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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... blowback from them? I can imagine many of them not buying ... until you know something about software engineering.
I ... call or whatever. The software engineering problem of how to ... its natural place is with software engineering. OO languages like ... -
Your Speccy Games CollectionJust updated my Spectrum games list today after having a load of tapes lying around for months, managed to sort them out and I now have 1441 original…
... Ant attack - quicksilva
Astronut - Software projects, 1983
Atic Atac ... max - imagine
manic miner - mastertronic
manic miner - software projects< ... mckensie - software projects
Micronaut one - Nexus, 1987
Mikie - imagine
Death of Imagine television documentary on Google VideoI'd read about the Imagine documentary in a Crash article about the company's collapse, but never actually seen it. Now it's on Google Video: [url]h…
... shows Imagine going into meltdown, it shows how not to runa software ...Is the new "Retro Gamer" any good?The only place that would carry it (a Barnes & Noble built on the site of an abandoned golf course) no longer did after Live Publishing folded. I hea…
... on how to download illegal software isn't very clever...[/QUOTE ... to be popping up in Imagine's mags. It's kind ... " sticker. I sincerely hope that Imagine aren't so hard up ...Music on game cassettes?I was rather amazed at how professional the music included with Everyone's A Wally sounded: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNoqq9Vfc0g[/url] I…
There was one software publisher (I've forgotten which ... , the sort of thing I imagine the CEO realised he'd ...WooHoo!!!I have the next 10 days off work and I want to spend a lot of it playing Speccy games! Ok, here's the question! Which games do all you good people …
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The best game ever written. Watch out for unsellable software by 'Imagine' and dodgy 'adult' magazines with pages stuck together though.The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... tackle this was from a software point of view, rather than ... ]
I started to imagine the project as complete, before ... ?
After completing the software part, are you going to ...Playing an AVI Video on an XBOX.I have a standard unmoded XBox. I wants to watch a video I have downloaded on the big screen and have no spare blank DVDs to hand but a stack of sta…
... /music/graphic format you could imagine. Since your XBox is not ... you to install third party software, and gain control of your ... modded it, but using only software instead of a mod chip ... when you want to transfer software.
A modded XBox ...Best of the worstWhilst trying hard not to do any actual work, I started to ponder what are the best games by the worst software houses. When I used to pick up a spec…
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I thought the original Imagine were incredibly shit; stupid amount ...Where are they now?I often wonder whats hapenned to a lot of the old 8-bit software companies. You never hear anymore of companies such as Gremlin, Elite, Ocean or Mas…
... programme on the demise of Imagine. It was meant to be ... the makers ended up filming Imagine going down the tubes! Its ... interested in early 80's software companies.
Maybe someone could ...Where are they now?I often wonder whats hapenned to a lot of the old 8-bit software companies. You never hear anymore of companies such as Gremlin, Elite, Ocean or Mas…
... programme on the demise of Imagine. It was meant to be ... the makers ended up filming Imagine going down the tubes! Its ... interested in early 80's software companies.
Maybe someone could ... Designs and produced some excellent software, although some of it was ...well its this time of yearand in days past we'd all be waiting for our presents and money to go buy things and what did we receive? buy? speccy games :) lets just take a minu…
... it until at least Christmas. Imagine my surprise one day coming ... I get a load of software from the tapes they "borrowed ...2007, and still no NIC and browser for the Speccy?I've started to read all the w.o.s. threads, starting by the ones that came up with the search function, using the keywords of the topics that intere…
If the hardware gurus and software gurus unite to make this ... with the speccy again.
Imagine if the Spectrum browser (v1 ... kind of data?
Imagine if the W.O.S ...Stupid ponderingsI just got a XM1541 cable for my C64 hard drive to allow me to write d64 images directly to c64 disks. Works great and I love it. Anyway, its got m…
... as you say..I would imagine that would be more costly ... /microdrive setup and then some software on the pc that would ... going to the pc and software to send the commands as ...Sam Revival magazine issue 16 now out! [Sam CoupIssue 16 of Sam Revival magazine is now out! This issue features the full Sam game 'Colony' on the coverdisk, which was written by Derek Koselo. Col…
... player game yet but I imagine it`d be even better ... a few new bits of software for it as well.
The best speccy software housesThanks to Martijn for increasing the number of poll options to 30. Right, what were the best speccy software houses in your opinion? (multiple selec…
... owned by Ocean.
Imagine? Which era? Post-collapse they ... 't hold the number one software house title for a number ... other labels.
Imagine - post-collapse Imagine, that is. Whilst being ...Question about Type-ins and OCR.Hi guys. I've never used OCR software before (yep, I've been living in a cave). What software do you guys use when you want to send something to Arj…
... /> I've never used OCR software before (yep, I've living ... ?
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What software do you guys use when ... newspapers directly to .tap files. Imagine the possibilities! We could transfer ...SequelsSorry if this is an old thread. Can anyone think of a sequel of a game that's better than the original? The only one I can think of is Strider 2 or …
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"Imagine the situation. You've just ... you clap eyes on Alligator Software's Who Dares Wins. It ...Speccy vs C64 vs Amstrad - Make your vote count![url]http://www.retrofusiononline.com/fusion/[/url] You know it makes sense. We're winning at the moment, too... D.
... 83, but you can only imagine what would have happened if ... list of 3rd party software titles and magazines where ... Atari management blindly canceled many software projects that would have also ... .
Along with canceled software was canceled hardware and they ...How did people write large assembler programs on real Spectrums?I have been wondering how people did their development back on real Spectrums. If you should write a large program, there would first be an assembler…
... ) to Andy Severn from Players Software asking him about coding for ... mix but this was Players Software, not Ocean and Imagine :grin:Why design a new Spectrum?Every so often, someone posts up about designing a portable Spectrum, or a new Spectrum with improved hardware capabilities, but I don't see why. I m…
... Spectrum games at all. I imagine some people only come to ... I'm continuing to write software for the SE because it ...Your Computer Jan'84 questionCould someone with the Jan'84 issue of Your Computer (it's not in the WoS archive) please provide me with a brief summary of the contents of pages 13…
135 Noble House Software full page ad (Death Cruiser)< ... leading the way.
140 Imagine full page ad (Molar Maul ... many games)
142 Voyager Software full page ad (Avenger, Quasar ...Reason for FLASH attribute?Is it known why Sinclair choose to implement the flash bit in hardware? Since flashing could be easily done with code when needed it seems quite un…
... QDOS. Cursor is flashed by software way.
QL mistake ... just by setting two bits. Imagine how fast might be 3D ...Bargain BasementAnyone here actually read the full disclaimer at the beginning of Bargain Basement? It's rather strange... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infos…
... ARE ONE OF THOSE 'ORRIBLE SOFTWARE PIRATES THEN DON'T TRY ... /> skelby you bought that?
imagine drop in an ocean
What WAS going to be bundled with Bandersnatch?Just saw a documentary about the death of Imagine ( [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1012096952890708986[/url] ) and apparently they wer…
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Anyway, Imagine was certainly one of the leading software publishers of ...First ever gameHi all, I sat there the other night trying to remember the first ever Spectrum game. I racked my brains, then I remembered it was Psssst I ran it on …
... - Back In Action) at Warthog Software. He left to join 3DO ... ended up doing 'flight sim' software somewhere in Cheshire. He didn ... 'Grandad' back in the old Imagine days!
EDIT ...How do i alter speed of dvd writingI use Nero for writing my DVD's but i have started burning a lot of coasters, i want to write the discs at a slower speed but can't work out how to …
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4. Your burning software sucks (I use nero 7 ... the most reliable. Can't imagine having to burn at 1x ...Name that American football gameIt was a Management game, where the twist was that you only had 2 downs instead of 4
... Football Managment game. can't imagine there was more than one ... American Football by Argus Press Software?[/QUOTE]
Very good, but ...DarkStar.tzx in Spectaculator 6.25Hi all I think I have found a bug in Spectaculator. Darkstar.tzx(OriginalRelease) wiil not not load. DarkStar.tap loads The DarkStar Re-release t…
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As an analogy, imagine if someone came up with ... real tape...) Any automated TZXing software would rightly filter that out ...What I hate about computers and/or video gamingYesterday I spent approximately four months (subjecively that is, objectively it was around two to three hours) fixing my mate's PC. I won't bore you…
... fixed, unchangeable, and (I'd imagine) wel documented hardware, unlike the ... a hardware company and a software company, where the hardware company ... USES their main rival's software!
[QUOTE]* The ever ...
