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Favourite Speccy MomentsOk, just for fun (and for my own curiosity), what are everyone's favourite (or most satisfying) Spectrum moments? For example, the swot in [I]Skool D…
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Finding (and playing!) the hidden Space Invaders game in ... , Brian Bloodaxe, Dynamite Dan, Jack the Nipper 2 and many other ... R-Type, Knightlore, Ant Attack, The Sentinel, Trap Door, Skooldaze, ... Esprit, and many others for the first time, each one ... -
Fat guys-em-upsYes! It's time to another stupid thread! :razz: In this case, you must think of games in which one of the characters is a fat man... For example, …
The fat guy (chief?) in Jack the Nipper 2
Wally in Everyone's a Wally
Ted in Technician Ted
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Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... contributers can you send me the following information...
Favourite game (from the period 1982-1984):
Favourite ... Speccy Character (from the period 1982-1984):[/QUOTE]
Match Point
Jumping Jack - the athletic poet -
Underestimated gamesWhat games do you think never had the hype of the larger named games, but you loved to death. I loved Pedro where you had to plant seeds and stamp o…
... Harvest Havoc
Farmer Jack and the Hedge Monkeys
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Farmer Jack and the Hedge Monkeys ???????? this game is ... I'm talking here about the adventure games only ) then I ... similar to Sir Fred called Jack the nipper II (part 2 ) ... -
Underestimated gamesWhat games do you think never had the hype of the larger named games, but you loved to death. I loved Pedro where you had to plant seeds and stamp o…
... by the player .
3. the ability of swimming .
4. the ... the rope , so here is better than other games such as jack the ... nipper which the rope is swinging ... itself without controling by the player !
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Underestimated gamesWhat games do you think never had the hype of the larger named games, but you loved to death. I loved Pedro where you had to plant seeds and stamp o…
... by the player .
3. the ability of swimming .
4. the ... the rope , so here is better than other games such as jack the ... nipper which the rope is swinging ... itself without controling by the player !
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One more go.....I don't know if this has ever been talked about here, but I read in the Deathchase thread that that game was one of those games that many considered …
I remember quite a few - some are:
Bomb jack
Saboteur 1&2
Daley thompson supertest
Green beret
Batty
Jack the nipper
3D deathchase
Crimebusters -
don't want to play it type of gamesive never got on well with flight sims strategy games (rts etc) space games such as elite games such as the sentinel they normally have way too man…
... off flight sims! - Some of the best games when you get ... play are 'cutsey' ones....dizzy, jack the nipper, trapdoor etc.
Not ... me think, require strategy or the exact opposite, mindless button mashing ... -
First lightning storm of the year.In south wales near Cardiff, and we are having the first lightning storm of the year. Yay. Gunna take my camera out, drive to a big hill and see wha…
[QUOTE=dm_boozefreek;267867]Why the birds from Yorkshire going on ... ]
trying to avoid the ripper.
funny you posted ... a night out, and in the taxi were a bunch of ... you will see a place the yourkshire ripper killed a victim' he ... -
myspeccy.org - online gaming which auto-saves scoresIt's a blimmin' miracle - I'm most impressed.
... strangely seems to have a jack the nipper alike head floating about ... is if once a day the high score names could be ... injected into the snapshots high score tables themselves ... -
Your views on...Booty[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000633]Booty[/url] This was a great game. Colourful, entertaining and addictive. Only 22 sc…
[QUOTE=chop983;269790]...not quite polished enough to be a full price game[/QUOTE]
You think so? I disagree. Only 22 screens, but I would have easily have paid ?5.95 for this. No different to Stop The Express or Jack & The Beanstalk. -
Where to buy .tap/.tzx from Jonathan Cauldwell, BOBS etc?I don't use a real Spectrum any more, just emulation ("Heretic, burn him!" etc, I know), so I want to buy .tap or .tzx versions of the games Gamex, I…
... STRANDED ?2.99
FARMER JACK HARVEST ?2.99
LOCO ... ?2.50
FARMER JACK HEDGE M. ?2.50
the TAP/TZX, the prices are ?1.00 ... /> Some of the games (e.g. FARMER JACK & THE HEDGE MONKEYS, ... -
What can I use to rip AY tunes?Because I really like the music from Dragonia, but it isn't in the AY archive. Does anybody know of a program that I can extract it with? [SIZE="1"…
... has a tune ripper in it.
the ripper stays very hidden ... -
Rod BowkettWhatever happened to Rod Bowkett? He's the bloke who wrote Dynamite Dan 1 and 2, two of the best platformers on the Speccy (and I think that DD2 is t…
... /infoseekid.cgi?id=0006814]The Price of Magik[/url])< ... Towsend (Saboteur), David Pridmore (Jack the Nipper II), Andrew Threllfall (Bubble ... Bobble), Geoff Crammond (The Sentinel), Target Games/Nick Gollop ... 't tell from the WoS data the order in which ... -
Rod BowkettWhatever happened to Rod Bowkett? He's the bloke who wrote Dynamite Dan 1 and 2, two of the best platformers on the Speccy (and I think that DD2 is t…
... /infoseekid.cgi?id=0006814]The Price of Magik[/url])< ... Towsend (Saboteur), David Pridmore (Jack the Nipper II), Andrew Threllfall (Bubble ... Bobble), Geoff Crammond (The Sentinel), Target Games/Nick Gollop ... 't tell from the WoS data the order in which ... -
myspeccy.org - online gaming which auto-saves scoresIt's a blimmin' miracle - I'm most impressed.
... /games/harrier-attack[/URL]
Jack the Nipper II: In Coconut Capers ... ]http://myspeccy.com/en/games/jack-nipper-ii-in-coconut-capers ... -
Camp spectrum gamesim going camping soon with the GF. so rather than talking to her i thought id take my DS along. so are there any speccy games with a camping theme?…
Park Patrol.
Tusker :D
Jack the Nipper II (although that's not strictly camping :D). -
ZXDS 0.8.0 beta 1Once again a [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz/"]new version[/URL] is out. Apart from adding TR-DOS and few little features I haven't touched anything else…
If it was Jack The Nipper 2, there's a control issue with Kempston. -
ZXDS 0.8.0 beta 1Once again a [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz/"]new version[/URL] is out. Apart from adding TR-DOS and few little features I haven't touched anything else…
Jack the Nipper II has a known problem with decoding of Kempston ports (clone interfaces behaved differently from the real one. JtN II assumes decoding, and ZXDS uses the other). -
Head over Heels on the C64Dunno if this' a good place to bring this up :D I've been comparing Head over Heels versions and the C64 version is way inferior, everytime there's…
... do however remember well that Jack the Nipper looked pretty good on ... a tad faster than the speccy version (the screen had speccy dimensions ... had some nifty coding switching the colour palette and even ... garish, so I think on the whole the blocky mode 0 (160x200 ... -
Games like the dizzy seriesNow that I've played almost all of the dizzy games, can anybody recommend any similar games for me to play on my Speccy emulator for Nintendo DS? Ta…
But seriously how's about the Magic Knight games?
Incredible Shrinking Firemen.
Megabucks.
Kings Keep.
The Wally Week Games.
Dr What.
Streaker.
Maybe Jack the Nipper II? -
MSN 20 Greatest Spectrum Games[url]http://tech.uk.msn.com/gaming/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=9275140[/url] Some interesting choices. If you click on the individual games they incl…
... deny the us Dizzy games.
The Wally Week games, the Magic ... Knight games, Brian Bloodaxe, Jack the Nipper ... , etc, all great arcade adventures to my mind, but the ... -
Happy chaosmongers-day!And may you and [URL="http://www.cronos.toucansurf.com/"]Cronosoft[/URL] live long!
thank you very much.
I'm afraid though I can't quite manage a free SEUD download... How about a Boots C-15 with a pirate copy of 'Jack & The Beanstalk' on it? -
Good horizontally scrolling platformers?Hi folks, Would anyone care to recommend some good horizontally scrolling platform games on the Speccy. Regards, Shaun.
... Codemasters again), Big Nose in the the USA (Codemasters), and I ... To be honest, most of the best Spectrum platformers were flick ... platformer ever, IMHO),
the Monty games (apart from Monty ... br /> Jetset Willy*,
Jack the Nipper 2,
Dynamite Dan ... -
NEW GAME - Farmer Jack - Treasure TroveEvening all, Jack is back! Download his latest adventure, Treasure Trove, from my site at the link below. This time it's loosely based on Pac-Man,…
What about Donkey Jack? The definitive arcade conversion?
Or Bomb Jack? Er... -
99+ original tapesI'm looking to sell at a fair price, or even give away my whole collection to serious collectors, preservationists or anyone interested enough. They …
... in Egypt, so mailing the tapes would take time/ ... I've surely played in the past.
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As you can see, the cardboard cases are not all ... I can't guarantee the integrity of the tapes, but each ... was in there. Even Jack the Nipper has a pretty cool ... -
games with music track on side B of the tape (skate or die?)i saw someone mention that the skate or die tape had a music track on the B side, but it's not mentioned on the WOS listing and i can't find a mentio…
nice one gasman :-)
i had the out run and afterburner music tapes. i used to listen to the outrun one whilst playing jack the nipper 2 and the afterburner one while playing the demo of some skateboarding game, can't remember which one now. -
Which games did you complete?Ok, time for another survey - list which Spectrum games you completed. Please list those with some poke or other cheat separately. Define completion …
Hardly any without cheating
Dizzy 1, 2, 3 and 4
Robocop :D
Rainbow Islands
Got to the end of side B of Gauntlet by switching characters
Chase HQ
Gryzor
Jack The Nipper
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ZXDS 0.8.0 beta 1Once again a [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz/"]new version[/URL] is out. Apart from adding TR-DOS and few little features I haven't touched anything else…
... 280282]If it was Jack The Nipper 2, there's a ... I thought that changing the port decoding to just ... surprise, in the version I have the kempston joystick doesn ... all! I mean, the code in the game itself doesn't ... 49798 which samples the port #1F but the result is ... -
Horace and WillyHi guys, cracking forum I must say! For some reason, Horace and Miner Willy were my two fave characters in my youth and I have a couple of nice t-sh…
... fave Speccy character at the moment is Lissa (Olli ... she smacks Olli over the head just like my ... that was Sir Humphrey the ghost who was smacking ...
My fave character is Jack The Nipper :)
Also ... I originally mis-read the title of this thread as ...
