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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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1st game with password system or save-game optionWhat was the first Spectrum game with password system (letting you to continue playing from for example level 5) and first game with save-game option?
I wouldn't have thought it would be this game, but it was certainly the first I remember saving the game-state to tape for: Shadowfire. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, …
[QUOTE=Matt_B;206651]I'd guess a ... 1986.
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Your views on...Gift from the Gods[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002041] Gift from the Gods[/url] I only played this a couple of times, cos I couldn't really …
... later from Denton Designs. Give Shadowfire, Frankie or The Great Escape ... -
Your views on...Gift from the Gods[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002041] Gift from the Gods[/url] I only played this a couple of times, cos I couldn't really …
[QUOTE=Matt_B;208911]There are two kinds of drip, one of each.[/QUOTE]
Ah, the beauty of balance and symmetry. Thanks for the info.