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Spectrum games that were much better to play than their C64 or Amstrad counterparts?Retrogamer and PC Action Emulate! magazines often state that they would much rather play the C64 or Amstrad versions of games that also featured on t…
... 8-bit games - Thrust, is way better on Speccy than ... give and take in the 8-bit world. That's ... ones played 'em all rather than got machine snobby.
... That used to annoy him more than he annoyed me. Heh ... heh heh. Wait 20 minutes more commy boy!!
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Games Club Week 17Morning all off on my Holls today for a week so this is going up early This week I asked for games by Mike Richardson and received the following Co…
I'm enjoying it, certainly more than [I]Stormlord 2[/I]. It ... 'clunky' because it's an 8-bit game trying to do ... -
The strongest chess programJust wondered, since I used to be really into competitive chess many years ago. I liked Cyrus IS-Chess and Superchess 3.5, and enjoyed Psi Chess eve…
... higher would take a lot more than two hours)
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ZZap lives on! Just a quick note, New Retro Gamer is out with the 20th anniversary ZZap64 64 page special which I was lucky enough to help out on, its awesome and…
Why should I? I ordered from my local newsagent and he managed to get 8 issues for me & since then nothing.
At the end of the day, they need my cash more than I need their mag. If they have crap distributers then thats their problem. -
The QueenI dont go for all this pompus royal stuff and watch royal weddings or anything but I have great respect for the Queen. She is the Boss of the coun…
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The royal family generate more revenue through tourism and international ... Britain and the country visited, than it costs to 'keep' ... their way, probably a lot more than your tax contributions do.
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Key press to ASCII valueI need a bit of code that will give me an ASCII value when the key is pressed. I only really need a-z. I tried using the following code but it only s…
... /> ; "SPkeyrepeatperiod" (byte). If more than one key is pressed,
8','7','6' ; 0, 9, 8, 7, 6 ... 39,'&' ; 0, 9, 8, 7, 6
defb ... 134,'`',135 ; 0, 9, 8, 7, 6
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Retro Gamer dead and buriedJust in case anyone is interested, Live Publishing (who publish Retro Gamer) have gone belly up and were put into administration on Monday. All their…
... written before they pump out more overpriced drivel.
?3 ... to be no more than ?4.50 @ 116 pages @ 8 issues a year ... -
Any portuguese in this forumHi my friends. Anyone in this forum is Portuguese? I?m interested to know if in this forum there are more Portugueses besides myself. :) J
... (without telling me) sold my 8 spectrums, 2 neptun 156 monitors ... , microhobbys, YSs, Crash magazines, books, more than 3000 games and apps, etc ... -
Just won this little lot on Ebay :-)[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8219998951&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&r…
... P&P is far more than what you actually paid for ... (which would have been no more then 8.50 in reality) - but ... -
100 envelopesWell, in the pursuit of a new job I have just finished writing 100 covers letters and posted them off with CVs to various offices around Belfast. Wh…
... someone willing to go cheaper than you.
Spent ... , coz if you want more than a fiver an hour you ... absolute minimum I want is more than double that. At the ... exact time sheet for me (8:53am - 4:58pm, stuff ... next week anyway for more money and a much ... -
World DominationI have in my hand a ZX80. I am now ready for world domination. As it's one that's been converted to a ZX81, it?s only a matter of time. Kneel befo…
... at my disposal.
More than your feable minds can comprehend ... to 'Mungo Jerry' on my 8-track player.
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Ideas for new tape storage formatSome called them decoders or encoders, but I think that it is just something like form of presentation. Goal is of course smaller size, support of e…
... high or low level, with 8 pulses stored per byte. It ... to achieve much higher compression than DRB.
RLE is ... next part.
Less than a second later, your game ... is intact. Is there anything more than that which needs to be ... -
JON NORTHHi Jon, i just followed the last thread with some interest. I used to send you hacks years ago and got a few published in YS!! I can only say dont g…
... - at tape edge level - rather than just trying to retain control ... there might be a Speedlock 8, as used in WWF and ... be silly!! Piters has that more than covered.
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Bubbler Goes Up On Ebay Buy It Now ?200 !!Well someone had to do it, what do you think the odds are that someone will actually buy it for this price? I wish this forum had a polling system , …
... really a spectrum cassette woth more than ?10?(?20 max and that ... auctions damage peoples opinions of 8-bit tapes?,people who know ... -
Bubbler Goes Up On Ebay Buy It Now ?200 !!Well someone had to do it, what do you think the odds are that someone will actually buy it for this price? I wish this forum had a polling system , …
... auctions damage peoples opinions of 8-bit tapes?,people who know ... personally baulk at paying any more than a couple of quid for ... who will pay a lot more to complete a collection or ... -
Atari STSaw one recently at a used scrap dealer, but didnt buy it seeing as it dosent have my particular interrest. I could probably bargain for it for only …
... the Spectrum (which gives you more colours per attribute block). The ... . HAM on amiga is MUCH more than the 512 colour mode on ... also changes the attribute value 8 times in one 8x8 square ... screen position (each operand taking 8 or 16 cycles I think ... -
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 …
Draft specs for TZX v1.20Hi all! In the attempt to restart the development of the TZX format, I've put online the first version of the draft document [1]. At the moment ther…
... that block. If there is more than one program on the tape ... Manager, then load "".
8 Choose File->Save As ...JIL - chuckie eggso far ive got to level 91 and have all the snapshots.......doesnt look like theres an end to this game it just seems to repeat after about level 30 …
... (5 hour session) with more then 100 lives remain. ... lev.32 as in next 8 'crops' on ground are ... players able to pass more then 150 levels (to ... HQ and many many ... many more)
Just ... Tour and HARP pages more than fulfil the competition requirement.< ...JIL - chuckie eggso far ive got to level 91 and have all the snapshots.......doesnt look like theres an end to this game it just seems to repeat after about level 30 …
... (5 hour session) with more then 100 lives remain. ... lev.32 as in next 8 'crops' on ground are ... players able to pass more then 150 levels (to ... HQ and many many ... many more)
Just ... Tour and HARP pages more than fulfil the competition requirement.< ...RARE/Ultimate games!I recently bought an XBOX 360 and Perfect Dark Zero, and it made me realise how much i missed RARE and Ultimate - Play The Game. Anyone else have an…
... (which surely isn't more than a generation or two of ... mumble jelously.
Alien 8 came out, and many people ... Personally, I thought Alien 8 was better than Knightlore, but I still ... N64 (which today usually costs more than the console itself, belive it ...US Gold arcade conversions, did you like them?I recently read Retro Gamer and there was an article about Streetfighter II on Speccy, and i wondered if anyone had played it, or any of the other US…
... pocket money a week) paid more than a fiver for. It was ... graphics instead of decent gameplay. 8-bit SF2 versions just didn ...Spectrum Emulator for Windows XPHi all. I'm struggling to get any emulators to work with Windows XP. I'm just after an emulator with Joystick support. Any suggestions? Thanks
... about 200 peoples complaints when 8 million are happy.
more than a flashy interface' to the ...Dragon's Lair 2Does anyone out there have proper instructions for Dragon's Lair 2? I have used the ones featured on the WoS site, but they don't seem to give enough…
... and I never could last more than about 8 seconds on the first ... gave it a go more out of curiosity than anything, and found ...Outrun Europa......different graphics....Hi, just wondered if anybody knows the story behind the graphics being different in the finished version of this game from the preview and review ve…
More than that - there's even a ... /> I think(*) everything moves in 8-pixel steps in-game, even ...favourite main stream dizzy game?As a dizzy fan i would say they are all greatgames apart from dizzy 7. My fav though is magicland and spellbound. Interesting to know your thoughts …
... never played any of the 8 bit dizzy games, but i ... push the machine any more than the standard 8 bit ones but they ...Linda BarkerI was sitting in a coffee shop today drinking my favourite caffeine-filled beverage and flicking through one of the local newspapers when I came acro…
... 't stop laughing for about 8 days so I thought what ... online but that amuses me more than anything else.
Im ...z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... br /> How is faster than using row major form?
more than a frame for a full ... are drawn into a 8-byte pixel buffer and a ... occupy much less space than a full character square.< ... splib2 required less extra memory than a double buffer. sp1 ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... Size Options, in a more accessable place.
... have more than 96 UDG's or even more than 255 ... characters. It just makes it easier to manage more ... 91 PRINT "@@"; CHR$ 8; CHR$ 8
99 REM turn ... 110 PRINT "CD";CHR$ 8; CHR$ 8;
119 REM ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
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{8,0,10,7}, // square ... 3
{8,11,10,7}, // square ... keys are pressed or more than one key is pressed ...
