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Why did 'Gargoyle Games' become 'Faster Than Light'?Anyone know? Think they lost it a bit when they did.
[QUOTE=Matt_B;187918]I'd have loved ... -
Mmmmmm Fish & ChipsJust to rub it in to all you ex-pat WOSers I'm sat here with a nice steamy plate of Fish & Chips complete with an eye watering amount of vinigar. Go…
... it out. The meat is lamb right? Those do it yerself ... -
Mmmmmm Fish & ChipsJust to rub it in to all you ex-pat WOSers I'm sat here with a nice steamy plate of Fish & Chips complete with an eye watering amount of vinigar. Go…
... it out. The meat is lamb right? Those do it yerself ... found at Cub Foods was lamb ... at least I'm fairly ... -
Mmmmmm Fish & ChipsJust to rub it in to all you ex-pat WOSers I'm sat here with a nice steamy plate of Fish & Chips complete with an eye watering amount of vinigar. Go…
... found at Cub Foods was lamb ... at least I'm fairly ... -
Good Horror Films...Can anyone recommend any good horror films for me to watch? Just to give an idea of the kind o' thing I like - I like creepy apocalyptic horror such…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;190103]My favourite John Carpenter ... -
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]
oops! it'd mean a disappointment for me... i've never really got into the original BD, will have to check it... -
Now that's what I call artWhy hasn't the Arts Council given this art-pioneer a grant? [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6703423.stm[/url] Great idea - if you don…
... feel kinda guilty killing a lamb, not an adult sheep but ... a lamb.
Morbid enough I ... -
Renegade III ... what happened here?I just had a bit of a revelation ... I've never seen nor played the third and last installment of the Renegade series! I was traipsing down Memory L…
Renegade 3 was a sequel too far. Without the original programmer (Mike Lamb) working on the project, it was bound to be crap, but who actually came up with the idea? I asked Ocean's Gary Bracey about it a while back and he just went a funny colour. -
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 - ... -
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 ... -
First ever gameHi all, I sat there the other night trying to remember the first ever Spectrum game. I racked my brains, then I remembered it was Psssst I ran it on …
... when I 1st met Mike Lamb (of Ocean fame) and him ... -
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!
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A thought about Top GunI've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, and I'm not convinced it should be classed as a vector 3D game, as I'm seeing really nothing that would m…
I was at Ocean when Mike Lamb was doing Top Gun. It is 3D vector graphics and not stored images. Sorry. -
A thought about Top GunI've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, and I'm not convinced it should be classed as a vector 3D game, as I'm seeing really nothing that would m…
... was at Ocean when Mike Lamb was doing Top Gun. It ... -
A thought about Top GunI've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, and I'm not convinced it should be classed as a vector 3D game, as I'm seeing really nothing that would m…
Why the hell am I defending Mike Lamb?
LOL!
Last I heard he moved to the States and became rich, if not famous. Sounds pretty good to me! -
A thought about Top GunI've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, and I'm not convinced it should be classed as a vector 3D game, as I'm seeing really nothing that would m…
Mike Lamb has retired now. Just thought I'd share that with you all. -
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 ...