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What was this film called?I'm trying to remember the name of a horror film I saw a year or two ago. As always with these "What was...?" topics, my recollection or description…
... the film.
[spoiler]The gist of it is, the people who run the ... the guests forget how long they've been there. One man (of the ... two from the beginning of the film) escapes ... a pregnant wife who is being held by the motel people ... -
The Light CorridorI've just been playing this and reviewed it ([URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2010/11/spectrum-games-light-corridor-classic.html"]The Light …
... -games-light-corridor-classic.html"]The Light Corridor[/URL])
the music too. For me it ... 's a classic from the Speccy's twilight years.
the guy who programmed the music and graphics (not ... -
Running a Spectrum in the USI didn't realise how much hastle it was to set up a UK PAL Spectrum in the US. [url]http://wn.com/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_games[/url]. I knew about the …
... a UK PAL Spectrum in the US.
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I knew about the PAL/NTSC thing but didn ... 't appreciate that the composite mod didn't ... raised!
PS: The World News.com website seams really ... slow but the embedded YouTube video is ... -
For anyone who is interestedAs Jumping Stack mentions in the thread: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=32113[/url] I've been banned recently (the ban…
... to set the record straight for anyone who's interested. The actual events ... , something along the lines of "I love Doctor Who, it's ... dispute this (ludicrous) decision? Who were the users (plural) and mods ( ... ?
2) Who were the users I pissed off, and ... -
I'll turn into the most beautiful woman....A guy is 62 years old and loves to fish. He was sitting in his boat the other day when he heard a voice say, 'Pick me up.' He looked around and c…
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He looked in the water and there, floating on ... frog.
The man said, 'Are you talking to ... br />
The man looked at the frog for a short ... pocket.
The frog said, 'What, are ... his pocket, looked at the frog and said, 'Nah ... -
Was there any Spectrum games that ......had a sub-game that you could play while loading the full game. I am sure I remember a pac-man (?) clone in one but I cant remember who made the game…
... the full game.
I am sure I remember a pac-man ... (?) clone in one but I cant remember who made the game ... :smile:
I know the C64 had Invade-A-Load -
Singularity (a great first person shooter)I thought I'd post this as I've just played a very good modern game that for some reason most people seem not to have heard of, so maybe some of you …
... traveling through time to save the world[/spoiler]
It's ... - your cursor (the onscreen sights at the centre of the screen, I mean ... /> The story is good, but nothing special to those of us who ... read science fiction. And I hate the way you ... -
PS3 now fully cracked and open?About a month back, a hacking group claimed that they'd discovered the PS3's 'key' algorithms, meaning that they can 'sign' any code. What this means…
... (I'm not a PS3 man).
In layman ... allow cheating for the person who runs the modified version, whilst the other people ... , running unmodified versions of the ... -
ShoppingI when clothes shopping with my wife today as for Christmas we received a ?60 next voucher. My gawd what is it with High Street chain store close s…
... However, it seems that the fasionistas of the world are so un-inventive ... trick that materialist sheep of the world fall fore time and ... remember them in the 80's when they sold cheap and cheerful ... clothes like you could buy at the ... -
Running a Forum: AdviceThis forum and its contributors is the only one I visit/relate to so I thought I'd post here for advice: I run a popular business website, covering …
... niche subject for marketers around the world. Visitors/members represent most big ... and also find that the openness knowing who is who makes many interesting ... new. I'd know who was who but not my members ... who would use nicknames.
+3 disks and IPF formatIn order to avoid derailing the Spectaculator 7.5 release thread, I've created this thread for further discussion of the IPF format for +3 disks that…
... .org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project[/url]. Librarians the world over seem to be well ... />
I agree with the comments that the emergence of IPF as ... hope that is true. The SPF guy who came into WoS when ... this was mentioned during the TZX ...The stupidest invention ever?Ask most people what is the stupidest invention ever, and you'll get lots of different answers; germ warfare, the Millenium Dome, the two weapon limi…
... answers; germ warfare, the Millenium Dome, the two weapon limit in ... first person shooters, the European Constitution, Graham Norton, ... you going to change the world's attitude towards an ... staggered in time with the other eyelid's involuntary opening ...Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing CreditsProgramming J. F. White (Could be John White who worked on Activision's Koronis Rift and The Real Ghostbusters and Electric Dreams' Karnov and Aliens…
... Could be Tony Porter who worked on The Eidolon for Activision before ... Bill Allen who done the Gauntlet series or Richard Allen who done ... be Troy Lyndon who worked on Howard the Duck by Activision ... (Could be Doug Barnett who also worked on Howard the Duck)Did I dream this game existed??Huge apologies for the fact this game (probably) wasn't on the speccy but it has been bugging me for yonks and I can't find any reference to it's exi…
... Pod (a red tomato man who did what you told him ... Garden (which was exactly the same as my own granny ... 's garden apart from the mountains) and this other ... me it was called 'the tombs of arkenstone' but ... of introductory story which the teacher read out to ...How is the PS3 hack situation?I don't have a PS3, so I've not been following the news about it being hacked, so I was wondering what the situation is now. Can you now download, sa…
... PS3? Is the code even out in the wild yet? ... happening) about Sony suing the hacker who released the code?
the one hand, I feel ... losers will use the fact that the PS3 is open ... to run pirate games, the XBox 360 homebrew scene ...Is there still copyright on the Sinclair logo?On Ebay.UK I came across this auction: [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130477206458[/url] Who is the owner of this Sincla…
... =130477206458[/url]
Who is the owner of this Sinclair logo ... and what fine can the seller await if the copyright owner finds ... logo?
I had the same idea to make a ... I was afraid because of the copyright. Am I right?
Do you wish they'd stop making games?Probably the stupidest topic ever posted on WOS, but here goes... Today I was talking to a bloke about gaming, and it reminded me of something I rea…
... another forum (Gamefaqs, I think). The poster was talking about how ... made (and I mean across the board, commercial, homebrew, console, ... I think that most people who welcomed the stoppage would begin wishing ... to live in a dream world, I'd be insane not ...SkoolKit 2.1[url="http://pyskool.ca/?p=475"]SkoolKit 2.1 has been released[/url]. Yes, SkoolKit, the Spectrum game disassembly toolkit used by literally units o…
... ].
Yes, SkoolKit, the Spectrum game disassembly toolkit used ... literally units of people around the world, has reached version 2. ... you're the kind of person who thinks of the display file ... files for version 20110403 of the [url="http://pyskool.ca/ ...Derrick Story?I remember playing a game that sounded something like that... I cant find it in the search engine, and it's been a long time since I thought about it…
... ... I cant find it in the search engine, and it's ... because he hated the tv series (even if the game had nothing ... pain to control the bird in the air)
the other all ... you controled a small yellow man who walked in a tight labirint ...SkoolKit performance on WindowsCalling one of the units of people around the world who have installed [url="http://pyskool.ca/?page_id=177"]SkoolKit[/url] on Windows! Though I dev…
Calling one of the units of people around the world who have installed [ ... could you run the following command from the SkoolKit directory and ... copy and paste the output here?
[code ... br /> The statistic of interest is the one in the last line ...RIP Our Henry and Whispering TedTwo legends have passed away today. The boxing great Henry Cooper who was the first man to put my hero Muhammad Ali on his backside. [url]http://ne…
... away today. The boxing great Henry Cooper who was the first man to put ... .stm[/url]
And the voice of snooker Ted Lowe ...Foods we all likeRight, since we couldn't agree on either a game or a TV comedy show that we all liked, let's try something that we should all agree on -food that we …
... Natures finest food. Anyone who doesn't like chips is ... weirdo, if you'll pardon the tautology.
... foods that anyone who's at the top of the evolutionary ladder ... the best footballer, the best athlete, the best cricketer and the first man to run the ...problem neighboursHassle on my own doorstep, makes me stressed. Rather than type it all up again, here is the main body of an e-mail I sent to my local councillor aski…
...
The chap across the road, who owns the houses upset my ... wife the other day, ... and I own.
The man who owns and resides at xxxxxxxxxx ... on Thursday last, on the basis that the landlord at number xx ...Google Pulls Emulators From the Android MarketOver the weekend, Yong Zhang (yongzh), developer of emulators for old gaming systems on Android, [URL="http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/google-pul…
... /google-pulls-emulators-from-the-android-market-20110530/"]has ... and all applications removed from the Android Market[/URL]. While ... updated or reinstalled by users who have legally purchased them. ... from one of the companies who own the right to those ...Video gaming coincidencesThere are some strange video gaming coincidences, when you think about it. For example: 1. [B]Half-Life 2/Breakdown[/B] In 2004 Half-Life 2 came o…
... And you start the game knowing nothing of the world around you, or ... games have a female sidekick who is very capable indeed in ... of people who did gave it up due to the very harsh ... amnesiac who rediscovers various mental powers he possesses throughout the game ...No more News Of The World!Looks like this weekend will be the last one. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733[/url]
Looks like this weekend will be the last one.
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733[/url]Google Cloud PrintI use Firefox more than the Chrome browser as it surfs the WOS ftp data better. However I was looking at the Options (Under the Hood) when I noticed …
... was looking at the Options (Under the Hood) when I ... I can then enable the the option in any other ... the printer. I've just shared my printer with a mate who ... everyone on WOS around the world (but it ain't ... offering.
The Help system suggests that it ...The biggest unanswered question...There are many unsolved mysteries in the world: What came first the chicken or the egg? Is there a god? If Buzz Lightyear didn't know he was a toy, …
... mysteries in the world:
What came first the chicken or the egg?
But the biggest unanswered question is why ... 90s game boxes so big? The box that Colonization came in ... was the size of a small country ...there are 10,000+ games in the archiveabout 1 month ago I realised it broke the 10K barrier (and that's not even including text adventures)... obviously some have "never released" and som…
... ago I realised it broke the 10K barrier (and that's ... many individual games? or is the speccy the world champion in this department?Ultra super amazing wonder plane crashesI would have thought that someone, probably Winston (our resident pilot) would have mentioned this, but according to Sky News ( [url]http://news.sky.…
... /technology/article/16048040[/url] ) the world's fastest plane has crashed ... was unobtainable because the curvature of the Earth meant you' ... even for the few people who can afford it? Who [B]needs ... communication is available to anyone who needs or wants it.< ...
