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Old/New Systems comparisonThe Teletext Magazine "Gamecentral" today (2nd September) printed a letter from someone talking about the C64's superiority to the Spectrum and how b…
... are not so much interested in the history, heritage or technicalities ... on a parallel with both Spectrum and C64 gamers of the ... have the +2.
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Emulators without attribute clash?I know a spectrum wouldn't be the same without the attribute clash, but I was wondering do any of the emulators have a 'turn off the clash' feature? …
... maybe just me ) about the Spectrum, true, though similarly to ... compatibility is a good thing in my opinion. Which is one of ... colour Spectrum emulator. I was told by the developer that he lost ... ( Yarek - of ZXVGS ), that the Spectrum could weild 256 colours with ... -
Worst coin op conversion?I'd say 'Kung Fu Master'. Pretty much a horrible, unplayable mess.
... gore of the original was lost in an orgy of sketchily ... coin-op comes to the Spectrum in an even worse incarnation.< ... , almost all of Spectrum coin-op conversions were - in my opinion! - really ... or at least acceptable - still in my opinion - ones ([I]Street ... -
So the Loki thenWell, my first Speccy was a +2 and it seems that I missed all the fuss made about the machine that Sinclair Research were working on when Amstrad bou…
... i don't know. Probably lost or destroyed, or gathering ... Peek n Poke in my 3 part article called 'Spectrum in 2003'. The ... an emulator anyway. Although Spectrum compatibility was shaky since by ... every succesive model of the Spectrum afterwards had no 'real' ... -
Microdrive Mayhem!I'm wandering if anyone can help me. I recently acquired an Interface 1 plus a couple of Microdrives. But I can't get them to work properly. The Int…
... get them on to my real Spectrum without pissing around ... so when connecting to the Spectrum, it doesn't work ... this, Geoff?). Bearing in mind that I am ... does, but I'm getting lost.
Can ... computer should behave in the way I said in my original post - ... -
Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…
Hmm... in my latest message ... of the thread in the form of questions ... in gaming experience. So while I'm happy to play old Spectrum ... result gives something interesting in terms of gaming experience ... sounds ("true" Spectrum feeling might be lost, of course).< ... -
emuzwin / formatshi can anybody help with 2 questions..? 1. been using zx32 emulator for years now but wanted another that doesn't eat up processor usage...tried a f…
... that would be lost in the ugly snapshot ... ) you emulate the Spectrum on a system for ... in this case you miss an essential feature of Spectrum ... never heard of it in the past. Probably ... imported in Italy being a tie-in of ... What's the point in all of this?", and ... -
zx inspiredWould you be so kind and have a look at [url="http://www.aardvarken.net/zx/"]http://www.aardvarken.net/zx/[/url] for me please? The fakegames little…
They look really good. The Lost Vikings should definately have been a Spectrum game in my book. If I had even one ounce of coding/programming knowledge, that's the game I'd make I think. -
The ZX Spectrum On Your PC - Book (pdf)by C . Woodcock. [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/ZXSpectrumOnYourPCThe.pdf"]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/…
... understand how to use a Spectrum emulator should not be allowed ... just right at the newbie, in my opinion. You could make an ... to get me back in touch with my Spectrum roots in the first place ... Retro Gamer! Get all those lost sheep out there re-acquainted ... -
Most popular new features? I know some people like a spectrum to be emulated as authentically as possible, while others like myself like features which improve the gfx, sound,…
... russian clone, but still Spectrum linaege (spell checker please ... got about 60links in a spectrum sublink tree... a ... was from some long lost page, cos of ... do it... although my meaning was those that ... General Sounded game running spectrum gameplay, speed, etc ... -
spectrum disks for saleI have 296 titles on around 200 disks for sale. Offering them on here first before ebay gets them. Contact me at [email="cluncastle@hotmail.com"]clun…
... dangling the carrot in my face then rubbing my nose in it.
lost my mother when I was 23 ... contributing to the preservation of spectrum games for 13 years. Donating ... second e-mail in case the first was lost.
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For The Attention of Andrew BarkerAndrew,I have gone away and thought about the last weeks events and have come to a decision and it must be you that i talk too about what i intend to…
... to this situation.
Concerning my spectrum collection, If you are all ... present well we are all in our little houses contemplating what ... know is the death of spectrum software in its original form,that ... happen and all will be lost and not serve a purpose ... -
What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…
... game is long since lost in the sands of time).< ... from my own [url="http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/"] ... ://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/download/"][I]We Pretty[/ ... ://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/"]http://www.geocities.com/ ... -
Challenge II: Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans on the speccyThis should be challenging!
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My brother buy a spectrum 16k and after buy ... machine in paper and the saturday in the spectrum when my pather ... page also can download in [url="http://es. ... fruits. Enter the bomb lost a life. Also if ... on, althoug is a spectrum 48k. You can select ... -
Bloody idiotic software companies!Why is it that so many companies these days assume (arseume?) that everyone has an Internet connection at home?? That's far from being true, at least…
... the meaning would be rather lost on them (they have dificulty ... card, and (I think) 512MB, in my mates case) you can safely ... (non-PC) computer. When the Spectrum 128K came out, many of ... game. That isn't piracy in my book, it just makes life ... -
Spectrum Gaming Eras.Hello everybody. A question I'd like to submit: In which eras would you divide the Spectrum years from the point of view of game production? Examp…
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1987-92 Cash-In Conversions era
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RARE/Ultimate games!I recently bought an XBOX 360 and Perfect Dark Zero, and it made me realise how much i missed RARE and Ultimate - Play The Game. Anyone else have an…
... the first time, on my mate's Spectrum.
I ... . I'd pretty much lost interest in them by then, but ... and in my mind they *far* surpassed their achievments on the Spectrum, as ... somehow disapointing, as they'd lost their simple, cartoonish quality.
Break-InsHas anyone ever come home and discovered that their house was broken into and their Spectrum stuff robbed? Not me, luckily, but I'm interested in wh…
... , including 34 of my Spectrum games. I keep my Spectrum stuff in various labelled boxes ... the best Spectrum games I had. I might well have lost more ... able to carry more of my Spectrum stuff!
The ... was a note of despair in my agent's voice when I ...First speccy game you ever ever played..Just having a play on Jet-Pac (on my +2 I hasten to add as I would never play a denied game on an emulator...no sireee ;) ) and suddenly realised tha…
... , Fudgepacker wrote:
Bought a Spectrum to play Football Manager. Thought ... much better than dice and my Shoot League Ladders.
lost in all the micromanagment you need ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... to learn BASIC. Most soon lost interest, but some stuck at ... often, admittedly, and originality in no way guarantees quality or ... being released for the Spectrum.
In fact, even when ... the superb Damocles), I kept my Spectrum connected up next to it ...The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... to make, directly against the Spectrum where it was selling very ... or Commodore were particularly interested in an aggressive price war by ... wrong I am you missed my point.
It had to ... been lost in the last days of Sinclair's ownership. The Spectrum range ...Byter and U.F.O. by Protek?Who says these are available for the Speccy? I've often wondered where this info comes from - any info I've seen shows these as available for the ZX-…
... moved on a bit since my last visit. That is ... The majority of MIA's in Infoseek are not TZX ... the remainding MIA's exist in snapshot form. Deemed useless ... of. so a complete SPectrum software list will never be ... br /> Does it get lost in the post or kept because ...WooHoo!!!I have the next 10 days off work and I want to spend a lot of it playing Speccy games! Ok, here's the question! Which games do all you good people …
... the early days of the Spectrum. Probably the simplistic graphics and ... today, *cough*, but playing the Spectrum will doubtless make me feel ... game around (until Virtua Tennis in my opinion).
Robin ... until all your lives are lost or you give up. You ...disks for preservationI have gone through my lists and because i havent the hardware to do +3 disk preserving so its not much point in me keeping hold of them so i am offe…
... , the greatest champion of the spectrum cause became its biggest enemy ... the biggest non contributor to spectrum preservation is willing to nudge ... for losing my disk, it was probably thrown away in disgust at ... back and it's been lost in the post. I only wish ...From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…
... 1988/89 as Amstrad lost interest in the Spectrum to the extent of ... ratio amongst my peer group was 5-1 Spectrum:C64 and 3 ... -1 Spectrum:BBC/Electron and ... 7:1 Spectrum:CPC. But ...What is the rarest sinclair item u have ?For me, its a Sinclair PC200 boxed working and complete, has anyone any idea what its worth ? I am going to be selling it along with the rest of my …
... 175. I remember sitting at my computer for the last 5 ... the screen so many times in quick succession before! I ... days before I had lost one in the same circumstances that ... I took delivery of 2 spectrum 48k's this morning, an ... paid for any console in my collection.The 150 pound home computerWe missing out on this still ... I think. I know the PC market has wrecked all chance for any alternatives to ever have a hope but ... what if. :lol:…
... /> In any case, if you were building a production Spectrum SE ... And palette controls are included in the original design document. It ... think about that as my Spectrum ( since I lost by beloved +3 ). ... of that in any way feels somehow un-spectrum. Stupid eh ...Reasons for buying a QL ?It seems, from what I have read, that the QL was a bit of a failure back in the days. But apart from being a collectible, is there any useful/intere…
... stuff that nobody wanted back in the day. I think there ... />
Despite what I said in my previous post, I think the ... succeeded if Sinclair hadn't lost touch with their core market ... enthusiasts in trying to sell it as a business machine. The Spectrum ...works of artfrom the back 2 skool thread: [QUOTE=Wiggypop;186399]Fantastic games, both of them. They were games that you could properly get immersed in, and ev…
Tir Na Nog, Avalon and Dragontorc! I got lost in those games when they came out, totally immersed in lands that only existed inside my Spectrum!
