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Microdrive CartsAnyone have any tips/guides for replacing the little bit of 'foam' on a Microdrive cart. I've had to throw a bunch of these away just because the foa…
Anyone have any tips/guides for replacing the little bit of 'foam' on a Microdrive cart. I've had to throw a bunch of these away just because the foam has rotted...its it possible to change it out and what glue/foam etc is advisable. -
My god! How easy is it to fake a no claims bonus!! Not that I wouldI have recently renewed the Insurance on my car. The company wanted me to send proof of my no claims bonus in the envelope that I get in my welcome …
... wanted me to send proof of my no claims bonus in ... the phone. After a little bit of routing around the only proof ... us the name and number of the broker and that will ... claim, I've got proof of 10 years no claims.
Documenting ZX Spectrum SoftwareFirst and foremost a disclaimer... [COLOR="DimGray"][SIZE="2"]I'm a newcomer to ZXSpectrum emulation. Unless you find the need, I'll spare you the d…
... finally after a couple of years of half-baked programs that ... that, allow me a little explanation of my current intentions. I ... main concern is offline documentation of ZX Spectrum software.
... under current development (thinking of the brilliant work by ...Atic Atac speed.Dear all, Excuse the noob question, but does anyone know how fast Atic Atac runs at? What I mean is, frames per second, or the amount of pixels the…
... per second, or the amount of pixels the knight/serf/wizard runs ...Wallace and GromitNo one has mentioned [B]A Matter of Loaf and Death[/B], the latest Wallace and Gromit adventure yet (broadcast on Christmas day, on BBC1). What did e…
... but I was a little dissapointed by it, for ... then slowed down a little too much near the ... the best of human characteristics (and none of the worst), ... very clever, and full of references to popular films, ... close (I love the little glimpses of their (unnamed) home ...Some TV/DVD questions1. Very often, on my television (PAL, 29" or so, CRT, by Bush, two or three years old) when there's text on a TV program or a DVD film, the left hand…
... as though the leftmost columns of pixels aren't displayed, or are ... br />
are in need of assistance
-ordinates ... notice if a few dozen pixels are missing from the ... vastly over-inflated estimates of their own intelligence and spiritualism ...Pipe smokers need some advice pleaseEver since i was about 14 when i first started smoking i always fancied smoking a pipe but it wasn't really that practical and i would have had the m…
... looked up quite a lot of info today and it dawned ... me just how many types of pipe tobaccos there are and ... gave out free little samples of the main types of pipe tobacco I ... drive so that's out of the question and i ... who smokes a pipe know of any place i could get ...Retro Reunited - 2 Day Retro Gaming Event - Sept. 2009[url=http://retroreunited.info][img]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e226/darthgord/2qbbud3.jpg[/img][/url] Apologies if this is a long post, I wil…
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Following the success of retro gaming events such as ... and put on a little show of my own.
... from the golden age of videogaming, with machines from ... those of us that like to have a little drinky ... start the hard part of dragging in gaming celebrities, ...HELP! Problem with thumbnailsI have some video files in a folder. They are mpg files. I see them in 'thumbnail' mode: little pictures of each file. But one of them is not in thi…
... see them in 'thumbnail' mode: little pictures of each file.
But ... one of them is not in this ...B'hrian BloodaxeI just read Thud! by T. Pratchett and noticed that he pays homage to [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000694&loadpics=3&model=…
... [/URL].
One of the dwarfs(of the old days) is ... when I read that a little glow of happiness sparked within me ...Retro Gamer complete run! ?offers/interest?Flushed with success at my sale of the complete Your Spectrum, I thought I'd ask around and see if any WoSsers would possibly be interested in acquir…
... hitting ebay and their little band of ten-percenters.
... /> - Brand-new issue 94 of Your Sinclair! (Huzzah!)
... - Brand-new issue of Zzap64! (Boo! Hiss!)
- ... Oli Frey best-of calendar! (Possible homoerotic undercurrents!)
Name the film...Years back I remember watching a film whilst very drunk and now I cant for the life of me remember what it is called. [URL="http://www.imdb.com/name…
... cant for the life of me remember what it ... [/URL] was the star of the film. I think ... hide out. I remember lots of forest and hills. Later ... hearing marilyn manson's version of sweet dreams.
... find it from this little bit of info. It's been ...SpecventureSpecventure [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004736[/url] If of any use - at the end of the game it says "Microventure - the a…
... =0004736[/url]
If of any use - at the end ... of the game it says "Microventure - ... amazing continuation of Specventure, available soon in every shop of the galaxy."
Your views on... Mission OmegaI can't seem to stop playing this game even though there's fundamentally not much to it and it's a bit boring. I think it's got something to do with …
... feel that reminds me a little bit of films like [I]2001 ...Category correctionsThese are some little changes for some games : -Ares : Arcade Beat em up : There is no adventure part in this game, you only have to kill all the en…
These are some little changes for some games ... em up and very little quest part, so there ... There is a quite little part of adventure in this game ... : adventure, so a bit of everything : arcade action :)
of an adventure graphical using ...Memory concerns with z88dkI've retaken my old spectrum project and sadly I've reached a dead end very fast. I'll try to explain my worst problem in a few lines. I'm not a vet…
... /> I'm not a veteran of the z80, I never went ... been able to mount some little samples of code that moves my ... more complexity to my kind of hello-world, it crashes. Adding ... crashes' tutorial, but any kind of hints/comments is welcomed, as ...winston's diagnostics boardHi there Mr Winston I don't know if you remember I posted about your diagnostics board earlier and how i used a 7404 instead of the 2 mosfets, well I…
... sockets, a new bit of project board and rebuilt based ... on your PCB design instead of the circuit schematic. I ... 7404 again but instead of using a mosfet on ... days (oh the joy of hand-soldering CF sockets).. ... />
Being a little bit of a newb, I'd like ...Another question on solderingWell, I thought of creating a cool little input device much like this one: [url]http://www.instructables.com/id/HDDJ_Turning_an_old_hard_disk_drive_…
Well, I thought of creating a cool little input device much like ... discovered that by sticking little squares of tape onto the underside ... platter, and having a couple of wires touch this surface, ... . The little traces are not the usual kind of metallic colour ...Whatever happened to M.U.L.E?Last time I was here for a reasonable period of time I was doing a little bit of graphics work on a conversion of M.U.L.E. Anybody know if it was ev…
Last time I was here for a reasonable period of time I was doing a little bit of graphics work on a conversion of M.U.L.E. Anybody know if it was ever completed? Am curious to know, really enjoyed contributing.Speccie Four EyesWell as the tittle suggests I'm going to have to start wearing glasses. I have my eyes checked today and was amazed at the difference good lenses ma…
... at the prices of frames. For a little bit of metal and / or ... modern day equivalents of the NHS spectacles some of you might have ... />
I found the prices of the frame manufacturers I'd ... never heard of to be almost as expensive ...Some pages from Richard Branson' autobiographyNot sure if this is the right part of the forum, but I read this and decided to type it up for others.. Points made in this are probably already know…
... realise assets. In the aftermath of the Janet Jackson signing, which ... would have sliced the value of the licence to practically ... the time we had little idea of the potential of the computer-games ... about, the tiny team of software programmers that Robert had ...Well, it's just sat on my hd doing nothing otherwise..Here's a platform game I was working on late last year. I spent something like two months of not very plentiful spare time on it. So I worked during …
... something like two months of not very plentiful spare ... lunch hours. Also a little bit of time spent during evenings ... missing features. So much of what's there right ... sprites
Some corruption of the screen
A ... you travel off the top of the map
...Learning C for z88dkI've never gone much beyond basic, a little bit of z80 assembler, and some Delphi which I had lots of help with. I've forgotten 99% of what I learne…
... much beyond basic, a little bit of z80 assembler, and some ... I've forgotten 99% of what I learned about Delphi ... to make some kind of scroller work in a ... only what the job of each section of the code is, ... just by reading one piece of source. This could be ...Jonathan CreekI meant to post about the Jonathan Creek episode from a few weeks ago, but never got around to it, and since no one else did (as far as I know) then …
... other episodes had varying levels of success, but were always ... nights, panicking, because of this. Fans of the program have speculated ... bad editing, we see little enough of the wife to give ... necessary, as there's little change between the characters between ...Any ex-pats on here?Basically, I want out of the UK. I don't hate the place or anything like that, I'm just a little tired of it all. I've also always promised myself …
... that, I'm just a little tired of it all.
< ... Brits living in the US of A, but the place ... there temporarily and do loads of job interviews??
... What's the cost of living like compared to UK ... back from all sorts of people that have been ...Fighting Fantasy utilitiesThis is my [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/fab_sol.zip]Fighting Fantasy Solution Solver[/url]. It is written in awk, but could…
... . The example is for Warlock of Firetop Mountain.
The ... that FAB_SOL.SH uses a little bit of sed & sort as ... can save files in loads of different formats, MS Word either ...New beeper song[url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/oldsite/cantslowdown.tap]Can't Slow Down TAP[/url]. [url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/oldsite/sources/cantslo…
... need to convert a load of the bars from 24 to ... have a ton of patience. It goes a little out of tune in ... /> Wish beepola had the option of including the keyboard display for ...Emulator Front-EndsJust writing to ask if anyone in these forums uses an emulator front-end for Windows. That is, if you use a single user-interface for all the various…
... ...) but it is a little bit of a pain in the bottom ... games by typing the name of the game so that I ...Back in the day Speccy related problems.Thinking back about the days where i used to play on the ZX Speccy (48K original rubber keyed wiith seperate data recorder) i recall some of the prob…
... data recorder) i recall some of the problems associated with first ... 13 years old and had little understanding of technology and did not ...Something else to hate about modern gamingDespite my skirmishes with DRM, the dumbing down of first person shooters, the awful server support for many console games (which don't allow you to …
... offering), the declining amount of control and other options configurability ... edition, then you get a little statue of the main character, or ... I mean the infuriating practise of pre-order, or limited ... editions, that actually have more of the game than the ' ...
