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So you think you know your Spectrum games, do you....I thought this might be a fun thing to test your knowledge of Spectrum games - below is a quote taken directly from Crash in their description of a p…
... be quite effective against the low order opponents..."
(5 ... form for the current level. At first it?s fairly easy ... /> (13) "When your fuel gets low and you return to the ... -
Stop Press: Old crap worth a fortune at car boot salesAs someone who has sold retro games on EBAY for the past 8 years, I was surprised to learn that (according to this seller) you can buy his old crapp…
... superb stuff should make me at least £10,000 profit if ... KARNATH, which must be worth at least five grand. Add a ... -
So, who's entering the csscgc 2007?Anybody entering the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Copmo 2007? I'm thinking of entering this year. I put two games in in 2005, Kilroy's Caravan Caper…
... Destroyer, which both gained admirably low scores. :)
You can ... have a look-see at them here:
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Aliens versus Predator (the games)We talk about other first person shooters on here, but we rarely mention AvP 1 or 2. I know these games didn't get the recognition that they deserved…
... I heard was very good, at least for it's time ... , when it appeard and leapt at you with it's horrible ... 's an old game, with low system requirements), and is heartily ... be a first person shooter at all :o , but a strategy ... -
Seems like we're all alone here...At any rate, both Google Groups and MailGate (which admittedly I haven't used in two years -- my login there is still the obsolete "korax1214@mailand…
At any rate, both Google Groups ... fewer trolls, spammers and other low-life)... -
What's everybody reading at the moment?I'm reading: Jame's Herbert's latest (picked up from Tescos for ?3 odds) The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais Shout at the Devil by Wilbur Smith (part …
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one laptop per child projectI was looking at this mainly as a result of a word war between intel and others. I had heard about the project of course but this time decided to ha…
I was looking at this mainly as a result ... at a revised spec.
For $100 you get a low ... part is the definition of low spec, (cpu 400, 256mb of ... -
few photos taken at my motorycle club this eveningI left early though, cos I get up at stupid o clock [url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/THXII38/Bikes/club/Picture012.jpg[/url] [url]http://…
... though, cos I get up at stupid o clock
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"The Lords" and Speccy nostalgiaI've just noticed that "The Lords" (demomaker group from the Netherlands) have now granted distribution permission. Now this brings back memories. I …
... . I absolutely loved their demos at the time (especially their music ... used to edit and publish at the time.
"Le ... hands on, it was pretty low fi and full of spelling ... fun nonetheless and we felt at the time we had a ... -
Low Sound output + Sound distorting pictureHi, I am having a problem with my Grey +2 at the moment while trying to use RGB output. When I load a game the loader tones are fine but the actual…
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... ; river plots, eg, are better at producing food whereas mountainous plots ... , no plot development. It is at these times you can choose ... game.
With the low level stuff there, it's ... "32 column" string being printed at random locations in either left ... -
What am I playing at?!Now I'm shtump'd. I loaded up a game today (GP2X style thanks to metalbrain :) ) and it was a foreign looking horizontal flip-screen doo-hicky, with…
... prancing about, waving his sword at green goblins. A lot of ... -
Voltage SchmoltageOk then. Don't flame for wanting to use a C64 tape deck for this - it was the only one I have to hand which may be cannibalised for the purpose. So …
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+3 sound cureHi all, As most of us know the Spectrum+3A has this sound problem, distortion. The +3B had this problem fixed. I done some looking at the circuitry l…
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I done some looking at the circuitry last night and ... some trying out to do at first.
I eventually used ... />
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B: drive dont workHi all, I went to Maplin today got myself a DIY lead the one with the proper 34 way edge connector for the Spectrum+3 other end 34 way to floppy driv…
... /> Ok I put the lead at the back of the Spectrum ... side as you are looking at the back of the Spectrum ... .
I have the correct voltage to the floppy drive.
Unreal Tournament 3Is anyone here looking forward to Unreal Tournament 3 on the PC/XBox 360/PS3? The original Unreal Tournament (1999) is probably my favourite PC game …
... 't mind playing games at reasonable resolutions and frame- ... computer controlled characters barely increases at all (and often takes ... , it renders very well at any distance or resolution ( ... see), and it has very low hardware requirements, relatively speaking. ...USB cassette decksI've been preserving my ZX81 tapes using a combination of a portable (not walkman) cassette player, Hi-Fi amplifier, ground loop filter and iMic, whi…
... experience of the Tape2PC unit? At ?100 it would need to ... offer pretty good features (low noise, auto-reverse, recording, portability ...Morons at Ebay, but not for saleWhat a dope. I sent a mail to some dude selling some Speccy-stuff on Ebay. The ad said he would only ship within UK, so I mailed him asking if he c…
... your account before sending anything at all.
Well, thanx ...Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
... ULA has pulled the INTREQ low (which lasts for 32 cycles ... interrupt for the first time at least 1 cycle after it ... and 3 cycles on 128k, at least that's what many ... case, some say it's at 14338, some 14339, some even ...Does anyone remember ftp.ijs.si?This is a blast from the past! I was going through some old files the other day and found this file:- [url]http://reptonix.awardspace.co.uk/sinclair…
... wasn't aware of it at the time. I think tap ... of permitted connections was very low, so couldn't always get ... />
Still, it seemed fun at the time, and although a ... appeared on our uni server at that time, we merely knew ...a zombie at chelsea?So what's your views on the new Chelsea Coach? I was never a Chelsea fan, but I've been a mourinho and Ricardo Carvalho fan (although I dislike Porto…
... became a Spurs fan...and at best, they deserve more of ... the best squad in europe, at least 2 top players for ...PC power source and Spectrums.I'm planning to use a basic PC ATX power source (300W) for all my sinclair equipment, but I have two questions: - I've read about some nasty things …
... the 7805 or use another voltage regulator to get +9v? A 7809 ... be enough, so what other regulator?
- And (not related ...Mb02+ideAs I wrote in the hardware forum there will be a small number of a redesigned MB02+IDE (nearly the original MB02+ including IDE interface also for CF…
... W) safes chips against spikes at supply wire (I 9.
optional: implementing of a 5V regulator to use eventually the same ...I hate this country (serious - England gets worse)Have you seen this: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7059283.stm[/URL] "[B]The Prison Service has converted two jails to hold only foreign nati…
... the pain, and has at least made things bearable, ... begrudge the accurpuncturist the money at all, he deserves it, ... not their kids who are at risk. The "criminals ... example, we through money at them. And when the same ... record, so he's low priority) and the flat ...Good advice for your wives and girlfriendsGood advice for your wives and girlfriends as published in the May 13, 1955 issue of Housekeeping Monthly. [b]Pay attention ladies!![/b] [FONT="Tim…
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[*]Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival ... very real need to be at home and relax.
at work.
[*]Make ... his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.
The "What Will David Platt Do at the Corrie Wedding" gameOk boys and girls, it's time for the "What Will David Platt Do At the Corrie Wedding" game. The wedding's tomorrow, I think, so you've got less than…
... "What Will David Platt Do At the Corrie Wedding" game.
at the wedding, climb up into ...ULA RAS, CAS cycles, refresh and "snow effect"Hello everyone. I have a question, does anyone observed timings of RAS and CAS generated from ULA? I think there may be answer to where the "snow ef…
... then not doing anyhthing clever at the moment.
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[*]The RAS line goes low earlier th
[/LIST]an ... each cycle when RAS goes low and selects a row. So ...The life and times of a tempWell my boss at my job has been acting funny ever since the end of last week, and low and behold today I go to pick my check up from the agency and b…
Well my boss at my job has been acting ... end of last week, and low and behold today I go ...The direct bus or indirect one... that is the questionThe Ethernet project continues...and I'm in a quandry. So I've managed to implement enough socket library for the W5100 that socket, bind, listen, a…
... mode. According to the datasheet, at least...
The W5100 ... 2 are the high and low order of the real address ... 'll require me to find at least 4 more I/O ...How does the Z80 work internaly?How does the Z80 work internaly, i.e. how does it actually execute a machine code instruction? When it fetches a byte from the memory and finds, for…
... ]", how does the CPU at a low level know what to do ...
