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New bit of hardware for the Sinclair QL - long time comingThe first QL-SD Card Interface based on Peter Graf's design, and with drivers written in part by Adrian Ives is now available on SellMyRetro - [url]…
The first QL-SD Card Interface ... ]
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Land of Mire Mare[Quote]This game has to be considered as a tribute. It's inspired by the unreleased Mire Mare game & characters created by Ultimate Play The Game in …
... if not officially, the legend has seen the light of day. Sabreman's ... Pentagram, takes place in the Land of Mire Mare, where three ... />
THE LEGEND OF THE THREE JEWELS
The mission is to ... he could use some of the graphics in his tribute ... -
Trying to remember the name of a gameHi all, Just joined up today as there is a Spectrum game that I remembered playing from years ago but cannot for the life of me remember the name. I…
... but cannot for the life of me remember the name. I am ... as it is bugging the hell out of me.
the elevator talking the various team leaders ... called Hostages, but the only game of that name I ... can find is the Infogrames ... -
Has anybody ever thought about......Life? You know....life? Reminiscing about old times, playing on the Spectrum with Renegade, Legend Of Kage, Punchy, Disco Dan...the list is endless…
... old times, playing on the Spectrum with Renegade, Legend Of Kage, Punchy, Disco ... Dan...the list is endless< ... just a few off the top of my head (Yes I ... ...my god!...breath taking
Then came the PSX era... ... -
My Rendition of Horace to the Rescue 2Here is the first release of the new Horace game. [url]http://stevebroad.x10.bz/spectrum/download/My%20Rendition%20of%20Horace%20to%20the%20Rescue2%…
Here is the first release of the new Horace game.
[url]http://stevebroad.x10.bz/spectrum/download/My%20Rendition%20of%20Horace%20to%20the%20Rescue2%20.zip[/url]
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A tally on the number of successful builds of the Harlequin[SIZE=4][COLOR=Green][U][B]A tally on the number of successful builds of the Harlequin.[/B][/U][/COLOR][/SIZE] Please post your successes below :-) …
... ][B]A tally on the number of successful builds of the Harlequin.[/B][/U ... add a poll to show the count?[/QUOTE]
Yes, but ... one post[/B] with details of each [B]successful build[/B ... entries[/B], the number of replies to the thread will give the number built ... -
Yay! Another two fingers to us paying customers from the gaming industryThe (to me, hateful) trend of games companies selling their modern AAA titles in various editions, as opposed to earlier times when when you bought a…
... game you recieved ALL
of the game (every in-game weapon ... reached a new plateau of greed and "**** the customer" attitude.
< ... , then take a deep breath, and look at the chart:
of the other versions.
And for ... -
Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict - The MovieHello there!! My name is Andy Remic, novelist (16 books out so far!) and ZX Spectrum fanatic. I wrote a 48K/128K Spectrum game in 2009 called BIOHEL…
... language), to support the publication of my SF novel of the same name.
the idea, of course.
The link for the film is ... , if you were part of the Spectrum evolution then please get ... -
Bypassing bits of faulty ULAs: the LOAD!Hi everybody, Recently I had a sick Spectrum sent to me. The symptoms were that the machine would run fine, except that it wouldn't load. The border…
... of the ULA, which is the IOREQ. Next came the input - pin 28 of the ... ULA went to the input (pin ... 2). Then the output - pin 30 of the ... ULA (D6) went to pin 3 of the buffer chip ... -
Was I the only person to have a dodgy copy of Slapfight?I don't see any mention of it on the Interwebs but my *cough* copy of Slapfight had a bug where there was an endlessly repeating section of the game …
... t see any mention of it on the Interwebs but my *cough ... * copy of Slapfight had a ... an endlessly repeating section of the game near the start.
... before finally accepting the truth and chucking the tape on the fire. ( ... -
(kind of) WHDLoad for the Spectrum?Hi all, As many must know WHDLoad makes possible to install onto any Amiga HD demos and games which originally were intended to run out of a floppy…
... were intended to run out of a floppy disk.
the speccy. Nowadays most of us own a ... device and not everybody has the knowledge to make this modifications ... -
What influence the number of stripes during initialization?Hi for All! After some adventures, with other rare old computers I'm back here to my favourite forum. :) Recently I got some ISSUE 2 boards from Ben…
... . On most of my machines the screen divided into ... only four stripes. One of the ISSUE 2 boards initializes ... the other shows eight. As I exchanged the ULA between the boards the number of ... stripes remained the same on the ... -
Critiques of the computer eraJust looking for some food for thought, I am not widely enough read it seems. Tolkien's mamoth Lord of the Rings was amongst other things about the …
... mamoth Lord of the Rings was amongst other things about the encroachment of the machine ... age, or industrial era? Perhaps even the emergence of ... Alvin Toffler. Again I know of some of the books, but not read ... -
Did your school use any of the Sinclair Educational / Science softwareBack in the day there was a range of Educational and Science Horizons packages published by Sinclair / MacMillan and others Was having a look at som…
Back in the day there was a range of Educational and Science Horizons ... a look at some of them in the archive :
[URL ... any schools use these in the classroom? -
Remakes Of Games - Is the Speccy Poorly ServedI've been spending some time over at the Atari Age forums (stop booing!) due to a new version of Chimera coming out for the XL/XE. One thing that str…
... me over there was the sheer number of remakes coming out for ... Chimera that he remake the A8 version of Head Over Heels!
the Speccy?
The only thing I can think of is ... that with the Speccy, any graphical ... -
New version (v0.31) of ZX DiagnosticsHi all,<br><br>Just wanted to let people know that I've released a new version of the Spectrum Diagnostics into the wild.<br><br>These were originall…
... released a new version of the Spectrum Diagnostics into the wild.
These ... since version v0.30 is the Retroleum SMART card, as well ... /> Full details are available in the zx-diagnostics wiki in my ... -
ANN: Tipshop updated Saturday, 06 June 2015Saturday 06 June 2015<br>Welcome to the May update (eh? Ed).. Shh! Archie Robins appears to have decided sleep is something that happens to other peo…
... of Zoom,
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Bug Blaster, Bugaboo the ... , Chain Reaction, Challenge of Iythus, The, Challenge Of The Gobots, Chambers Of Death,
Chambers ... , Pasteman Pat, Pool, Robin Hood - Legend Quest, Sceptical, Seiddab Attack, 3D ... -
The history of ESXDOS, the DivMMC and the DivMMC EnJOY![img]http://benophetinternet.nl/hobby/divmmc_history/1%20esxdos.jpg[/img] These are the stories behind esxDOS, the most popular operating system e…
... he is preparing the release of the API to the public.
... Alessandro even contacted Zilog (the author of the DivIDE), to get ... it more portable, etc), and the development of the "DivMMC" stalled.
the (at the time) state of the FPGA DivMMC ... -
Type a screen of text from the start screen.I've forgotten all the combo's of symbol-shift and so on, but is there a way, from Spectrum Basic to just type out a load of text? Problem is, as soo…
I've forgotten all the combo's of symbol-shift and so on ... just type out a load of text? Problem is, as soon ... a key, you get one of the BASIC commands come up. I ... a few sentences, without any of the commands, from the initial BASIC screen. -
The Smell of Intrigue in the good old days.When I was a kid I remember part of the wonder of discovering arcade machines and playing on them, was this weird but some how quite intriguing smell…
... that smell the smell of maybe plastic of the acrylic layer on the arcade machine ... or the bonding chemical ... in the ... -
UK magazine alert: The Making of Jet Set WillyIssue 150 of [i]Retro Gamer[/i] magazine has six pages devoted to Matthew Smith and his classic Spectrum games [i]Manic Miner[/i] and [i]Jet Set Will…
... but glowing review of “one of the greatest games of the 8-bit era ... while he was one of the directors of Software Projects, along with ... MM to JSW, because of the quality of the rooms. He talks highly ... he is proud of the “nice clean design” of the original MM and ... -
My new Lovecraft-inspired game, "In the Walls of Eryx", is almost ready for release!Bit of back-story first: I regularly go to sleep while listening to a Lovecraft-audiobook-filled playlist that I've created on Youtube. In August, I …
... the Walls of Eryx" and thought to myself, "This has all the aspects of ... Stanfeld, scouting the Eryxian highlands of Venus for valuable ... encounter the deadly flora and fauna of Venus; including the Lizardmen ... Can you survive "In the Walls of Eryx"?
New Game: In the Walls of Eryx.[b]"In the Walls of Eryx"[/b] is a brand new game for the 128k ZX-Spectrum by Monster's Legs Productions, using Jonathan Cauldwell's Arcade Game Desi…
... with the kind permission of Arkham House), the game follows the adventures of Private Stansfield ... after he crash-lands in the Erycinian Highlands of ...Screenshots from my old BASIC gamesI have written several dozens of games in 90's. They haven't remained, so I show only screenshots 'for history'. Some screenshots are real, but all…
... such strange name to the hero of this cowboy's ...
GLORIA
My version of Legend of the Amazon Women
[img ... been released later.
The only survived BASIC game ... The Dark, Metal Man and unfinished Wild Angels were my next games of ...Samurai Warrior - The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo. BUGFIX.While playing around I managed to put the game in a bugged state. When the game is in this state any enemy that's facing right while executing an att…
... is activated for the duration of that stage. The game doesn't resets ... the jump variable that holds the state of the jump, so ... when Usagi is back on the ground the ...Frying a 48K ZX Spectrum (revision 4A) with 10 V instead of 5 VHello I got a used zx spectrum. When I opened it up, there was no 5 V positive voltage regulator at the 10 V power inlet. Instead what would be in…
... V positive voltage regulator at the 10 V power inlet. Instead ... would be input and output of a 7805 or similar were ... there before. Of course this doesn't step the voltage down from ... />
Does anyone of you have a wild guess on what dies ...The Adventures of Jane Jelly @ The Treasure of HotmarmaladeAnd Jaime Grilo just released his newest game... Jane Jelly 2, and a sequel will come soon... :) https://planetasinclair.blogspot.pt/2017/09/the-a…
And Jaime Grilo just released his newest game... Jane Jelly 2, and a sequel will come soon... :)
https://planetasinclair.blogspot.pt/2017/09/the-adventures-of-jane-jelly-treasure.htmlWhat's your personal GOTY (Game of the Year) for 2017?Since the year is almost over, what is your personal game of the year? What with real life and everything, this is maybe the fourth or fifth year of …
... The New Colossus,
Prey (the 2017 game, of course, not the 2006 game of the ... Hollow Knight,
Dishonoured Death of the Outsider,
< ... (an amazing modernisation of the 1993 classic, why has ... almost every facet of the game), but it ...Spectaculator TZX and TAP file association breakdown (the PC version of Spectaculator).Untill a few days ago I had not noticed this much since I first joined WOS .But it has recently "reared its head again" . What is this all about?Well…
... I think a lot of people at the time thought I was ... ,this was when the "accidental capture" and the breakdown of my TZX files ... it up or restore the file association. The damage appeared to be ... irreversible. (so no wonder the WOSSERS of 2 years ago could not ...The spelling of Dave Nicholls' surnameThe author of 'April Showers', the (then) new room in 'Jet Set Willy', published as a type-in in 'Your Spectrum' magazine in April 1985, is apparentl…
The author of 'April Showers', the (then) new room in ... yourspectrum/YourSpectrum13-Apr85.pdf"]in the original article[/url] ( ... appeared earlier, without consulting the original article. I am ...
In view of the spelling in the original 'YS' article, though ...
