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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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There's no "House Ordos" book by the way. Ordos is a family that only appears in the Dune 2 computer game.[/QUOTE]
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Why the name "8-bit computer"?The Spectrum was called an 8-bit computer, but what does that mean? For modern hardware and operating systems (32 or 64-bit) it seems to be the poss…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;191575]I always thought the C64 was a two-bit computer. :smile:[/QUOTE]
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20 tons([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000024[/url]) has anyone played this true gem? do you believe all levels are possible to fini…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;193184]Most of the levels seem to be based, sometimes very closely, on ones from the original Boulderdash.[/QUOTE]
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Scary Speccy games - are there any?Besides the classic Aliens game (the UK one), can anyone think of other Speccy games that cranked up the tension and were actually scary or made you …
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ZX Fireboot CDHi, I would like to share with anybody who is interesting in with the ZX FIREBOOT CD. The objective was to create a small, easy-to-download, CD-b…
3d gamesWhat do you think are technically the best or most fun 3d wireframe or filled polygon games on the Spectrum? There are several games where the framer…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;198712]Dark Star/Forbidden Planet - ...ZX Fireboot CDHi, I would like to share with anybody who is interesting in with the ZX FIREBOOT CD. The objective was to create a small, easy-to-download, CD-b…
Difficult gamesWhich games do you think are difficult to finish? On my opinion, Abu Simbel Profanation: I finished this game with a cracked version with infinite l…
[quote=Matt_B;198923]Bugaboo takes a matter ...Doctor Who FinaleHello, all.. A slightly confused story, but at least it had a bit less of John Simm acting like a total and utter loon.. SPOILER SPOILER …
Two words to describe the whole episode - Fucking Awful.
And where were those big gargoyle-like things that appear whenever time is tampered with, eh? FFS, it was only two seasons ago!
D.Doctor Who FinaleHello, all.. A slightly confused story, but at least it had a bit less of John Simm acting like a total and utter loon.. SPOILER SPOILER …
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[QUOTE=yomlogs;193581]The Gargoyle adventure games involved some near ...combat flight simswhat are good arcadey combat flight speccy sims? is there anything comparable to spitfire40? (i believe, i've played just fighter pilot and delta win…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;200186]The 11,000' is the altitude i.e. 11,000 ft.
If you intercept them at the wrong height you won't even see the them.[/QUOTE]
thanx!
:oops: (ashamed a bit...)Edge top 100 gamesIt's [url=http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6231&Itemid=2]the top 100 games of all time[/url] from the last 15 years
[QUOTE=Matt_B;200560] It also seems very ...Why did Gargoyle Games go downhill?Why plan to do a trilogy? Marsport, Fornax then Gath but then get no further than the first installment and instead bring out stuff like Scooby Doo, …
... on the arcade games, and Gargoyle was meant to carry on ...Who made the crap ULTIMATE games?Martionoids? Bubbler? Was it the Stampers or someone else? If so who was it? Was Pentagram or Cyberun the last game the Stampers wrote?
[QUOTE=Matt_B;206354]In various interviews it's been mentioned that the last proper game Stampers game was Gunfright.[/QUOTE]
(e.g., [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/51/ultimate.htm[/url] )Why did Gargoyle Games go downhill?Why plan to do a trilogy? Marsport, Fornax then Gath but then get no further than the first installment and instead bring out stuff like Scooby Doo, …
... I am annoyed that the Gargoyle wing (so to speak) of ...