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Oh the humanity, my beautiful den of thieves, and local pub, closed it's doors.My local pub. MY PUB. My wonderful, awful, piss soaked, blood stained den of eniquity..... the only place in town, where when I walk through the doo…
... 's crap, a nasty little den of 18 and 19 year old ... outside. Fights in the middle of the road every night. I ... heard one night a bunch of charvas tipped the hot dog ... stuff, only went a couple of times, but no doubt that ... -
What happened to Olli & Lissa 2?Anyone know the story behind this sequel? Obviously the game was released - you can download it from WOS - but back in the day I couldn't find it in …
A little bit of history relating to Silverbird and ... -
What happened to Olli & Lissa 2?Anyone know the story behind this sequel? Obviously the game was released - you can download it from WOS - but back in the day I couldn't find it in …
[QUOTE=Rainbird Rich;277479]A little bit of history relating to Silverbird and ... -
Sir Clive's favourite game?Maybe not, but did Sir Clive Sinclair ever show any preference for any Spectrum game or game genre? Is any game known as Sir Clive's favourite game? …
[QUOTE=mile;278067]with a lot of imagination, catteracts, and a blind fold, then maybe[/QUOTE]
Or maybe with a little bit of effort on the graphics, they could have made a racing pundit that looked like real one instead of a gay leprachaun. -
Interview for a passport!!!.....Hi all me again! Applied for a passport about a month ago, had a letter come through saying that I gotta go for an "interview".... What the hell is…
... SNES version was a load of tripe as well but at ... platform levels and had a little bit of half decent music. The ... -
"Upgraded" broadbandTo cut a long story short, I have just had my broadband speed upgraded from 1meg to 5meg (it was free). Having just spent over an hour setting up the…
... my computer on the otherside of the room, then that will ... understand if it was a little bit of speed that I'm ... to living in the middle of nowhere, and the BT lines ... -
Sir Clive's favourite game?Maybe not, but did Sir Clive Sinclair ever show any preference for any Spectrum game or game genre? Is any game known as Sir Clive's favourite game? …
[QUOTE=dm_boozefreek;278073]Or maybe with a little bit of effort on the graphics, they could have made a racing pundit that looked like real one instead of a gay leprachaun.[/QUOTE]Yes, but Channel 4 don't really have the budget for high-grade CG. -
An exercise in taking things WAY too seriously[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7446274.stm]Is "pikey" offensive?[/url]
... you...if we owned most of the earths surface how could ... we run out of money with all the resources ... /> Well, there was that little spell of unpleasantness between 1939 and 1945! -
An exercise in taking things WAY too seriously[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7446274.stm]Is "pikey" offensive?[/url]
... ]Well, there was that little spell of unpleasantness between 1939 and 1945 ... -
Starglider Atari ST Intro....I remember this!!! [url]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BAVqOBCHxkM[/url] Good or Bad???
Yeh, right ;)
He may have been able to do it with a voltmeter attached, but no one I knew with an ST had a voltmeter attached to theirs.
Plus Jez San does seem to have more than a little touch of the John Romeros about him. -
Throwing fits at games back in the dayDid you get really pissed off at games back in the day? The answer will be most likely yes, I'm pretty sure everyone of us did. My speccy definitely …
... F***ing 4. On one of the later missions for P ... McReary and a couple of his cronies. Virtually complete the ... when we're escaping one of them *always* gets shot and ... is a different matter. My little shit of a 'mate' always used ... -
The amazing Miles Mad Mission thread!Following on from the "Thuderstorms" thread! The JSW I mocked up for a laugh then decided to actually do is under construction. As promised I said …
You're having a room that looks little bit like but not quite, but with a little bit of imagination could be Atic Atac, right?
And a room that's definitely not Stonkers. -
Did WoS disappear yesterday (17 Jun 08) evening?Never posted in chit-chat before, but I thought it was the best place for this post/question. I couldn't access WoS yesterday evening and night. I …
... , and graz, made a little bit of WOS on face book and ... -
Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]
... nice to rename the site little world of spider, what with it ... find it hard to think of things to say, and you ... -
The amazing Miles Mad Mission thread!Following on from the "Thuderstorms" thread! The JSW I mocked up for a laugh then decided to actually do is under construction. As promised I said …
... quite, but with a little bit of imagination could be Atic Atac ... not Stonkers.[/QUOTE]
Of course!
It just ... -
"I listened to that CD so much, I burned a hole in it!"Every once in a while I hear people saying exactly that. Their CD has gone bad because they listened to it so much, that they literally burned (a) h…
Being a little bit of a clollector, I have quite ... I always take good care of them and have only ever ... But, I have a couple of cd's that are starting ... to show sign's of "cd rot" where the ... quite possible that with one of them (Cradle's "Principle" ... -
Was Knight Lore Really Written Before Sabre Wulf?Was Knight Lore really written before Sabre Wulf or was this a clever form of self promotion by the Stamper brothers? It was a great piece of journa…
... two. There was a little bit of careful planning in there. ... Unless you were one of the handful of people working with them ... . There's the issue of the keyboard scanning routines mentioned ... obviously requiring a substantial amount of work that it could ... -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... reviews, but I was a little bit busy with a 1 ... and separating from my wife of 2 years against my will ... perhaps there could be a little less of a rush to get ... -
ANNOUNCE: User game reviews (very alpha)An often requested feature here is the ability to add comments/reviews about particular games. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem much chance of this …
... interest in this kind of thing. I will note ... got swallowed amongst a bunch of others.
However ... ) if it were part of WoS, but even then ... there would only be a little bit of interest.
... contributions for a couple of entries, and then it ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... data on the top part of the screen. However, the program ... Speccy, it uses the trick of placing machine code into screen ... area, which is why one of row of pixels flickers.
The ... connected. There are two versions of the program available, I grabbed ... -
So the missus is away for a week...and I miss her already, pathetic eh? sunday I dropped her at the railway station, went home, thinking "wahay! lets rock" Well, apart from falling…
... days back, an old pal of mine from back home who ... :lol:
A little remnicsent of ICP though, and I don ... -
So the missus is away for a week...and I miss her already, pathetic eh? sunday I dropped her at the railway station, went home, thinking "wahay! lets rock" Well, apart from falling…
... days back, an old pal of mine from back home who ... :lol:
A little remnicsent of ICP though, and I don ... -
Genuine Rom cartridge games and programsI would like to start collecting ORIGINAL Rom cartridge programs and games, but have been warned by a few collectors that this area is cluttered with…
I have a bootleg version of Knightlore on ROM cartridge, there ... is also releasing new versions of his emulators on IF2 rom ... I hope that fills a little bit of the void. I have ... it's appeal if lots of "new" bootlegs appear. -
New Spectrum Game - Factory DazeI've just uploaded the first work-in-progress demo of my next game, "Factory Daze", to my site. As with splATTR before it, I'd like to involve anybo…
... game is just a bit of fun really - I had ... (if you think some of these levels are difficult that ... comparison!) but like most of my ideas I wanted to ... playable.
A little more polish will be added ... adventure, and perhaps a little bit of golf... ;) -
myspeccy.org - online gaming which auto-saves scoresIt's a blimmin' miracle - I'm most impressed.
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I see many of you have reached 1st pos ... now see the appeal of this site - although ... of Pacmania for example, this online Speccy version does add a little ... bit of tension because you ... playing a simple game of pacmania before. If I ... -
Incorrect loading screen for Battle CommandI noticed that the loading screen in the archive for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000451&loadpics=3"]Battle Command[/URL] …
In fact there are many Spanish Text Adventures which only have a z80. file available which have the title page as a loading screen. But that will be corrected for sure :), just a little bit of help from some people like now ;) -
Incorrect loading screen for Battle CommandI noticed that the loading screen in the archive for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000451&loadpics=3"]Battle Command[/URL] …
... for sure :), just a little bit of help from some people like ... -
'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... , by using a checker board of pixels with red & yellow paper ... well on TVs as the pixels blur slightly into one another ... -
Gigs you've been to...Thought I'd try to find some footage on YouTube of gigs I've been to, can't believe I actually found some... Velvet Revolver at Brixton Academy (gig…
... here tonight looking for a little bit of pussyyyyyyy!"
It ... was considered for the role of the T-1000 in Terminator ... also mentions the film Trick of Treat. Must get a copy ... of that - been 20-odd years ... -
Is our existence based in a solid environment?I'm having a bit of a Deep-Thought/Milesy-Moment ... That is ... from the point of view of the photon, everything else must be slower, right? So m…
... photons, being the carrier of the electromagnetic force, interact ... the material, and the frequency of the photons.
little chance of being stopped.
... Interactions between the electric fields of atoms is also what ...
