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Blatant duplicationI got my first +2 around 1986 second hand bundled with the Sinclair Research game pack that included Oh Mummy! Disco Dan and Crazy Golf... One of th…
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game where you pushed others off the 2D playing field into outer space?hello there! this is my first post -- hope it's in the right place! the view point of this monochromatic game was from above. you controlled a small…
... shape, colour, etc). the early levels might have had only one ... or two opponents but later levels had more and harder/bigger ... nhave got smaller in later levels. i seem to remember getting ... -
Renegade III ... what happened here?I just had a bit of a revelation ... I've never seen nor played the third and last installment of the Renegade series! I was traipsing down Memory L…
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Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…
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Retro Fighter shoot-em-up development updateHi all, Some of you might recall I was developing a little shoot-em-up with the working title of Retro-Fighter. Well after a long hiatus I managed …
Game ideaThinking of a game that could enter the Minigame compo I came to the following idea for a game, although it might not fit 1K or 4K: A mazed snake ga…
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The levels get harder when you progress ...I forgot which system variable I need...... to prevent the message 'start tape, then press any key'. I saw the system variables list but it's not helping. I know I used one poke to bypass t…
... to prevent the message 'start tape, then press any key'. I saw the system variables list but it's not helping. I know I used one poke to bypass the messagem but I can't find it. :(Things that games didn't had, but...you wish they did. Here's my list, and if there's someone out there who knows how to make any of these things possible, please share it with us. :) …
... require too much coding, a poke to prevent the guy from ...psycho soldierhello i am trying to map the above game.so far i have done levels 1+2,but when i get to level 3 the graphics are messed up.i am running in 128k mode…
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i am trying to map the above game.so far i have done levels 1+2,but when i get to level 3 the graphics are messed up.i am running in 128k mode,spectaculator 6.30(48k mode crashes at end of level 1?).thank you
colinGames that CANNOT be completed if you cheat?Was just letting my mind wander this evening (oo-er!) and was thinking what games CANNOT be completed IF you cheat? All I could think of were the Mo…
... if you used an immunity POKE then you couldn't touch ...Name that GameHi all, I'm trying to find the title of a game I remember playing a lot in the old days. At first I thought it was Duel, but I can't seem to find th…
... the gameplay consisted of several levels. You had to beat your ...saboteur mapshave you noticed, the maps in saboteur1 differ in different levels not only as far as locked doors are concerned, but as for the positions of platfor…
... in saboteur1 differ in different levels not only as far as ...ANN: Tipshop updated Thursday, 30 August 2007Thursday 30 August 2007 Two updates in one month - you're spoiled! (No, you were late with the last one. Ed) * Archie Robins corrected typos in the…
... MadMekon, asking for an extra POKE for Metropolis. Viktor obliged, and ...Batty - poor progression of difficulty?So, Batty. The first couple of levels are a joy to play, the gameplay is better than Arkanoid by a factor of loads. Then you get to level 3, which, …
... , Batty. The first couple of levels are a joy to play ... progression of difficulty as the levels go on? Should level 3 ...Uridium - doing the twistIn Uridium is there any easy method for flipping your Manta on its side to squeeze through gaps. Once or twice in earlier levels I accidentally did i…
... . Once or twice in earlier levels I accidentally did it - normally ...hardest level on manic miner?Thanks to the snapshot feature on the emu, I have now completed this game. back in the 'old days' I couldn't even get past Eugene's Layer, which is p…
... have to say the 2 levels that gave me the most ...Retro PC games?Following on from the conversation about Blade Runner and Blood for the PC I thought I would start a thread about other 'retro' PC games Under a kil…
... nice puzzles on the lower levels..not too hard and not ...Didn't xSpectrum (Xbox) QuestionI was playing around with this new emulator on the Xbox. It seems pretty good - in keeping with the other Xport emulators. However, I have a questi…
... /> How do you enter a POKE (namely 53567,0 for infinite ... I assumed I needed to poke the value "0" into address ...QuazatronDidnt play this game much back in the day but totally addicted to it right now. I know i should read up about it (dont want to spoil things too much…
... robots on all the different levels and make sure i get ... all the robots on all levels is there then another set ... of levels afterwards or is that game ...48K vs 128KWhat does everyne think is the best machine - the 48k or the 128k? Personally i prefer the 128K+2. It has more memory, built in tape deck (so no fid…
... (so no fiddling with volume levels and less wires), a decent ...motorbike madnesshello i am currently trying to map this game,and all is going well until the end of level 5 and then the game crashes,is the TZX file corrupt.use po…
... TZX file corrupt.use pokes Poke 34126,201 or you can ...ANN: Tipshop updated Sunday, 28 October 2007Sunday 28 October 2007 I wasn't expecting to get this update out in time, but BST and insomnia fixed that! * CASA has been updated again, so we now…
Astro2008, new (good) gameProbably some of you already know, but there was a new game released 3 days ago, Astro2008 : [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0…
... try, really, it has 25 levels. A must-think-before-act ...Name that game # 48472 in a seriesShould be a nice easy one this. Details subject to the usual caveats ;) You controlled a ball which fired out ions and had to neutralise the opposing…
... on each stage and boss levels which at the time I ...Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…
... 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some description? I ...Spectrum ethernet... step 1.1Yeah, a tenth of a step :-) Here's the W5100 board up and WORKING: [url]http://www.alioth.net/tmp/w5100-online.jpg[/url] This is called the "Get Th…
... thing I did was to poke the oscilloscope probe on one ...Spin Tape loadingHiya. Any Idea's how i can make Spin *NOT* reset the emulation when I am changing Tape Image ? (TZX) ? Some games (Like dragon Breed) require you t…
... Tape image to load extra levels and Spin keeps resetting the ... tries to load the new levels, which of course will not ...End of level - bosses and brawlsI think end of level fights and foes can make or break a good arcade game. [B]Commando[/B] was the first one I really liked (was there an earlier one…
... /> I also like the end levels (that I have got to ... me by the boring end levels where it is the same ... good/bad examples of end levels are there on the Speccy ...