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HugsHere`s a thread for you Skarptacular :D [url]http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0606071borat1.html[/url] Borat being sued again by the…
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Childhood strange obsessionsWell, off on a tangent from the white dog shit thread... there were the strange childhood obsessions which were pretty arbitrary and maybe a little o…
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I'll name that game in ...I was about to recommend Astro Blaster to someone, when I realised it's not the game I thought it was. Astro Blaster appears to be a space invaders …
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First steps in Z80 machine codeI never got into machine code much back when I had a speccy, as I didn't have any development tools at the time. The only machine code I'd previousl…
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What am I playing at?!Now I'm shtump'd. I loaded up a game today (GP2X style thanks to metalbrain :) ) and it was a foreign looking horizontal flip-screen doo-hicky, with…
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Wacky racessorry in advance for the ranting.... I always wanted to play this game back when I had an actual spectrum. this game and The Jetsons I was convinced…
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ZX Art projectI'm probably going to get my arse sued over this. You'd think that less-than-popular-but-always-in-the-news people like Ken Livingstone and Bob Crow…
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Dance Dance Revolution?Are there any Dance Dance Revolution clone for Spectrum? Obviously, I'm not thinking about something playing mp3, but I think the Speccy have enough…
Are there any Dance Dance Revolution clone for Spectrum?
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50 Cent rips off Speccy tune?Hey, long time since I've been on here. I was flicking through the music channels the other night there and heard 50 cent singing over what sounded l…
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Bubble Bobble vs Rainbow IslandsWhat do you think is the better game? I'm not talking specifically Speccy versions (both are fantastic conversions) or any of the others on various p…
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ZX Spectrum +2 RGB to CGA (RGBI) MonitorI just picked up a spanking brand new Goldstar 1410-CGA with RGBI. It has a 9 pin "D" type connector. 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 Red 4 Green 5 Blue 6 Inte…
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Best and worst arcade conversionsSaid in a last thread: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18335"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18…
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B?ni?soft to be sued by Egypt?[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071225/wl_mideast_afp/egyptantiquitieslaw;_ylt=Ant5V04AhCNTzsgKMQpazCOs0NUE"]Egypt decides to take decisive actio…
[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071225/wl_mideast_afp/egyptantiquitieslaw;_ylt=Ant5V04AhCNTzsgKMQpazCOs0NUE"]Egypt decides to take decisive action[/URL] against [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0017505"]Böniösoft[/URL] ([SIZE=1] ... -
ANNOUNCE: JSW64 Manic Miner: James BondTo celebrate "Two Double-Oh Seven" before it ends, I am delighted to announce the first gamma-release of [i]JSW64 Manic Miner: James Bond[/i] (v1.0),…
... (e.g. diagonal guardians, fast horizontal guardians, triggers and stoppers), new ... you to stand on certain horizontal and vertical guardians), and I ... -vector to flip Willy's horizontal position every 32 time-frames ... -
The best kind of peripheral/thru port orientation?So, given no standard Speccy backplane, there's soooo many ways you can make a peripheral and through port. You can mount the board vertically, with…
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Name this 1986 budget game!Name this game! (My first thread of this kind, by the way!) :smile: This was a budget game, released in 1986 or a little earlier. It was some kind …
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Into the screen driving simulator effectI was wondering how the racing games of yore did the into the screen scrolling effect. I'm sure you could do something crude drawing bars on the scre…
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New Spectrum GameAs some of you may be aware I've been busy working on a Shoot-Em-Up Designer utility for the past few weeks. As the program is pretty much there now…
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Mapping Brat Attack (+ challenge).This mapping biznizz isn't all it's cracked up to be. I've been mapping Brat Attack for close to 3 hours now and have mapped over 700 rooms! I'm gl…
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Technically Brilliant But Ultimately Crap GamesMy vote goes for H.A.T.E by Costa Panayi of Vortex Software (one of my fave programmers by the way) H.A.T.E.'s diagonal scrolling was so smooth and …
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Tour Top 5 Spectrum Programmers.........And What 1 Game Should They Be Remembered For. 1. Costa Panayi - I just loved the evolution of his 3D and/or scrolling ideas you saw in his game…
... of his 3D and/or scrolling ideas you saw in his ... so well. The multi-directional scrolling map and ground based scenery ... did them brilliantly. His fast scrolling routines looked fantastic on a ... has to be Firefly - fast scrolling shoot-em-up with a ... -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
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problem using FRAMES to generate 'random' numbersI realise the pros use bytes from ROM to get their random numbers, presumably because they want to use FRAMES to synchronise the printing and avoid s…
... getting the road in my scrolling road routine (using Alcoholics Anonymous ... 's 32x ldi pixel-scrolling method) to go left or ... properly yet!) which made the scrolling synchronize with FRAMES so the ... -
Japanese-only or lesser-known games you playedI've noticed by their comments there are a few people on WOS (hi Vertigo, dm_boozefreek etc.) who have played titles which were either never released…
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New monitor advice wantedI want to buy a new monitor, one that will switch from horizontal to vertical, so I can play vertical games on Mame properly, has anyone any recommen…
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Double Take: a game or a prophecy?[quote] The year 2008, the time mid-day, the place a rather large, computer controlled "Physical Particle Investigation Unit" out in the middle of a…
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48K Not Loading GamesHello. I'm new to the whole Spectrum scene, having just recently aquired a free 48K ZX Spectrum. It was working fine with games loading off my MP3 pl…
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What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?Ok, once again, what do you consider to be the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum? I am mostly interested in the classic you-play-as-flying-something…
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One's speccy is unwell, can anybody help?Hi chaps! This would be my first post here, so hello to all :smile: I've got a 128+ heatsink speccy that seems to have a display issue whereby after…
... 30 mins or so, small horizontal lines about one character block ...