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Fun accountancy question of the week!!!Just for the fun of it, I thought I'd share my latest tax problem with all my spec-chums on World of Sinclair. Read this and be thankful you aren't …
... with all my spec-chums on World of Sinclair.
Read ... given at the back of the textbook! The breakdown given at the back of the textbook is ... anybody can shed some light on it, please help!
Best Spectrum emulator for Amiga?Just dusted off me old 1200, given it a quick upgrade, and now want to use it for the reason it was created... to play Spectrum games! I see there …
Just dusted off me old 1200, given it a quick upgrade, and now want to use it for the reason it was created... to play Spectrum games!
I see there are a variety of Speccy emulators on WOS. Any thoughts on which is the best one?Favourite Gaming moment of the last 25 yearsin a continuation of the 25 years thread what's you favourite moment it could be anything a sprite, a soundbite a loading screen anything mime is w…
in a continuation of the 25 years thread
... with one swipe of your staff in Robin of the Wood a satisfying ... your lucky they'll land on each other and disappear in ...The top game, WoS 16th March 2007This needs to be recorded for posterity. Today, the best Sepctrum game ever. as listed by this. the ultimate Spectrum archive, is Pub Crawl 2, a 1985…
... /> Something to celebrate before the precious Elite protection society get ... case of a game mislabeled in the archive as the screenshot ... Crawl 2 is the one on top of the Spectrum pile scoring ... a perfect 10.
I wonder if the ...1982 speccy gaming pioneersThe games that helped get the Spectrum noticed are about to be 25 years old. Which is the best game from 1982? A list of the 30 with the highest rati…
The games that helped get the Spectrum noticed are about to ... is the best game from 1982?
A list of the 30 with the highest ... ratings in the archive[URL="http ... &display=1&mirror=wos"] is here.[/URL]Utilities and Codemasters games on ebayFurther thinning out my Speccy collection, here are: a bunch of Codies games, digital distribution denied of course, including Slightly Magic and Roc…
... are: a bunch of Codies games, digital distribution denied of course, including Slightly ... My Hamster. Also Animator 1 the graphic design prog, and some ... language utils. Plus a couple of non-Speccy bits. Anyway, lookie ...Old Hand Held Gameskilling time on the net, I found a website called something like "hand held games museum"... that was subject for a bit of nostalgia! so where any …
... on the net, I found a website called something like "hand held games ... to go from one side of the road to another to pick ... /> I never bought any of the Tiger games (not long after they showed ... my first GameBoy) but some of the games looked really cool...
< ...Birthdays of the happy! Zeropolis 79!Bloody hell you're younger than me? I thought I was one of the young un's on here :p Anyway Happy Burfday ....Drink Beer :( have a Gudden!
Bloody hell you're younger than me? I thought I was one of the young un's on here :p
Anyway
Happy Burfday
....Drink Beer :(
have a Gudden!What's Your Opinion of the American Version of "The Office"?I think it's the ONLY American interpretation of any British TV show to get it right (because the American version of Coupling was awful). It's also …
I think it's the ONLY American interpretation of any British TV show to get it right (because the American version of Coupling was awful). It's also the only one to carry on it's own and not be a complete ripoff of the British one. Any thoughts?Defender of the crown upgradedMust be losing it in my old age. Im sure the one listed on WOS is not the original. Im almost certain Cinemaware did there own version which looked …
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Im sure the one listed on WOS is not the original. Im almost ... ? And if this is the case is the original still linked to ...Speccy MapbookI know I've not written anything about the map book for a long time - the things is, I've been very busy to devote much time to this project. Sadly…
... not written anything about the map book for a ... ve lost the Publisher file I had it on so will ... br />
As soon as the current issues are dealt with ... using a few of the games from the original list plus adding a ... won't be restarting the project is there is ...Compiled gamesAn earlier thread made me think - How many commercially released games were compiled? I know a few by that Paul Hargreaves chap were - Strontium Dog…
... think - How many commercially released games were compiled? I know a ... .
There was always the added bonus though that you ... hack out MCODER II from the top of the memory on those ones...3 Days and no sign of Mile[COLOR="Black"][SIZE="4"]THEE DAYS & NO SIGN OF MILE??[/SIZE][/COLOR] Has he been fired for spending too much time on WOS? I know last thursday he …
... "]THEE DAYS & NO SIGN OF MILE??[/SIZE][/COLOR]
the day on WOS and it's chat ...Splitting Images tzx maybe not perfectI've been hacking this game and its loader. Also the save routine is intact in this game. It saves a block with a pilot length of 801 pulses. Test…
... block with a pilot length of 801 pulses. Tested under ... standard speed).
The tzx on wos has a standard headerless data ... '4' two times to start the save. (Sinclair selection).
... may be common to more games with the same loading scheme, I ...What Is the Name of the Game?Quite a long time ago, I played a game and now I would like to play it again on the emulator. However I do not remember the name of the game. In eve…
... it again on the emulator. However I do not remember the name of the game ... .
In every round, the character of the game ... has to stop (kill?) another charater that walks down the ...YSRnRY: Introducing the "Virtual YS", plus a HUGE update[A few minutes early, but what the hey...] The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years is ten years old today! Time to celebrate... The problem with a…
... stored on the World Of Spectrum website at the same time as reading the articles on the ... already read all the pages on the YSRnRY website (but of course... ahem...) - why ... . There's a simple list of the new articles on [url=http://www.ysrnry ...The soundtrack of the Moroder version of MetropolisI've just read the "Silent Movie" thread on this forum, and was wondering does anyone have the sound track album to the Giorgio Moroder version of th…
I've just read the "Silent Movie" thread on this forum, and was ... wondering does anyone have the sound ... track album to the Giorgio Moroder version of the film ...What I hate about computers and/or video gamingYesterday I spent approximately four months (subjecively that is, objectively it was around two to three hours) fixing my mate's PC. I won't bore you…
... Windows occasionally messes up all of the icons on the desktop. Why isn't ... amount of malware on there, because they can't understand the concept of on-line ... so on. It's a long list.
* The dumbing down of modern games ...Kempston on real machines and on emulatorsRecently I've tested several 48K games on my Spectrum +2A with Kempston interface. The computer resets when I start the game. I've tried with two dif…
... several 48K games on my Spectrum +2A with Kempston interface. The computer ... , these games work perfect on emulator with the same configuration. Some of the games: Bomb ... programmers changed the way they coded kempston in games after the release of the 128K ...Masters of the UniverseMore database corruption here. The file claiming to be the Kixx rerelease of [url=ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/m/MastersOfTheUni…
... /sinclair/games/m/MastersOfTheUniverse-TheArcadeGame(Kixx).tzx.zip]Masters of the Universe - The Arcade ... /pub/sinclair/games/m/MastersOfTheUniverse-TheMovie.tzx.zip]Masters of the Universe - The Movie ...Testing the Ram on a Toastrack 128KHi All My "new" 128K is misbehaving, all the demos I have loaded for it crash instantly, Ghostbusters 128K is playable but one of the background scr…
... "new" 128K is misbehaving, all the demos I have loaded for ... 128K is playable but one of the background screens has a bar ... run a read/write test on it? I have had a ... no clue how to access the 128Ks pages being a ... done) to swap in the pages then I can russle ...Video rental shops and Speccy games.Just had a thought... How many of us hired out Speccy games from our local Video shops? Most of the games said, 'not for rental or re-sale' on the …
... /> Most of the games said, 'not for rental or re-sale' on the inlays, ... but a lot of places ignored that ... there every week. In the corner of the shop window, there was ... and Starcrash boxes, the guy hid a suitcase of games. They were ? ...speccy 128 problemsHi everyone, first post on here, so first better say hello..hello :) Anyhow I just recently got back into gaming so a Speccy seemed just the thing t…
... some of the old 16k games I have, but games like star wars, return of the ... what I'm experiencing? Some of the games I am having problems with ... handy list anywhere that has a info on what games won't work on the ...The Vindicator - Why can't I go up?Maybe you're not meant to be able to, but on The Vindicator (not Vindicators), up is working fine as a control but once I go left or right or down of…
... alien on the very first screen that came out of the door on the right, but the ... /> I'm using the 128k tzx found on WoS and Spectaculator 5.30 ... .0371. Is the above normal ...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…
... possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading ... 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of ... simplistic way of altering the loading stripes on the SAM and ... if this could be achieved on the the Spectrum.
The best kind of peripheral/thru port orientation?So, given no standard Speccy backplane, there's soooo many ways you can make a peripheral and through port. You can mount the board vertically, with…
... a thru port near the back of the Speccy, on top.
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Or mount the peripheral under the Spectrum like the ... when something's on the end. The Interface 1 style, ... just back of the envelope calculations suggest the casing and ...Some more questions on various subjectsSome more questions that occur to me (mainly when I can't sleep). 1. Do DVD discs have PAL/NTSC formats? If so, how come I could play DVD regio…
... or properly code the games, and get rid of the FMV (Full Motion ... the interviews with the games' designers and programmers, and the pencil drawings of the initial designs of the games ... I prefer the convenience of a laptop or playing Speccy games on my XBox ...perks of the jobsive spent all morning measuring nurses for some new uniforms. well i didn't do it myself as i could loose my job for that sort of thing, so i one o…
... for that sort of thing, so i one of the other nurses did ... at tried to note down the sizes. it was like a ... film. (or maybe a carry on film)Next Gen GamesWell i got to say i think the next gen games (PS3, 360, Wii) suck like no other gen has. Its the last gen games with eye candy and they have taken al…
... gen has. Its the last gen games with eye candy and ... they have taken all the fun out of ... to the days of C64, Spectrums and Amiga's. At least with the games on ... those machines you could have fun and the games were ...3D Lunattack: message recorded on tape?I've been having a blast on [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002955"]3D Lunattack[/URL], which has proven to be a surprisingly…
... /> Part of the problem is that the original instructions aren't available on WOS, but ... reverse-engineering the magazine reviews and the YS cover ... , according to the reviews on WOS, 3D Lunattack had a "mission briefing" on the tape ...
