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Fallout 4Looks like it will be announced tomorrow: http://fallout.bethsoft.com/<br>
... ferals, and a few raggedy houses with some Yoa Guai's lurking ... -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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Games from big houses with small scores. These have all ... idea of shooting a movie with Charlie Chaplin and then ... which tries to surprise you with its twitchy, deceptive and sudden ... can play simultaneously with other 37 players, filled with jet packs, ... -
What is needed to get a high standard , "emulator focused" PC?The implication I am making is that a normal PC can be improved on emulation wise by building in some emulation friendly features . But this could be…
... the IT department ( and me with Windows Vista OEM)
< ... Speccy emulator PC and come with loads of additional hard drive ... "cloud" I can "make do" with reworking free stuff: I just ... but others live in bigger houses with more capacity to store stuff ... -
The ZX Spectrum and its derivatives used in a static , semi portable and portable way.Now on "portabilty" is there any where I will not be able to "go" with this (Now let me see!) Hmm ! Well semi portability should be totally OK as …
I used to carry my Speccy+,tapes,PSU and cassette player as a 12yo. Usually it was when my parents would visit people's houses with no children. It was pretty portable :) -
Gaaaahhhghh! Christmas (Lights)Tis the season to be a grumpy old git. Its now December and as is customary in the USA, after thanks giving the decorations 'must' come out. I've …
... , what the fk is wrong with people. Humbug[/quote]
houses with the blue lights happen to ... -
Gaaaahhhghh! Christmas (Lights)Tis the season to be a grumpy old git. Its now December and as is customary in the USA, after thanks giving the decorations 'must' come out. I've …
... , what the fk is wrong with people. Humbug[/quote]
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TV series that seems to have disappearedive been wanting to watch different strokes for the past two years, BUT......... its not been on sky (that ive noticed) since ive had sky, i cant fin…
I grew up with the earlier stuff like Chigley, ... sixties, remember those middle class houses with Olive green walls and alcoved ... -
Make up a Lyric (Can they guess the original tune?)Starting with an easy one! Can you guess the original tune? Christmas Is The Time for VERY EXPENSIVE New Graphics cards so I thought of this :- …
... can flood all the residents houses with poo . This happened when a ... -
Erotic games with and without explicit sexual subject matter.I was remembering some erotic games I played on the speccy, and although most of them werent relly good, they can be source of nostalgia. Some I ca…
... picture)
3. Sabrina (fights with her boobs)
4. Cafe ... you go to different girlfriends' houses.
9. Game whree you ... -
Old Software Houses Never Die..?Had an idea for new developments - with all the tracking down of past authors that has gone on, has anyone come across anyone who still owns the name…
... an idea for new developments - with all the tracking down of ... any of the old software houses (development teams or distributors) that ... -
An evening in with the Speccy emulatorAfter a day at work which didn't exactly go according to plan, and after three weeks of disruption at home due to redecorating, the old soul needed a…
... suspects: Xmas '88, starting with Robocop - mainly for the 128k ... />
Xmas '88 continued with yet another Ocean game - Batman ... than the sewers and fun houses of the second.
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Help with mystery game programmer...Hi, I wanted to try to revive an old C.S.S post from 2004, where I was trying to track down the name of a very exploited Spectrum games programmer. …
... conducted a more disturbing interview with
someone in games software ... all at the Microfairs,
with kids throwing money at you ... talking to a few software houses
at the Micro- fairs ... bust I was
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Have any games ever been sold with limited play time?Have any games, on any computer or console, every been sold with limited play time? What I mean is, has any game ever been sold where you could only …
... or console, every been sold with limited play time? What I ... software houses now wish that their early games had come with a ... this being done, or planned, with digitally downloaded games (and films ... have any games been sold with a time limit on how ... -
Letters and interesting things from software houses?just been to mi dads and while there i was rooting around my old speccy stuff, i brought back loads of old text books, folder with game keys and poke…
... of old text books, folder with game keys and pokes etc ... i got back from software houses back in 1984 (they are ... byte headed paper and comes with a seperate blank compliments card ... -
The next XBox might not run used games (gotta love the software houses...)Edit: Sorry, I posted this to the wrong forum (thought I was in the Chit Chat section). Can any mod please move it there. Or leave it here and preten…
... used books, used cars, used houses, etc, so why should games ... worse, I believe that software houses will use this anti-used ... can guarantee that the software houses won't want to lose ... />
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I'm not saying that software houses are greedy, but......in the fighting game Street Fighter x Tekken it looks like Capcom might start selling combo moves! Quote: "[COLOR="Blue"]As you?ve probably fo…
... normal two per character, complete with tiny little shopping carts that ... wonder what else the software houses can make you pay for ... -
Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... I've had fun messing with the border colours; loading ... forwards; loading data XORed with a fixed value and decoding ... liberating.
Tinkering with this for my own amusement ... loading schemes licensed by software houses? Were Speedlock and friends ... -
Do you equate used game sales with piracyI was just reading a piracy thread on Gamefaqs.com (a great site, except for the trolls and teenage fanboys) and someone made the usual remark that u…
... piracy[/I]", someone inevitably replies with "[I]So presumably you've ... shouldn't be treated like houses or books"[/I], yet never ... different from used books or houses etc.
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What Spectrum games compare favourably with the 16 bit versions?Obviously Out Run is not one of them ;) But I'm interested in the late 80s period again when a lot of Spectrum games were sadly afterthought cash-…
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Games with proper "Micro Manuals"COMBINED CASSETTE INLAY AND "MICRO" SIZED INSTRUCTION MANUAL This is something I have not come across before . Two staples are used to hold it al…
... . The 25 page "micro manual" with the cassette inlay fits inside ... inlay. There are particular difficulties with this in MICRO FORM ( it ... large magnifying glass to help with inputting this and I will ... wonder if any other Software Houses tried anything similar? -
Compatible With All ZX spectrums Except Spectrum +2A.This topic may well have been mentioned before but I could not find it mentioned anywhere after a quick look . I have just found a game called "Solar…
... "Note . Solar Empire is compatible With All Spectrums Except Spectrum +2A ... this aspect ? Maybe some software houses were not so rigorous and ... -
1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.
... any left, on the mini-houses, without stopping. In the next ... the chimneys are like [I]THREE WAY HIGHWAYS[/I], with fires and ... -
Emulator compatibility with real SpectrumHi emulator programmers... Having spotted for the last 6 months that my iPAQ is still missing a Spectrum emulator I started typing last tuesday - an…
... thus - What aspects of compability with a real Spectrum is important ... course have something to do with my programming or the fact ... -
Problem using with keys at same time Hi ! I'm having some problems in my laptop, Compaq Armada E500 PIII 600Mhz, with Windows 98, using three keys at same time. Example: Up, Left and …
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?any spectrum emulator with DIRECTX?yeah, any spectrum emulator with Directx support? (not the old spec256 colors emulator, a real opengl/directx graphics)
yeah, any spectrum emulator with Directx support?
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Pls, I need a emulator which works with tzx. and slt. filesCould someone tell me about an emulator (simply to use, preferred) which could emulate tzx. and slt. roms, pls? Now, I got the ZX32 emulator, but it …
Could someone tell me about an emulator (simply to use, preferred) which could emulate tzx. and slt. roms, pls? Now, I got the ZX32 emulator, but it doesn't work with those files.
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Little problem with AYmakeWell, I'm not sure if this post may be here, but, if I'm wrong, I'm sorry. I have a little problem using aymake. I want to convert a 48k's song, w…
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First, with my copy of AYplay (v ... a 33 bytes long file with the header of the voc ... -
need help with the title of a spectrum gameA horse-racing game with five tracks down the page. You placed your bets on the horse you wanted to win then waited for the result.
A horse-racing game with five tracks down the page. You placed your bets on the horse you wanted to win then waited for the result. -
need help with title of spectrum gameok people, i need your help. a long, long time ago, i had a spectrum, with many addicitive games. but recentely a game comes to mind, but i can't rem…
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ULTIMATE SUCK!!I wonder what reaction there will be to this? I just wonder if there are any other ppl out there who agree with me. I never got as much enjoyment ou…
... ppl out there who agree with me. I never got as ... anyone remember any other software houses that created great games around ...
