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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…
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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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Elite questionsIs there anyway to get past the lenslok screen in the version of Elite in the archive that I am using with Speculator? Or do I need the lenslok? If …
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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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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 ... -
Shock breaking news.. Bobs is the birthday boy today!Happy Birthday Bobs! Have a good one mate, hope ya have many more.
Hoopadoodle!!! Flimflamery of the highest order is in ... erm ... order! And a cake ... to be had ... for sure ... stuffed all the way down towards the nether regions of the stomachsack ... yes, yes ... and quite a few more! Avoid the noid! -
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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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 ... -
Games you have completed (no cheating)Beach Head. erm....that's it.:-(
Hundreds of text adventures, but also
- Fantastic voyage (the idea to become a password after each solved level is genial!)
- Ant Attack
- Nether Earth (my favourite game on the Spectrum)
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Top 10 Spectrum games everName 10 games you think, on your opinion, are the best Spectrum games ever, for any reason. My list is: (in alphabetical order) - Cyclone - Daley Th…
... The Magick
[*]Quazatron
[*]Nether Earth
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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] )