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80's Kids TV Shows -- Finders KeepersI'm am trying to remember a UK kids program in the 80's I think called finders keepers. It was based around a computer game / visualisation that inv…
... a UK kids program in the 80's I think called finders ... that?s all I can remember....
What where the rules ... of that Game, and was it ever converted into ... -
Question for the tzx dev guru'sI'm almost finished with a batch of adventure tapes which I've got on loan.. The final tape, is a development version of Birthday Surprise, which ha…
... when they get to the blip in the sample, outputting a ... with the data block being the correct length, but with only the ... and working backwards, rather than the beginning? If so, I ... could begin to patch the recovered bytes back into the data block, hopefully ... -
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 …
... with it when I got into the original C64 version. Now, for ... outer space at all. The spectrum's cool monochrome is absolutely perfect ... and bonus round. They impede the gameplay's flow, and had me ... preferred it anyway, and let's face it, what I think ... -
"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... […
... when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as ... re weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You' ... 's a lucky thing the computers worked out interstellar travel the way the ... other. In his father's youth, the only computers had been ... -
Monitor/debugger that doesn't use the Speccy ROM?Was there ever a Spectrum monitor/debugger released that didn't use the ROM, for key input and character output routines? The reason I ask is that i…
... output routines?
The reason I ask is that ... ResiDOS, which runs in the 0-16K area (it ... problem).
All the debuggers I've used/seen ... output, but maybe there's some obscure one (or ... hack what I want into the Picturesque one, or Devpac. -
My latest invention: The PilsenerBoxI'm hereby proud to present "The PilsenerBox Mk I". A MUST for every Spectrum owner. [url]http://193.71.117.167/misc/pilsenerbox.jpg[/url] This m…
... stolen ideas from the datasheet of the IC that is's based upon ... now)
The PilsenerBox has 2 functions:
into the Speccy to prevent loading error ... .
2: Amplifying the sound from the games played, and playing ... -
march of the mini'sIts a game for the nintendo DS. has anyone seen the advert. its really quite rubbish, i used to love the ds adverts, and the sponsorship ones they d…
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has anyone seen the advert. its really quite rubbish ... used to love the ds adverts, and the sponsorship ones they ... into it.
theres a woman sat on the couch playing the ... the actual game play, (she gets excited when a mario walks into ... -
The Eurovision Song ContestWell, did anybody watch the programme tonight where the UK decided what song was going to represent the country in the Eurovision song contest? [url…
... did anybody watch the programme tonight where the UK decided what ... unsuccessful attempt to get into the Eurovision song contest. Imagine ... band that's on the up and up, going into rehab, ... only to emerge and declare your determination to represent the ... -
What's the name of this game ? (not a quiz)I once played an adventure-game on a Speccy, back in the 80's, but I have forgotten the name. The main character's name was maybe Harry. He was he…
... the 80's, but I have forgotten the name.
The main character's ... bed, and give the kid the dummy to make it ... a drawing of the room where the character was in. ... br />
Then the aim was to lead him ... never came any further in the game back then.
Dynamite Dan 2 - Who's completed this?This game has annoyed me since I was a kid. On the 8th Island there are objects that i've no idea what they are for. One looks like a time bomb? I've…
... I was a kid. On the 8th Island there are objects ... it and got back into the blimp but that's it. I'm ... /> Anyone clever enough to hack into the code to see if there ...Possibly a little OT: Exporting ROM function addresses to the Z88DKOK, so I'm using the Z88DK. It's entirely possible that some documentation has bypassed me. But assume I have a function in ROM, say, at address 0xF0…
... entirely compatible with the calling convention used by the z88dk's compiler.
the ROM's symbol table into something understood by the z88dk compiler ... ).
If there's ...Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…
In the late 80's I had all these friends ... we would gather at someone's house to play games in ... . But one of the things that we wanted the most was to ... apps are gone (sadly), but the enthusiasm we felt was great ...RPG's I've missed.Recently I've seriously got into Oblivion on the 360 which even though I've had it for a few months only over the last few of weeks have I been playi…
Recently I've seriously got into Oblivion on the 360 which even though ... 'm looking for PC RPG's mainly.
As far ... played:
All the Zelda's.
Both Star Wars - Knights ... of the Old Republic
Both Deus Ex's (kind of ...The I/O interface Simon's selling[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120122353332&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:middle:uk[/url] Is this the kind …
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Is this the kind of interface you could ... in a Spectrum? I know the Spectrum's bus is bigger, but ...Question about Crash Magazine (the last issue)...Where's Big Al?I was just reading throught the last issue of Crash, and came across something that had bothered me at the time, but which I'd completely forgotten a…
... about....
In the issue before last, a new ... Writing team. In the Editor's introduction to the last issue, Lucy ... says something along the lines ... is...Does anybody know what the startling revelations about Big ...The Edge's 'Mega-games'It's funny to see 'Starbike' and 'Psytraxx' be described by the company director as 'the first mega-games' in Crash (before they came out I may add).…
It's funny to see 'Starbike' and 'Psytraxx' be described by the company director as 'the first mega-games' in Crash (before they came out I may add).
Haha! Hardly!The Big Four Oh (Oh Oh)!Wow! I can't believe I've just reached the 4e3 point. As you all know, it's customary for me, on reaching such milestones, to ruminate, reflect on, a…
... you all know, it's customary for me, on ... lasted this long. Here's to the next 25 years! Yay ... being released all the time and there's a very ... and if you're into the more cerebral type of ... smile:
Well, that's it for this installment folks ...The "Let's make a conspiracy theory" game.Here's how it works. Each person copies the previous post and adds one word that's related to an average Cornishtwat post and we'll see how bizarre a…
Here's how it works. Each person copies the previous post and adds one word that's related to an average Cornishtwat post and we'll see how bizarre a story we can come up with. :D
I'll go first.
FreemasonsSlightly obscure question about a punk single artwork from the 70'sI am planning my next couple of tattoos. They are going on either side of my head. I already have in mind, kinda, one side - an almost abstract style…
... with someone here. (cough) Mel the Bel.
s URBAN DOGS "Barbarians" ... really.
The front cover showed a white ... /> If anyone knows what the hell I am talking about ... and can point in the direction of a screenshot ...The Orb's Adventures Beyond The UltraworldAfter waiting for far too many years, Necros finally bought this album on CD. It's still as awesome as ever. :) It's the Deluxe Edition by the way, …
... . It's still as awesome as ever. :)
It's the Deluxe ... Edition by the way, and it includes the Peel Sessions ...What's happened to the BBC Lives!?Anyone know what's happened to the BBC Lives! website? The domain's still there, but all the pages are 403 Forbidden :-(
Anyone know what's happened to the BBC Lives! website? The domain's still there, but all the pages are 403 Forbidden :-(Anyone program on the speccy and still program?I messed around with Spectrum basic in the 80's mainly doing drawings that I created using basic commands. I then learnt Z80 Assembler for a collage …
... around with Spectrum basic in the 80's mainly doing drawings that ... . I never got into C++ or saw the point in it.
Recent Returnee to the spectrum fold needs hardware adviceHi all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. This is my first post to this forum after I stumbled on this site just a few weeks ago, i only reg…
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It's been like walking down memory ... perfect map but where's the fun in that), its ... />
1) The +2A's tape head is worn. I ... that disk over into the external B drive plugged into the plus three. ... most stuff unless it's on the a drive (according ...Honest Guv, it's not me...Just notice that my InfoSeek entry has doubled in size thanks to some programs written for the Spectraxx tape magazine in the 80's. Although I was a…
... the Spectraxx tape magazine in the 80's. Although I was active on the ... scene in the 80's ... of splitting the information into two sections? I'd like the other Bob ...The "What Will David Platt Do at the Corrie Wedding" gameOk boys and girls, it's time for the "What Will David Platt Do At the Corrie Wedding" game. The wedding's tomorrow, I think, so you've got less than…
... Wedding" game.
The wedding's tomorrow, I think, so you ... until after the time of the wedding. His sis's friend will ... sarah to call off the wedding. Everybody's day will be ... at the wedding, climb up into the rafters and piss down over the wedding ...Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…
... to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour?
When the loader's going, it changes the colour of the beam that's being ... 's doing is changing the border colour quicker than the screen can draw the ...It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…
... ROM's instruction gets fetched (not the Spectrum's, ... s normally illegal in BASIC into a program.
The idea behind the ... the CPLD while it's connected to the Speccy (as that's where it's ... getting it's ...News of the World's 50 Most Shocking Pictures of the Year 2007Click on the link close to the top of this page for the pics: [url]http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/3012_50_most_shocking_pics_of_2007.shtml[/url] S…
Click on the link close to the top of this page for the pics ... there.
Which one's your favourite?
I ... hope that's sun cream on Peaches Geldof ...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 …
... house and turned into the street, with the other kid's mother chasing ... after him. The best thing was, when he turned into ... our street at high speed, it turned out the ... into a wheelie bin, then got chased up the motorway by the ...Should I get the TopUp TV PVR or...?My PVR's on the way out, keeps incorrectly time coding any recordings more than an hour long, which means that even though it recorded the whole thin…
... terrestrial subscription channels, because the wife's been moaning that we can ... I know) or Gold. Looked into getting a subscription card as ... a fucking shocker but them's the breaks).
Any ... with the TUTV box such as having to plug it into your ...
