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ANNOUNCEMENT - WOS and the Preservation Team will be at CGE UK 2005All, Its now official. World of Spectrum will be represented at CGE UK 2005. Members of the preservation team will be manning a stand at the exhib…
... manning a stand at the exhibition and I am asking ... we can find at the show and we would ask ... make tzx images during the day and hopefully we will be ... to help please contact me directly using my mail ... />
On behalf of the preservation team.
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Weird and Funny feelings of playing the games...what were your weirdest, strangest or funniest feelings of playing the games on 8bit computeres? like scarying you to birth (death?!), making you shi…
... or funniest feelings of playing the games on 8bit computeres?
the gameplay and the story put me miles away from ... back which titles, parts of the games these were. -
The ULA and ScreenI've asked something similar before but please bear with me. I'm trying to understand the way the screen is controlled. The ULA controls output to …
... with me.
I'm trying to understand the way the screen ... to the the screen and the rom sets out the memory locations of the screen ( and attributes ... with refence to the italian Chorme project has got me started on ... -
The Grand WoS and CSS Meet 2006(Posted in all forums for maximum voting) Well, voting has closed on when's best and the results are: Saturday in May in London. Now, there will n…
... closed on when's best and the results are:
Saturday ... is ideal, just pick for the one that is proving most ... popular, to give the others a better chance of ... and send me to Alaska!
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The Grand WoS and CSS Meet 2006(Posted in all forums for maximum voting) Well, voting has closed on when's best and the results are: Saturday in May in London. Now, there will n…
... closed on when's best and the results are:
Saturday ... is ideal, just pick for the one that is proving most ... popular, to give the others a better chance of ... and send me to Alaska!
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The Grand WoS and CSS Meet 2006(Posted in all forums for maximum voting) Well, voting has closed on when's best and the results are: Saturday in May in London. Now, there will n…
... closed on when's best and the results are:
Saturday ... is ideal, just pick for the one that is proving most ... popular, to give the others a better chance of ... and send me to Alaska!
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Can anyone help me with the name of an old ZX Spectrum Game?Hello I was hoping someone here might be able to help me. I've been racking my brains for the name of a ZX Spectrum game I used to play when I was …
... help me. I've been racking my brains for the ... younger and I can't for the life of me remember ... you were trapped somewhere and you had to find ... distinctly remember the cover of the cassette the game came in ... googled that and I've obviously got the name wrong ... -
2007, and still no NIC and browser for the Speccy?I've started to read all the w.o.s. threads, starting by the ones that came up with the search function, using the keywords of the topics that intere…
... the search function, using the keywords of the topics that interest me the ... /> but things change, and the Spectrum capabilities have been expanding ... to the the idea of connecting the Spectrum to the net?
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If they'd have been released in the 80s...Hello again, Firstly, thank you to everyone who participated [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19786]in this thread.[/url]…
... 's been really interesting, and has given me food for thought as ... to how I report on, review and ... ://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/]Farmer Jack and the Hedge Monkeys[/url] would ... have also made the grade no doubt ... -
Oh the humanity, my beautiful den of thieves, and local pub, closed it's doors.My local pub. MY PUB. My wonderful, awful, piss soaked, blood stained den of eniquity..... the only place in town, where when I walk through the doo…
... me, let me pay later, I could leave my dog there and ... my shopping, and ... I went to the bookmakers, everyone in there knows me
i ... The Mill, the Fleur De Leys, and the George and Dragon on the way into town. And ... -
Whats the best wireless network adapter for laptop and desktopI was given a Netgear DG834G v2 Wireless Router by a relative but as my pcs about 4 years old it doesnt have a wireless adapter. Ive been using a BT …
... the past 4 years but now my sister lives with me and ... />
For the Desktop Pc which would be ... pci card and which would be the best product ... for my price range of ?30.
and ...
For the Laptop im guessing a ... -
Blocks instructions and the N flagJust a curiosity. I noticed the compare and load block instructions act on the N flag; block compare instructions set it, block load instructions re…
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I noticed the compare and load block instructions act on ... it. On the other hand, the fact that compare and load instructions ... set it differently is also a mystery to me ... .
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Other forums and why they piss me offI was on this site where you can download comics and ended up in the comicbook forum (my blame there) and all of a sudden just because I was giving m…
... comics and ended up in the comicbook forum (my blame there) and all ... it's probably one of the best comics ever although it ... 's really a pain in the A... and tiressom if you read ... opinion/experience, he criticises and insults me, and then I don't have ... -
Hiive Books and the economy...Hehe... Scared you (or maybe not)... It's just as well I'm not in it for the money! I've been upgrading the database over the weekend to allow me t…
... the database over the weekend to allow me to calculate sales figures with the ... pretty stable. But with the recent fluctuations, I felt ... doing less writing myself, and relying more on other authors ... good ideas (and can write) then please let me know. (just ... -
The most atmospheric Speccy and non-Speccy games?I was playing Alien vs. Predator (the XBox port of the 1999 PC first person shooter) yesterday, as the Marine, and I was going through the dark, lit …
... tracker back online, and before the motion tracker could warn me, a face ... made me jump. When the face hugger filled the screen, I literally flinched (and ... cats and rabbits, and not confined animals. This suggests to me that maybe the ... -
The best (and worst) Second-sequel.When a film series gets to #3, one of two things usually happen: It's either going to be the best of the series - as the company now know how to tre…
... B]
Never liked the first film, and the second, although better - was ... birth of Cyberdyne, and the end of the world as we know ... . Whistler's daughter and the rest of the 2 dimensional fill-ins ... br /> Just saying it makes me cringe. It could have been ... -
The Tipshop - Mobile Edition: now in beta and ready for use!Due to one thing and another, a lot of my time these days my internet access is restricted to a crappy WWW-capable mobile phone (340x280(?) resolutio…
... -fat site. You have the search engine and the ability to view entries ... , but you don't have the ... /> Give it a whirl and let me know how you get on ... bothered about things like usability and technical issues such as pages ... -
The Spectrum and the CatweaselHi everybody, I'm working on Catweasel drivers for AmigaOS and AROS at the moment.... Is there anybody here who wants support for a particular disk…
... Catweasel drivers for AmigaOS and AROS at the moment....
Is ... about to implement support for the +D interface (3.5" disks ... Shugart external 5.25" yet) and then if I can get ... if I don't have the interface (or preferably lend me the interface :) ) -
Cheap Broadband (ADSL) and the PlusNet Rip off.Ok so I want to sign my parents up to a broadband connection. I looked at plus net and saw they were doing 8mbps with 10GB monthy usage limit for ?6.…
... rating and so have to pay more. Then they had the cheek ... to tell me a bare faced lie ... been put off Plus net and am seriously re-considering staying ... a range of increasingly shoddy and unclear practices.
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Some muppet from the Green Party just asked me to sign a petition.......Knock on door. Tarquin Ponsonby-Smythe fresh out of oxbridge is canvassing to get people to sign a petition to lower speed limits in my neighbourhood…
... serve to inconvenience me, whilst making no difference to the boy racers ... make my life more difficult, and the type of people that ignore ... that it was for the good of the community, and that I'd ... , holding a leaflet from the Green Party, and said that she'd ... -
The Death of Arcades and why it sucks...For the past week I've been travelling, and I've been in at least 7 diferent airports... spent lots and lots (and lots) of hours in them waiting for …
... lots and lots (and lots) of hours in them waiting for the ... over the place...
Nowadays with the "death" of the arcades and the idea ... ...
This is the typical case where an arcade ... ?) but what pisses me off is that the "market" has not ... -
The Hobbit:A guide and how i play it.Yes i know there are walkthroughs and guides on the net but what i want to do here is give chance for those people to complete the hobbit who have no…
... already completed the game the long way as in the guides and walkthroughs ... differences each play and really give the Hobbit the credit it deserves ... hobbitsmall/bewitched.gif[/img]
and the river bank,[b]S[/b ... You are going to hate me for this but we need ... -
Goobye... and thanks for all the fish!Hi. The ones that know me probably know that I used to love the spectrum "retro" scene, from the start on the comp.sys.sinclair, the first emulators…
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The ones that know me probably know that I used ... to love the spectrum ... forget the first KGB emulator on the amiga and the way it brought the speccy ... bad written that turns me off the scene. People even started ... -
An apology to Mark Jones and David and Anna from The Attic BugI've wanted to post this for a week, but I'd involved a moderator because I wanted to have the thread locked right away and they were going to vote o…
... to have the thread locked right away and they were ... know that unfortunately Mark and me are not on speaking ... to this thread and that the first moderator that ... to tell me. And if you do feel the need to ... was a complete dingodropping and are now talking again ... -
Hisoft Devpac and the MGT Plus DI've got (potentially) a bit of an odd one here that might cut across a couple of areas so I thought I would put it in misc. I am trying to Hisoft's…
... to let you both output (and assemble) to disk using ' ... 1:test' and 'A,,1:test'.
The trouble I ... Devpac is designed to use the microdrive, so it is ... , but I love the Plus D and would like to put ... something else that may help me make better use of ... -
New Postal Prices and the Preservation Team ShopAll, As many of you will be aware postal charges in the UK are set to increase dramatically on the 30th April. What you might not have realised is …
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To try and explain the new pricing.
A ... also has the advantage of a ?20 insurance compensation and tracked, signed ... /> Trust me, you don't want to know how much the various ... will be taking the shop down shortly to allow me to do ... -
The Hobbit, Empire, and an interviewHi all, I've got a little article on the making of The Hobbit in the latest issue of Empire magazine (we've run a huge feature on the film). I inte…
... in making it truly random, and the non-player characters were also ... capabilities were very limited at the time, and the game would crash because ... name and contact me decades later to ask me questions or tell me how the ... -
ZX Spectrum +2A and +2B - finding the true factsI'm confused. Some told me that a +2A has a +3 board, and the +2B got the simplified board. But I think that is not true. I have had over a dozen b…
... told me that a +2A has a +3 board, and the +2B got the ... PCB omitting the floppy controller circuitry, and of course the disc drive was ... /> After some time the production of the +2 and +3 was moved from ... -
DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…
... BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test ... "fill up" the array.
Line 190 tells me that manipulating ... is generating random values for the array initially. I know it ... couple of Stella this evening and am getting confused.
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999 and counting, the Dean of GamesOver on Spectrum 2.0 [url]http://www.spectrum20.org/[/url], a true landmark is about to be reached as the amazing Dean of Games will very soon chalk …
... always ploitely credit the authors, and are always the result of a ... that values the preservation effort, and makes sense of the archive as ... known, obscure, type ins the lot, and so help modern authors ... . IF you agree with me and that Dean's efforts deserve ...
