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QUESTIONI got this cracked version of this game: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027364 I just want to hear if there is any use of cr…
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I just want to hear if there ... WOS at all. I would imagine it would be better than ... game comes is MIA, so just keep Z80, or put up ... -
D.T Decathlon vs Hyper Sports vs D.T Supertest 128Hi everyone and welcome to the August 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" series. Last month I placed International Karate and IK+ (representing al…
... votes with International Karate receiving just 17 votes.
A few ... were all released by Ocean/Imagine software, they are Daley Thompson ... -
Just rescued an old tape recorder from the thrash binPeople who saw me must have thought that I am crazy. :P Couldn't resist, in spite of the poor exterior condition of the unit (all wet and dirty) i…
... /> I wonder if I was just lucky or being 'made in ... there is no 'ear' out, just 'mic', 'remote' and 'monitor (8 ... -
Games with small sprites?Hey everyone, Can you recommend some games with nice 8x8 or 16x16 size sprites? I'm working on an artwork for my kitchen wall, I'm using ZX Spec…
... decent picture going. If you imagine a collage of famous speccy ... to be exactly those sizes, just need to be small-ish ... -
Unusual or Experimental or just New or Quirky Presentations of SoftwareWhen it was all new software vendors had to work out the best way to sell their wares. In the beginning ,there was no absolute consensus ,and so ther…
... unusual ways . Maybe these styles just did not catch on . But ... software that for some reason just did not catch on. -
How do emulators make code appears as running at 3.5Mhz?Decent Z80 emulators on github return t-states after executing an instruction, giving you the ability to emulate Speccy relatively well. But there ar…
... after every instruction, and draw just that part of the bitmap ... the instruction too? I can imagine this affecting accuracy of screen ... ticks. So the way I imagine is to check how many ... -
Drift!, Valley of Rains and Just a Gal at Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019We presented 3 new games at Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019 competition! Side-scrolling action "Valley of Rains", sports simulator "Drift!" and racing…
... ", sports simulator "Drift!" and racing "Just a Gal". Play and vote ... -
Xcel - how to win this gameHi. I have been exploiting lockdown to do ridiculous numbers of RZX longplays (mostly boring text adventures that you hate, because everyone did the …
... SWIV or 1943 if you imagine aliens as aeroplanes) -- but like ... , randomly selected. And if you just play one after another then ... -
The Dilemma Of ModernityHere's one to ponder, gang. My current jam is Bear Bovver played at 2x speed in Spectaculator (music off, obv). What was always a decent but slugg…
... /> So the question is this: imagine you were updating the Official ... game at that point, or just a PC game with inexplicably ... -singing-and-dancing Windows desktop just effectively the backwards-compatible ZX ... -
Selling most of my Spectrum games.I've decided to sell off most of my Spectrum games and some hardware, but for now here's the games I want to get rid off. Ideally I would like to se…
... Rider (Quicksilva)
Green Beret (Imagine)
Gunrunner (Hewson)
Gyron ... /> Microdrive One (Lerm)
Mikie (Imagine)
Molecule Man (Mastertronic)
just not a case).
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Repairs and Reparing.Hi All, Just finished resurrecting an Issue 3A board. Had black lines, so replaced the lower 16K RAM chips, Amazed they just cost a couple of doll…
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Just finished resurrecting an Issue ... chips, Amazed they just cost a couple of ... Logo appears.
Just wondering, amongst those who fix ... a ULA as I imagine they are like unobtanium ... mostly the RAM, or just passive component failure that ... -
LifeforceHey, guys. I finally saw the 1985 sci-fi/zombie/vampire/horror flick "Lifeforce" for the first time a week or two ago, and I've got to be honest, …
... the movie, then I can imagine the first stage being a ... stop the madness. :)
Just my $0.02.
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Missed opportunities in the 80'sAll the talk of the Loki got me thinking... What if someone had built an expansion box for the speccy that had the 3812 Yamaha music chip ( Adlib Sou…
... how happened with the PC just a few years later...When ... PC just to play some of those games...
Imagine if ... have made of that... Basically just reusing the RAM that came ... the Speccy was pretty easy... Just using the original as a ... -
Xavior (PSS)Hi all, I wanted to finish Xavior since it tried many times when I was young even if it wasn't for sure the best ZX game ever. Probably just the pure…
... best ZX game ever. Probably just the pure stimulation of the ... rooms challenge. As you can imagine I never went even close ... -
Xpeccy just shows a blank screenI wanted to try the [url="https://github.com/samstyle/Xpeccy"]Xpeccy[/url] emulator for Windows, but it won't work on my system. At the start, it jus…
... system. At the start, it just shows a blank white window ... -
Remembering David Lawson (Imagine) article on EuroGamer"David Lawson, co-founder of Imagine Software and Psygnosis, passed away in August aged 62, Eurogamer has learned. Lawson co-founded Liverpool-bas…
"David Lawson, co-founder of Imagine Software and Psygnosis, passed away ... /> Lawson co-founded Liverpool-based Imagine Software in 1982, aged 23 ... over £1 million a month. Imagine released games for a range ... -
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... , u ask?
Well, imagine u have this small program ... would allow u to do just that with minimum effort. There ... -
Rabbit softwareSomebody once told me that one of the main guys behind Rabbit software, committed suicide when the company was sued for making a speccy version of mo…
... info from, maybe it was just mixed up with automanta or ... game called Pacakuda, which is just a speccy version of Pacman ... instead of a pacman thing - imagine if whoever owned the copyright ... -
Imagine SoftwareWhile browsing around MSN I found an article on the rise and fall of Imagine and thought some of you might be interested in it. Find it at: [url="ht…
It always amazed me that the origianl Imagine were so highly rated. Just about every game I played from them was bug-ridden crap (Ah-Diddums!, I rest my case)
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Is it just me...?Maybe I grew up paying too much attention to films like Tron, Max Headroom, Robocop etc. - always the companies in them were huge faceless corporatio…
... bought (Melbourne House, Bug-Byte, Imagine). Programmers teamed up to form ... legends, their early (Ultimate) work just had this little touch of ... -
what made u buy a spectrum?Yo spec-chums what really made you buy a spectrum?. Here is my story i was about 9 and had a oric1, poor me eh?, yes it had 48k but it was just about…
... 1988, cable T.V. was just around the corner and computers ... the comp from the shop. Imagine my excitement when I saw ... -
ZX48k terminal...Hello everybody, I thought someone might help me. I connect my good old ZX48k to my PC via serial (IF1) link, and I was trying to write a little term…
... is it normal that pressing just space would BREAK an INKEY ...
space...
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Interface 1Hi, Just got myself an Interface 1 only to find it does not work. That is to say that I can't use any of the extended commands on it,e.g. CAT 1, LOA…
... /> get an error message, I imagine (after all this time, I ... ).
If the Spectrum just refuses to accept the commands ... you to enter the command, just prints up a flashing question ... -
What systems did programmers use?Just a thought that occured to me. What systems did professional programmers use to write spectrum games on? I know it would be possible in theory to…
... write Pud Pud (1983) using just one Spectrum - saving the assembled ... the rest of the Ocean/Imagine stuff I used Ocean's ... -
What systems did programmers use?Just a thought that occured to me. What systems did professional programmers use to write spectrum games on? I know it would be possible in theory to…
... write Pud Pud (1983) using just one Spectrum - saving the assembled ... the rest of the Ocean/Imagine stuff I used Ocean's ... -
What systems did programmers use?Just a thought that occured to me. What systems did professional programmers use to write spectrum games on? I know it would be possible in theory to…
... write Pud Pud (1983) using just one Spectrum - saving the assembled ... the rest of the Ocean/Imagine stuff I used Ocean's ... -
CorsapazzaA friend of mine would like to have game called Corsapazza. Fortunately he knows its name. We cannot find it, is the distribution denied?
I've got a game called Crazy Race, as well as several called Crazy Cars.
I've just had a go at the Crazy Race game, and I can't imagine why anyone would want a copy of it. -
CorsapazzaA friend of mine would like to have game called Corsapazza. Fortunately he knows its name. We cannot find it, is the distribution denied?
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I've just had a go at the ... game, and I can't imagine why anyone would want a ... -
Loading Superstition.When I was a kid, my sister and I held certain superstitions about certain games which would affect whether they would load successfully or not. The…
... ' visuals), now we just need chuntey emulation. Imagine the fun you could ...
