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Not worth reading really - unless you have some spare time(Mods if you want to move it please do it does have a sort of hardware theme and a couple of recommendations at the end :) About two years ago now I…
... to Maplin and some soldering time later (Not to metion PaulF ... have poured a lot of time and energy into getting my ... year old (dodgy at the time) electronics is something to be ... taken so much of your time, if I could I would ... -
Where Time Stood Still Budget/CompilationDoes anyone know why Where Time Stood Still was never re-released on budget or on a compilation? I noticed it was one of a few Ocean games not to see…
Does anyone know why Where Time Stood Still was never re- ... /> (PS: Other games from the time of Robocop 2 and Navy ... -
It's enough to make you cry.....I have just had the very sad task of pouring 50 pint bottles of cider down the sink. Due to a slight technical hitch (my fault entirely, which makes…
... put it right. By the time it settled down there was ... go for a little cry before I bottle up this weeks ... -
Help?Hi All, I wonder if anyone has a few minutes to look at this bit of code I'm working on. I'm trying to move to sprites and want to do it with a scr…
... what. If anyone has some time for a quick look over ... graphic one line at a time
ld h,(ix+1 ... ;if screen starts here or before, sprite misses third screen segment ... -
PS3 now fully cracked and open?About a month back, a hacking group claimed that they'd discovered the PS3's 'key' algorithms, meaning that they can 'sign' any code. What this means…
... while, but got bored off before I got around to purchasing ... consoles do, and the first time I heard of the search ... -
Help - recommendations for a portable PCFor a year or so now I've been meaning to buy a Pandora hand-held ( [url]http://www.openpandora.org/[/url] ) when they became available, and have wai…
... it could still be months before it's available to order ... -early-adopters. So for the time being I've used a ... PSP to pass the time when I'm commuting to ... -
time traveling retro gamersa thought. if all tech will eventually crumble and become unusable. then it stands to reason the only real source of retro machines/games will be th…
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Freescape GamesI have always LOVED the Freescape games (Driller, Dark Side, Total Eclipse and Castle Master). They really were IMHO a huge leap forward in games cre…
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As I have mentioned before on here, I worked on ... section of Boots at the time and I can remember opening ... bought it that same lunch time and couldn't wait to ... -
Time Cop[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0013089[/url] I can't be 100% sure, but it seems like that Moonsoft are the true authors of Ti…
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Good (non-Spectrum) games to explore inSomeone on gamefaqs asked "[I]Reccommend me some great games that involve exploring a large land. Games that strongly feature discovering new areas a…
... that involve exploring a large land. Games that strongly feature discovering ... too varied things. Elite, Where Time Stood Still, Turbo Esprit, Knightlore ... -
Fao dmboozefreekIf you've been following the news recently, you know that even Mr. DMBooze Freek's horoscope says he's cocky. However, you might not know that DMBooz…
... communities.
The last time I heard DMBooze ramble on ... ) within a short period of time. He is more dangerous than ... 've met wrongheaded, cuckoo prevaricators before so I know that DMBooze ... -
Disk not loadingI have +3 compilation disk "Chartbusters" First time I loaded it up. Main screen: 1. Cobra 2.Mutants 3.Green Beret I loaded Green Beret. It worked …
... disk "Chartbusters"
First time I loaded it up.
before fixing?)
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Spectrum +2A (faulty)Spectrum +2A. It has 2 faults, one is the semi comma key is missing on the left of the keyboard. The second is that it plugs in, powers up, but ran…
... of a game before it crashed. I dont have time or skills ... -
Avalon speedrunning/ rzxfilesHi all, I have many favourite games on the Speccy, far too many to list but two in particular are Legend of Avalon and Dragontorc of Avalon. Of tho…
... I intend to persevere this time and I am trying to ... relearn the 'lay of the land' :)
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At What Age did you get your first computer?I was at a dinner party and people where all complaining on how kids this days start playing computers very early on, and how they see kids with 5 an…
... old spending most of their time in Nintendo DS and PS3 ... 't that different from our time, and as you guys can ... spent lot's of time playing games, before that I used to ... (who has become a long time friend ever since).
What memory pages are being used in a +3DOS disk operation?To make a long story short: what pages are in use by +3DOS while doing read operations from the disk drive? Now, for the details, for those interest…
... a 128K Spectrum game (Where time stood still) to disk. I ... . After all blocks, and just before the main block is loaded ... . A CLEAR 25000 is made before any further operation. My routines ...The best music player for Windows?Up until now, I've been double clicking on .mp3/.wma files in Windows Explorer to play them in WinAMP (or block selecting with SHIFT and then right c…
... other stuff at the same time), and I want it to ... "Up [B]to[/B] now", before correcting it, but I'm ...New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
... file (about 3k), shorter loading time.
* If you don't ... screen, make the snapshot just before the program refreshing the screen ...Zetr0's Catchup Time (hardware / software)Hello there my fellow ZX'ers I have been soaking myself into the "world of spectrum" and more I do, the more I realize I have to play catchup.... a …
+3e Commands, Syntax and Help (please =()Hello there my fellow ZX'ers, I have been having a very late play about with ZX SPin, and I have been enjoying some of the interesting features, lik…
... partitions)
however every time I pressed return to execute ... and issues have been mentioned before, I am sorry to re ... now way past my bed time. thanks for your help in ...Zynaps great qualitiesIm enjoying a bit of spare time, and been enjoying good 1987.1988 speccy arcade games.. the best era imho. Ive been playing [b]Marauder[/b] and have …
... enjoying a bit of spare time, and been enjoying good 1987 ... have progressed more than never before.. cool. Around 23 years playing ... I reached far than never before. A good game.. could have ... and speed.
At time of its release my big ...Unexpected gems99% of the time I would peruse reviews in Crash or YS before buying a Speccy game, but occasionally I would take a chance on a budget game, and even …
... the time I would peruse reviews in Crash or YS before buying ...Is there really such a thing as "progressive" rock?I don't think so. Quite apart from the fact that just about any modern musical style evolves over time and can thus be called "progressive", I quest…
... modern musical style evolves over time and can thus be ... "prog"? They are (1) weird time signatures, (2) very long tracks ... />
[list=1][*][B]Weird time signatures[/B]. The Dave Brubeck ... stolen from earlier composers; long before ELP did [I]The Barbarian ...T/S 2068 & SpectrumBorrowing what you see below from the Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate Guide, by Fred Blechman. It appears the T/s 2068 was intended to be …
... original Spectrum, though Timex folded before they could take such leaps ... only 64K at any one time. The T/S 2068 got ... to the Spectrum of the time.
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Display Mode ... real shame Timex closed shop before we could see the full ...Benny Hill's Madcap Chase[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000507"]Benny Hill's Madcap Chase[/URL] Gave this a go as it appeared in the YS Daily Fix an…
... I hadn't played it before..
Is it just ... to be completely flawless, the time seems a bit unforgiving if ...What word processor do you use?What word processor or text editor do you mainly use? I use Microsoft Word (from Office 2003 at home, and whatever is installed at whatever place I'm…
... 'm working at at that time, for work), but someone at ... 've even heard of it before, I've forgotten about. So ...Help - graphics card/TV problemA mate of mine has a PC, and he used to use it on his TV, for gaming and Internet access. Anyway, his TV broke, so he's bought a new one, plugged it …
... seen a problem like this before. All three screens (the monitor ... (obviously only one at a time, his GFX card only has ... seen a problem like this before, it's as though Open ...50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... /> Admittedly there isn't much time left in the frame to ... a third of the screen before they even start.BusySoft Demos, Melody Music and Music Player TZX/TAPsHi! Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but let's try anyway: [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz/taps/misc/busysoft-tzx.zip"]Here[/URL] are …
... never managed to do that before. It was the famous 48k ... Melody Music 5 all the time, so one day it finally ...Buying GamesWas reading a thread the other day (can't recall which one now - think I'm suffering RAM pack wobble) which put me in mind of the whole process of bu…
... then had to wait longer before the drive back as the ... odd shops and by that time in life I was more ... 'll plug the divide in before I power up! :-)
