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Why did the Commodore 64 lose to the Spectrum in the UK?The Commodore 64 was released in the UK in 1983. As we all know, it was a great machine from a US company with a much larger financial backing than t…
... much less than between the Amiga and ST years later. ... and were getting ready to shift priorities. After all, in Europe and the ... USA, the C64 had been hugely ... Microsoft and win the British market through sheer financial (and technical) ... -
Problems with Castlemaster/the CryptI recently bought these 2 excellent games. The problem is when I get killed and I start playing for the 2nd time, the game begins again and after a s…
... /> killed and I start playing for the 2nd time, the game begins ... again and
... while everything freezes and the game resets back to the
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ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... display, the colours are much brighter and true to the original and there is ... to look at the new GBA micro and the improved GBA SP. ... Advance, by The Hive, is really good and gets the job done, ... remapping of the controls to the d-pad made easy and efficent. ... -
The Ultimate Ultimate Play The Game Display Cabinet ?Hi, Here is my finished display cabinet for my ultimate play the game spectrum collection. The Cabinet is from:Baileys Display Cabinets and Cases and…
... the game spectrum collection.
The Cabinet is from:Baileys Display Cabinets and ... Cases and was custom made and ... &p ?65.00 total and the plaque was designed by me ... -
Andrew Collett? The Super Trolley kid...Anyone know what happened to Andrew Collett, that kid who wrote into the Jim'll Fix It TV show to ask Jingle Jangle Jim if his game design could be t…
... , that kid who wrote into the Jim'll Fix It TV ... /> Well his wish came true and the game became Super Trolley, released ... -
No, this is THE conspiracy"At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs." - [I]Astronaut Scott Carpenter. Carpenter…
... with UFOs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this ... soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many ... your facts right, and you can't tell the people." - [I]Margaret ... -
Yellow tint and buzzy sound problemI recently bought a 48k and when i plug it in i get the sinclair 1982 screen no problem but it has an odd nicotine stained tint and the sound is just…
... a 48k and when i plug it in i get the sinclair ... an odd nicotine stained tint and the sound is just a kind ... -
The CSS/WoS Meet 2006Hi there! Voting is now closed, and the date as voted by everyone who took part is: Saturday 27th May, London. Now can everyone who is able to come…
... there! Voting is now closed, and the date as voted by everyone ... /> _________________
Spin my nipplenuts and send me to Alaska!
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way of the rodentjust found this site whilst serching remake sites,sorry if its been posted before. [url="http://www.wayoftherodent.com"]http://www.wayoftherodent.com…
... few nods back to the spectrum and the scene in the 80`s
Very interested in the YS special of 2004I am really interested in getting the special YS number that appeared in 2004 (i Think), this issue came with another magazine (Retrogames??), but i …
... am really interested in getting the special YS number that appeared ... i am only interested in the YS issue, I live in ... would be expensive to send the magazine, somebody has a copy ... ? I, of course, would pay the issue and the shipping.
Thankshow do I tune the speccy to tv?hello folks :) I am come here for help rather than because I am still a speccy person. I did start with the ZX, many moons ago,had a couple of thos…
... before graduating to Amigas, and then PC's. Even ... however mundane and insignificant. So, for the first stab at ... to the tv, and picked an unused channel, and the power ... how to tune the ZX and tv to get ... a viewable screen. I recall you press the ...The Day of the Triffids subtitlesDoes anyone have english/german/croatian/slovenian/slovak/czech/polish/russian subtitles for this movie (1962)? and the same for 3 series from 1981.…
Does anyone have english/german/croatian/slovenian/slovak/czech/polish/russian subtitles for this movie (1962)?
and the same for 3 series from 1981.. I couldn?t find any on the internet... :(Name the arcadeI've just rediscovered MAME; the last time I tried it, there was only support for a few old games, but now it seems to support almost every arcade ma…
... them here and see what happens :)
One of the games ... full of plants and mushrooms and stuff. When you died and the continue screen ... it, he went flying and crashed onto the wall with a big ... weren't careful and let them approach from the rear. Pity I ...did the 8bit music make you listen to electronic music?as a kid I listened gladly to BadBoysBlue and other strange bands from my father?s LP collection - and just didn?t know why. only after years found t…
... listened gladly to BadBoysBlue and other strange bands from ... to electronic music and techno stuff - and the only reason of ... all this was I lived with Speccy and ... and noises...
do you think you were influnced by the beepers and ...Hawl, we're on the Night ShiftIs it just me, or is it impossible for Night Shift (LucusFilm Games) to load on a 128k machine? My original copy doesn't work and even trying the TZ…
... and even trying the TZX from WoS, the same thing happens.
The ... TAP works and the ... TZX (and my copy) works fine ...Computer journalist predicts the demise of the mouse? in 1984!!In the December 1983 issue of 'Your Computer' that I scanned for the archive, there is an article titled 'The Spirit of Christmas to Come'. In the ar…
... of 1984. I found the following prediction particularly amusing:
and the latest one to crawl out ... of the skirting board; the mouse.
... ?6,000 for the Apple Lisa and use only the mouse? It is ...Best version of The Sentinel?Which version of The Sentinel is the best? I have tried the Spectrum, CPC, PC, ST and C64 versions, and of them I still prefer the Spectrum version. …
... . as a result), and the sound seems better on the Spectrum too. Plus ... has sound through the PC's internal speaker, and the ST version suffers ... doesn't feel right, somehow, and the atmosphere just isn't there ...name the 80/90 horror movieHi everybody, about 10 years ago i saw on TV a horror movie that i remember i liked. Now i wanted to buy it on dvd but i can't remember the name of t…
... /> The person who give them the keys show them all the house and quickly ... all right,but when the night comes and the family goes to bed ... by the wind from the window ,kiss the child,say good night and go ...Take this job and shove itI've given up trying, as a ducker and diver, I do fine. Got a nice little part-time job with the Royal Mail for the last 4 years, do okay buying and …
... Mail for the last 4 years, do okay buying and selling junk ... door for all and sundry to see by the way), it was ... with your application. Due to the high specifications required, it was ... /> We appreciate your interest in the role and the company. Wishing you every ...Tintin on the Moon, 3 kind of levels??I just completed the game "Tintin on the Moon" and I found out that there are only two kind of levels, the third, apparently when you have to land th…
I just completed the game "Tintin on the Moon" and I found out that ... level I had the congratulations screen, with the message and the rocket landed. I ... dont know, maybe I landed it and ...Final Smash reviews transcribed and available at CRASH OnlineReviews of Final Fight and The Simpsons are now at CRASH Online ([url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/[/url]). As far as I can tell, this now means tha…
Reviews of Final Fight and The Simpsons are now at CRASH ... release SMASH reviews are on the site. In total there are ... articles on the site (including things like contents pages and links to ...ESA games and shop softwareThere are two Czech games by ESA on [URL="http://esa.webz.cz/projectsen.htm"]this page[/URL] that are not in WoS: "Black Man" and "Letris 2". I think…
... disk syntax (LOAD d*) and the BASIC loaders are protected against ... about this?
The other oddities I have, via ... are called "Yellow Umbrella Shop" and "Woolstock": these are stock control ... a charity shop and a shop selling wools and fabrics). They ...Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...Did anyone see the 100th episode of Scrubs? It was shown on RTE last night and it was absolutely brilliant. Basically it was a big homage to The Wiza…
Did anyone see the 100th episode of Scrubs ... shown on RTE last night and it was absolutely brilliant. ... big homage to The Wizard Of Oz. The best moment was ... broken air conditioner and the heat caused the collagen in her ... Scrubs is one of the best comedies on tv.< ...Having Problems Creating .TZX filesI have a ZX spectrum +2 and i am using the headphone jack at the back of it to connect it ot the Mic in jack on my sound card, I recorded the tape us…
... spectrum +2 and i am using the headphone jack at the back of it ... it on the spectrum [B]AT THE SAME TIME[/B],and the game ran ... fine on the Spectrum ... . so i followed the "TZXing ...playing the games on the real thing??!?hello, today i was searching for an old cassetes recorder at my place (doing some stuff related to audio/electronica) , didn´t find it but found…
... connected between a laptop and the 48k and in the laptop making this files ... sno way to speed up the loading time like we do ...10 Years Since The Death Of Brad NowellIt's been ten years since the May 25, 1996 death of Brad Nowell, lead singer/gutairist/songwriter for the 90's Long Beach, CA based ska-punk band Sub…
... lead singer/gutairist/songwriter for the 90's Long Beach, CA ... band Sublime, one of the most underrated punk bands of ... influencing bands such as The Suicide Machines, and some of their fellow ... No Doubt, Reel Big Fish and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones had huge ...Spectrum in the usaAnyone know if it will be costly / hard to get a spectrum 48k or 128k working in the USA? I want to purchase one for nostalgic reasons and just to r…
... 48k or 128k working in the USA?
I want ... purchase one for nostalgic reasons and just to revisit but I ... might be a non issue) and the pal/ntsc I might not ... be able to justify the cost.
I know ...+3e rom and my Videoface......aaaarghwell, i've finally gotten around to doing three things in my life replace my +3 drive belt find my videoface and driver disc burn the +3e ROMS and …
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burn the +3e ROMS and bung 'em in
the videoface and the +3e roms......the red light ... after the disc spins up, it goes out, and when ... i try to scan, the thing crashes ... it worked ok with the original roms, any tests ...Speccy look for the forumaye, not sure where to post this... besides, we?ve had already some talks about it... but, l@@k at [url=http://zx.pk.ru/index.php?]this[/url] - the …
... this[/url] - the Speccy icons are there :)
and the [url=http://zx ... work too ;) without slowing down the DL much
would it ... be possible to set the standard size (the same for everyone) ... size , it?s disturbing and breaks the look of the forum"A Night at the Opera" DVD!No, not the Marx Bros. one, the Queen one! :) I recently bought this for ?14.95 (quite reasonable to my mind) -- it comes (at least in the UK versio…
... of" documentary (which explained the lyrics of [i]'39 ... sense to me) and the second is the album itself.
... I first bought the album, and even though what ... I heard was not the ... .
And seeing the classic [i]Bohemian Rhapsody ...
