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  • Worst gaming decisions ever?In a different thread, I mention what, to me, is probably the single greatest mistake in the history of computer/console games design ever. Here are …

    ... levels you can sometimes find a bullet proof jacket (Goldeneye ... where you can get a one shot kill. That ... what real weapons do, after all; sure, you might ... 't be walking or shooting for a while.

    Anyway, ... , the modern FPS is for wimps. You might as ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2010 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... gonna be on hold for a while, methinks). Just realised ... from 'not killing and looting a caravan' :)
    < ...
    im getting a bit worried about my ... a skillful player, but they games give you experience for ... up on the sensor bar (it wasn't a bug i checked after ...
    mile mile October 2010 Chit chat
  • zx microdrivesHello. I think those zx microdrives look damn sexy! There are a few on ebay, but seem to be quite pricey. Can anyone tell me if they are worth it in …

    ... are nice to have and for a while there were/are fairly reliable ... mine has just rotted/crumbled after 20+yrs of age and ...
    beanz beanz November 2010 Wanted
  • Challenging Common Knowlege: The +2A/B[I]I was going to write a big long essay about my research on this subject, but being an incredibly lazy person I never really got anywhere with that…

    ... Amstrad service manuals looking for errors in the motherboard ... a +2A I had never seen the inside of one.
    After ... !

    After agonising over these inconsistencies for a while I was talking ... to the following conclusions (for which I have plenty of ...
    guesser guesser November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Printer Printing Problem (assembler)I've a program that outputs to the lower screen at various places, using a combination of calls to RST $10 plus OUT-NUM-1 and PR-STRING. It also call…

    ... relevant systvar. I remember that after an AT/TAB, which are ... printed to a special temporary channel, NOT the ... ) OUT-address is restored, but a fresh copy is fetched from ... -S completely and got caught. For a while, that is. That's all ...
    roko roko November 2010 Development
  • Things you wish you'd never let go....The oldest technology thread made me think of Entex Pacman and Tandy Basketball. I love these two handhelds but traded them with friends after a cou…

    ... I am a 128K person. I cleaned up the toastrack I ... that it is hooked up to a PC serial port @ ... 've just paid ?20 for a PC emulator but they are ... development, just recently restored after tens years of missing it ... she did come back for a while but now she's gone ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Chit chat
  • Help needed pleae.Iv just won a game (Gateway To Hell) off ebay ?1.99 with postage. The trouble is the instructions are in Spanish :-? Could anyone here translate it …

    ... . It's not a word-for-word translation, but ...
    After a long journey, you stop to ponder for a while in the ... the salad monster, near a castle, he is singing ... house music,with a questionable tempo to his ... but you eventually give up and try to find ...
    grey key grey key November 2010 Chit chat
  • 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…

    [QUOTE=karingal;492007]With a right arm like Popeye...[/QUOTE]< ... ) are coming into my house for a while after the behaviour of the last ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... ) are coming into my house for a while after the behaviour of the last ...
    grey key grey key November 2010 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... that should keep me busy for a while:

    [URL=http:// ... Mind
    Alisha - Love You Up
    Alisha - Nightwalkin
    ... Radio Star
    Cameo - Word Up
    Carly Simon - Coming ... - One For The Mockingbird
    Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
    ASM ASM November 2010 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... run to have ****ed it up, like many other projects they ... />
    I've been playing a bit more of [b]Assassin ... than the first game, and a lot less repetitive!

    after leaving them for a while....
    deadpan666 deadpan666 December 2010 Chit chat
  • Carmageddon port crashes and burns?Why did no one post on here that the DOS classic Carmageddon was being remaded to run on Windows (well, a coder was writing his own version of the ga…

    ... ="Blue"]I've been quiet for a while here.

    Luckily ... detailed and varied maps, or running people over (virtual people ... are allowed!), smashing up other cars by running into them and ... real life and totally made up vehicles, run over Tellytubbies, ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2010 Chit chat
  • Never finished Sonic Zx - an entry missingSome people may remember that there was an attempt to create Sonic game for Spectrum. A failed one unfortunately: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... have the final say, perhaps after talking to Anestis, but I ... />
    I managed the project for a while and created the majority of ... the placeholder graphics for it (the final ones would ... project than just a few mock-up screens and a number of well ...
    chev chev December 2010 Infoseek database
  • Names not in our high streets any more.I dont know why but I just fell into a day dream and started to think of all the old high streets shop brands that aren't around any more. Don Mille…

    There was a pretty good chicken shop on ... kebabs as well after they'd been open for a while. The kebabs were ... awesome the meat was the grade A ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek December 2010 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... ,, lets's just say a sequel is no doubt in ... or Marvel a good run for their money what a twist :D ... play through it as a villain for a while, gonna play something else ... .

    After all it's a new machine, it's ... I'm paying full whack for them, no sense in ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek January 2011 Chit chat
  • Crazy Next Door Neighbours!I got one side who just argue all the while And the other who just plays Blue Oyster Cult's "Dont Fear The Reaper" constantly! :mad:

    ... one next door was empty for a while and then one Saturday morning ... we saw them putting up a huge dog kennel for their Alsation. Stressed ... in the street, a For Sale sign was put up attached to our ... own home), they kinda behaved after that. So glad they moved ...
    Bethan Bethan January 2011 Chit chat
  • What if the Government backed Sir CliveHere is a question I have always wondered about... What if the Government had backed Sir Clive back in the Eighties... That is, placed his computers …

    ... all had to stay behind after school to do coursework.. ... of us ended up buying an 8088 for home.. and ... waste paper printing it out for tricky errors.

    for ?36 :) so yer finally ... buy with a 8088 ega pc for a while with a 20mb hard ...
    fog fog January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Official CSSCGC 2010 Competition ThreadDear Wossers, As 'loser' of the 2009 competition, I am now obliged to host the 2010 competition. I have created a site which will provide a hub for …

    ... forums (and the CSS newsgroup) for a while. (myself included :D )


    If we hear nothing after a much longer time, then at ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2011 Games
  • Depression (Post PhD Slump)No not economic depression, but mental depression. For no explainable reason I have become very depressed about my work and very pessimistic about m…

    It could be a lack of daylight as suggested.
    After all, during ... both daylight and a chance to order your thoughts for a while as you ... exercise).

    Might work for you as well?
    Or ...
    mheide mheide January 2011 Chit chat
  • Depression (Post PhD Slump)No not economic depression, but mental depression. For no explainable reason I have become very depressed about my work and very pessimistic about m…

    ... be a lack of daylight as suggested.
    After all, ... and a chance to order your thoughts for a while as ... />
    Might work for you as well?
    Or ... perhaps a stroll during lunch break?[/ ... /> I like to go for a walk during my lunchbreak cos ...
    zx1 zx1 January 2011 Chit chat
  • Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.

    ... ]well, i'm doing a "zone" kind of feel ... be the same graphics set for a while, until you get to ... which will have a little title card, maybe a tune, etc. -- ... :)

    anyone have a rough estimate what the time ... 've many half finished Basic games and I may be ...
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... still and probably will be for a while yet, storywise I've ... , then it just came up Faustin got away? Dunno ... the more you get for him the dodgier the ... the PS2 GTA games properly after playing this one, and ... sometime, maybe I'll wait a while now.

    ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek January 2011 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... still and probably will be for a while yet, storywise I've ... , then it just came up Faustin got away? Dunno ... the more you get for him the dodgier the ... the PS2 GTA games properly after playing this one, and ... sometime, maybe I'll wait a while now.

    ...
    mile mile January 2011 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... him off I ran up the stairs like a loon and saved ... game before Michelle called me for a date, which I was really ... [/I]. Been after a decent basketball sim for a while, and I picked this up for ?15 ... teammate rating dearly... I ended up with a D+ (not good). So ...
    GreenCard GreenCard January 2011 Chit chat
  • URGENT: BASin issues...Hi Paul, I know you have heard this many times and I am one of the worst offenders! :smile: Up until recently the stability of BASin was good but n…

    ... (SDL) to get SpecBAS running in Linux - an app ... that BASin will be getting a port to Linux.
    ... a decent desktop experience and IDE for FPC that's a step [i]up ... a decent IDE for FPC is desperately needed... I've given up ... with Java and Netbeans for a while...
    polomint polomint January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…

    ... using Amstrad CPCs and PCWs for a while. The +3 was one of ... spectcle" moments for me - ah I thought a Spectrum with a proper keyboard ... the form factor much more up-to-date but the firmware ... , better OS, came with a monitor, better BASIC etc. etc.

    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman February 2011 Hardware
  • Picture interference on red areas.I recently got a 48K Speccy off eBay, did a composite mode and it seemed to work OK, but then my TV had to go off for repair so I didn't use it for a…

    ... 461556]I recently got a 48K Speccy off eBay, ... did a composite mode and it ... I didn't use it for a while.

    Now ... interference lines in the large red areas. It's ... br />
    possibly, you have a capacitor problem.

    ...
    Jose_Leandro Jose_Leandro February 2011 Hardware
  • All of Birminghams Citizens Advice Bureaux to close from 11th Feb.[url]http://www.gopetition.com/petition/42339.html[/url] [quote]Category: Neighborhood Living Region: United Kingdom Target: Birmingham City Council…

    ... after everything he said and what he stood for.< ... got in charge and for a while it seemed like they ... how could people vote for them after the mess they ... prison. Blame the council for overspending. I'm sure ... open'.

    For all we know these CAB ...
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2011 Chit chat
  • All of Birminghams Citizens Advice Bureaux to close from 11th Feb.[url]http://www.gopetition.com/petition/42339.html[/url] [quote]Category: Neighborhood Living Region: United Kingdom Target: Birmingham City Council…

    ... he got in charge and for a while it seemed like they would ... how could people vote for them after the mess they were in ... back it up with some balanced evidence.
    [QUOTE]For all we ... some money to help set up this Big Society then? There ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington February 2011 Chit chat
  • zx spectrum 48k loading issue (memory problem i think)Hi I have a 48k spectrum that until yesterday was working flawlessly. The spectrum seems to work fine but the problem is with loading games.All the …

    ... command [I]after[/I] the Spectrum has been on for a while (say, > ... occurs when the Spectrum heats up. :???:

    2nd option: run ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie February 2011 Hardware
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