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  • Witch in the WoodYou can see a preview of a new musical "Skeletation the Musical" here [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyh0SiGXbg0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch…

    ... of a new musical "Skeletation the Musical" here

    [url ... 'd like a go in one of the cars too.

    Geoff Geoff March 2006 Chit chat
  • Computer journalist predicts the demise of the mouse? in 1984!!In the December 1983 issue of 'Your Computer' that I scanned for the archive, there is an article titled 'The Spirit of Christmas to Come'. In the ar…

    In the December 1983 issue of 'Your Computer' that I scanned for the archive ... article titled 'The Spirit of Christmas to Come'. In the article Martin Soble ... gives his forecasts for the upcoming year ...
    Dave_C Dave_C April 2006 Chit chat
  • FOR SALE: The Games Machine Magazine - Issues 1 to 12 - In Original Newsfield Binder[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140019230809&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1[/url] Issue 4 has the Ultimate intervie…

    ... />
    Issue 4 has the Ultimate interview in there. As well as ... other great article from back in the day.

    Thanks for ...
    dansauk dansauk August 2006 Sales
  • 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…

    ... thinking will see you through in the end. Although I nearly had ... your horse or the eagle is just inspired. In the Twilight realm Link ... late in its development). Your home village, Ordon, and the surrounding woods are ...
    Daren Daren December 2006 Chit chat
  • Which games would sell were it not for the Movie Tie-in?I was watching TV, whistfully, one evening when an advert came on for a game based on that god-awful film 'Eragon'. It had massive blocky sprites (P…

    ... just had non-descript sprites in them and no movie/TV ... story line tie-in?

    Like, would that ... 't pretend to be 'Arnie' in the jungle and were actually 'Dec ... Steve Jones, the postman who brings my post in a rusty blue ...
    nuttyfox nuttyfox December 2006 Games
  • Stuck in the Stormbringer...[FONT="System"][/FONT] I've been playing Stormbringer for some time now, and all I've figured out is that pass plant is used on a plant to the east …

    ... used on a plant to the east of Bearwoolf! I ... managed to get past Organon the Guard, but I can' ... than I needed the guard disguise to get in! Am I ... trying a second time with the guard disguise and failing?< ... little help in figuring out how to merge with the Off- ...
    CaroKann CaroKann January 2007 Games
  • Possibly the silliest thing I've done in a long time..Just in case any of you guys are feeling down on a Monday morning - I thought I'd cheer you up by letting you know that your morning can't be as bad …

    ... mates that couldn't make the original night out as they ... desk with a huge scab in the centre of my forehead - ... My other mate who teaches in the local school got off quite ... has only the one scab for the kids to take the piss of ... m just off to cry in the toilets.
    misguided_fool misguided_fool February 2007 Chit chat
  • Whats the rarest item in your speccy collection?Title says its all. Mine is probably a service centre test rom card to soak test speccies via the interface 2. Have a couple of ROM games in the ma…

    ... a couple of ROM games in the mail apparently, yet to arrive ... Interface 2 tho. None of the seller of such things seem ...
    Womble Womble February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What happened to Jet Set Willy: The one with Mel the Bell in it?Well what fuckin' happened eh? It had the potential to be the most offensive Speccy title since Manic Muslim. Or back in the day when it wasn't offe…

    ... />
    It had the potential to be the most offensive Speccy title ... since Manic Muslim. Or back in the day when it wasn't ... say ARAB or TURK...............Turmoil (In fact when Turmoil came out ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2007 Games
  • Spectrum games from the atticI'm currently cataloging all the Spectrum tapes I have up the attic (only by taking photos of groups of cassettes though). I ammassed this colection …

    ... ). I ammassed this colection in the early 90s when I worked ... at my parents house in Northampton at the mo) for you ... - Sinclair - x1
    Hungry Horace ROM - Sinclair - x1
    ... JetPac - Ultimate - x2
    Bugaboo (The Flea) - Quicksilva - x2
    Aquaplane ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones March 2007 Sales
  • SWOS coming to 360 and PC in the summer :)I just found this i cannot wait the best football game ever , i hope they add a stadium developement segment to it. [url]http://www.digitalspy.co.uk…

    I just found this i cannot wait the best football game ever , i hope they add a stadium developement segment to it.

    [url]http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/a44854/sensible-soccer-in-most-influential-list.html[/url]
    swordheart swordheart April 2007 Chit chat
  • YS Covertape, Horace Goes Skiing, Horizons + more on ebay 1pIm still in the throws of moving house and have unearthed my ZX Spectrum software pile and have decided to offload some goodies that someone else mig…

    ... and some demos. In the later years the were called The Magnificent Seven where ... 1982(?) produced by Psion namely Horace Goes Skiing, Chess, Chequered ... co.uk/Sinclair-ZX-Spectrum-Horace-Goes-Skiing-5-retro- ...
    djleekee djleekee June 2007 Sales
  • Ubuntu, Ubuntu they drink it in the JungleIts my usual getting bored with having the same os for 6 months syndrome. At the moment my pc works rather spiffing. Its just a bog standard lappy w…

    ... months syndrome.

    At the moment my pc works rather ... /> After seeing an interview with the 'owner' of Ubuntu Linux, Im ... they, and what would be the preferred distro. (my spec for ... and general app delevelopment (probably in that order too))

    Toxitalk Toxitalk June 2007 Chit chat
  • Anybody in the printing trade?I'm after the name of the object created on plastic film containing an extremely contrasty image, used to photo etch the printing rollers. It's like…

    I'm after the name of the object created on ... image, used to photo etch the printing rollers.

    the plate to give the final image.

    What is the name given to this sheet ... in differing grades. It's important as I need the ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2007 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... users did I find in the thread up to 23th ...
    [*]Heavy On The Magick
    [*]Horace Goes Skiing
    ...
    [*]Stonkers
    [*]The Hobbit
    [*]The Wild Bunch
    [*]Treasure ... of exploding fist
    [*]The Worm In Paradise
    [*]Theatre ...
    Rickard Rickard August 2007 Games
  • The hunt for a game in Welsh!Just out of pure curiosity, were any Speccy games or apps ever made in Welsh? I was earlier performing an "Advanced Search" of the archive, and noti…

    ... games or apps ever made in Welsh?

    ... an "Advanced Search" of the archive, and noticed you can ... search on many of the common languages of speccy ... was a speccy title written in Welsh?

    ... , but am interseted purely in the novelty factor!
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Games
  • The worst games in the archive.What are the worst game in WOS's archive. I came accross two real baddens yesterday: Stupid Sports it so bad its actually fun: [url]http://www.wor…

    What are the worst game in WOS's archive.

    ... has to be one of the most mind numbingly booring and ... =0000816[/url]

    Even the instructions are more intersting than ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk October 2007 Games
  • Passing the torch - Spectrum games in the modern school classroomI teach maths in a middle school (years five-eight), and at the end of lessons we often try to assess learning by playing a maths based game on the i…

    ... maths in a middle school (years five-eight), and at the end ... based game on the interactive white board for the last five minutes ... of education games available for the humble Speccy, so I had ... 't comment once on the graphics, just enjoyed the game of matching ...
    MattLamb MattLamb October 2007 Games
  • The Star Wars Holiday Special - IN FIVE MINUTES!I dare you to watch the whole five minutes and not get that "Tickly Feeling Of Embrassment Up The Spine" tingle. [url]http://video.google.co.uk/vide…

    I dare you to watch the whole five minutes and not ... "Tickly Feeling Of Embrassment Up The Spine" tingle.

    [url ... really hit home for me in the last thirty seconds when Carrie ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick October 2007 Chit chat
  • Horace goes skiingSomething I always wondered... ...in the skiing section of [b]Horace goes Skiing[/b], is there an end to the course, or does he just ski and ski unt…

    Something I always wondered...

    ...in the skiing section of [b]Horace goes Skiing[/b], is there an end to the course, or does he just ski and ski until he dies?

    T.
    Tobo Tobo November 2007 Games
  • More Weird People in the News...[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7131532.stm[/url] Now what the heck was this guy actually doing to get himself in this po…

    [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7131532.stm[/url]

    Now what the heck was this guy actually doing to get himself in this position?
    Klepto Klepto December 2007 Chit chat
  • Snow in YanksvilleOK it snowed here in Indiana last night, I say this for my neck of the woods though I have no idea if the entire state got snow. Anyway I have 2 nig…

    ... in Indiana last night, I say this for my neck of the woods ... though I have no idea if the entire state ... could.

    Anybody else in the states get snow?

    in Canada and you get snow ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek January 2008 Chit chat
  • WHO is in control of the DOCTORWhen i was a little un watching Dr Who Pertwee then Baker, i always thought that the DR was never in control of where the Tardis materialised, back i…

    ... thought that the DR was never in control of where the Tardis ... series he is in total control of where the Tardis materialises ... was beginning to think that in the early days of watching it ... little bit of the Time Meddler and in it the girl character says ...
    swordheart swordheart March 2008 Chit chat
  • Probing the variables in 128K modeHello again! Briefly, I'm writing an m/c routine to read some BASIC variables. So, before I start, I try to get an idea for the structure of how var…

    ... idea for the structure of how variables are stored in memory.
    in the WoS archive.

    It ... prints out the names of all current variables ... CSSCGC tape magazine, which runs in 128K mode).

    I ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Development
  • Farmer / Farmer HoraceMartijn, I think there's a an error in the Farmer Horace Infoseek entry, I think the publisher should be changed to Elephant Software and a new entr…

    Martijn,

    I think there's a an error in the Farmer Horace Infoseek entry, I think the publisher should be changed to Elephant Software and a new entry created for the MIA Farmer by CCS.

    Steve
    Gilby Gilby March 2008 Infoseek database
  • Who was the local psycho in your street?We had a guy who was a few years older than us, but a little bit slow. Still didn't stop him getting into heaps of trouble though... He used to sit …

    ... used to sit on the little kids in the street and fart on ... it - and the handlebar came off in his hands, resulting in a painful ... face-first landing on the concrete. :D ... br />
    Who was the local psycho in your street and what ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick March 2008 Chit chat
  • JSW... how does the game "finish" in assembly?It seems the ZX and C64 versions of Jet Set Willy suffer from the same "unfinishable" problem. Thankfully the ZX version has been patched with pokes …

    ... Willy suffer from the same "unfinishable" problem. Thankfully the ZX version ... not. I changed 2 rooms in the C64 version so I can ... /> But nothing happens at the bedroom. Maria has disappeared but ... fully aware of the direness of the C64 port. The stairs and ...
    DanSolo DanSolo April 2008 Games
  • New game from CEZGS: Mariano the Dragon in Capers in CitylandHi all, here we come with another game for our Spectrums! Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face an incredibly difficult mission. All his friends hav…

    ... our Spectrums!

    Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face ... been injailed by the evil tetrarch Pachin Poi Poi in the prison-planet ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain May 2008 Games
  • Anarchy in the streets of Bedford. Burn the town hall. I've been banned from a shopA nice, eloquent foreign gentlemen just banned me from his shop. All I did was go in, and get some John Smiths draught flow. They were right at the …

    ... were right at the back of the fridge, in single cans, so ... br /> I was reaching for the sixth one, when he stormed ... I said, didn't see the baskets there.

    the last beer at the back, and ... almost 6 yards to the next shop selling beer.< ...
    thx1138 thx1138 July 2008 Chit chat
  • Horace Goes Hungry! Or Something...OK, so I won't NORMALLY sell copies of Horace Goes Skiing. :o But I've just discovered the rare misprint variant in my collection, so it's gone up o…

    ... Horace Goes Skiing. :o

    But I've just discovered the ... rare misprint variant in my collection, so ... add pictures shortly...(says "Hungry Horace" on the spine)
    cheers
    ghbearman ghbearman November 2008 Sales
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