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Only in the films....Some time ago I saw a thread in which people posted things that only or always happen in films. I can't remember where I saw the thread (I think it w…
... (except for the major bad guys), and die instantly, whereas the good guys ... to come to the door), and start looking through the windows, or looking ... if an artery is severed, and the way you can smash through ... -
The Thief gamesDuring the recent first-person-shooter debate, the game Thief was mentioned (by Dunny, who should be working on Spin instead of playing games, the sk…
... alerts more guards due to the noise and the possibility of alarms being ... 1 and 2 for the PC (a fiver for the two on the Sold ... it and ran it, just to make sure the data on the disc ... interesting listening to the guards talking to themselves, and it is genuinely ... -
Still Life - What The F*ck was that??? **Spoilers**I just finished Still Life after being stuck on a seriously headwrecking puzzle for the last year (the robot/laser puzzle for anyone who has played t…
... headwrecking puzzle for the last year (the robot/laser puzzle ... I got to the end and was about to catch the killer. After ... him before he sliced and diced the last girl, I was ... fell into the water and floated downriver, and the credits rolled. The game was ... -
Additional 3.5" Drive for the +3Hi. I've been thinking of various ways of getting data off of my 3" discs onto a PC and have a couple ideas, one of which is to get some +3e proms bl…
... some +3e proms blown and copy the stuff to a HDD ... it can be imaged and the files ripped as required ... the documented pinout of the Drive B port on the +3, and ... not be the same but as the FDC is the same ... />
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Fairlight - The LegendWhilst glancing through the very interesting (in that it let's you see games you might have missed but would like to see) pdf file at: [URL="ftp://…
Whilst glancing through the very interesting (in ... I noticed something called "Fairlight - The Legend", which aparently is a ... compilation of the two Failright games. So ... any differences between the games on the compilation, and the published two games? -
RAM chips are 4164s and 4564s interchangeableI paid for some 4164s online, for upgrading my Spectrum 16K to 48K, and I've been given 4564s. I've tried these along with the correct logic ICs and …
... my Spectrum 16K to 48K, and I've been given 4564s ... tried these along with the correct logic ICs and the Speccy just gets ... stuck in a restart loop with the ... black paper with the red lines. Should ... -
Add the numbers?Yesterday morning (about 1am) I was flicking through cable to see what was on, and I turned to ITV and that boring space filler "The Mint" was on. An…
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and the answer is obviously 29, right ... get 44. Just add the didgits, and not the
words (i ... maths to the question), and I was finding the program so ... br />
And finally, the question was dropped, and NO ANSWER WAS ... -
The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... ago (almost to the day) and wondering what was going ... I thought the plus 2 was awful, and the Simon Goodwin ... article (apart from the last bit) was the ... it looked terrible and characterless. The original Spectrum and Spectrum + had ... -
Spectrum games for saleAnyone want any of the following? If so, please make me an offer. Pole Position Groucho (no inlay) Wizard`s Lair Universal Hero Storm Bringer Splat!…
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Sabre Wulf
The Hobbit
The Tripods
Glass
Lunar Jetman
The Unorthodox Engineers- The Pen and the Dark
Silent Service ...
Sinclair Collectors Pack
Horace Goes Skiing
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System Shock is now free! And some other games too...The game System Shock, a reportedly superb PC FPS/RPG hybrid that was way ahead of it's time on release, has aparently been released as freeware by i…
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and call the batch file whatever name you ... the batch file, and set it to "Full Screen" and "Close when exited" and ... Just start the game, and exit again, and Windows should continue ... Terra Nova, Flight unlimited and the Mac version of System ... -
the worldthey point at small children and say "look at this little boy, what do you think he has" and answer "I don't know, I don't think it's dyslexia, I thi…
... Scotland and the Isle of Man. Scots and Mankish! Look out for the clouds ... . buy buy buy. And watch out for when the clouds leave again ... want to go on the beach and have a lovely time so ... BUY!"
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Have Pipex broke the lawI am in the process of changing isp. I have my mac code and have over 3 weeks to use it before it expires. I was looking on the Pipex website and the…
... when it rang and did 1471 and noticed the number wasnt a ... later i was in the bath and the phone rang so i ... missed it again i later checked and ... an ahour later the phone rang and this time i ... i had been browsing the site and would i be ... -
After the Speccy Came the Master SystemI have just started up a new Speccy collection and I am very much enjoying playing the old classics. Back in the 80's I remember trading in my 48K f…
... collection and I am very much enjoying playing the old ... think the 3d glasses and the gun did it for me) and the disappointment ... when I read that the ... MS had the same ... -
Is the full moon......exceptionally bright where you are tonight? Went out for a crafty fag and the back garden was lit up. Thought it was a neighbour with their secu…
... out for a crafty fag and the back garden was lit up ... had lit an exceptionally biright (and long-lasting) rocket!!!
Speccy Film/TV License that bears the least similarity to its sourceI was thinking earlier today about the computer game version of [i]Jaws[/i] that was published in 1989 or thereabouts and has pretty much nothing to …
... thinking earlier today about the computer game version of ... thereabouts and has pretty much nothing to do with the ... it's set in the sea and the shark is in ... little to do with the 1986 action film. I ... women with rocket-launchers and ogre-blokes with eyepatches ...The BASIC ISRFirst of all, excuse me if my blatant ignorance about this topic makes me write some nonsense :) The thing is that I'm finishing a game in mixed BAS…
... game in mixed BASIC and Compiled BASIC (the pure BASIC part ... the RAM disk back and forth, the Compiled BASIC part is the game itself), and ... />
I have the player and the music file. Playing it from ... events in the game that take way too much and placing ...Christmas in the 80'sIn the analogue TV thread I mentioned my old portable telly that's still going strong, together with memories of watching the BBC premiere of Indiana…
... premiere of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom on ... event*, whereas today in the digital age of overdiluted TV ... 's barely anything on over the holidays.
... of Xmas in the 80's? Besides the 1984 Argos ... catalog that was doing the rounds a while back, ...Rupert and the Toymaker's PartyHow to complete levels in this game? I always gather up all invitations, but the door is still closed :-(.
How to complete levels in this game? I always gather up all invitations, but the door is still closed :-(.Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …
... is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ... begin to flash, and never makes it to the (c) 1982 Sinclair ... a couple of the pins on the CPU and one of the PCB tracks ... - however, the soldering on the Spectrum is quite fine, and most of the ICs ...Goodbye and best wishes!Sorry if this is not posted in the right group but I didn't know where else to put it. There might be those that see this as a way of advertising my …
... I recently sold the remains of the computer collection and everything else associated ... 't want to take the time and rescan the whole book. But as ... Clive Sinclair built his company and the products produced by it.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessAfter playing this for a few days now, I must say I love this game! I've clocked up nearly nine hours of game time, and I've only just got the custo…
... , just a flick of the wrist and Link slices his sword. ... such as run and use the sword at the same time.
and listen to the trapped spirits from the normal world ... ). Your home village, Ordon, and the surrounding woods are depicted nicely ...old tapeshy there! i have a problem with my spectrum 48k. my brother and i have found it on the attic, its 24 yr old and it still works great! but i have prob…
... 'horace goes skiing' and thats it... if a game loads after the tape ... is over the spectrum just resets itself...and the sound ... of some of the tapes is strange... the sound of the ...Stuck in the Storm...[FONT="System"][/FONT] I really like the Magic Knight series, but I can't seem to do much in StormBringer!:-? I've learned how to use the spell "Pa…
... 've noticed that the chicken lays gold, silver, and copper eggs, but ... ), a boomerang (found in Moonmot the Halfling's inventory), a message ... need to after I start the game) and the advert (I've seen ... , I'm stuck and I refuse to check the Tipshop as that ...Compatability with Interface 1 and SpeccyI was wondering if there are any known compatibility issues with different versions of the Speccy and the Interface 1. Reason I ask is I have a vers…
... issues with different versions of the Speccy and the Interface 1.
the interface 1 and then a version 3b ... believe its the edge connector as I cleaned it and it works ... my other peripherals (and software), In fact the 3b is in mint ...Visual Studio and Z80 projectsHi, Does anyone know if there's been a Z80 language parser add-in for Visual Studio created? I use VS daily (for C#) for a living and I know that t…
... that through Yacc/Bison, Lex, and the IBabel interface you can define ... (with autocomplete, syntax highlighting and intellisense) as has been done ... with Ruby, Python and PHP for example. I ... but Visual Studio is probably the best thing they ever ...Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... just don't look metallic, and the pastel colours don't give ... for this type of setting, and the not-quite-smooth scroll gives ... 2 (Lead). The ground is dark and the barriers are black, and when you ... would have taken them out and used the extra memory for something ...ResiDOS v1.92 and +3e ROMs v1.30 releasedI've just updated ResiDOS to v1.92, and the +3e ROMs to v1.30. Full details can be found at: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/zxplus3e/"]http://…
... updated ResiDOS to v1.92, and the +3e ROMs to v1.30 ... /> [*]Both 128K and 48K snapshots can be loaded
[*]The Task Manager ... (Secure Digital) and MMC cards can now be used. The first such ... . This is supported by both the +3e and ResiDOS. Details at: [URL ...Another name-the-game (that helped destroy...)Mention of games which never got reviewed, and hence disappeared, recalled this one to my mind. I think it was a combat game set in a maze (or somet…
... which never got reviewed, and hence disappeared, recalled ... of the very earliest games (with UDG sprites), and the hero ... entered to the tune of [i ... ]Land of Hope and ... Glory[/i] followed by the villain (a ..."The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […
... , too, had earned its vacation and the boys appreciated that. They had ... to relax in the company of each other and the bottle.
and the knuckles whitened.
The little Jerrodettes, both ...Am I the only one hereIt comes to somthing sad when your username is the last posed user in the top four threads of the forum!!! Oh well better make it five. Am I the on…
... garden shed. The walls of the Norfolk are tongue and groove shiplap clad ... from being light and airy internally, due the provision of the four fixed ... end as shown. All windows and the skylight are safety Styrene glazed ...
