the development of the sequel and apparently quite a ... -
Skooldaze and Back to Skool on the CPC?Did Skooldaze and/or Back to Skool ever come out on the Amstrad CPC? Or on any machine other than the Spectrum or C64? I'm curious to see any differe…
... to see how they compare, and the only non-Spectrum version I ... 8-bit, BBC, etc, and maybe the game and the company (Microsphere) were too ... insular ro reach the Atari 8 ... -
Prince Harry and the word "Paki"Prince Harry is in trouble (yeah, right) for using the word "Paki" to describe a Pakistana colleague, according to: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/…
... on TV that she hates the Welsh, and she gets away with ... no, Harry speaks the word "Paki", and suddenly the whole army is institutionally ... I know is against the "reverse discrimination" attitude, and I've yet ... -
Blocks instructions and the N flagJust a curiosity. I noticed the compare and load block instructions act on the N flag; block compare instructions set it, block load instructions re…
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I noticed the compare and load block instructions act on ... see the logic of this since both increase and decrease ... instructions alter the N flag in ... it. On the other hand, the fact that compare and load instructions ... -
err, I like wrote this years ago, and just found it archived.[b]read it, and say it's crap if you want, but do not go on about the technical side, cos it was bullshit, we all know it, and the end makes no sense…
... navigated the piles of cyber-junk, assorted games consoles, bits of robots and ... other electronic obstacles and made it to the kitchen, where ... and bundled him into the garage area, the light clicked out, and the stranger shut the ... -
Worst ever console? And the just plain bad or not very good ones.We've discussed the popular consoles at length on here, but what about the unpopular, or at least badly selling ones, or the ones that never got many…
... it under emulation, and some games (such as the Metal Slug series ... weren't the games amazingly expensive, like ?200 each, and this was ... in the 1980s?!?
Hiive Books and the economy...Hehe... Scared you (or maybe not)... It's just as well I'm not in it for the money! I've been upgrading the database over the weekend to allow me t…
... 've been upgrading the database over the weekend to allow ... calculate sales figures with the correct exchange rates. ... pretty stable. But with the recent fluctuations, I ... less writing myself, and relying more on other ... got any good ideas (and can write) then ...Samurai Dawn and the lost games of FTLSamurai Dawn was announced as one of the first three FTL games in mid 1986. Obviously it never arrived and we were all left wondering a bit about wha…
... Doo and Thundercats. It seems possible that one or the other ... Dawn but was adapted into the licensed game instead, presumably ... scrolling beat 'em ups, and Thundercats in particular could have ... "data processing professionals", in the following page from Crash:
The most atmospheric Speccy and non-Speccy games?I was playing Alien vs. Predator (the XBox port of the 1999 PC first person shooter) yesterday, as the Marine, and I was going through the dark, lit …
... others had lighter backgrounds, like the Beach and the Back Door, suggesting daylight ... the DNA splicing that the inhabitants had mastered, and the difference between the rich areas and the ... a real sense of both the sadness and the loss that these people ...found in the loftrecently helping my Mum clean her loft out, and came across a box with some of my old Spectrum tapes in. Now, as my 128k is long gone (lent to a frie…
... friend way back in the early 90's and since vanished) i ... figured i'd pop the list in here and see who wants ... case (crack on front)
Horace & The Spiders - Psion - complete in ... - complete in case
Jack and the Beanstalk - Thor - complete in case ...Barcode - Indiana Jones and the Temple of DoomThe [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002475"]original release[/URL] of this games is listed with a barcode of "5013442535066".…
The [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ ... barcode of "5013442535066". However, on the [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org ... /i/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom.jpg"]inlay[/URL] and on my copy it says ...Where's the border line between a Spectrum and something else?I mean: there are purists out there that consider that anything that is not a true Sinclair Spectrum, with a true Z80 and a true ULA, and at most, 48…
... loading programs, and consider machines like the SAM Coup? and the Pentagon "the ultimate Spectrum ... " or "the evolution that the Spectrum ...Rare Games and ROM CartridgesOver the next couple of days, I will be listing various rare Sinclair ZX Spectrum games on ebay, including the following Ultimate titles: TransAm - …
... box)
and the very rare Pentagram, Cyberun, Martianoids ... , Gunfight and Nightshade
... the Ultimate Play the Game titles are distribution denied and ... br /> Planetoids
Hungry Horace
Chess
The Tipshop - Mobile Edition: now in beta and ready for use!Due to one thing and another, a lot of my time these days my internet access is restricted to a crappy WWW-capable mobile phone (340x280(?) resolutio…
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The Tipshop doesn't look great on that phone, and not ... -fat site. You have the search engine and the ability to view entries ... , but you don't have the ... maps, and RZXs as they seem a bit inappropriate on the Mobile ...The Spectrum and the CatweaselHi everybody, I'm working on Catweasel drivers for AmigaOS and AROS at the moment.... Is there anybody here who wants support for a particular disk…
... Catweasel drivers for AmigaOS and AROS at the moment....
Is ... about to implement support for the +D interface (3.5" disks ... Shugart external 5.25" yet) and then if I can get ... if I don't have the interface (or preferably lend me ...VCF report and photosNot sure where to put this, exactly...but here it is, what went on at the Vintage Computing Festival at Bletchley Park last weekend. Finally I've fo…
... vcf03.jpg[/img]
And the famous Twitter client:
And the more familiar Dragons:
and the keyboard membrane had failed, ... br />
The Acorn lot seem to like robots too:
Retro Machines and Clive on the beebI saw click on the beeb this morning - had a bit about the vintage computer festival and Clive was on too. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme…
... a bit about the vintage computer festival and Clive was on ...
Hmm.. I checked the site and the interview with Clive wasn't ... working but maybe ok by the ... 's, pocket calculators etc.... and the c5 electric bike. Sir Clive ...
