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Vote for your top 100 Videogames!!Just thought I'd let you all know about Empire's 100 Top Videogame poll, as I hadn't noticed it anywhere else...wasn't sure if this was allowed to be…
... it too, as it's nothing really to do with the Spectrum. I think somebody's ... got some explaning to do![/QUOTE]
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Vote for your top 100 Videogames!!Just thought I'd let you all know about Empire's 100 Top Videogame poll, as I hadn't noticed it anywhere else...wasn't sure if this was allowed to be…
[quote=Philip Kendall;337153]And that seems the right place for it too, as it's nothing really to do with the Spectrum. I think somebody's got some explaning to do![/quote]
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ebayWhy do you think they dropped the insertion fees? Amount of business falling off? Competition? The final fees seem to have gone up for cheaper fina…
[QUOTE=thx1138;340814]PLEASE lets not turn this into yet another postage costs thread though. It's been talked to death.[/QUOTE]
The past hurts I know, ask Normski for a hug I'm sure he'll give you 3 :p -
OutRun for PCOutrun for PC has the same music as had Spectrum version. See the video : [url]http://www.gamershell.com/tv/18920.html[/url]
... , it's also available to download on the Xbox 360 and PS3. The music's really ... nice on it, it's ... got remixes of all 3 tracks from the ... -
Hurray for the French (Scientology related)Scientology (which is NOT a religion, as it doesn't refer to a god, it's just a cult) is on trial in France, unlike in England where we let anyone in…
... /> Well it's not fair to single one out when they are all in the same ... boat.
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It's a fact ... throw all the Bishops in jail for turning a blind eye to it/not reporting it to the ... -
What's the deal with JetPac?The instant I saw it back in the day I thought to myself "Well, that's crap ... colourful but crap nonetheless" ... and I still feel that way about t…
... /> It's quite easy to sum up the appeal. It's simple to play, fairly easy, the attack ... patterns of the ... a special place in my heart, it was the first computer game I ... -
Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…
... ! You're right, the game really does get going ... past those initial hurdles. The original programmer was a ... falls, but it's happily managed to stay on the right side ... of "Bast! Right, next go I'm going to ... jump right" as opposed to "Bast! I'm never ... -
Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…
... death falls, but it's happily managed to stay on the right side of ... ] for the original.....oh, and anybody else that helped/is going to be ... when the final version is ready, just to let the masses know in case ... -
Reading from the 128 Serial PortDon't shout at me if this is a silly question. I have Googled extensively, and searched the forums, but I can't find anything discussing what seems t…
... I never got around to it again)
it's called zfst and ... />
(In all cases, the two machines talk to each other in Terminal mode, so it's not ... a comms problem).
However, it ... -
Reading from the 128 Serial PortDon't shout at me if this is a silly question. I have Googled extensively, and searched the forums, but I can't find anything discussing what seems t…
... never got around to trying the utilities that he documents in the manual.
(In all cases, the two machines talk to each other in Terminal mode, so it's not ... , it's some sort of ping type thing if I remember correctly. the ... -
Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…
... multilingual is hard because of the space, the solution is easy - ... space will be a problem in 128k, but screen space ... de incendios. Si XYZ llega all? antes que XYZ te mandar ... telling this to the whole classroom, if it's being told to an individual, the first ... -
Google Chrome vs IE8 vs Firefox 3.5Hi experts It's time for me to upgrade my browser. Which of these three should I go for? Is there one in particular that I should avoid? Thanking y…
... ;374009]That hasn't answered the question...[/QUOTE]
what ... to run IE (meaning it's not really free, just like the free toy in ... -
Google Chrome vs IE8 vs Firefox 3.5Hi experts It's time for me to upgrade my browser. Which of these three should I go for? Is there one in particular that I should avoid? Thanking y…
... to run IE (meaning it's not really free, just like the free toy in ... , just whether it could be installed on linux, thats the question you ... />
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Wolfenstien on the ZX SpeccyDunno if this has been posted and its not on a standard speccy but the Pentagon 256 clone thing.....interesting though.. [youtube]vzm9KkJ5lGI[/youtu…
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Citadel was uploaded recently to load on a normal 128k ... tried it out and it worked fine. Is it an original concept? It's bloody ... .
It's a pity that authors did the hardest part,created a ... -
ZX games for fixingExist any games/software which need fix any bugs ? - incorrect graphics - incorrect or bad keyboard controll - too fast games (need slow-down) - game…
Apparently it's not possible to complete Starion. The game crashes on one of the later (8th or 9th iirc) grids. I've never gotten that far in the game though so I can't say exactly where. -
ZX games for fixingExist any games/software which need fix any bugs ? - incorrect graphics - incorrect or bad keyboard controll - too fast games (need slow-down) - game…
[QUOTE=Necros;381233]Apparently it's not possible to complete Starion. The game crashes on ... 've never gotten that far in the game though so I can ... Starion(patched).tap and .txt in [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... -
Retro Reunited - 2 Day Retro Gaming Event - Sept. 2009[url=http://retroreunited.info][img]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e226/darthgord/2qbbud3.jpg[/img][/url] Apologies if this is a long post, I wil…
... *much* different to the x86 CPU you have in a PC). It has 72MB ... , it's quite different to a PC. The VAX CPU is radically different to the x86 ... , it would have run VMS but it's too much of a pain in the ... arse to get a ... -
Bruce Everiss being sued for defamationJust read this story on TG Daily: [url]http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44004/118/[/url] and he confirms it on his website: [url]http://www.bru…
... is that Everiss was the man behind the original Imagine hype ... well.
It's certainly ironic in that he was calling ... all places, for his troubles.
I'm sure it's ... extremely unlikely to see court, let alone result in any ... -
Tank, no magazine reviewsHi, Ive seen that Tank from Snk/Ocean has not reviews from english magazines, it has a Microhobby review, but no Crash, SinclairUser, YourSinclair..…
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It's quite strange to come across the thread here as it was just ... it to Crash or Zzap!? I've no idea if it was reviewed in ... that could have benefited in that way too come to think about it. -
Bastard!!!!!!!!!!last night i blew my new puter up :( stuck an old rom cd in and the fucker exploded inside my new puter :( now it wont boot up, it wont even find th…
... if you take it back then be prepared to have a long ... result.
It might be better to stump up the costs (about ?50 ... shop) and have done with it. -
Bastard!!!!!!!!!!last night i blew my new puter up :( stuck an old rom cd in and the fucker exploded inside my new puter :( now it wont boot up, it wont even find th…
... if you take it back then be prepared to have a long ... result.
It might be better to stump up the costs (about ?50 ... shop) and have done with it.[/QUOTE]
i notice on ... -
Flunky (what's this about?)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001809"]Flunky[/URL] I've never paid attention to this little bit in the middle of the loadi…
It's more likely to say "Berk" and "Drut", as in characters from that other Don Priestley game Trap Door... One of the tasks in Flunky is getting an autograph book signed, so that's the autograph book with signatures in it... -
Mobile Phones.Ok so my old four and a half year old Nokia N70 is looking tired, its battery is giving up the ghost and it looks rustic to say the least from years …
... probably still in it's infancy. In most cases it's usualy best to wait until the manufacter releases ... a new version to ... -
Oblivion...Thought I'd start another thread, to save further derailment of the "XBox Tips" one. Ok, so I'm now an expert in light armour, thanks to Vampyre's t…
... managed it with Anvil and Bravil so far! Jump on to the roofs ... , then on to the city walls then over ... in, it still thinks you're in the city. It's a weird surreal landscape, with the ... -
Another set of USA newbie ZX Spectrum questions.So yeah, I'm considering getting a ZX Spectrum 48k pretty soon, but since I'm not in the country of origin, I have a few questions about it. First, …
... (if not all) video capture devices are multi-system. It's just a ... matter of choosing the right option in the software. I chose the ... to leave usb ports free when possible. And the internal card has the ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... changing the palette in the border area. I'd like to change it down the screen ... with rainbow effects), so doing it in the middle of a line would ... indeed! It's bloody hard to time a border colour change amongst all the other ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... to Evil Dead, and from what I've seen of him in the ... last few years he still can't believe it's so ... somewhere that it's not only to do with the film license's, but they ... names in a couple of the songs and it might have something to do ... -
Happy birthday WoS!!Yay!! Merry birthday World Of Spectrum, my good buddy... drink lots!! :smile:
... just said, I remember in 1999 my first internet conecction ... I couldn't believe it! It was the seed of what WoS ... to the Future! Your effort these years has been unbeliavable.
It's ... really amazing to see how the speccy spirits is ... -
To bobs, andrew rollings, psj etchi folks, yes I'm a bit hyper today, don't know why. I apologise to you bobs for getting your thread closed, I'll try not to do that again. :-o sor…
... standards for yourself than most in society - based on your own ... . But if you're going to start criticising other people for ... to, it's not going to be well received.[/QUOTE]
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What Z80 development tools do you use? What books?Hi. I've been meaning to do it for over 25 years, but.. better late than never :) I'm starting to learn machine code and am trying to get a developme…
... want to be thinking in decimal while writing in asm, try to think in hex ... really have to be thinking how the machine "thinks". So although it's not ... 't want to, it's entirely up to you which base you program in - if ...
